The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-12
The Imperialist Volt Pack Howls
for War on the Workers
Government
. By Fred Ellis

freedom, and this includes the freedom to be
anti-religious, and the freedom of those who
believe in science instead of superstition to
organize for the enlightenment of the masses.
1t is the progress of scientific understand
ing which proceeds thus hand in hand with the
advance of socialist economy, of tractors and
combine harvesters, of IN agriculture that de-
ponds upon deep blowing instead of the will
of God" on fertilizers instead of prayers, and
on selected seeds instead of making crosses be-
fore holy images, that has won and will con-
tinue to win the peasants of the Soviet Union
from medieval superstition to scientific I'M
derstandng of natural phenomena that is call
ed atheism.
Further signs of rapidly crystallizing anti.
Soviet offensive are seen among the following
incidents:
The acquittal in Paris of forgers of prom
issory notes of the Soviet Government, which
makes it next to impossible for the Soviet
Union to trade with country which will not
bar, and which in fact gives it's authority to-
any one that wishes to forge and cash Soviet
obligations; in the acquittal, after month of
trial in Berlin, of the ring of counterfeiters
and counter-revolutionist who are involved
with the British, French and German govern
ment officials in an anti-Soviet plot for insur-
rection in the Caucasus, but who did lucra-
tive business on the side in frauds and swindes
of various kinds
While this gentry are released by the Berlin
court under the excuse that the amnesty law
of July, 1928, is applicable to their case as
political offenders" we must call the attention
of all to the fact that there aye at this moment
rotting in the German prisons, thousands Of
revolutionary German workers whom the $50
cialist" government of German capitalism con-
tnues to hold in prison regardless of amnesty"
laws. This acquittal is, as the "Isvestia'
states, an official German announcement that
a crime is no crime when committed against
the Soviet Union.
One must not forget either that the recent
public linking up of Austrian fascism and
Italian fascisn, and of Jugosavian fascism
and Bulgarian fascsm are evident results of
the Influence of the imperialist powers to or
ganize counter-revolutonar block against
the Soviet Union.
French Imperialism Backs White Guards.
Again we have the ominous signal of war
behind the rather ridiculous figure of the
elopment of the Czarist white guard General
koutiepoff from Paris. The French fascists,
closely encouraged by the Tardeu government
and linked tightly with the white guard hordes
in Paris, are sensationally campaigning for a
raid by the police upon the Soviet Embassy
under the absurd notion that Koutiepoff, was
murdered there" .at.4,
Far from the government frpwning upon
such wild notions, its semi-official organ, the
Temps" openly declares that the Soviet EN-
bassy is "nest of murderers," ETC., accidental
ly showing the capitalist cloven hoof by re-
marking that Bolshevists are "corrupting our
(sc!) workers" And it adds that ut is high
time to bring to an end" such conditions, and
so on
Then we have the London Naval Conference
veritable imperialist conspiracy if there ever
was one. The London Conference, aside from
its farcical ASPECT, it's delusion of the masses
on the issue Of disarmament and peace, shows
by its very secrecy that matters are being
discussed there against the interests of the
masses and, one correspondent admits. that
the Soviet Union is the "big question" at the
conference though none admits it publicly.
And it was precisely at the nonment Of the