The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1934, Page 1

_ | |Hear Hathaway, Browder, Ford, on Austrian Civil War, at Bronx Coliseum Tonight tf COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST, A. F. of L. WORKERS! — RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE THE AUSTRIAN TOILERS AGAINST FASCIST REACTION! Tonight, at 7 P. M. sharp, New York workers from hundreds of organizations will fill the huge Bronx Coliseum, 177th St. and West Farms, the Bronx, in a mighty demonstration of solidarity with the heroic Austrian workers who have taken to the barricades in their desperate struggle against fascism. This mass meeting, called by the Central Committee and the N. Y. District of the Communist Party of the United States, will rally all the working class forces in the city in a huge united front mobilization against fascism and war. Socialist workers, A. F. of L. work- ers, toilers of all industries and those who are unem- ployed, are expected to jam the huge Coliseum in thousands, regardless of their political affiliations. New York workers, who have been stirred to profound sympathy and support by the splendid courage shown by their Austrian comrades in this historic battle, realize the crying need for powerful actions of solid- arity such as the mass meeting tomorrow night. The situation in Austria will be taken up and discussed thoroughly by C. A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, U.S.A. Charles Krumbein will act as chairmen; James W. Ford will also speak. The speakers w_il give a political analysis and explanation of the situation, giving the background of the compli- cated events in all of Europe as well as in Austria. The meeting tomorrow night must be an expression of the world-wide struggle against war and fascism, which the Austrian workers are fighting with their very lives. All Party members of New York are called on to report to their section headquarters at 7 p.m. tonight, where leaflets in preparation for the Coliseum meeting will be available for distribution, Every unit member, every reader of the Daily Worker—on the job! Fight- ing solidarity with Austria’s embattled workers is the crying need of the hour! AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER REVOLUTION! Help Spur It! | Get New Subs for the “Daily” Daily ,QWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL ) Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Kew York, N. ¥., under the Act of March 8 1879 AUSTRIAN WORKERS RECAPTURE LOST STRONGHOLDS; - DOLLFUSS OPENS DOOR FOR NAZI AID TO CRUSH REVOLT Vol. XI, No. 40 —_™ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934 WEATHER: Fair and warmer. Price 3 Cents (Six Pages) —~@ -© Mounted Cops Charge Aid the Heroic Austrian Workers! Answer [talian Trooop 5 4 on Workers in Meet in Fascist Murder with Proletarian Solidarity! yfocced at Border H. eart of New Yo rk ALL WORKERS! COMRADES! | The Austrian workers are fighting on bravely against bloody fascist barbarism. The fascist troops of the Doll- fuss murder regime are massacring our class brothers, their wives and children. European capitalism is prepar- ing to crush them by a criminal, armed intervention. It is our duty as workers to mobilize our forces for their support. Nation-wide demonstrations. are being organized against the slaughter of the Austrian workers. We appeal to you, regardless of your political affiliation, to express your support and solidarity to the revolutionary workers of Austria, battling on the barricades against the bloodi- est and most savage fascist reaction. Show your solidarity with the Austrian workers giv- ing their lives to stem the tide of fascism and to over- throw capitalism! Rally in support of the Austrian workers! | A united front of struggle against fascism and war! | Swamp the Austrian government with mass protests! | Demand: Immediate withdrawal of all government and fascist troops. Freedom for all workers’ organiza- tions in Austria. Stop the firing on workers’ homes! | Stop the murder of women and children! | Stop the threatened execution of all working class fighters! | Freedom for all working class prisoners! Down with we Dollfuss and Hitler fascism! | BULLETIN Swamp the Austrian government with mass protests! ROME, Feb. 14.-Two army corps of Italian troops are concentrated on the Austrian border, to Invade Austria Communist and Socialist Workers March for Two Hours in Solidarity with Austrian Workers; Line, Broken by Cops, Reforms Six Times | Wives and Daughters Fight by Side of Workers; Communists and Socialists Join in United Front Battle Against Murderous Facsist Army COPS ‘SLUG MINOR WHEN HE TRIES TO SPEAK, ) Robert Minor and James W. Ford Present Demands of U. S. Workers to Austrian Consul NEW YORK.—On the busiest intersection in the world, the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave., over 10,000 Communist and Socialist workers battled side by side against charging police who attacked them on mounted horses, swinging clubs and blackjacks. © — Young workers, farm youth, students, unite against misery, fascism and war! Weld the united front of Social- ist and Communist workers! ready to advance in a move which would plunge all Europe into war. The workers, massed at this busy corner, flanked on one side by the huge office build- ing on whose thirty-first floor the American consulate office is housed, and on the other by the New York Public Library, stood their ground solidly against the charging cops who sought to smash their militant marching lines of solidarity with the Austrian workers. The crowd, b-oken up, six times, reformed in solid for- mation each time. The workers had come out of their homes and shops in response to a call issued Tuesday by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. A special Daily Worker edition of £0,000 copies, as well as a previous regular edition of 73,000 copies, had been published earlier in the day, in which the Central Committee’s call had appears. Demonstrators ran up the plaza of the library, followed by mounted cops swinging their clubs. The number of U. S. Workers Rally To Defense of Heroic Austrian Workers Protest Actions Called in Chicago, Phila. ; Br’klyn Workers Score Fascists CHICAGO, Feb. 14. — Immediate joint actions of solidarity with the struggles of the Austrian, French and German together with a Joint conference for one united May Day demonstration in the city of ‘The letter reads, in part: “We propose to you immediate joint actions of solidarity with the strug- gles of the Austrian and French work- ers, solidarity with the revolutionary _ workers of Germany in the struggle Day tion in the elty of Chicago under the following slogans: (Continued on Page 6) workers beaten and injured was- not ‘mown as this edition went to press. Signs and banners, hung in tatters, torn in the melee. Cops chased workers into the li- brary, and broke several windows in their attempts to get at them. Robert Minor, who had vreviously battled his way into the office of the Austrian consul. attempted to ad- dress the crowd from the steps of the P'aza, but wes clubhed down. Workers carried him further and raised him on their shoulders. He had just enough time to say: “Fellow workers, we have Fascism in America!” ‘Then the police charged again. Mi- nor spoke seven times, briefly, before the police began their attacks again. At 38th St. and Fifth Ave., four blocks from the Austrian Embassy, a contingent of cops attacked about 200 members of the Young Communist League, beating up boys and girls mercilessly and tearing up the ban- ners which they carried denouncing Austrian fascism. Before they reached 42nd St. the marchers were attacked again, but this time the police did not have such easy sailing, as nearly 3,000 workers had converged at this point. Promptly at 4:30 Minor and other members of the delegation walked into the entrance of the building where the Austrian Consulate has its As soon as they entered the build- ing, about 35 policemen who had been awaiting them pounced upon Minor and the others and forced (Continued on Page 6) AUSTRIA—-HOW IT HAPPENED! History “of Social- Democratic Leaders’ Betrayals By OTTO LESSNER At the end of November, 1918, Austria, the Black-Yellow Empire, the prison of many peoples, the sem:~- absolute ¥ tered on the battlefields. The starving, beaten diers were formed in Austria. workingclass armed Red troops had power in their hands. At the head of Austria, a social- democratic government was formed. The great majority of the masses of ustrian workers and A masses of the petty-bourgecisie in city and Special Austrian “Daily” Editions Reach 123,000Total Workers Eager for News in Struggle of Au- strian Toilers NEW YORK —The last two edi- tions of the Daily Worker, appear- ing on the initial crest of the Au- strian workers’ heroic struggles against fascism, have totaled 123,000 conies. The regular Wednesday morning issue appeared in 13.000 copies. To this were added 50,090 copies of the special two-page Austria edition, which was on the streets of New York shortly after 1 p.m. yesterday, for wide distribution on prepara*ion for the demonstration before the Austrian consulate. Workers throughout the city gath- ered in speedy and efficient mobili- zations at many points throughout the city to insure a wide distribu- tion and sale for these two issues of the paper. Workers of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on going to work early yester- day morning, met Communist work- ers, who distributed 1,000 copies of (Continued on Page 6) heroic battle of the Austrian workers against fascist barbar- ism. Panicky because of the tre- mendous resistance of the revolution- ary proletariat of Austria against fascist reaction and capitalist vio- lence and oppression, the capitalist powers want to help Dollfuss drown the uprising of the Austrian workers in an ocean of blood. ‘The French general mass political strike against fascism, the increased battles of the Spanish workers, the growing support to the Austrian Eurove Blazes in War Moves Against Austria Hitler Troops Mass on Austrian Border for Rapid Seizure of Austria By HARRY GANNES NEW YORK.—The fires of civil war in Austria are shoot- ing sparks into the powder magazine of European capitalist conflicts. War councils are meeting in Italy, France, Britain, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia. The hungry dogs of the European capi- talist powers are plunging to war for the seizure of Austria whatever the outcome of the°— ing the fears of the European capi- talists. They want to end revolu- tionary upsurge in their own coun- try by war, by first attacking the Austrian workers. British capitalism, greatest slave- holding power in the world, is al- ready maneuvering to profit by the seizure of Austria. Great Britain, “‘hrovugh Hitler and Mussolini, is be- to forge the united front of world capitalism against the vic- New Forces Join Fighting Workers In Austrian Cities Widespread Struggles Developing Special to the Daily Worker ZURICH, Feb. 14 (By Runa via Radio)—The struggles throughout Austria are characterized by newly increasing resistance and partly be- ginning offensive, as well as the streaming in of new fighters. Strug- gles have begun in territories pre- viously quiet. While there is a great shortage of ammunition in Vienna, where the fighting was particularly bitter and some revolutionary positions had to be given up, while others changed hands repeatedly, progress has been made in the provinces, particularly in Lower Austria and Steyr. The workers’ position in Jedlesee is un- shaken. The workers’ defense or- ganization is constantly gaining new torious proletarian revolution in the! forces, and is planning to cross the Soviet Union. ‘These enraged capitalist bandits, frightened at the heroic battles of the Austrian proletariat, terrified at (Continued on Page 2) Danube and penetrate into the cen- ter of Vienna. In Filoridsdorf, the government troops were forced to withdraw this (Continued on Page 6) countryside followed the leadership of | state and the bourgeoisie would sys-|the active support of the Austrian tematically consolidate itself, and that) proletariat, if with the help of Aus- social-democracy. The Austrian so- cial-democratic leaders, Otto Bauer, Friedrich Adler, etc., promised, as in Germany, that the republic would peacefully lead the way to socialism, that the workers should not “abuse” their power and fight for the estab- lishment of a Soviet Republic. The Communist Party, which was formed by left elements of Austrian social-democracy, developed powerful agitation among the masses for the establishment of a Soviet Republic, that the workers should really use the ‘The | power which they had in their hands in order to establish a socialist state, to take over all the means of pro- duction and to destroy reaction. The Austrian Communists explained to the workers that if they did not use the power which they had in their hands, the capitalist machinery e¢/|gling Red Army of Hungary had hed/ mendous demonstration the road of Social-Democracy woul Ey of counter-revolu- i #3 iL 2 iY i i tria the connection between Soviet Hungary and the German revolution had been established, the history of Central Europe since that time would have been the history of successful revolution and of the building up of Socialism, and not the history of rev- olution betrayed by social-democracy, of desperate struggle of the workers against misery, hunger, unemplov- ment, fascism and counter-revolution. But Austrian Social - Democracy, which led the large majority of the working class, which had organized the workers in the trade unions, which was able to misiead the work- ers with and demagogic phrases, was victorious. In June, 1919, the Minister of the Interior ordered Police and soldiers out against @ tre- organized by viet Hungary and caused a terrible blood bath among the peaceful dem- onstrators. What has happened in Austria, from that time until today is, as in Germany, an example of where the policy of Social-Democracy leads the workers, The Austrian working class had power in its hands. The Austrian army consisted of soldiers and officers sympathizing with the workers. Workers Were Armed Tremendous amounts of weapons were in the possession of the workers, The broad masses of the petty bour- geoisie in city and county-side sym- pathized with and supported the workers, The Austrian workers or- ganized a broad defense and organ- ization (Schutzbund). But all this power im the hands of the working the Communists in solidarity with =| They were sent to the frontier from Bol- zano and Udine, in northern Italy, and other divisions were moved up into these cities to replace them. Gaias Made in Provinces, | Only the Workingelass Can Show Such Heroism class was systematically taken away from it by the Social-Democratic leaders, Friedrich Adler, Otto Bauer, | etc., and systematically turned over to the counter-revolution. ‘The Soviets were dissolved and a democratic parliament was elected. The capitalist machinery of state with its reactionary officials, with she BULLETIN ZURICH (By Radio Through Runa).—The workers of Pressburg (Czechoslovakia) are forming fighting groups to come to the assistance of the Austrian workers. They threaten to call a general strike if they should be prevented from crossing the border. VIENNA, Feb. 14.—A call for volunteers is- sued by Chancellor Dollfuss tonight signified the open entrance of the Austrian Nazis in the now united capitalist front in war on the working class. This call was made as the workers had re- pulsed the fascist state offensive at many key points, and recaptured lost positions at the end of the third day of fight+ Communist and Socialist workers are fighting side by side in a thousand desperate encounters where only tremendous revoluti‘airy heroism serves them to win the day against the gigantic engines of murder the capitalist state has unlimbered against them. The wives and daughters of the workers have fought side by side with them all last night and all day today in many parts of Vienna, behind street barri- cades, and from the vantage Points of factories and homes, Bodies of Women in Morgue. The bodies of many women and children lfe in the morgues of Vienna. No one knows how many more lie in the working-class districts from which they cannot yet be moved. Whole streets of the proletarian belt of Vienna are strewn with the dead. A general run started on the Cen- tral Savings Bank of Vienna. Troops with bayonets were thrown around the building. The government ordered all schools clesed indefinitely, Late today, Chancellor Dollfuss is- sued a desperate call for bourgeois volunteers to join his troops in their savage, barbarous murder of the working class. Priests went from house to house in the dis- tricts, calling on the sons of the rich in Its Battles old reactionary police and gendar- merie, the officers and generals, was no* touched. The banks, the big industrialists, the big landlords remained in pos- session of their economic power. The (Continued on Page 3). (Continued on Page 6) today’s issue on page 5. SPIVAK’S ARTICLE ON PAGE 5 John L. Spivak’s last article of the series on Brockton appears in