The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1934, Page 1

AUSTRIA WORKERS HOLD FAST IN HEROIC ARMED BATTLE; oth INFANTRY REGIMENT JOINS REVOLUTIONARY TOILERS eee een eee REVOLUTION Get New Subs ! Hel» Spur It! for the “Daily” Vol. XI, No. 39 >_> New York, N. ¥., under the Daily,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) Entered ss second-class matter at the Post Office at Act of March 8, 1879 NEW YORK, WEDN SDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1934 AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER WEATH Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) Rally in Solidarity at the Austrian Consulate at 4 P. M. Today! Organize Nation-Wide aes the Fascist Mur Solidarity Meetings For Austrian Workers! N. Y. Demonstration at) Austrian Consulate | at 4 p. m. Today | NEW YORK. — Rallying united | front actions throughout the whole | country in suPport of the Austrian | workers heroicelly fighting the most} vicious fascist bloody attacks, Earl | Browder today sent a telegram to} all districts of the Communist Parties urging the immediate arrangements of international solidarity meetings. ! “Hold meetings in solidarity with | the AuStrian workers,” says this tel- egram, signed by the Secretary of | the Communist Party, U. S. A.} “Organize demonstrations befo the Austrian Consulate immediately. | “Mobilize the workers on the| basis of the united front. “A special appeal to all Socialist workers should be made. Issue call for the demonstration. “Do not wait until the united front is formed. See the Centrai Committee statement in the Daily Worker today.” In reSponse to this telegram, the District committees have already taken steps in the leading cities of the United States to mobilize huge | demonstrations in support of the Austrian workers. The New York demonstration wiil be held today at the Austrian Con- sulate, at 4 p.m., at 42nd Street and Fifth Ave., and will give the im- petus to similar demonstrations throughout the whole country. All workers, regardless of their Political or trade union affiliations, should be rallied in the demonstra- tions to express their solidarity with the Austrian workers bravely fighting on the barricades against the fascist pest. | Especially in view of the growing | war danger, these demonstrations Should organize and mobilize all workers against fascism and war. Troops Called Out to Crush Strike of Spanish ' Workers Communist Pariy Lead-! ing Resistance to the | Reactionary Govt MADRID, Feb. 13.—Armed troons and tanks vatrolled.the streets of the capital and other Spanish cities today as the reactionary Lerroux govern- ment continued repressive measures against workers responding to the call issued by the Snanish Communist Party for a protest strike against the growing attacks on the toiling masses. Despite the government's threat of a new blood bath, 30,000 building trade workers in this city continued their strike today, militantly picket- ing the struck buildings. Many Socialist workers responded to the strike call, despite the sabo- taging efforts of the Socialist leaders, who, while raising deceptive “revolu- tionary” slogans, continue to act as @ brake on the rising revelutionary movement, with empty threats of re- sistance in some vague future against| the reaction. tral Committee and the To All Party Units in New York City | } | | | Comrades! On the day this paper is delivered to you we urge you immediately to make the first order of business of your unit meeting the question of mobiliza- tion for the united front demon- stration before the Austrian Con- sulate on Wednesday. Read the Central statement. Rally all your forces |} for the internationa! solidarity demonstration for the support of our heroic Ausirian class All out! Rally your shop for the demonstration against fas- cism! Committee |) Crganizations Call | All Members Out | | on Streets Today COMRADES! FELLOW PARTIES! Austrian iascism. leaders, who, for over a grading trickery! Our working class comrades, with true revo- lutionarv heroism, are now shedding their blood in life and death struggle against the monster of The miserable, petty-fogging' Social-Democratic them from the fight by every conceivable, de- On the barricades, they have flung high the deathless banner of class war against the Fascist curse, the curse of capitalist WORKERS OF ALL derers! Defend the ‘Austrian Working Class! Rally at Austrian Consulate Today, 42nd St. 5th Ave., 4 P.M. darity! We too must clasp hands in unbreakable United Front against the fascist menace which y are sweeping over the crush it with our Prole A strations e vhere year, have been keeping onstrati every witenes Let us, ia unconquerab every day grows more sinister in our couniry! Today, together, we must mass to show our hatred of Fascism, and our determination to All who tarian Unity! hate the Fascist curse, mass in meetings, dem- before Austrian Consul- ates! International Solidarity with our working- class brothers in Germany and Austria, now facing the Fascist machine guns and bayonets! le working class unity, ® | | military dictatorship! In the very fire of battle they are welding the steel of the United Front of the working class! Socialist workers! Workers in the unions, in the A. F. of L. locals! Comrades in the inexorable class struggle against capitalist |ILD, League of Struggle | Mobilize | |for Negro Rights, Others | NEW YORK.—Hundreds of work-! jing class organizations in New York | City, aroused by the bloody fascist j attack against the Austrian prole-| | tariat, have issued statements rally- jing their membership in support of the huge demonstration before the | Austrian Consulate today at 42nd St. | and Fifth Ave. at 4 p.m. in suvport | of the heroic Austrian workers, fight- | jing on the barricades. | 7 | NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee of the Young Communist League in a statement issued today | calls upon the youth of America to| respond immediately to the threat of fascism to spread its iron heel over the Austrian people. | Youth. of America—Rally to the| Gefense of the heroic Austrian work- | ers, Your fight against the Austrian | fascist pests will strengthen the fight |against those who carry through’ at- ;tacks agains the American workers and the youth! Unite the youth in the Socialist organizations in militant demonstrations at the Austrian con- sulates in every possible city. De- mand that a stop be put to the at- attacks against the Austrian people. * “We call upon every Negro, har- rassed in-this country by Jim-Crow- ism and lyncu threats, to rally to this demonstration in a firm exhibi- tion of solidarity with their Austrian brothers in their fight against fas- cism, in the fight against the brutal dictatorship of capitalism aimed at all toilers and all oppressed peoples,” said a statement issued by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. eee. « The International Labor Defense, | which is mobilizing all of its branches in New York and throughout the country for demonstrations in sup- port of the Austrian workers, through its secretary, William Patterson, said: “Every worker should come out on the streets today demonstrating | against fascism, against the slaughter | exploitation and oppression! We too must fling high the banner of international proletarian soli- show ikem our answer! in thousands today before the Aust Today at 4 p.m. Mass m Con- sulate, 500 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue ! Raise your voice and your strength, your hatred and your determina- tion, in the faces of the Fascists! “—CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE C.P.U.S.A. Gigantic French General Strike Against F ascism safe sit een French Toilers (Special to the Daily Worker.) ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 13 (By Radio from Runa).— Gird for Fight AgainstFascism |The leadership of the Communist Party of France, and the} , Success of its slogan of a united front of struggle against fas- | |cism, were among the most significant features of yesterday’s Shows Workers Following Communist Party Léa ‘France Plans to Send Army Into Austria dented proportions. The revolutionary wave which has sripped France was demonstrated in the immense masses which took the streets in militant demonstrations against the threat of fascism. Every- where the demonstrators carried the slogans of the Communist Party, Only French C. P. Can Lead the Fight, Organ of C.P.S.U. States :nation-wide 24-hour general strike, which reached unprece- pa “Disarmament”? Meet Postponed as War Tension Increases (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 13. (By Radio).— In an editorial today called “The Masses Arise in Struggle Against Fascism,” the Pravda, leading organ of the Communist Party of the So- viet Union declares: “The idea of the necessity for the Fascisation of the Third Republic ‘s finding ever greater support in the circles of the French Right Wing. Its most prominent representative, Andre Tardieu, has been continually advocating the policy of a strong “authoritative Parliament.” The preparations for a fascist up- heaval in France have been, and are being carried on, with the Military General Staff as one pivot of the movement, and the police apparatus and the Fascist organizations the others. The Third Republic, which is ac- customed to shoot workers, found it- eelf “affrighted” by the necessity of having to defend itself against the fascists. The French proletariat imme- (Continued on Page 2) New York District of the (Continued on Page 2) The meeting will therefore not only stress the need for solidarity with will also include a thorough political explanation of though the first strike call was is- sued by the socialist-led reformist |tmion leaders, who then fought to rob it of all militancy, and promised not to annoy the reactionary military Doumergue government. One hundred thousand demon- strated at the Porte de Vincenne, Paris. In Argenteuil, 16,000, in St. Denis, another 16,000 took the streets. Demonstrations Unprecedented. In Marseilles, 40,000 demonstrated, ond took part in sharp clashes with the police. In Montlucon, 15,000 dem- onstrated. Demonstrations took place in cities ond towns that had seen no workers’ demonstrations for 15 years. “L’Hu- manite,” daily newspaper of the Com- munist Party, estimates that the demonstrations exceeded even those of 1920, at the time of the general railway strike. United front actions made tremen- dous progress. The demonstrations called by the Socialist Party were lost in the gigantic response to the calls LONDON, Feb. 13—The full meeting of the “disarmament” conference steering committee has | been postponed to April 10, it was announced today. Officers of the conference met teday as scheduled under the presidency of Arthur Henderson, but decided that setting an earlier date for the conference would prove embarrassing to the imper- jalist governments under the cir- cumstances of the tense war situa- tion in Europe. { Polish Foreign Minister Arrives in Moscow Visit (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 13 (By Radio) — Colonel Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, |International Army to | Quell Workers’ Revolt Discussed BULLETIN. Henri Berenger, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, said if the French army does not march on Austria “it is the end of the League and the start of an European war.” Italian Fascism is mobilizing to seize Vienna, United Press dis- patches from Paris state. A Berlin cabel reports Hitler is mobilizing an army for a march on Austria under the pretext that Czecho-Siovakia was ready to march into Austria, PARIS, Feb. 13. — Active prep- aration by French imperialism to send armed troops into Austria is Seen in the statement of Henry Be- renger, chairman of the Senate For- eign Affairs Committee, that “it might be necessary for France and other Powers of the League of Na- tions to give armed aid to Chancellor Dollfuss.” A French (Continued on Page 2) invasion of Austria (Continued on Page 2) arrived here today on an official visit. the Austrian workers, but | Women, Children ‘Slaughtered By Howitzer Shells | potia< Mainbilis ices Ae araes Workers Hold Positions Against Fascist Army in Working Class and Industrial Centers; Hold Great Steyr Munitions Plant SHELLS SHATTER GREAT TENEMENTS | | | | |State and Fascist Legions With Most Powerful Weapons of War Fail to Break Resistance BULLETIN BERMIN, Feb. 13.—The Fifth Austrian Infantry Reei- ment has gone over to the side of the wor'ers. accorting to a revort to the Berliner Taveblatt from its Vienna cor- respondent. He a'so said the official radio service has been silent since 2 p. m. 1 | | { | | | VIENNA, Feb. 13.— Conservative | dead at 2,000. As night advances, the fichting on all fronts is he- coming more severe. All fascist hopes of quick victory are smashed by the heroic resistance of hundreds-of thou- | sands of workers. | In the Simmering district of Vienna, the workers have surrounded the state forces. At night fall, fighting was going on in 20 districts of Vienna. The workers are still holding the railway between | Traven and Styegg, near Linz. Fighting is continuing on | the Frierburg mountain top. | Workers in Floridzorf are still in possession of the | electric works and slaughter house. | . | AUSTRIAN SUMMARY Dead estimated at 1,900, including many women and children. Workers hold Steyr munitions plant. Karl Marx House, 2,000 family tenement of Vienna, smashed by artiliery. | Government hanging all armed workers caught. | Workers hold grourd at Linz, Steyr, Bruck, Kappenberg. | Workers in Soviet Union hail revolutionary struggles of Austrian | workers. France talks of intervention with international army, estimates place the VIENNA, Feb. 13.—Inadequately armed, unprepared, be- trayed by their Social-Democratic leaders, the workers of Austria are fighting a nation-wide battle against the fascist | offensive of the state which ranks with the most heroic in | working-class history. The murderous capitalist state has unleashed its most | powerful weapons of war, including artillery. Among the | hundreds and hundreds who have gone down fighting under | the savage offensive of the state are scores at least of work- ing-class women and children, butchered by government shells. Without communications, de-* serted by the Social-Demo- | hie: tena saolated & Be Tegain control. cratic leaders, isola’ rom The Comm Party rugs | their fellows, the workers are hold- | spit aera tends Me Voc ‘“” | gling underground, springs up every- ing their ground at a hundred points, | where to give leadership to the revo- | with unsurpassed heroism. lutionary workers. Even the capi- ‘ ees | talist newspapermen are forced to “Pacitied™ Areas Surge Again | recognize the role of the Party. hs No group of workers can know even | steeling and organizing the resistance what is happening in the next street.| of the workers. None knows whether their fellows elsewhere have met victory or defeat. | ee ee Time and again, after the govern-|_ The slaughter of workers’ families ment had announced that it had|in Vienna and in every industrial “pacified” an area, drenched with} the blood of workers, the resistance! red up again, the workers rally, (Continued from Page 1) the momentous events in Austria, giving the back- ground of the present situation and thoroughly clear- ing up the political situation. Special Austria Edition of the “Daily” at Noon Today Thursday Night! Bronx Coliseum! Mass Mobilization in Solidarity With _ Austrian Workers! Rally in Mighty United Front Against Fascism and War! A mass mobilization of ali workers of New York City and vicinity in a huge demonstration of soli- darity with the Austrian workers will take place Thursday night, 7 p. m. sharp, at the Bronx Coliseum, I77th St. and West Farms, the Bronx, The meeting, which has been called by the Cen- In calling all workers, regardless of their poli- tical affiliations, to turn out in mass for this meet- ing, the Communist Party stresses the facts that the events in Austria today are of the greatest political significance, not only for Austria itself, but in deter- mining the whole development in Europe. Great Britain, France, the Nazis—all are already preparing to advance their imperialist interests. * Communist Party of the United States, will be a huge united front anti-fascist rally of Socialist, A. F. of L. and non-Party workers as well as workers who have been led in their struggles directly by the Commu- nist Party. C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, will report on the present situation in Austria. In this crisis there can be no delay! All Party members must spring to immediate action! Leaflets for this meeting wil! be ready for distribution by mem- bers of all units of the Pariy at ali section head- quarters at 7 p. m. tonight. Every Party comrade must be at his section headquarters ai this time, to secure leaflets, and to otherwise help prepare for this important mass meeting. munist Party and Young Communist League units, are urged to call at the city office of the Daily Worker (35 Hast 12th Street, store) and at their section headquarters, for distribu- tion of this special issue. Every class-conscious worker should be on the job, spread- ing this edition throughout New York City, at 1 p. m. sharp today! A special extra edition of the Daily Worker, dealing with the momentous events in Austria today and giving the latest, up-to-the minute news of the entire situation in Europe caused by the situation in Austria, will be published by the Daily Worker at 1 p. m. today. All readers of the Daily Worker, all members of the Com-