Pioneers
Colorums, Secret Organizations, and Religious Groups
- Siquijor and Negros Oriental
- Pampanga, Bulacan, Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija
- Founded by Patricio Dionisio
- Aimed for independence through armed uprising
- Formed by Isabelo de los Reyes
- First labor union organized in the Philippines
- Federation of smaller unions of printers, litographers, cigar-makers, tailors and shoemakers
- Demanded for higher wages
Dr. Dominador Gomez
- U.O.D's new leader
- Served as a surgeon with the Spanish Army in Cuba
- Performed the role of intermediary between the Americans and Macario Sakay
Lope K. Santos
- Printer and newspaperman
- Last president of U.O.D.
- The U.O.D. became Union del Trabajo de Filipinas under him
- Advocated the setting up of a common organization of workers and peasants to protest the abuses of landlords and the capitalists.
- Founded by Joaquin Balmori to support the candidates of the Partido Democratica
- Organized as an offshoot of the Strike against Manila Electric
- Demanded for protection of Philippine products from foreign competition and the adoption of Tagalog as the National Language.
- Formed by Evangelista, Domingo Ponce and Cirilo Bognot
- Attacked the conventional politicians as traitors to independence
- Its platform became the nucleus of the Communist Party of the Philippines
- Demanded an eight-hour working day, child and women labor laws and an employer's liability law
- Backed the Nationalist party candidates
- Organized by Crisanto Evangelista
- Led by Benigno Ramos
- Popular movement with the greatest immediate impact spawned by turbulent thirties
- Has a masthead "Independent with no master but the people"
- Became the vehicle for better denunciations of the colonial establishment
- Accused Quezon and Osmena for being servants of the Americans and charged independence missioners with insincerity
- Had their stand for three issues- education, American economic control and military bases.
- Genuine expression of protest and a milestone in the politicization of the people]
- Pro-Japanese core surfaced
- Dictated to the propagation of the Japanese-censored concept of "Asiatic Monroeism"
- Movement which counted prominent Spaniards in their leadership.
Father Silvestre Sancho
- Rector of U.S.T
- Rabid Falangista
- Arranged for his university to honor Francisco Franco as "Rector Magnificus"
- Banned magazines carrying articles that were anti-Franco, anti-Hitler or Anti-Mussolini
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