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The Washington times., 1934-05-25
MAN PREDICTS
OWN KILLING

James Holcombe, 33, of Big
Laurel, Va, predicted his own
murder late yesterday when he
returned to his home and told
his wife:
There's going to be a kill
ing around here"
There Was-Holcombe's sister
in-law, Miss Lemore Ingram, 25,
grabbed a nearby shotgun and
blew the top of his head off.
Not until too late did the young
mountain girl learn that Hol.
combe's remark was the Gus.
tomary prelude to kissing his
wife.
The Whitesburg, KY, jail, just
across the line from the scene OF
the shooting, is where Miss In
gram is being held waiting trial.
The Washington times., 1934-05-25

ued at $54,426,O0O; 19,193,OOO cat.
tie hides, valued at $1,05S, 900;
19,098,0OO barrels of petroleum,
valued at $2O,530, 900 and 1O,742,.
900 punches Of bananas, valued
at $1,O6O,OOO.
With coffee and bananas on
the free list, the only concessions
available to Colombia would be a
slash in the duties on cattle hides
and petroleum.
The Washington times., 1934-05-25
WALLET, $27 GONE

Clarence Berman, a guest at a
downtown hotel, today reported to
police his room had been entered
during the night and his wallet
containing $27 had been stolen.
The Washington times., 1934-05-25
CHILD COMMUNION

A large class of children will re-
ceive their first Holy Communion
at the 9 o'clock mass Sunday
morning in Holy Rosary Church,
Third and F Streets Northwest,
The annual May procession of the
parish will be held that afternoon
at 3 o'clock, followed by benedic'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
France in Trade
UItimatuln to NaziS
Threaten New Reprisals
in Trade War

PARIS, Jan. 16.-In trade ultima
tun to the Nazi regime, the French
government today refused to acknowl-
edge the new trade quotas set by the
Nazis, limiting imports of 100 French
products. The French note demands
an answer from Germany by Jan, 10,
the date upon which the new Nazi
measures are to take effect.
French trade reprisals are threat
ened, including a denunciation Of the
Franco German trade treaty of 1927
which was revised in 1882 to grant
reciprocal most-favored nation treat.
ment. French imports Of German
goods will also be drastically reduced
it is declared, while sharp measures
will be taken against German dump
ing.
The French recently reduced Nazi
imports by 100000 francs. The
present Nazi decree is by way Of re-
prisal. French rep1Lsal against the
decree will be followed by new re-
prisals by the Nazis in the increas-
ingly bitter trade war between the
two countries, which is merely one
front in the worldwide trade war
between the capitalist powers under
conditions of fiercely intensified i'm
perialist antagonisms and frantic war
preparations by all the imperialist
powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

NEW YORK. THE enemies of the
Soviet Union in this country are go
ing to take every opportunity to sab
otage and break up the relations
that have been established. Thin
Of all the forged documents that are
going to appear mysteriously. If
there is Mississippi flood it will
be blamed on Moscow" stated Cor
liss Lamont, ex-Columbia professor,
son Of Thomas Lamont, Morgan
partner, and author of the book
Russia Day by Day." as he warned
against any relaxation of vigilance
on the part of the Friends of the
Soviet Union, and urged support of
the first national convention to be
held in New York City at the New
Star Casino, Jan. rs, q and 2S.
Elmer Rice, John Haynes Holmes
and Langston Hughes also sent wires
Of endorsements of the coming ma
tional convention.
Langston Hughes, brilliant Negro
poet, telegraphed the Friends OF the
Soviet Union from his home in Car
mel, Cal: Heartily endorse coming
convention of the Friends of the So
Wet Union, as friends of the true
workers fatherland. Urge Negro at
tendance and support. I extend
comradely greeting"
John Haynes Holmes, minister OF
the Community Church of New York,
declared: 81 know of nothing more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Nazi Leaders Are
Outman0uYered by
French in Saar Bid
Face French Control of
Plebiscite Or Return
To the League

/ GENEVA, Jan. 1.-THE Nazi lead
ers were outmaneuvered by France
in a proposal offered by the French
in the League Of Nations Councils
discussion today to invite Germany
to attend discussions later this week
Of arrangements for a plebiscite in
the Saar to decide the future fate Of
/ that industrial region administered
since the World War by French i'm
perialism.
The invitation confronts the Nazis
with the dilemma Of leaving arrange
ments for the plebiscite in the
hands of their French rivals or of
humbly returning to the League of
Nations, from which they bolted sew
eral months ago in typical Nazi
melodramatic gesture aimed at con-
vincing the German people that
Hitler was carrying out his prom
ises Tor a ruthless fight against the
Versailles System unnder which Ger
many was enslaved by the victors of
the World War.
The French proposal has tripped
up Nazi Foreign Minister Won Neu-
rath and Chancellor Hitler. both Of
whom, according to Berlin dis
patches, are still engaged this after
noon in studying the possibilities for
a countermove.
The French proposal also registers
sharp defeat for Nazi diplomacy,
in the rejection by France Of a Nazi
proposal to avoid the plebiscite alto
gether through a secret deal with
France for the return of the Saar to
Germany in exchange for Nazi rec
ignition Of the western borders of
the Versailles Pact and German arms
equality
The German arms proposals are
expected to be revived at this session
of the Leagues Council, with Britain
and Italy pushing their policy of ag-
gressive support for Nazi arms equal
ity as an Offset to French military
domination of Western Europe thru
its gigantic war machine and ALI
ances with Poland and the Little
Entente yassals of French imperial
ism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

chauvinism is opportunism brought
to it's logical conclusions.
1.-THE political essence of social
chauvinism and opportuniSm is the
same. 1t expresses itself in class col
Elaboration, reputation of proletarian
dictatorship, rejection Of revolution
airy action, obeiSance to the bour-
geoisie and bourgeois legality, lack
of confidence in the proletariat, con-
fidence in the bourgeoisie. The poll
tical ideas are the same, the political
principles Of tactics are also the
same" (F'rom Opportunism and the
Collapse of The Second Internation-
all, The Imperialist Warp. 389, In
ternational Publishers.
Social chauviniSm is adherence to
the idea of defending the fatherland'
in the present war. From this idea
follows reputation Of the class strug-
gle in war time, voting for military
appropriations, etc. In practice, the
ociaI-chauviniSts conduct an anti
proletarian bourgeois policy, because
in practice they insist not on the
defense of the fatherland' in the
sense of fighting against the oppres-
sion of a foreign nation, but upon
the right of one or the other of the
great nations to rob the colonies and
Cypress other peoples. The social
chauviniSts follow the bourgeoisie in
deceiving the people by saying that
the war is conducted for the defense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
FulEien Leaders Got
Huge Marking Bride
to StOD Rebellion
) Provinces Involved in
Northwest Generals
Civil War

SHANGHAI, Jan. 16.-The sudden
retreat Of the 18th Route Army in
Fukien Province followed the payment
by the Marking government of a
bride Of $4,000 600 Gdexican) to Gem
Tsai Ting-kai, commander OF the 10th
Route Army, Eugene Chen and other
leaders Of the Fukien secessionist
movement, it was reported in the
Shanghai press today.
Gen. Tsai, VINO remained at Foo
chow for the past few days to help
break the joint resistance of workers
and rank and file men of the 10Th
Route Army to the invading Marking
forces, left today for the South at the
head Of long column of soldiers. U.
S. japanese and British warships
landed additional marines to help
Marking suppress the mass anti-im-
perialist, anti-Kuomintang upsurge.
Men of the 10th Route Army are
putting up fierce resistance to the
Marking forces at Annoy, South Fu-
ken. despite the orders of their come
manders. Marking marines hold Ku-
langsu island, in the harbor, but the
rebel troops, supporting the anti-im-
perialist, anti-Kuomintang actions Of
the workers, are in control Of the
mainland. Guns have been trained
on the city by two Marking gunboats,
and U. S., British and japanese war
ships.
The Canton warlords are mobilizing
troops on the southern borders of Flu
ken to enforce a demand on Marking
for the partition of Fukien between
Marking and Canton.
General Civil War Spreading
The Generals Civil War in North
west China spread rapidly yesterday,
involving the warlords of five provin-
ces in resistance to Marking. Chin
ghai province troops are advancing to
aid Ningshia warlords resisting the adj
vance Of Marking army headed by
Gen. Sun Tien-ying. Gnu Hsao-ling,
warlord of Kansu province, is also
sending help to the Ningshia COM
manders. Warlords Of Shansu\ pro-
vince are reported divided in support
Of the two camps, with civil war
threatening in Shansu. A similar
situation exists among the rival war
lords OF Suiyuan province.
Gen. Suns army captured the city
of Shihusuitze yesterday, but is meet
ing with increasing resistance with
the arrival of Chinghai troops in Mn
gshia province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

Investigations proved that the Com
munist newspapers were made up in
a Communist linotype factory and
that small printing shops printed
these newspapers. Ten of these places
were closed recently and the State
Police Department has confiscated
over 1887 tons of literature.
1.-THE character of the underground
organizations which has been inveS-
tigated and destroyed during the last
few months are very interesting
1890 functionaries of the Communist
Party were imprisoned. The under
ground organization demands that
each functionary travels under a false
name, has illegal papers and no per-
manent residence. The functionaries
do not know each other and there
fore it is difficult to investigate these
organizations. Nevertheless the Secret
State Police has been successful in
exposing these organizations.
Nazi Terror Fails To Destroy Com
munist Party
I'm September the leader of the
underground Red Trade Union Oppo-
sition as well as the Agit-Prop Direc-
tor Of the Red Trade Union OPPOSE
ton were arrested. The leader of the
former Red Front organization and
his associates as well as the repre-
sentative of Leow were Jailed. Leow
at that time had a goatee and glasses,
and he had changed his exterior to
such degree that even his best
friends did not recognize him. The
transferring Of the Reichstag trial to
Berlin increased the propaganda &C
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
United Front Against
War Grows in France

PARIS, France.-Numerous new
Committees Against War and Fas-
cism have been organized in the last
few weeks. A special campaign is
being carried on among the farmers
with the united front with the social
list workers being strengthened The
leaders Of the action socialists" ex-
PEELED from the Socialist Party are
recognizing their movement.
On December a District Congress
Of the Committees Against War and
Fascism was held in the important
shipping centre Of the Lower Seine.
Twenty-Five new committees have
been formed in the areas of Correze
and d. Yonne.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Nasi Paper Tells OF Vide Activities Of Communists

Work of the Secret Political Police:
"a small exhibition in the building
Of the Secret State Police shows how
the Communist Party has tried to
work even during the last few months
and how the secret State Police has
killed the last small flame of this
world epidemic.
Unique Methods Urged by
Communists
There one can see firstly, the
enormous amounts of literature in
the German language which is pub
lished outside Of Germany, the ref
ugee newspapers in Amsterdam, Paris,
Zurich and Prague, and the many
leaflets and circulars from the Saar.
Much more dangerous and impor-
tant is the amount Of printed ma
terial which is still being published in
Germany. For example. there is a
little green book with the harmless
title Trip to Eastern Prussia The
cover shows picture of Eastern Prus-
STA while the contents prove to be
the Communist article on the fight
against New Germany.
"'Air Protection Is Self -Protec-
tion--a new novel for the people of
Berlin. This is the title of another
pamphlet The contents Es<a terrible
Communist paper consisting Of as
many lies as it has lines.
The Illegal Communist Press
"a leaflet of the Communist Party
of Germany was made to look like
an appeal from the leader to his
people. The Rote Fahne, and other
Communist newspapers are being
published again and it was learned
they are being printed in Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
United Front Meet
to Answer Attack
on F Oreign-Born
Sun day Convention to
Fight Dies, Grail
Bills

NEW YORK, N. Y-Nearly 500
delegates of trade unions, fraternal
and political organizations, are for
warding credentials to the Commit
tee for the Protection of Foreign
Born for it's New York convention,
Sunday, Jan. 81, at Manhattan Ly-
ceum, IS E. 4th st.
Such organizations as the Work
mans Circle, Branch IS, French
Workers Club, American Civil Liber-
ties Union and the Trade Union
Unity League are participating in the
united front. The Dies bill, the Grail
bill and all measures for finger
printing, registering and otherwise
discriminating against alien-born
workers, will be the chief concern
of this convention.
At the convention on Sunday a
plan of action and resolutions will be
made protesting these acts of Wash
ington.
Sam Paul, who at present is being
held for deportation under $1,000 bail,
will be one of the principal speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Lerlirt Corner

On Jan. II workers throughout
the world will commemorate the
10th Anniversary of the death of
their revolutionary leader, Vladi-
mir Ilyitch Lenin. The Daily Work
er, under the heading 'Lenin Cor
ner," will devote daily space to quo
tationS from the works of Lenin
There will also be articles on Lenin
in other sections of the paper.
The Daily Worker of Saturday,
Jan. 20, viii be special Lenfn An
niYersary edition.
Lenin on Social ChauvmiSm
1.-THE economic basis of social
this term being more
precise than the term social patriot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
U. S. JOURNALIST BARRED FROM
MANCHUKUO

MUKDEN, Jan. 16.-J. B. Powell,
American editor of the China Weekly
Review, was barred from entering
Manchukuo, following publication in
his paper Of news of the Japanese
preparations to seize North China in
connection with Tokyo's plans for an
enlarged Manchukuo under its puppet
rule, Henry Pu-Yi, who is to be
crowned emperor" of Manchukuo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Reactionaries Rule
AlI-Ndzi Reichstag

BERLIN, Jan. 16.-The compo-
sition of the all-Nazi Reichstag,
which met last Dec. IL for a few
minutes and voted new unlimited
power to Hitler and adjourned, is
interesting.
1t consists of 100 members of the
landed aristocracy, 60 noblemen, Is
leading industrialists and capital
lists, 80 top officers Of the old i'm
perialist army, and other trusted
Nazis. The Reichstag consists of
Sol deputies, Of whom II are
former workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
BOSSES RUSH INTO HITLER
UNIONS

BERLIN, Germany-The Hitler
unions, which are to take in all
workers and employers and be known
as the German Labor Front" are
meeting with great success. One
hundred thousand bosses have joined
the organization in the space of two
weeks. One Of the new fighters for
the interests of the German working
class is the great industrialist Thys-
sen,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
GREEK PEASANTS FIGHT TAX
COLLECTORS

ATHENS Jan. 16.-Thirty-five
peasants, including five women, from
the village of Welisita are on trial
at Janina (Epirus) for driving tax
collectors out of the village and re-
leasing peasants who had been ar
rested.
The defendants were arrested only
with the aid of q strong detachment
of gendarmerie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
M ass Arrests, Terror,
Fail to Crush Heroic
German Communists

ton OF the German Communist
Party"
These excerpts are very interest
ing. They show the volume Of il
legal work carrio1 on by the Ger
man Communists, who have refused
to bow to the Hitler terror, and are
fearlessly leading the German work
ing class against the victors Of an
hour. The claim that all Illegal
papers, literature, and leaflets are
suppressed. that the Illegal organi-
cations and printing plants have
been destroyed is false and has
been made before. II 1851 tons of
literature have been confiscated,
then many more thousands of tons
have been successfully distributed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Publishing Scores of He
gal Papers, Tons of Leaf
lets, Pamphlets, Etc.

BERLIN, Jan 16-A significant
admission of the wide extent and eff
fectiveness of the activities of the
illegal Communist Party in heroic
struggle against the Nazi terror, is
contained in an article published by
the Nazi Hamburger Fremdenblatt,"
which at the same time seeks to de-
ceive its readers with the oft-repeated
Nazi lie that the unconquerable Ger
man Communist Party has been
finally" crushed. The article states,
in part, under the caption Exposure
of Underground Police Activities-the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Endorse First National
+. S. u. Contention, Jan. 70

important today than the spread of
exact information about Russia. This
is important from two points of view.
First, to meet and overcome the
great mass of misinformation and
deliberate falsehood which has been
engulfing the people of the world
ever since the bolshevik revolution.
Secondly, to present the full and eX-
act truth about the greatest expert
ment in human welfare in the his
tory Of the world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
GENDARNIES TO EJECT JOBLESS
FRENCH PILOTS

COMPIEGNE, France, Jan. Is
Gendarmes were ordered today to
eject 60 unemployed canal boat pilots
who have ben encamped in the City
Hall of Longueil-Annal since Friday,
demanding unemployment relief.
The demands of the unemployed
pilots are supported by workers in
the town, who recently held a mass
meeting to back up their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Foreign News
Briefs
SEVEN FACE DEATH ON THREE
YEAR OLD CHARGE

HAMBURG. - The Unsuitable
bloodhounds of fascism have dug
up the case of the killing of a po-
lice sergeant in December, 1880,
and are demanding the death pen
atty for seven workers whom they
accuse as being responsible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Nasis Murder Three
Communist Workers

BERLIN, Jan. 16.-The former
Communist functionary Harting
was murdered by Nazi storm troops
at the Fuhlsbuettel concentration
camp, it was learned today. His
Crime" was given as some small
breach of discipline.
Two other workers whose names
are not known were murdered on
the same day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
UNEMPLOYMENT IN ITALY RISES

R o M E The officially adj
mitted number of unemployed in
Italy has increased from 962,868 at
the end of October to 1,066,215 at the
end of November.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
26 KILLED BY GUIANA FLOODS

GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,
Jan. 15.-Twenty persons were killed
when floods, caused by swollen rivers,
destroyed scores Of peasant shacks.
The bodies of two women were re-
covered today in an up-country vii
lage. Food prices are soaring rap
idly as profiteers take advantage of
the widespread destruction of crops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

ism, as the latter
embellishes the
evil), and of OPP
portunism is the
same, namely. an
alliance of an in
significant section
of the top of the
labor movement
with its national
b 0 u r g e o i S i e
against the class
that is exploited
by the b o u r.
geoiSie, S oci a l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
NAZI BOADCASTING STATION
FIRED

LEIPZIG, Jan. 15.-The local Nazi
broadcasting station here was de-
stroyed by fire last night. Nazi Off
Gals charge an arson plot and are
planning arrests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17
Yirginia. Mimi, Meetinn

VIRGINIA, Mimi, JAN 15.-A
Lenin Memorial meeting will be held
at Workers Center, here, on Sunday,
Jan. 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

Fight for unemployment insur-
ance. Support the National Con-
vention Against Unemployment on
Feb. in Washington, d. C.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-17

through the brutal measures of the RoOse-
velt regime is not solving the crisis, but
is intensifying the basic contradictions of
capitalism.
Finance capital cannot restore the stab
ilization of capitalism. It's deeds drive the
workers to greater starvation and its sys-
tenn closer to the abyss.
AS the XIIIth Plenum of the Commu-
MIST international pointed out win remark
able clariy:
The economic policy of the financial
OtIgGrchy for overcoming the crisis 1.-THE
ROBBERY of the workers and peasants, sub
sides to the capitalists and landlords is
unable to restore the sterilization of cap
taLtSna; on the contrary, it is helping
still further to diSintegrate the naechan-
ism Of capitalist economy (diSOrganiza-
ton of the money system, of the budget.
state bankruptcies, a further deepening
OF the agrariar crisis and to sharply in
tensfy the fundamental contradictions of
capitalism"
In this situation, all the capitalist
countries are developing their Uar indus
rieS to unprecedented dimensions, and are
adapting all the principal branches of in
dustry, as ICeU as agriculture, to the needs
of ICdr."
HUNGER, misery, death and destruction
III ride on the wings of the Blue Eagle
Seventeen million workers are still un-
employed in the United States. Those en-
plOyed have the moose of N.R.A. codes
around their necks. The strikebreaking ap-
paratus of the N. R. A, through the Ma
ional Labor Board, with the assistance of the
American Federation of Labor leaders, has
been strengthened, as force to smash down
the workers struggles.
When Roosevelt on the assumption of the
presidency began his original inflationary
drives against the workers, the American
toilers showed their resistance, their mill
fancy by a tremendous strike wave. We can
expect bigger strike struggles, more deter
mined resistance against the latest depre-
dation of finance capital
The workers were misled by the false
promises of the N.R.A., they were betrayed
and scabbed against by the strikebreaking
bureaucracy of the A. F. of L., aided by the
Socialist Party. Norman Thomas, Socialist
leader, urged the workers, 'Now is not the
time to strike" He invited initiation as a
means of solving the capitalist crisis.
The Communist Party has before it ire
mendous tasks. The present sharpening of
the attacks against the workers, the drive
to war, will be one of its greatest tests.
We must make clear to the workers now
the full significance of Roosevelt's war
and initiation moves. We must rally the work
ers for struggle, giving these struggles lead
ership and organization.
Above all, it is necessary now more than
ever to penetrate the factories, and in the
basic industries to bring to the workers the
truth, the real meaning of Roosevelt's pro-
gram.