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Show mmm FEUD IN US Filipino Printers Strike to Help Attain Their Independence Inde-pendence r.v I i.i RT n. 1. u RENC1 N E A. Staff 'orrespondent MANILA. P 1 . Uct. 19. "For the freedom of the Philippines," natlr prlnt' is on Ann ri.an newspapers here xtruck and pre. tptlulcd the bitterest anti-Amertcan feud since American oc-c oc-c iipa.il. v l.i pan. Angered o editorials and articles whlcli soberly and concisely set forth the true conditions in the Islands and w hich were printed when the congressional congress-ional junketing party, on leisurely tour of the Far East, arrived, tin. printers walked out in a body. While lb, three dailies consolidated consolidat-ed and began publication of community commu-nity four-page daily from nearby annj posts, the Strikers went to work for the nativ. Philippine government. PI Rl I A POl I I If I The Strike vvas purely political and declared fo by the printers in the following fol-lowing ultimatum presented when fhey struck: The undersigned employes of the printing department of the Manila ball) liuiietin (Times and Cable News American i Indlv Id i.ill and col.fctlve- i as workingmet) and above all as Filipinos Fil-ipinos who i"'. c and rsvers our most s.iered Dime as such, being wilfully a ril in 'In louslv ofii nd ! hv standi ro'is assertions against our people and' as-filiatlons as-filiatlons for liberty und Independence, -v:- i BslVely published since the arrlv -il of our dlstingtnslTed K'lests, meni-li.is meni-li.is of tin cougiesslcii.il partv. w hereby respectfully and earnestly pio- test against those articles for we regard re-gard (hem is inailclous. libellous, slanderous slan-derous und misleading, which lend to; create "pinions contrary to facts and I prejudicial to the Filipino people. "As a sign ol ibis earnest protest We hereby abstain from working In your shop and printing your paper." The vehemence and vagueness of the denials of the strikers that the strike , was engineered by Manuel Quezon. I president of the Philippine .senate nnd I the foremost politician of the Islands, makes newspaper owners here sure that he bail a hand in the walkout. ovum LL 9TRH l The printers admitted they were promised flace? in the government bu-reau bu-reau of printing during the strike and they accepted the positions. It Is difficult for Americans In the flOfflSiand lO understand conditions here BinCC the coming of Governor I General PYnnets Burton Harrison there has been continual strife between Fill-, plnos and Americans. Americans hax Men thrown out of government positions posi-tions und Filipinos Installed whllo n reign of graft and political corruption thai would make New York ward heeler smack his lips, has been under! way Although the "Juan de la CruC1 w-hlch means 'rcommon people" here, i do not wish independence, the ntrug-l gle Is kept hot by the politician and ' I heir propaga rid . There are tO.uOfi Americans In thei Islands und 10,000.000 native. |