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The Washington times., 1934-09-28
Salesman Loses
$500 in Dresses

Women's sample dresses valued
at more than $500 was the loot Of
thieves who early today stole four
dress sample cases from the park
ed automobile of salesman.
Albert Loew, of Long Island, N.
Y, the salesman, reported to pol
ice that his car was broken into
while parked at Massachusetts and
New Jersey Avenues, Northwest,
The Washington times., 1934-09-28
Fire Races Home
Near Clinton, Md.

Fire destroyed the home of j.
Alfred Moore, of Clinton, Nd,
last night while VOLUNTEER firemen
from Upper Marlboro sought an
adequate water supply with which
to fight the flames. NeighborS
aided in saving the furniture. The
fire is said to have started from
defective wiring.
The Washington times., 1934-09-28
RESORTS

SKYLAND, VA.
The Washington times., 1934-09-28

TOmOrrOw's article will take
up hitherto unpublished facts
about the mutual mortgages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Danger of Consolidation
of Church Threatens
Working Glass

and, probably, will be national
socialist. The Protestant church will
participate in the propaganda for a
fascist cultural policy, but it cannot
reverse historical development to the
tune of four centuries and accom-
pish a renaissance as a strong
peoples church with great influence
over the masses.
Historical development has placed
other questions on the agenda, ques-
tons which are setting the working
masses in movement. The final
struggle between the bourgeoisie and
the proletariat is drawing larger and
larger circles of Protestant and
Catholic workers and peasants into
the front of the daily class struggle.
One of the most important tasks of
the revolutionary advance guard of
the working class is to win these
elements for the aims of socialism,
for the overthrow of capitalist bar
barism.
Church Struggle Contains Certain
Dangers For Revolutionary Movement
The church struggle in Germany
contains various elements of danger
for the revolutionary working class
movement, and they must be recog-
nized in time and countered effec-
lively One of these is a certain
danger of the consolidation of the
religious fanaticism which has been
deliberately famed by the religious
authorities in the struggle against
the German Christians This might
become a barrier to the advancing
proletarian class struggle. The second
is the danger that the illusion might
be strengthened - both amongst the
Catholic and Protestant workers
that the struggle of the leaders of
the churches against the German
Christians is an anti-fascfst strug-
gle. This danger is enhanced by the
fact that the refornists have adopted
this opinion. A further danger is
the typical reformist illusion that the
growing inner difficulties produced
by the "Kulturkampf" must lead tc
the inevitable collapse of the church.
This theory that the thing will COL
lapse of it's own accord leads to pas
sivity, to the isolation of the pro-
letarian free-thinkers from the mil
lions of Protestant and Catholic
workers and peasants.
The ''Kulturkampf" has assisted in
! bringing broad masses of Catholic
and Protestant workers and peasants
into the movement. Let us see to
| IL that thew march into tho cornY,
of the fighters for socialist freedom!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
18th Route Army Is
Defeated; Marking
Men Near FOOChOW
Fukien Regime Leader
in Dicker With Marking
on PrOffered Bride

SHANGHAI, Jan. 9.-Nanking
troops are reported within Is miles
of Foochow, Fukien Province seaport
and seat of the Fukien secesSionist
regime. The city, defended by the
10Th Route Army, was put under
martial law today. Thousands OF
the population are in flight.
General TSai Ting-kai, commander
of the 10Th Route Army and one of
the leaders of the Fukien regime, is
reported dickering with the Marking
government, which he denounced as
a murderous, tyrannical instrument
for the betrayal Of China only short
while ago. 1t is whispered in high
official circles here that positions in
the Marking government will be
found for Gen. Tsai, Eugene Chen
and other secessionist leaders. The
condition to be imposed is that they
diSavow their denunciation of the
Kuomintang party and its Marking
government and re-organize the anti
Communist offensive in Fukien Prov
ince. Little difficulty is expected in
securing their disavowal and re-
newed loyalty" to Marking so long
as the brides are made sufficiently
attractive.
Meantime, Canton and Kwangsi
Province warlords, alarmed at the
Marking southwark advance, have
called an emergency political and
military conference at Canton and
the Generals Civil War may be in
tensified within the next few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Roosevelt Receives First
Soviet Ambassador to u. S.
Soviet Peace Aims Stressed in Exchange OF
Greetings at White House as Troyanovsky
Presents Credentials

WASHINGTON Jan. presenting
his credentials to President Roose-
welt yesterday, Alexander Troyanov-
sky, first Soviet Ambassador to the
United States, expressed the warmest
greetings to the American people and
made a ringing plea for world peace,
reiterating the determination of the
Soviet Union ito continue most con-
sistently and unswervingly that pol
icy of peace of which it has given
ample proof on every occasion since
its establishment"
Troyanovsky'S communication to
the President follows:
IT have the honor to present to
you the letters which accredit me
as Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Of the Union of So
Wet Socialist Republics to the Gov
eminent of the United States of
America. At the same time I have
the honor and pleasure to transmit
to you on behalf Of the President
Of the Central Executive Committee
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Re-
publics and on behalf of the gov
eminent and the people of my coun-
try the warmest personal greetings
and the sincerest expression of friend
ship and the best wishes for the hap
piness and prosperity of your great
country.
Soviet Recognition of World Signi-
ficance
TN a world that has gone through
the intense postwar period, a pc
Rod of concentrated historical events,
in world SO much in need of real
peace and goodwill among nations,
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way. Their navy is being groOmed for a sea attack
Just recently by accident we learned Of huge naval
mobilization in Kyoto.
The Western military mission has added signh-
canoe because it shows that Japanese Imperialism
counting on the support OF the Western capitalist
powers, and that it has believe it can gain
this support for attack against the victorious pro-
letarian revolution
The facts of Japanese preparations for war against
the Soviet Union give here are only those which
have been revealed in the full light of day. How
thorough, how many diverse ramihcatons really has
how far it has developed towards the stage Of actual
attack is difficult to estimate
The danger of war against the Soviet Union is
extremely great
No worker should be luued into passivity by the
torrent Of peace talk we hear in the United States
today. The danger Of imperiast war is greater
than ever, and the danger especially of against
the Soviet Union is paramount
Defend the Soviet Unioni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
The Violent Church Struggle in Fascist Germany

Christians, and that is to say, in fact,
the national socialists, are already in
retreat before the attacks of the op-
position. The retreat is unparalleled
in kind and threatens to develop into
panic.
Nazi Bishop Forced to Retreat
What is the reason for this re-
treat and for the successes of the
opposition? The national socialists
are beginning to realize that the
"Kulturkampf," the military con-
quest" of the Protestant church, will
not achieve their aim, and that they
have underestimate the power of
their religious opponents. The mis-
cradle collapse of the offensive begun
so valiantly by the "Nordic heroes"
under the command of the military
parson Mueller has since convinced
even DR.. Goebbels that it would be
a very stupid thing to ALLEVIATE a
natural ally, and that at time when
the struggle against Communism
makes a concentration of all the
rnter-revolutionary forces neces-
sary.
The contradictions are still ex-
tremely intense. However, it would
be an error to reckon absolutely with
a split in the evangelical church, or
to assume that the evangelical church
ill break up as the result of the
present internal struggles.
Nazis and Church Have Too Much in
Common to Split Permanently
In the interfs st not only of he
church, but also Oh the German CAPT.
talist class, the attitude of the Prot
estant church towards the national
socialist government will once again
become independent" and neutral"
And the reason for this is that only
q church which is apparently in
dependent can conceal the reaction
airy and exploiting character Of its
functions from the working masses.
The clever members of the general
staff of the German Christians had
overlooked that point in their strug-
gle to make Jesus Christ "Nordic."
RUBIN-Tuesday
Dying capitalism needs neither
freedom of conscience nor scientific
progress, but it does need fascist cul-
tural barbarism, the sitting of every
independent intellectual movement
on the part of the masses.
Catholic Church a Powerful Weapon
For Fascism
However, for this purpose the
Catholic church is much better
suited than the Protestant church,
and this explains the steady
growth of it's international signi-
ficance. The Protestant church can
make it's apparatus fascist. Even
after the defeat of the German
Christians the National Bishop" will
continue to exercise his functions,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Araki's Agent in EUROPE

IAPANS military dictators are not leaving stone
unturned in their avid preparations for war against
the Soviet Union.
Not all of the preparations are as Spectacular ex
the building Of military railway in Manchukuo To
the very border Of the Soviet Union near Blagoves
chensk
While all Of Msnchuria is being turned into a
battlefield for war against the workers fatherland
japanese imperialism is doing all 1t can TO start the
conflagration simultaneously in the West
For some time now in the greatest secrecy Major
Aio Dol, of the Japanese Army has been In Finland
seeking TO work out alliance for simultaneous
attack on the Soviet Union. What encouragement
he was given remains diplomatic secret
From Finland Major Ako Dol and his military
staff go to Poland That these countries have a non
aggression pact with the Soviet Union Minister of
War Arak and all his military attaches well know
nut they also know that while these peace victories
OF the US.SR. have their value in lesseninp the
danger of that if the forces of war are
with the possibility Of victorious attack the basic con-
radction Of world capitalism and the world of social
ism will be the decisive factor
The most important incident however which tbs
news brings out is the incessant the far flung prem
arations for attack the Soviet Union being made
by Japanese imperialism
On all fronts, the japanese are increasing their
armed forces. They are attempting to drive through
Chahar TO Inner Mongolia and attack on the IT 8
s. r. from this point They are building railway
for attack on the Amur River. They are increasing
their provocatons all along the Chinese Eastern Rail-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

would be wrong to reduce the evan
gelical church struggle to a political
opposition of the German national
lists cloaked in a religious form,
Seek to Control Ferment of
Protestant Masses
There are 40,o0o,00 Protestants in
Germany and about $4,000 Protestant
parsons ministering to them. When
today about one-quarter of these
parsons openly mutinies against the
German Christians this does not only
mean that in fact still more parsons
are with them, but that, and this
fact is still much more important, a
deep ferment has begun amongst
those Professionals who earn their
living by labor. The oppositional
parsons are seeking to control this
ferment1 and direct it exclusively in
the line of religious resistance, for
there exists the danger that this fer
ment may break through the religious
framework and unite with the dis
appointment at the empty promises
of the fascist rulers of the Third
Reich" into an anti-fascist class
struggle.
Jesus Converted Into An Aryan
Hero
The German Christians, or at least
their radical wing, believe that they
have found the way to renaissance
of the Protestant church by the
Denomination of the Christian re-
ligion. Jesus Christ, according to the
Christian religion, a passive, pious
sufferer and savior, and in addition
a Jew, is being made "Nordic' He
is being made into a warrior hero
and, naturally, an "Aryan," in order
that he may find favor in the eyes
of the members of the fascist storm
attachments.
The cry Back to Wotan!" Is no
more than the logical application
and development on the religious
field of the state of mind which ex-
presses itself on the political field
in the "heroization" of imperialist
ornaments and in the brutal slaugh-
ter Of revolutionary workers.
However, the doctrines Of Chris
tianity as laid down in the Old and
the New Testaments make 1t diff
cult to provide any theological basis
for a new Wotan Christianity. And
this explains the campaign being
conducted against the Old Testament.
This and other facts show how
quickly and how far the "Kultur-
kampf' ("cultural struggle" the name
given to the historical struggle be-
tween the church and Bismarck and
now used for the religious struggle in
Germany.-Ed) has intensified in
Germany. Obviously the German
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

bourgeoisie in all civilized countries
consists in the fact that the die
tatorship of the big landowners
and of the bourgeoisie was violent
suppression of the resistance of the
overwhelming majority of the popu-
lation, namely, the working masses.
In contradistinction to this, the die
tatorship of the proletariat is vio-
lent suppression of the resistance of
the exploiters, that is, the pronounced
minority of the population, the big
landowners and the capitalists"
(Theses of Comrade Lenin adopted
by the First Congress of the Commu-
mist International, March, 1870.
the whole of the class-con-
scious proletariat will be with us
not for 'rearrangement of forces"
but for the overthrow of the capital
list class, the destruction of bourgeois
parliamentarisnn, the building up of
a democratic republic after the type
of the Commune or republic of
Soviets (Councils) of workers. and
SOLDIERS deputies-the revolutionary
dictatorship of the proletariat."
From the State and Revolu-
tion, by Lenin-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

in a world that has substantial
reasons for disappointment with the
seemingly endless and so far fruit
less talks about peace and disarma-
ment, the very fact of the coopera-
ton and friendship between two such
great and powerful nations as the
United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
must inevitably be of great historical
significance and of direct, far-reach-
ing moment in the cause of world
peace.
ut is my governments and my own
sincerest desire and intention to do
everything possible for the realiza-
ton of the wish expressed by you,
that the relations now established
between our peoples may forever re-
main normal and friendly, and that
our nations henceforth may cooper
ate for their mutual benefit and for
the preservation of the peace of the
world.
Seeks Cooperation of US.
'There is among the people of my
country a most natural feeling Of
sympathy, respect and admiration for
your great country which they as
sociate with high technical and scien-
tific progress and which they regard
as an immense creative force. The
cooperation, therefore, of the 125, 000,-
900 people of your country with the
170,000,000 of our own vast country
must of necessity be boon to the
general progress of humanity.
IT therefore trust, Mr.. President,
that the new era Of normal and
friendly relations between our peoples
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
French Communist
Paper Accuses Govt
of Killing StaviSky
Huge Demon STATIONS
by SwindIed Workers
Against Govt

PARIS, Jan, 9. - Thousands Of
small investors, robbed Of their raw
ings in the Credit Municipal Bayolsne
bank crash. demonstrated against the
government today following revela-
lions by "LHumanite," Communist
paper, that Serge Stavisky, fugitive
head Of the bank, was killed by
French secret police to prevent him
revealing the names of high French
government officials who aided him
in his colossal swindle. Over $4,000
900 was looted from small investors
insurance companies and unemployec
workers who had pawned their las
valuables with the bankrupt Credit
Municipal Bayonne, of which Sta
visky was head.
Looted workers and small investors
demonstrating in front of the Cham
Der of Deputies and the presidential
palace were sayagely attacked by
mounted police, and many fierce
street battles occurred.
Stavisky, who was cornered by Sc
cret police yesterday in villa near
Chamonix, was reported to have shot
himself. The financier died soon af-
ter he was taken to the hospital The
police story of suicide is secuted even
by most of the bourgeois papers.
LHumanite" charges the gov
eminent with executing him to pre-
vent a confession which, everyone ex-
poets, would have involved other high
officials in addition to Premier Chau-
tempts and Minister of Colonies De-
Inner, already implicated IN the
Swindle.
Colonial Minister Delimier, whose
letter to insurance companies au-
thorized investment in bonds offered
by Stavisky, resigned yesterday after
being given clean bill of health by
the Chautemps Ministry which bar
gained for his resignation in an at
tempt to stem the furious mass in
dignation.
The Chautemps Ministry is now
revamping itself in an effort to save
its skin. Minister of Labor Lucien
Lamoureux has been named to sue
coed Delimier, with Minister of Mer-
chant Marine Eugene Frot replacing
Lamoureux as Labor Minister, and
Under-S Secretary of Interior William
Bertrand replacing Frot. It is doubt
full whether this maneuver will save
the government.
Debate is expected in the Chamber
Of Deputies today, when Communist
Deputies will question the govern
ment as to how Stavisky was pro-
tected
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may contribute fundamentally to the
development of the widest coopera-
ton in the most varied fields Of hui
man endeavor, but first and foremost
to the cause of the peace Of the
world.
Soviet Determined on Firm Peace
Policy
con behalf of the Government Of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lies, let me assure you that it is
determined to continue most con-
sistently and unSwervingly that pol
icy of peace of which it has given
ample proof on every occasion since
its establishment.
ION entering upon my mission here,
I shall consider it my highest task
to do everything in my power toward
the creation of the closest bonds OF
cooperation and friendship between
our two nations"
In his response, President Roosevelt
paid tribute to the peace policy of the
Soviet Union and declared that
foundation has now been laid for the
development Of friendly relations be-
tween the two countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Nazis Retreat to Keep
Masses Bound to
Church
NV IAN HANSEN

ZURICH, SWitzerland.-A violent
struggle is proceeding on the church
front in Germany. Hardly five
months have passed since the
united" German evangelical church
was patiently botched together under
the leadership of the national-social-
ist district parson, Mueller, and al
ready the whole house of cards
threatens to collapse.
Tt is quite clear that the leaders
Of the opposition against the policy
of the fascist jack-boot in the church
are not by any means opponents OF
fascism on principle There are
many national socialists amongst the
three thousand oppositional parsons
One of the most prominent of the
leaders of the opposition, the Bonn
theologist, Karl Barth, declares, re-
ferring to Hitler:
TN the contemporary political
movement we have an impressive
figure Of a leader who has proved
himself to be leader by the capacity
to conquer political power and to
use it,"
Fear Weakening of Church
Influence
The struggle is therefore not being
conducted in terms of fascism and
anti-fascism. Barth and the other
leaders of the oppositional parsons
regard the thorough going fascist
methods of Mueller as a danger,
They fear that his methods may re-
suit in weakening of the mass in
fluence of the German evangelical
church. They are not so short
sighted and dull as Mueller, Hossen-
fielder, and their friends who, in
their narrow-mindedness, have given
the so-called German Christians
the name Of "the storm attachments
of Jesus Christ"
The question is, how much polit-
ical opposition is concealed behind
the religious opposition? In how far
are the German nationalist, capt.
talist party, involved in this opposi-
ton? There is no doubt that very
close connections exist between the
conservative leaders of the since dis
solved German nationalist front and
the equally conservative Bureaucracy
OF the old Protestant church. Hugen-
berg and the East Elbian Junkers
regard the growing difficulties of
Hitler as result Of the church
struggle as lever to improve their
own political position. However, it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Lenin Corner.

On Jan. 81 workers throughout
the world will commemorate the
10th Anniversary of the death of
their revolutionary leader, VIadi-
mir Ilyitch Lenin. The Daily Work.
er, under the heading 'Lenin Cor
ner," will devote daily space to quo
tations from the workers of Lenin.
There will also be articles on Lenin
in other sections of the paper.
The Daily Worker of Saturday,
Jan. 20, will be special Lenin An
niversary edition.
"The dictatorship of the proletariat
resembles the dictatorship of other
classes in that, like all other dictator
ships, it is brought about by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10

necessity 10 sup
press by force the
resistance of the
class which has
lost its political
power. The basic
difference between
t h e dictatorship
of the proletariat
and the dictator
ship of other class
es the dictator
ship of the big
landowners in the
Middle Ages, the
jictatOrchip nf the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Foreign News
Briefs
U. S. Pushes Wall St. Claims
In Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 9.-Negotia-
lions between the U. S. and Mexican
governments for payment of $780,
100000 in claims by U. S. interests
against Mexico reached a critical
stage today, with U. S. Ambassador
Josephus Daniels rejecting Mexican
proposals for a small lump sum pay
ment over a period of years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Indian Strikers Battle Scabs,
Police

BOMBAY, India, Jan. 9.-British
police fired II volleys into 600 textile
strikers rtcketing the Sassoon Mills
yesterday. Strikers battled police
and scabs for over an hour. Twenty
persons we're injured, including five
policemen,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Increase Nazi Propaganda
Abroad

BERLIN, Jan. 9.-The Nazi gov
eminent took steps to increase its
fascist propaganda in foreign coun-
tries by ordering all Hitlerites travel
ing abroad to lecture on the won
derful results" of the murder regime
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
Faulty Brakes Kill 6 in Italy

ROME, Jan. Six laborers were
killed and seven seriously injured
when a motor lorry, transporting 30
laborers, fell into a ravine due to
faulty brakes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-10
COnfiscate Property of Clara
Zetkin'S Son

POTSDANM, Jan. 9.-The home of
DR.. Konstantin zetkin, son of the
late Clara zetkin, Communist mem
Der of the Reichstag, were confiscated
by the Prussian police today.