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The mass Chinese rooted in the needs
of the Chinese and peasants having rid itself OF the
Chang Kasheks and Wang Ching We and the other agents
reaction and formed its fighting corps formidable
force whose power that has taken the classic center OF
revolutionary reaction met and plotted
in Shanghai to suppress completely the mass movement
What the next of the struggle will be cannot be gagged
from the fragmenary news we nave But II IS @
capture of Canton by worker and peasant forces unae
leadership has disrupted the plans of the official leadership OF
the Kuomntang These plans according the interview given
by Chang Kashe to seek further AID from the I'M
perast powers become still hostile to the Soviet Union and
with final treacherous deal give imperialism new base IN
China.
ce over question of military basesthe conference was
nominay of civilian character but nevertheless dom
ated by marsts Wang Ching Wei wanted Chang ak wei
his military expression but Chang FAX Wei has lost Canton
He may regain wth the help of the mperiastsout at pres
ent fighting his life with the workers and peasants
which oppose him backed by the labor movement as the
strike of the Seamen's Union shows.
o Lung whose revolutionary army took Swallow and was
then forced to retire mentioned dispatches far is
probable however the interior of Kwang Tng
Lung organized powerful peasant force which can come
to the assistance of the Canton revolutionists.
1t is clear that the base of the liberation move
ent immensely extended in the south by correct policy
in connection with the peasantry.
The comparative with which the revolutionary forces
the base of the forces OF Chang FAX
other reaconay generals weak Their cruel
suppresons labor and workers organizations
orally have inevitable result when there in existence
Communist Party closely allied with the mass struggle
American gunboats have been sent to Canton Their sole
purpose to crushing the liberation movement
and the proof their that our brother party
playing leading this great struggle must not forget
main task is to stimulate in the United States pressure
the labor movement for withdrawal of all armed forces from
Chinese waters and Chinese SOIL
Without the of the mperast Chinese
action will be unable decisive struggle against the
growing power of the workers and peasants
Demand the withdrawal of all troops and gunboas from
China.
Support the revolutionary workers and peasants of Chna
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Unexampled Senatorial Impudence

The of five appointed by Vice President
Charles Investigate charges in the Hearst cham OF
repe sheets to the effect that President Gales of Mexico in
Arturo NJ Elias Mexican conSugenea at New YORK.
to bride United States senators behalf OF Mexico has
demonstrated by first actt that it is nothing but OF I'M
perast Iackeys striving the most mpudent to
budgeon representatives of the Mexican into
ing to the eonCoodge administration the entire workings of
the Mexican foreign office
This committee that has secured informal
opinion Keogg department to the effect that has
full Elias the Mexican consul general at New
York appear and undergo examination at its hands nterna
ona prohibits this of thing instead of command
in the subpoena compel foreign representatives to
testify such committees the procedure to issue
invitation agents OF foreign TO appear they so
desire
This of representative of Mexico exceeds all
bounds diplomatic usage Mexico though
colony the United States The rabd and lying Hearst
press even goes printing flaming headlines to the
Elias be placed under arrest he refuses
pear all the details Of his office Such action rem
raid conducted against the Soviet embassy
kondon by the British government except that 1t is con-
Quoted under the cloak of legality the form of opinions from
the state department.
The real intent on-Cooidge-Dawes attack against
revealed by examination Of the personnel of the
ate committee selected the president The chairman
David A. Reed of Pennsy vana lackey Andrew W. Mellon
secretary the treasury, whose aluminium dominates the
Gulf Oil Corporation subsidiary of which is the Mexican Gulf
Oil Company Senator Hiram Johnson of California is lawyer
interests. Senator Bruce Maryland
though democrat personally with Mellon by
married the daughter of the secretary of the
ur Thus Of the five members be Mellon
Jones of Washington is Coolidge republican
will the Mellon oil interests, While ROBINSON
democrat of Arkansas of the Wall Street gang
ported Coolidge at the last session of
The selection this committee that the real
facts of the Hearst stories will never come to light What ought
ohe United States senate is how this vuoso
in forgery fakery distoDon of this aaround
fessona liar William Randolph Hearst into possession
of documents hha been publishing These documents
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have pity and sympathy. The truth
is that L feel about her love affairs
much as | felt about those of the hero
of recent work of mine entitled up
ton Sinclair"-and do you suppose |
want people to do the absurd things he
did? / do not hold people up to ad-
miration-I haven't found any yet
whom l could admire without any pity
or any amusement. | tell their stories
as truly as l can, believing in my
didactic way that such stories are in
structive to the young. | also believe
instructive to the young and L have
found nobody there to admire very
much. In fact, 1 might confess that
the Book of Judges is as much as any
thing else my literary model: and it's
final remark might be the motto of all
my fiction:
In those days there was no king in
right in his own eyes" Or, as a mod
ern translator puts it: and everyone
did exactly as he pleased"
Let me try again: If you know me,
you know that I am Utopian, and be-
lieve with all my heart in the POSSIBLE
have | described a happy person?
know unhappiness so much better!
When l find out how people should be-
have to be happy, then [ will write a
book and hold that conduct up to ad-
miration and emulation. 1t will prob
ably be frightful bore--but l will do
it. One word more: you do not state
the age at which people become
"grown-up," and cease to concern
themselves with sexual adjustment
think you really should tell me and
your readers what that age is. Yours
maliciously, Floyd
ITO Be Continued.)
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"Absorbed Without Serious Detriment"

general insurance against unemploy-
ment. He is opposed to general old
age retirment pensions. The existing
retirement pension funds in the fed
eral civil service do not apply to cases
such as that of jackson, who had
worked only few years at Gallinger
Hospital. There are thousands of men
and. women in government employ
ment, who, if they lost their jobs
through some administration whim of
economy, would be helpless as he.
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occasion, and which we never shall
,ettle, is this: to what extent does
he reader gather that Janet March
IS admired by her creator, and pre-
sented as an ideal to be followed :?
Floyd denied that he intended such
IN impression; while I had got it, and
so had others. l think the explana-
ton lies in that quality which makes
the excellence of Floyd as a critic
his impressionability, and willingness
to give himself up to others. He
gave himself up to Janet while he
was writing her; and when | began
to quarrel with her, he gave himself,
just little bit, to mes
Count Keyserling, the German phil
osopher, has written a. book about
marriage, setting forth that the aim
of the institution is not happiness, but
a tention. Perhaps the same idea ap-
plies to friendship; Floyd and l argue
and fight, and each of us gets a new
point of view. l received a letter
from him, apropos of my chapter on
James Branch Cabell in this volume,
the sort of letter which a hundred
years ago would have been prelimin-
airy to duel; the substance of it was
"It's a god-damned lie and a libel"
So l changed the text a little, and
put in a paragraph recording Floyd
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At two in the morning sinner named Hoyt,
Picked up live wire in dynamic Detroit,
And went up aoft with clang.
Saint Peter sleepy, it didn't seem right
These bozos kept coming by day and by night,
To knock his door with bang
He opened the door, Hoyts ghost shuffed in,
From Detroit? WE'LL tell you your chances are slim
For harp and in this joint
He took down an index and dug out card
He frowned as he read, his face became hard,
"Ay; Hell is your last stopping point
eyes" Peter went on you're a most terrible case
To stand there and stare SO bold in the face,
You're up to the neck in red sim"
'Hodups and blind pigs with lost women and booze
No churches nor prayers the wrong road you choose
Hot hell is the guerdon you VIM
But Hoyts ghost laughed aloud and then he said: well
I've worked for Hank Ford in the Highland Park hell
Your hades means nothing you see"
On punch press and drill press lathe furnace and loom
Your old hell means nothing to me-
He turned on the down trail but Peter cried "Stopr
Did hear you Alright, did you work in that shop
mat hell house where man is machined?
'Blde Wee-Iheres special provision for you
And all who have worked purgatorial dew
From faces and bodies demeaned"
Though murder and rape though you kill and DESTROY
Though stealing and arson you used to enjoy,
You're spotless if you worked for Ford
There's nothing in hell that can nearly compare
With sweatshop and shambes, so Danish despair
Come in and meet up with the lord"
p R. Described.
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proved be fakes and branded by the Mexican
ment as forgeries The DAILY WORKER proved by unmpeach
documentary evidence that the first nsament of
documents purportng to from Mexico were FAXED
RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK CITY Why doesn't the senate
investigate that Why not place Hearst in the poy
and force him to admit his forgeries?
The answer is obvious.
The purpose of the investigation is twood First to try
much they regarding the Mexican foreign Of
flee and the department of the Mexican
determine resistance American Imperialism
secondly to try bloc real investigation of the Latin American
policy of department which fears that it's cospraces
Nicaragua and other southern republics will come to light
The proper the Mexican representatives this
empbe senatorial committee all agents of the OIL mineral and
thieves is to tell them straight to hell and insist
genuine investigation of the Meonearst campaign
against Mexico
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(To Be Continued.

And still, among all the thousands
of bills introduced in the new session
of congress, not one seeks to provide
unemployment insurance or old age
pension to meet these cases. Repub-
lican and democratic congressman
and senators have not concerned them
selves with social insurance, except
by offering minor amendments to the
scheme under which veteran civil ser
wants contribute to a fund from which
they finally draw an annuity.
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Continued from Last Issue.)
XXXV.
The Tension of Friend
ship

I COME now to a writer who mas
L done me the great honor to write
my biography while I am alive. lie
has done it with wisdom, insight, ana
superhuman sweetness of temper,
considering the many provocatlons l
have given him.
Naturally, | am grateful, and dis
posed to repay the debt: but TINS IS
not the place to do it. For purposes
of the present chapter, | shall pre-
tend that Floyd Dell is my worst
enemy. and discuss his work as l
should do in that case: that IS, by
saving exactly what l think about IT,
with no regard to personalities.
For fifteen years l have been say
ing that Floyd Dell is the best critic
of hooks in America. He has taste
and discrimination, wide reading, and
skill in dissecting the purpose OF a
writer. He knows two fields winch
are closed to most men of letters
modern psychology and revolutionary
economies. Because of this, he can
understand and judge where others
merely tumble. Because OF 1t, /
nav him the compliment of being
willing to read any book he praises.
That is enough for one man. But
Flovd is also known as novelist, and
earns his living that way. SO long
as he is dealing with his own type
of mind. the sensitive artist bewlld-
cred by the world and having hard
time getting adjusted to it, follow
him with the same interest that |
give to his personal talk. But when
he goes out from the play-world Of
adolescence to the real world OF
grown men and women-up to date
he has not gone very far.
The main concern of adolescent
artists is their sexual adjustments;
and in Floyd's novels they have much
adjusting to do, and take much time
for it. We have had vehement argu-
ments on this question: seems
rather comical, jusy now when l am
being advertised by the Boston police
as the chief of sinners in this respect,
hat l should for so long have been
.aking the view of the police against
my best of friends! Yet so it was.
J few years ago, in the case of Janet
March; 4 contributed a review to the
Hearst Sunday supplements, saying
n substance that Janet was young
ady who did nothing for her keep,
hat her sex-code would expose her to
veneral disease, and that her creator
in failing to mention such POSSIBLE
ity, was failing in his duty to youth.
Soon after that the district attorney
of New York got busy, and Janet was
listed among those items for which
the collectors pay ten or twenty dol
lars. Floyd's wife, my friend Marie
Gage, was cross with me, as most any
human wife would be, and | was eX-
sremely uncomfortable, not having
desired such an outcome. Later on
when | trusted Floyd as a biograph-
or, Marie called me a bold man!
The question we debated on that
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opinion, and then we went to dinner
much pleasanter than a duel.
I have begged Floyd to deal with
grown-up affairs-for example, those
days when he sat in the prisoner
dock, facing jury and twenty wear
Jail sentence for opposition to the
war. He made a try at it can Old
Mans Folly" a story which enter
tanned me in peculiar way, since |
appear as two characters in it! ]
can't get others to admire this novel
as much as | do, so l am forced to
admit that perhaps, knowing the
people in real life, l read too much
between the lines.
Floyd Dell is young; the best of his
life is before him, and great events
are on the way, subjects for great
fiction; perhaps he will deal with
them. In any case, I value a keen
and sensitive mind, swayed by all
winds of thought, yet controlled by a
rigid ideal of fair play and truth
telling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-14
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press).

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (FP). -
On Tuesday, December 6, President
Coolidge delivered his annual message
to congress, in which he said "The
country as a whole has had a pros
perity never exceeded. Wages are at
their highest range, employment is
plentiful. Some parts of agriculture
and industry have Jagged. But
such losses have been absorbed with
out serious detriment to our great
economic structure"
On Wednesday, December T, Claude
Jackson, SO, who had been dismissed
a month before from his job as watch
man at the governments Gallinger
Hospital, within mile of the capitol,
gave up the hopeless search for en-
ployment. By agreement with his wife
he shot her through the temple and
then killed himself. Their bodies were
found in their room. To friends who
had marvelled at the courage of the
couple--throWn out OF employment
merely because the Coolidge admins
tration wished to make showing of
economy-~they had admitted their de-
feat on the day the presidents mes
sage was read in congress. Nobody
wanted TO employ man So years old.
His wife could not find job. Their
savings were exhausted. The moral
ity in which they had been trained
forbade them to beg, or to make pro-
test against being ruthlessly turned
out to starve. AS last act of social
obedience and respect for law and
order they decided on death.
President Coolidge is opposed to
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Floyd Dell's comment on this;
Does this make any clearer my at
her, in my book, and in real life when
come across her; certainly l admire
her courage and robustness; but for
the neurotic twists which condemn her
to so much pain and unhappiness 1
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President Coolidge is opposed tc
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GOVERNMENT officials will con-
~ tinue to borrow money from
friends under suspicious circum-
stances. The sad case of A. B. Fall
should serve as a valuable lesson to
them. But no. w. S. Hill of South
Dakota, member of the shipping
board, accepted loan from a man.
indirectly connected with shippink
interests" Another little black sat
chel! Mr.. Hill is banker and
,laimed that he accepted the loan
20 save his bank. The G. o. P. will
not hesitate to sacrifice a small
Banker for the sake of one hundred
thousand votes. Coolidge gave Hill's
Job to banker from Arkansas CITY,
Kansas. Now, if you have nothing
Use to do, start counting the days
lntil Kansas bank gets into trouble.
THIS brings to my mind the story
of one of the neatest and most
)roper suicides that have been COM
mitted in this country within my
memory. A Tarrytown bank treas
lrer who had not missed days work
\ 81 years blew a hole in his head
n the bank building few mornings
go. As was his custom he smoked
4 cigar on his way to his office and
When that job was done he went
lown to the basement and Lnloaded
1 gun into his dome. The unusual
'eature Of this suicide is that the
oank's assets are intact. One cannot
lelp feeling that the poor little treas
lrer had some sort Of a soul after
all.
IT. J. O'FLAHERTY.
New Britain herald., 1927-08-17
Schultz, Paul STANCE. Mrs. Grace
Ventres and Mrs. Harold Ventres.
10 Play Juniors

Schultz, Paul STANCE. Mrs Grace
Ventres and Mrs. Harold Ventres,
To Play Juniors
The Bolton Kasica post baseball
team will meet the Berlin Juniors
team this evening at Z O'Clock at
Community field, Worthington ridge.
The Juniors. under the management
CT Adolph w. Schultz of the Legion,
who has recently taken over the
reins of the league trailers. have
gained considerable flashy form of
late and are expected to give their
opponents a hard race for honors
this evening.
Drum Corps Plans
The st. Paul Tabs Fife and Drum
corps is planning to attend the New
Britain field day to be held in New
Britain at st. Joseph's field in the
rnar fUturc. a competition concert
will be one of the features of the
program of events and the local
stick wavers are practicing hard to
obtain their share of the honors.
No Cascs-No Court
Although Judge George G. Girls
void, magistrate of the Berlin town
COURT made the journey to the court
room last evening 10 preside at the
regular weekly session of the court,
the trip was unnecessary as all Ber-
lnitcs had reformed and not one
case was called for jurisdiction. The
docket has been surprisingly small
this summer. considering the EXAM
pies of past years. and it is general
ly believed that the warnings recent
ly issued TO motorists concerning
certain reckless driving penalties, fell
on fertile ground.
Arranging Game
The Tabs baseball team Is endeav-
oring to arrange a game with the
Pirates of New Britain TO take place
at the Percival avenue grounds on
Saturday or Sunday Afternoon. Last
week the local squad tried to get
game with the New Britain aggrega-
ton but a. last minute slip-up on
schedule prevented the encounter
The Pirates are popular in this bail
iwick and have drawn large crowds
in the past. The Williams McCor-
mick feud has gained the attention
CT large portion of local fans and
it is probable that the Percival ave-
nue. grounds will be well filled if the
game is arranged.
What They're Doing
Miss Bernice Michaels and Miss
Adele Padelli of kensington have re-
turned from a two weeks stay at
Laurclton Hall. Milford, where they
have been attending a retreat.
Harold d. Nentres of Berlin. is re-
covering from severe attack of
lumbago which forced him to give
up his duties for the past week.
Newton W. Baldwin Of Blue Hills
Kensington, who has been confined
to his home for several months with
a serious illness. is able to be about
again and expects to resume activi-
ty in the near future.
The regular weekly meeting of the
Kensington Athletic club was held
las, evening. Future baseball plans
"r ';'"rSsed at length and discus
zion was held on the coming series
New Britain herald., 1927-08-17
which will end the season.
Curling bad Practice

Railroad police have issued notice
to the effect that children found play
ing among the freight cars which are
lined along the tracks near the sta
ton will be prosecuted. During the
vacation period, II has been the habit
of Kerisington youngsters to make a
dangerous playground out Of the
string OF "empties" which line the
tracks and in order to avoid serious
accidents, the railroad authorities
have issued an ultimatum against
the practice.
Near Accident On Pike
What NEARLY terminated in the
first accident to take place in the
construction area on the Pennington
avenue route took place this morning
at about 1890 o'clock when the
driver of steam roller operating
near the Berlin Auto Sales company
stepped down from the cab Of the
roller directly in front of a Connecti-
cut company bus bound for New
Britain. Fortunately the driver was
proceeding at a very slow rate of
speed over the torn up section and
succeeded in jamming on his brakes
in time to avoid running down the
absent minded roller operator. After
being nudged by fender of the bus
the construction employe decided
that the cab OF the roller was the
safest section of the highway and
hastily scrambled up into his lofty
seat again.
Returns to Virginia
Otey Goodwin OF Bedford. Viz
ginia. has returned to the Old Do
minion state. following short visit
with his brother. DR., a. J. Goodwin
of Kensington.
East Berlin Items
Raymond McCorkle has returned
from the west where he has been
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