THE PHILLIPINES
PRICE OF INDEPENDENCE
[United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 9.40 .a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, February 2
A Delegation will shortly leave lor Washington to ask Government to settle California’s Filipino problem. Labour leaders will ask that all Filipino immigration lie excluded. A rival committee of Filipinos themselves, representing more than sixty thousand at present living in California, will agree to accept exclusion if the Phil lipi lies are given independence. They want home rule for Manila so tmdiy that almost sixty thousand will agree to return westward across the Pacific if America will withdraw from the Islands.
Labour union'’ delegates wiTT reply that if this is the price of exclusion they are quite willing to see the Phillipines get independence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1930, Page 5
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