The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
By /. AMTER.

THE danger of an armed attack on the Soviet
Union grows more acute day by day. That
the naval reduction" conference has the main
aim of mobizing all imperialst and reaction
airy forces against the Soviet Union daily be-
comes clearer.
The instigation of the attack on the Soviet
government in China, by the American impe-
rialist government through Chang Kai-shek;
the interference of Mr.. Stimson with what he
called peaceful" settlement between Mukden
and the Soviet government; the postponement
of the conference between the representatives
of the Soviet Union and the Mukden agents
From January 25 to February rs, all at the
behest of the U. S. imperialist government,
were the beginning of series of events point
ing clearly to intervention.
The Bosses Front.
The breaking off of relations between the
Mexican and the Soviet government, the Mex
lean fascist president, Rubio, acting as a will
ling tool of Wall Street; the threatened break
ing of relations by the British government,
the provocation against the Soviet government
by the French imperialsts, in ascribing the
disappearance of the white guard general Kou-
tiepoff to plots of the Soviet embassy and the
subsequent demand for the severance of rela-
tons between the French imperialists and the
Soviet governmental occurring within short
period indicate the sharp trend of events.
The attack on the Soviet embassy in Munich,
Germany, the bitter attacks carried on by the
Berlin social democratic "Vorwarts" with the
open aid of full assistance to the imperialist
government, show the trend in Germany as far
as the fascists and social-fascist social dem
ocrats are concerned.
Then came the encyclica of the pope against
religious prosecutions" in the Soviet Union.
Prior to that the American Zionists, led by
Rabbi Wise, protested against the "ndignities"
placed upon the Jews in the Soviet Union, by
the workers demolishing the synagogues and
building up workers clubs in their place. Then
the declarations of the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Archbishop of York, followed by
the snivelling statement of Bishop Manning
of New York.
The aim of these religious pronunciamentos
is to arouse religious hatred against the Soviet
Union, because the Communist Party and the
Young Communist League of the Soviet Union,
and the Atheist League, are carrying on
struggle against the medieval belief in religion
and the church. This campaign of education
and propaganda is proceeding with all energy
and with splendid effect, with the result that
the workers and peasants themselves decide
to drive out the priests and convert the churches
into clubs.
Contrary to the lying propaganda about per-
.ccution of the priests and all believers, now
being carried on in every imperialist country,
including the United States, Metropolitan
Sergius, chief patriarch of the Russian Church
and member of the Synod, when asked series
of questions, gave answers in which he de-
cares that the Soviet Union is allowing free
practice of religious ceremonies within the
law, and that when churches are closed it is
at the will of the workers peasants who have
been Pensioners of the church. Priests who
have been punished have only paid a penalty
for counter-revolutionary activity.
Not an Accident.
This makes no difference to the mperialists
.ehp doing their utmost to stir up hatred