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New Britain herald., 1927-05-18
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New Britain herald., 1927-05-18
POLICE: POLICE! POLICE

Boot 'Em Black! Some hate bitter. same hate sweet Some hate dark, and some hate light: I hate shoe shine parlor boys That tie my shoes too tight!
 Elizabeth R. Ario. You Have Permission. I think l shall slay Alexander O'Tweetie The next time he shows me a snap of his sweetie.
 William B. Carl Have At Her. Horatius! The bridge pest that I loathe is Bess; She always says. "Who dolt this mess?"
 -Amram Wichnick He's Got It Coming Sam Potter sets My nerves ajar: To greet he waves And hollers, "Har!" Some time I'll soak him With a bar And shut him up. liar! har! har! har!
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New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

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 Conditions favor for this vicinity unsettled weather with local show.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

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Il. W. Moon The Disappointed Papa He was called to the Television. Az he picked up the receiver he saw 2 nurse with triplets which the st6rk had brought to his wife. The nurse had hardly told him about the additions to his family when he hung up the receiver with a bang and grumbled, Wrong num- ber!"
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New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Age changes human nature very little. Those too old to feel that way about Santa Claus now feel that way about Mellon.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

There will be cotton crop after the flood, anyway. and then we shall know whether a boil weevil can swim.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18
And Out She Goes!

And Out She Goes! Wilson: How do you stop your wife's backseat driving?" Browne: T have a dump-truck attachment on our sedan and when the wife begins, I simply pull the lever.'
 Carroll G. Fucker
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

For 13 years black cat has at- tended every service in church in
 Bristol, England. It lives in the
 building and is fed by the parish- toners.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Examination reveals that a woman's hand bag contains almost exactly as many useless things as a mans pockets.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Some males develop after reach ing the age of seventeen. and some keep right on trying to appear hard boiled.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Tho Herald is on sale daily In NeI York at Hotaing's Newsstand. Times Square; schultz's NewsNandA Entrance Grand Central. 42nd Street.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Americanism: Parking the chew while absorbing a sundae.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

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New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Other elimination contests are all right, but let's have no more in the sash weight class.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1927

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 50 you'd like to grow. little fish ?" Dr. Shark asked.
 T sure would. I'm tired of be- ing a little fish,
 Then" said the wise old fish. Swallow tho hook of the next fish erman you see-you'll grow at least a foot!"
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One Joint That Needs Exercise,
 Folks! The nations plant joint action to Put peace negotiations through, And judging, just by what we've known. THAT joint should be the funny bone!
 Certainly Does Moore: Briggs says he made sS0,O0O on the stock exchange yes- terday. 1 wonder if he's a bull or q bear"
 Higgins: T don't know. It sounds like bull!"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-18

Blah! That show claimed to have the original New York chorus. and not a single one sang through her nose.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
There Is Nothing NOnparsan" About the Coolidge Recon-
mendatOn for Coal Mining Ant-Stike Legislation

The coal miners must their guard more viganty than
ever before Coolidge message openly urges watson
Parker law for the coal ndustya measure which has as us
primary purposes the destruction of the right to strike
At the time when the miners fighting for the life
union with thousands of miners families thrown out OF
their homes eviction with the union peng Slowly
ranged by nunctons when the Lewis ma
chine off the Illinois district from the rest OF the union
a separate while hunger stalks IN the coal camps
the official leadership of the union consprng with Coodge
of anske law disguised as conclatlon
but which is really compulsory arbitration
This is the meaning in the Coolidge message to
congress the head of Coal and this the meaning OF the
visit paid Coolidge by John L. Lewis recently
The struggle against the baron their coal and iron
notice nnctions and evcons coal fields will have to be
with the fight the of the anti
strike law urged by Coolidge
The Coolidge proposal shows clearly than the need
for weapon with which to on the g
on this front learned the strike struggle IN the
pagn candidates who speak the OF labor and
who owe no allegiance the parties of the coal barons and other
capitalists.
Relief for the be collected with the greatest
ergv picket lines be maintained the organization OF
the nonunon be begun and together with these sg
giles there be Labor Party candidates making their cha
lenge and republican candidates city, county,
state and national election
The campaign Labor Party not something separate
maintain the right to strike and picket the
right to organize to gain and working conditions
but is part of this struggle.
The Coolidge recommendation antstrke legislation
coal industry shows the political character OF the struggle
of the miners nothing nonparsan in this
endaton nonparan political action must be discarded
and replaced by Labor Party if the fight to the unions
to be victorious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Editor, the Daily Worker:

Editor, the Daily Worker:
On display at 1910 Broadway and
Sind Street in New York might be
seen the most unusual story OF the
Spanish Inquisition in fourteen por-
traits by Franz Vinck, the famous
Belgian portrait painter. These oil
paintings were suppressed by the
Belgian Government since 1888 and
only recently saw the light of day in
that country.
What unquestionably would re-
ouire hundreds of pages narratlng IN
detail all the tortures of the lnquisl-
ton instigated at the behest of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy in close al
lance with the feudal monarchs can
be reviewed at this art gallery in the
space of thirty-five minutes-a pic
ture story so horrible that it serves
as the most damning indictment OF
the Catholic Church.
The Inquisition required no proofs
of culpability. Any sort of false in
formation or unfounded suspicion
were sufficient motives to bring to
the rack and the stake hundreds of
thousands of innocent victims. One
of the portraits represents the dung
cons of the Inquisition in the 18th
century, consisting of subterranean
vaults situated at a depth of more
than thirty feet underground I'm
fortunate sufferers were condemned
to sojourn in these dreadful holes and
many of them mad with despair put
an end to their torments by killing
themselves.
Another oil painting entitled "The
Strapped Torture" describes an in
Fiction of torture in which the VIC
time of the Inquisition is first strip
ped of all clothing after which both
hands are strongly tied behind his
back. Then by means of pulleys and
rope fastened to his hands, he is
raised to certain distance from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

Next appointment by President Coolidge of Dwight
W. ambassador Mexico the appointment now
congress for approval of Col Noble Brandon Judah Chi
cago lawyer and mari to succeed Major Cen
eraI Enoch H. Crowder ambassador to Cuba.
Judah is millionaire banker, political ackey of the Nc
Cormc and the Samuel insult public utility trust
who Dorothy Patterson of Dayton Ohio daughter Of
the scabherdng National cash register corporation and heres
millions He director of the Chicago Title
Company of the most powerful of the midwest nan
cial institutions.
AS ambassador Cuba Judah will be, eXoffcio, member
of the delegation to the conference
where be host Charles Evans Hughes chairman of
the delegation the other agents of dollar despoSm
This for Latin America evidence
that representatives combinations of bank capital
to be southern republics to replace the career
the diplomats who agents of Imperialism
This indicative that the situation considered
so delicate ruling class itself must directly administer
affairs instead of enrusng them to professional politicians
This new policy the administration at Washington should
be warning signal the Latin Americans and mpe them to-
ward of antimperat bloc of nations that will
wage fight extermnate yankee Imperialism and drive it's
agents borders The Pan American conference should
be which hu defiance at the
blood sraked at Washington and the
way for determined resistance to its power
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
The Centuries" Is Play for Labor,
Saws En- 10 Basshe An Interview with Author

( "The men of God" Basshe said,
"never had any use for the workers,
neither in ancient times nor at the
present time. Here and there the
Talmud speaks kindly but apologize
word for the poor; but ordinarily the
workers are held in contempt and
placed almost in the same class as
| lepers."
THE author of "The Centuries" has
seen much of the United States
in the Is years that he has lived here.
And various activities have given
him a curious insight and sharp ac-
quaintance into many things. Basshe
passed thru the public schools, finally
graduating from the Latin High
School in Boston. He is a graduate
pharmaceutical chemist, but he has
spent only two years in that precise
and circumscribed work.
A migratory newspaper worker,
Basshe has been a reporter on the
Journal and also the Globe in Boston;
the Chicago Daily News where he
knew Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht and
the other literary graduates of jour-
nalism. Later he was employed on
various small-town papers in the
the West.
Basshe has also been a pugilist in
his day, too, he confessed. In the
lightweight class, his promising career
was cut short however. 'In my first
fight l was knocked out-cold and
flat in the third round. For this l
received $25; in the second fight l
was knocked out without pay; the
third bout was a draw, and in the
fourth both l and my opponent were
arrested for violating one of the To-
cal blue laws
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

CALVIN COOLIDGE does not have.
- to run very fast in order to keep
warm the rest of his life if it is true
that he saved 100000 from his salary
during his four years in the white
house. The president is no crap
shooter like his predecessor, Warren
CAMEL Harding, who lost large sums
of money at games of chance when
he should be reading his bible or re-
cuperating in blest repose for the
tasks of the next day,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
Textile Wage Cuts

Textile companies Augusta Biddeford and lewiston
Maine made flat 10 cent reduction The
cut in one company alone the Peppere mills affects $500
workers.
The textile industry usually is the first to reflect coming
depression industry Atho the whole New England textile
industry depressed due to the rise of the textile industry the
south wages lower than New England these
drastic wage be taken of campaign
of attempted general reductions concdng with the general
cline in production.
of the Maine mills the workers have asked that union
organizers showing that the cuts not going to be
taken tamely
campaign organization coupled with energetic efforts to
form joint aagamaton committees the section OF the textile
made will form basis for struggle
against the lowering of the living standards which the textile
carrying and which will undoubtedly become
vicious unemployment increases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
The Workers Forum

floor, a weight of two hundred and
fifty pounds having previously been
hung to his feet. The "heretic" is
submitted to this kind of torture,
while standing at his side is Dom
inican friar prepared to catch the
least murmer resembling an avowal.
If the prisoner does recant and recon-
Gle himself to the church, he by no
means is let off lightly. He is "mer-
cifully" granted the favor of being
strangled before he is thrown to the
flames
The Spider Torture is the subject
of another portrait, an apparatus
which was ingeniously used to tear
the breasts from thousands of women
who dared to express thoughts, which,
however slight they may have been
might reflect upon the goodness" Of
the church authorities. In this paint
ing we see the breasts of a woman
being torn off, and the wounds left
by this horrible mutilating being eau
terized with red hot irons. All for
having been accused of nursing a
hereto child!
The exhibits shown in numerical
order are as follows:
Approximations and House Search
ing; Common Prisons of the Inquisi-
ton; The Inquisitorial Tribunal; The
Strappads Torture; Nightly Seizures
and Mysterious Disappearance; The
Water Torture; The Spider Torture;
The Torture of the Feet; The Scourg-
ing; Spanish Boot Torture; The
Rack; Exposition of Victims Limbs;
The Procession of the Auto-Da-Fe.
and the Auto-Da-Fe.
All Of the above portraits are des-
tined for the art galleries of Mexico
City and will remain in New York
only for short time. Readers Of The
DAILY WORKER would do well to
see these oil paintings before they
leave the United States.
]. P. PADGUG
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

THE fact that the setting for the
play is in a Jewish community
does not limit its significance, he
feels. "The economic implications
hold good for workers everywhere"
Basshe told me. whether they be
garment workers, furriers, au o
workers or miners"
The author of the play pointed out
that the owners of the Triangle Waist
Shop where over 100 girls were
burned to death because of the negli-
gence of the owners were never con-
victed, while pickets during the re-
cent furriers' strike have been SEN
fenced to long prison terms for
peaceful picketing.
The fire scene in the "Centuries"
is one of the most dramatic in the
entire play which is thrilling de-
scription of industrial servitude on the
East Side during the beginnings of
the sweat-shop system in New York.
'My play has peen criticized by
some," said Basshe, ION the ground
that it describes revolt which is
primarily an aesthetic revolt against
the machine. | believe that such an
attitude is unfair. In the United
States, or any capitalist country, for
that matter, a revolt against the
machine is of fundamental signifi-
canoe. There is nothing glamorous
about machinery; it's test of value
is it's service in reducing the misery
of the workers.
"In this country the machine is
used to increase the degradation and
slavery Of the worker, and any re-
volt against it is the beginnings of a
revolt which may easily grow into a
class-conscious organized fight upon
the system Of exploitation. In the
Soviet Union machinery is being util-
lied to build new society; here it
is used merely to increase the profits
of those who are in control"
"THE Centuries has been bitterly
= attacked by a number of New
York rabbis, Basshe declared. "This
is quite understandable" he said, "in
view of the fact that the play makes
direct attack upon the quackery
upon which the Tabernacles of the
Penny Jehovahs thrive. In addition it
exposes the dubious past traditions
which are being used merely as a
shield to parasitism."
Basshe said that this charge applies
not only to the orthodox Jewry, but
also to the so-called reformed
implies" presided over by men like
Stephen S. Wise whose job, Basshe
declared, "is to flatter the WITNESSES
of the comfortable members of the
owning class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
By SENDER GARLIN

IN UTHOR! Author!"
II En- 10 Basshe, who wrote "The
Centuries" now playing at the New
Playwrights' Theatre told me yester-
day a few things about himself and
about the play.
The tiny reception room of the
theater was damned with various
callers: applicants for parts, drama
fists who were bringing MS. with
them and others who were carrying
them away; friends of the family.
Basshe invited me to follow him up
some improvised rickety steps to a
tiny dressing room where we could
talk undisturbed.
81 agree with you," he said, ''that
it's the proper thing to try to find
out just what writer is trying to do.
And some facts about his previous ac-
Invites sometimes help in understand
ing what kind of play he is trying
to get over.
"The only kind of plays of any
vitality are revolutionary plays"
Basshe continued. NEARLY a hum
bred plays have been submitted to
US since we began our theater," he as
serted, "but only those with working
class implications have any signifi-
canoe. Handicapped by lack of money
and proper equipment, the New Play
wrights' Theatre is nevertheless
creating the basis for genuine pro-
letarian theatre in the United States"
Basshe is one of the five directors
of the theatre which started last year
with the presentation of John Howard
Lawson's Loud Speaker" followed by
Earth" by himself. The other direc-
tors, besides Lawson are Michael
Gold, John Dos Passos and Francis
Edwards Paragon. 81 met Mike Gold
way back in 1914 in Boston only two
years after | had arrived in this
country from Russia with my father"
Basshe related. "Gold was then
working as reporter on newspaper
there and helping to edit magazine
called The Blast Some of his ar
ticles and short stories first attracted
me to him and to the radical move
ment."
NOW barely 27 years old, Basshe
~ has worked alone in America since
he was a boy of IL. For his father
remained in this country but short
time before returning to his native
town of Wilma to continue his work of
Jewish colonization as an escape from
the pogroms of czarist r S i
Basshe's father is now in the United
States on brief visit. He was one
of the prime movers in the organiza-
ton of Icor," the Jewish agricul-
tural colony in the Soviet Union.
Basshe has worked as a shipping
clerk in Boston; in a foundry in Har-
risburgh, Pa, and at miscellaneous
occupations in various cities of the
United States while he was cumming
in various sections of the Middle and
Far West.
"The strike scenes and the descrip-
tions Of the sweat shops | saw in
Boston, Philadelphia and in New
York." he said.
eve want to produce labor plays
and we want labor audiences" Basshe
said. every author writes for an
audience; we want to write for la
Dor audience for then we will know
that our work has truth and vitality.
"The Centuries" now being pre-
sented, is a genuine labor play, he
feels. The grinding exploitation in
the East Side shops, the contempt for
human life, and the strike scenes arc
all part of the general portrayal o.
the life of the garment workers jus
prior to their achievement of tbs
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

The concluding chapters of
Money Writesv' will appear in
The DAILY WORKER beginning
with tomorrow's issue.
Sinclair's book, which is scath-
ingly ironical examination of the
economic basis of contemporary
American novels, has aroused a
storm of controversy.
Money Writes!" is the fifth of
a series of books under the general
title 1.-THE Dead Hand" Other
volumes are ''The Brass Check, !"
''The Profits of Religion" 1.-THE
Goose Step" and "Mammonart."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

WRITERS of accident and disability
" insurance might read thg promised
list with profit and interest There 70
nothing more killing than, a heavy
daily mail asking the recipient to buy
this, that and the other thing. There
is nothing more nerve-wracking, ex-
cept to have your door bell ring every
fifteen minutes by sewing machine
statesmen or furniture collectors.
Spoilers would not do much worrying
if Mr.. Shea carried out his threat to
have their names read at trade union
meetings. Neither would the under
takers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08

THERE is no more contemplate
louise Incorporating as human
being on the face of the earth than
the stoolpigeon. He is almost with
out fail a brainless individual. Bill
Haywood attributes his badness to
this species. 1t was Bills practice
when illustrating the mental de-
ficiency of this type to pluck hair
from his head and inform his audience
that the brains of all the stool
pigeons in the United States could
rattle inside the hair. Bill delivered
several thousand speeches and he
never forgot the stool-pigeon. Hq
has still few hairs left.
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