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It is surely most regrettable that the imprimatur of the highest source of authority in the Government should have been given to the Labour Day Messuge issued on Sunday by the Central Headquarters of the Kuomintang. Under the g of an appeal to the Chinese working class, its whole tone is violently anti-foreign,. reviving ull the worn-out, baseless slang ders of which we hoped we had heard the last two years ago. China, we are told, "in the iron grip of imperialism occupies a position not equal to that vassal or colony of the Pow 'The "unequal" treaties, of course. Chinese employers "groan under the oppression of foreign capitalism" and unless' Chinese workmen combi with their masters to promote native industries, "they together thi their employers will fall a prey to the powerful foreign capitalists." Meanwhile Commu strive to profit by China's misfortunes to create a reign of terror and "reap advan-
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