The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1934, Page 2

Page Two —_— DAILY WORKE Austrian Workers Still ' Hold Fascist Murderers : Resistance Rises Working Class Districts of Vienna, Main Provincial Towns, Remain in Hands of Workers Despite Artillery, Planes, Flame-Throwers VIENNA, Feb. 14.—After a night of the sharpest fight- «ng on a hundred fronts in Austria, the workers have battled the fascist state forces to a standstill, and held their most im- portant positions. Despite the meagerness of the news reaching Vienna from the provinces, and despite obviously faked government reports, it is clear that the workers have revealed a tremendous revohi- tionary resistance to the incomparably better equipped state forces and their fascist legions. Use Flame-Throwers The murderous capitalist state has not hesitated to use| flame-throwers and the most barbarous scientific methods of destruction in ite war on the working class. Airplanes direct the fire of batteries of howitzers, hurling shell after shell into the tenement homes of “workers. | The Dollfuss go upporters have be- | hment and his Heimwehr (fas sup hanging the captured workers out of hand | ‘There are no reliable estimates of the dead. The total, which may never be known, must run into thousands throughout the country. The hospitals of Vienna are crowded with the wounded of the state forces. The workers cannot take their wounded to the hospitals. Most of Vienna Undefeated. The greater part of the working class districts of Vienna are unbeaten. Despite defeats at certain points, the workers rally again and again, fighting | on with revolutionary heroism. Prince Emst von Stahremberg, chief of the Heimwehr forces, stormed the great munition center of Steyr this morning, after an all-night artillery barrage. He reported but a previous report that Steyr had fallen Was proven incorrect. The workers are once, and Tecaptured a vict still holding the r it in a hervic as: Few State Victories. | The workers are still holding their barricades at Goesting, 8 suburb of | Grez. Few reports have come from other industrial centers of Austria, where the fighting is equally great. The government has issued no reports, which show it has no victories to boast of, ‘The étory of two days’ fighting is a Jong rd of heroic deeds by the embattled workers, facing with sporting arms, old army rifles, and a few | machine guns the tremendous batteries of the state forces. Before its final surrender, Karl Marx Hof, the great half-mile long working class tenement, had been turned into a shambles. Its vast corridors resounded with the cries of women and children, as well as mén Defenders Face Court-Martial. Its gaily colored facade scarred with gaping shell holes and machine gun bullet marks, it finally endered when the state forces made an assault with fiame-throwers. | way depot at Linz, having lost it | Tts weary defenders marched out at last, in blue overalls and leather | jackets, their heads still high. They were surrounded by bayonets, and | taken to the drum-head court-martial of its worker-prisoners. @ Threaten to Blow Up Gas Works | Bitter machine gun fighting vaging now around the great u Vv ee Mer rhaet| Workers battling in the darkened Deehted attacks for 36 hours, |Stteets of the Simmering district ™ si Fac vagg, | Grove the police and troops back to They rejected 2 government ulti-| their barracks during the night. The phe to surrender, and threatened | state troops tried a sortie, but were -t0 blow up the gigantic gas tank, and sorced back once more, leaing five with it themselves, their attackers, ; fs and @ great section of the surround dead behind Lage In a hundred working-class dis- “we will win or die fighting,” said | tricts of Vienna, the police, troops the defenders. “We have nothing to fave except victory or hanging for “Raving resisted the government troops.” Troops Surrounded which has been hanging the bravest troops. ,.| Another government detachment is 48 surrounded in the working-class Flor- 88S | idsdorf section. os tened in doorways, rifies in hand. Every time a head «vppears at any window rifle bullets fly. Fight From Windows of Working At Stadtlau, just across the Denube | Class Homes from the main section of Vienna, the} In a hundred working-class tene- workers have surrounded the state| ments of Vienna, workers stand with ‘The | and Heimwehr gangsters stand flat- | ‘EW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934 “The Proletarian Revolution Is Knocking at the Door of Europe,’ VIENNA TENEMEN’ Vienna, WORKERS’ STRONGHOLDS, SHELLED BY FASCISTS The centers of the workers’ résistance to the fascist troops have largely been the workers’ tenements of The block shown above, a tenement in the Reamannhof, one of the workers’ strongholds, was at- tacked by government artillery. Hundreds of women and children were killed by the fascist shells. AT LEFT: The fascist murderer, Prince Ernest Starhemberg, leader of the Austrian Heimwehr. Troops; Hold Meets in Public Squares Anti-Fascist Actions on Increase Throughout France hunting rifles, or old army equipment | retained from past years, firing at| the troops through windows with white curtains and geranium plants | {on the sills, defending their homes. The working-class dead include hundreds of women and children, who fought with their men, or were caught in the murderous barrages of the state troops, which spared no one, revealed no spark of humanity in its desperate resolve to crush the work- ing class whatever the cost. Lay Siege to Floridsdorf Apartments | ‘Troops began throwing a pontoon | bridge across the Danube during the night, to attack the workers’ strong- holds at the Floridsdorf bridgehead. Here stand four gigantic cooperative | | tenements. Of these only one, the | | Schlesingerhof, has been taken. A second, the Geitenstade, is un- der a smashing barrage of shells and} machine gun fire. A river gunboat | carrying powerful guns has anchored off this point in the river, and is hurling shells into the workers’ homes. The northern railroad station in the Floridsdorf district has been destroyed by shellfire, “for strategic reasons,” |the government reported. Heroic Defense of Workers Center The state forces claimed a victory) | in QueYenhof, in the Seventh district | of Vienna. Airplanes flying over the city direct the fire of the state artil-| lery. Some of the heavist fighting of last | night took the Ottakring district of| Vienna, where the Workers Club was| finally taken—a mere shell left, walls | and roof battered into dust by big shells, its floors piled high with dead and wounded, half-buried in the debris of brick and plaster. One of its defenders, his last cart- ridge fired, hanged himself in a win- dow as the invaders entered, prefer- ring death to capture, torture, court-| |martial, and a certain execution. Men All Gone from Sandleitenhof The Sandleitenhof, another of the gigantic modern cooperative workers’ tenements, is a vast house of mourn- ing today. Its whole front scarred with bullets, it was finally surren- dered. | Savage Reprisals At Ennsieiien ten, near Steyr, the munitions cid motorcar manufac- turing town, 600 workers were re- ported captured. Of these, 40 were at once turned over to the court- martial, to be hanged. Workers entrenched on Mount Poestlingberg, overlooking Linz, made a heroic charge, { | Austria. War Danger Blazes in Europe Over The Threatened Seizure of Austria ® PARIS, Feb. 14.—French workers, | Who came out in millions on Monday in the tremendously successful 24- | hour nation-wide strike against fas- j cism continued their fight on the reactionary Doumergue Government in scores of demonstrations through- out France today. "| In this city, large crowds of work- (Continued from Page 1) | complicated war - antagonisins, the | the tremendous international soli- darity of the workers behind their Austrian brothers, are now fervently attempting to knit the imperialist front for war against our Austrian workers, and against the world yan- guard of the proletariat, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Yet each of the imperialist powers girds for war to seize the greatest share of the booty. | Hitler Moves Armies Hitler is quietly moving his armies towards the Austrian frontier. The German fascist press openly declares that the victory of fascism means the “anschluss,” unity of fascist Austria and Germany—a step’ towards war against the Soviet Union. To fortify this “anschluss,” German fascism is ready to plunge to war, a war which would not stop with the seizure of At the same time, Czecho-Slovakian capitalism, to pusn its borders further at the expense of Austria, has already mobilized its armed forces for attack, This has heightened the antagonism stween Germany and Czecho- Slovakia, In Italy, Mussolini is acting as if war has already been declared,| though the armies have not yet con-| fronted each other, The Supreme| National War Council of Italy is con- | tinuously in session. Mussolini sup- ports Dolifuss in his attempt to set up a fascist regime under Italian fascist hegemony. British capitalism is maneuvering | against France, is already making its alliance with Italy, with Germany, wtih all the worst forces of reaction for joint seizure of Austria, under the pretext of “guaranteeing” the in- dependence of Austria. The British imperialists are reviv- ing the four-power pact, originally devised as a united front of the im- perialist powers against the Soviet Union. This time the pact would be written not with ink on paper but with blood on the battlefield. At the same time, the conflict be- tween Germany and France is flar- ing to dangerous war heights. The French have issued strong warnings to the Hitler government against the seizure of Austria, wanting to reserve this morsel for themselves. In the midst of all these sharp | French carry on a bitter trade war with Great Britain. The air of Europe flashes with the lightning of capitalist antagonisms, with war hatreds, with the actual mobilization of the armies. War is on the order of the day nd may break out in tremendous fury at any monient. | ‘The shrieking of howitzers in Austria directed at the workers, is the pre- lude for the heavier bombardment that will rock all Europe to its foundations in the most savage war the world has ever known, The capitalist bandits are seeking to prevent their doom by the most criminal war in history. They make no more secret about their plunge to war. Henry Berenger, head of the Rrench Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, yesterday declared that if the League of Nations does not march armies in- to Austria, the League will be dead and war a reality in Europe. No matter how sharp the antagon- isms, the hatreds between the various | mperialists over a new plundering of Europe with Austria as the first prize, | Reactionary Leaders of Jewish Veterans’ Union Offer Aid to Dollfuss VIENNA, Feb, 14—Leaders of the Union of Jewish War Veterans, which has a membership of 17,000, yesterday announced that “We are prepared to stand with the [Dollfuss] government and with the Jewish general, Sommer, president of the union.” This statement was made in re- sponse to the Dollfuss government, which *alled on this organization to join with it against the embattled Communist and Socialist workers of Austria. Despite this statement of the lead- ers, great numbers of Jewish vet- erans of the last war, as well as Jew- ish workers of all cities, are fighting shoulder to shoulder with their fellow workers on the barricades throughout the country. he rising resistance of the tionary projetariat, along with the strengthening of fascist reaction, lays the pretext for the united front revolu- of all the capitalist slaveholders for | war against the Soviet Union, against the world fortress of the victorious | ings were organized by the Commu- proletarian revolution. The war fever and mobilization in Europe underline the Bolshevik fore- sight and correctness of the 13th Plenum Resolution of the Communist International. In that resolution, passed some two months ago, it is stated: “The bourgeoisic wanis to post- pone the doom of capitalism by a criminal imperialist war and a counter - revolutionary campaign against the land of victorious so- cialism.” In answer to this situation, which is now a living reality, which is now being translated into actual warfare by the fascist hounds of Austria, and ‘y the war mobilizati of every capitalist power of Evrope, the Com- unist International says: Communist Task “The great historical task of in- ternational Communism is 19 mobi- ‘ze the broad masses against war even before war has begun, and thereby hasten the doom of capi- talism. Only a Bolshevik struggle before the outbreak of war for the triamph of revolution can assure the victory of a revolution that breaks ont in connection with war. Even those who do not wish to see not blind enough to avoid observ- ing that war is a inatter of historical moments, and the time “to mobilize the broad masses against war eyen before war has begun,” is indeed short. A European war will inevitably be- come a world war, with American capitalism involved ia every phase of Our revolutionary task is writ plain, “e must mobilize the Ainerican work- ers now in a revoiutionary struggle of international solidarity with the Austrian and other European workers against fascist reaction and war, and for a revolutionary fight against our own imperialism before the outbreak | the past 36 hours. The arrests were | aimed especially at revolutionary na- | tends to return to certain death at of war. rs gathered throughout the day in the Place de la Concerde, defying the cordons of troops and police thrown around the huge square to enforce the government's ban on working class demonstrations. Meet- nist Party ‘in protest against the murder of two strikers by Paris po- lice during the general strike, and the wholesale arrests ordered by the government in an attempt to crush the rising revolutionary wave. At least 600 workers were arrested in tive and immigrant workers. In their attempt to split the working class, the government has ordered the de- portation of scores of militant immi- grant workers, including German refugees whom the government in- he hands of the Nazi murderers. News of police attacks on workers demonstrations in Marseilles, South France and in Algiers and other North African cities added to the fury of the Paris workers today. At least 50 strikers were seriously wounded when Marseilles police and troops fired on a demonstration led by the Communist Party. The work- ers fought back with great heroism, killing two policemen and wounding Several others, Three Communist workers shot by Paris troops in last Friday's battle in the Place de la Republique and at the Gare de l'Est died yester- day. The workers of Paris are plan- ning a tremendous protest demon- stration and mass funeral for the three victims of the new strong arm national concentration government, which is tacitly supported by the various Socialist leaders, from the right wing Radical Socialists to Leon Blum’s Unified Socialists and the neo-Socialists, with their open fas- cist program. Police and troops were withdrawn from public gathering places late this afternoon, following the protest meet- ings held by the Communist Party throughout Paris. The capitalist class plots our des- truction through imperialist war. ’ Says Pravda Austrian Workers Carrying on Fight with Sup And Devotion, Says Pravda Social-Democratic Leaders Are Already Coming to Terms With the Dollfuss Government ‘Paris Workers Defy! reme Courage (Special to the Dally Worker) MOSOOW, Feb. 14 (By Cable)— “austria on Fire” ts the title of the leading article in today’s Pravde. organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet ‘Union. “After the events in Paris and throughout France,” the article de- clares, “the heroic battles of the Austrian workmen are & new con- firmation of how great is the determi- nation of the toilers and how high the anti-fascist wave has risen. “The bourgeoisie, which is becoming | fascist, has badly miscalculated the | situation. Tt will not succeed in turn- ing millions of proletarians into slaves The working class cannot be deceived. “The Social Democratic workers of Austria, abandoned by their leaders, are catrying on their struggles with supreme courage and devotion.” The Pravda further states that the Social Democratic leaders have already come to terms with the Austrian party regard- ing capitulation, but that the masses rose against the capitalating and “Let the Bauers and other despic- able traitors to the workers desert; proletarian revolution is knocking ai the door of Europe! “The events in Austria and Paris are the vangard of skirmishes be-~ ginning a new and powerful era of revolutionary upsurge. ae ae is proceeding under the slogan ie Unity of the Proletariat, which is the only guarantee of victorious battles against fascism, savage reaction and the infamy of the ruling class,” Frank Moffer, Fascist Khaki Shirt “General,” Held in Fierro Murder NEW YORK.—Art J. Smith, self- styled commander-in-chief of the Khaki Shirts of America, was re- manded to jail on perjury charges yesterday, and Frank Moffer, also 2 “general” of the same organization, was held, charged with the murder of Antonio Fierro in Queens last At the trial last November, mem- bers of the Khaki Shirts accused Athos Terzani, a friend of Fierro’s, GENERAL STRIKE IN MEXICAN STATE PUEBLA, Mexico, Feb. 13.—Work- ers in the State of Puebla will come out in s general strike tomorrow in protest against a decision of the gov- Fight these plots by gaining new readers for our Daily Worker, our powerfal weapon in the struggle for a Soviet America, Break Austrian Workers Chains By MILTON HOWARD that the socialist leaders had the ma- " —— . | jority of the working class behind it, ee dauntiess revolutionary | that it held power in its hands, and heroism the working-class | eas ie See beeps of Austria, with its back to the} guised as anecray”™ sd wall, resists the onslaughts of} Will we ever forget that the Social- Fascist reaction. It shows that| See GaGa ~the proletariat is ready to meet’ yished—and supported him instead? “the challenge of the Fascist) The Fascist reaction in Vienna is curse. Betrayed by the Social- | Democratic leaders, their press the logical result of the steady sur- render by the Socialist leaders of every concession that the workers had _ confiscated, their Socialist} 2ver won. It was the Socialist lead- ~ leaders on the run, poorly | tS Who paved the road for the Doll- ie . ictatorship. Wit A swarmed, the proletariat of fuss dictatorship. Without Otto Bauer, without the Socialist leaders, Dollfuss | couldn’t have ruled for one day. | Trace the road of the Socialist j leaders for the last twelve months. And now with ghastly clearness their function as the advance guard for Fascism, the preparers for the Fas- cist dictatorship becomes ghastly clear. The analysis of the Commu- nist International of Social~Demo- cracy as the preparers of Fascism has been confirmed again by the bru- tal realities of history. * Austria has broken the chains of Social-Democratic treachery and has taken the road of mass ~ revolutionary struggle against . .. the capitalist dictatorship. The » working class of the world is “stirred to its profoundest depths. The ocean of prole- tarian revolution is rising. Many of the lower organs of the Party, impelled by the rev- _ dlutionary determination of the _ workers, are welding on the - barricades the United Front of i the working class. ET us follow the Socialist leaders since last year. Observe the steady march of their treachery. Resorting to the War Emergency Powers Act passed in 1917, the Doll- fuss Government supported by Social- Democracy, issued an emergency de- cree introducing confiscation of news- Papers and censorship. The decree provided any person making “offen- sive statements” regarding the gov- ernment,.or even any foreign govern- ment, is liable to arrest. The obvious purpose of this latter provision was ‘o aim against the Communists in the campaign against Hitler. No re- sistance from the Socialist leaders. This was on March 17, 1933. March 19, 1933—The Dollfuss Gov- ernment issued decrees more tyran- nical then any that existed since the Hapsburg days in 1867. The Dolifuss government decreed that the police must be notified seven days before- hand of any public meeting, and that the police must be notified of all meetings whether public or not. ~The Socialist leaders of Austria hailed Dolifuss as their “defender of democracy.’ ‘The German Socialist leaders hailed gas their “defender of And now they both reap the same hharvest of Fascist massacre. _ ‘Thanks to Otto Bauer and the So- Cialist leaders with him the Dollfuss " dictatorship now drips with the blood of the working class of Austria. urd the working class of the world ever t that ft was this Govern- - ment which the Socialist leaders of _ Austria supported with their votes? Will the working class ever forget _ that the Socialists had 66 per cent __ of the votes in Viesa in the last election, and that with these votes} At the same time Dolifuss an- kept Dollfuss in office? nounced his intention to replace the the working ciess ever forget | whole constitution by means of emer- | | nae gency orders, and to set up State Commissioners of compulsory labor service, in place of the unemployment. benefits. What was the reply of the Social Democrats? Herr Seitz, who is now in the hands of the Heimnwehr Fas- cists, and famous as the Socialist Mayor of Vienna, declared merely that he “would challenge the consti- tutional character of the orders be- fore the constitutional court.” It was just this way that Severing, the German Socialist leader, “fought” Hitler in June when Hitler dissolved the Prussian Landtag. At this point the Communist Party issued a united front offer with concrete proposals to Social- Democratic workers, and the Cen- tral Committee of the Social-Dem- ocratic Party to fight these meas- ‘ures. The Communist Pariy, it stated, re to enforce the cancellation of the Dollfuss emergency decrees by mobilizing the entire trade union letarian united front for the disarm~ ing and dissolution of both fascist groups, the Nazis and the Heimwehr, against all wage wage cuts, against all reductions in unemployed bene- tits, etc., ete.” No answer from the Socialist leaders. APRIL 2.—This day saw one of the most shameful Social-Democratic treacheries which could only lead swiftly to the present unleashing of the full fascist terror of the Dollfuss dictatorship against the working class. On this day the Socialist Mayor of Viennt, Seitz, agreed to permit the dissolution of the “Schutz- bund,” the Republican Defense Corps of the working class of Vienna the main armed forces of the workers. As a “counter-strike,” the Socialist Democratic leaders demanded of Doll- fuss that he also dissolve the Fascist Heimwehr. To this Dollfuss agreed, and the social democratic leaders used this agreement to pacify the intense anger of the Socialist workers. But 24 hours later Dollfuss rein- stated the Heimwehr by cancelling the first order, the Social Demo- cratic leaders did nothing! the net result was the strengthening of fas- cism through the official disarming of the working class armed groups. The next week, in a public speech. power of the workers—to form pro- | } Mayor Seitz admitted that he knew all the time that Dollfuss was going to cancel the order for the dissoln- tion of the Heimwehr. April 7.—Armed with the power of the new decree, the Dolifuss police once began an intense series of April 21—The Dolfuss government announced to the press representa- tives that it is issuing orders prohibit- ing all strikes, and to permit all em- Ployers the right to claim damages against trade unions in the event of a strike. The leading Social - Democratic paper, “Arbeiter Zeitung” counselled |the workers against any resistance to this decree, stating “Here are. two armies, a red and a black confronting one another. In addition there is a third, a brown army waiting to in- tervenue,—the momennt the red and black armies engage in conflict,” the inference of this notorious “lesser evil” theory was clear,—the workers were to accept without resistance the new strike-breaking decrees of Doll- fuss, in order to permit him to “fight” Faszism. June 7.—The Dollfuss Government declared that the Communist Party was illegal and all the property of the Party and iis press to be confis- cated. Jane 9. — The Sociai-Democratic paper “Abend” welcomed the appoint- ment by Dollfuss of Fascist army generals as “security commissars” in the various provinces. These are the generals now directing the bombard- ment of the workers’ quarters in Vienna. June 10.—A delegation of Commu- nist workers, brining a resolution to 13th Plenum of C. I. Heard Report on Austrian Fi ight “Of decisive importance for judg- ing the situation in Austria is the quickly growing process of radicali- zation of the masses of workers and the beginning of a new revolutionary upsurge. The economic and political strikes during the last few months show the masses’ growing will to struggle. Of greatest importance was the miners’ strike in the Alpine Mon- tan works, which ended with a full victory of the miners. . Growth of Poiitical Strike, “The growth of the political strike movement is very characteristic of the situation. Answering the arrest of shop councillors and particularly the phohibition to sell the ‘Vienna Arbeiterzeitung,’ a large number of shops in Vienna and in the provinces were struck. The number of work- ers who participated in these strikes is about 25,000. The whole situation and also the sentiment among the broadest masses corresponds to the slogan of the political mass strike and general strike. “Inside the Social Democratic Party @ process of disintegration is begin- . This process has two sides. The Petty-bourgeois followers of Social- Democracy are beginning to leave the party and to join Dollfuss’ Patriotic Front. The main tendency, however, is the left radicalization of the so- clal-democratic workers, which is showing itself in the growing activ- @ Social-Democratic conference in Vienna, proposing that a joint resolu- tion against the Dolifuss decrees be adopted in the factories and trade unions and that a united front be formed leading up to mass demon- stration and political mass strikes, as well as demonstrations of sym- pathy and support for the German working class in their struggle against Hitler, This delegation was not even per- mitted to enter the hall where the Conference was being held! July 14.—Dollfuss issues a resolu- tion to form “voluntary defense corps” from patriotic organizations, such as the Heimwehr, establishing further fascist police for the state. During the same week Dollfuss appointed Colonel Diakow, notorious fascist, prominent in the Heimwehr as head of the State Labor Camps. The Arbeiter Zeitung still restrains the workers from any action against Dolifuss, declaring, “The task now must be te eppose the threats of Ger- man National Socialism ... to form a united front with al Ithose who desire a free Austria... a true Avs- trian united front . . . wiill be strong only when the working class and social-democracy, the greatest party in the country, joins it.” However, the revolutionary senti- ment of the workers begin to break out into spontaneous mass actions. The printers go on a one-day strike, the building workers enter into a long strike, lasting many weeks. The ity, in the shattering of the dem- ocratic illusions and in the growing sympathies for the Communist Party. United Front. “There are numerous cases of so- cial-democratic workers taking our legal literature and selling it in the shops. There are cases of our com- rades being invited by social-demo- cratic workers to their section meet- ings to speak there; another example is Linz where a demonstration held jointly by the “left” social- and 4,000 Communists, . workers participated and fights with the police took place, was carried on completely under our slogans. A special form of the left radicalization of the social-democratic workers are the workers’ opposition groups which are being formed everywhere inside the lower organization of the Social- ist Party of America, gas workers cary on a form of passive resistance. Red flags in ever increas- ing numbers, despite the fact that Dollfuss has declared it a crime to disply any other flag but the State Flag, begin to appear flying from the chimneys and towers of the factories. But the social-democratic leaders continued a united front with Doll- fuss “for a Free Austria.” Break Strikes Oct. 6.—Prince Starhemberg, now leading the troops against the work- ers, stated in the “Neueste Zeitung” that in the Dollfuss government “Fascism has at last triumphed.” The Social-Democratic leaders con- tinue to support it, and urged the ctr to support it as the “lesser evil. helpless, and is at a loss for a solu- tion. The Social-Democratic leaders intervened and got the workers to return to work. November.—The Social Democrats hold a Party Convention. Faced by rising struggles of the workers, and spontaneous strikes, Otto Bauer issues a proclamation filled with rev- olutionary phrases. After having accepted meekly all the previous Dollfuss decrees, Bauer stated with a great show of bravery: In any case the workers must rise in order to defend the freedom of the people. ... Should it come to a general strike, and the revo- lution, then there will be no choice —either go down fighting, or power and victory.” This was the language the Social- ist leaders used before the Socialist workers, straining at the leash for struggle and resistance to the Doll- fuss dictatorship. But for the Austrian capitalist rulers, they spoke another lan- guage. Only a few days later, the Socialist paper, “Warheit,” stated editorially: “The Austrian Social Democracy has always fought its fight within the limits of the Jaw. It still re- ret within the limits of the wr “Revolution” —but “within the law”! That was the Socialist fraud. Support Martial Law Noy. 24.—Dollfuss proclaims mar- tial law, All acts of “public violence” become cen bs he by death at the hands of a military court-martial. Otte Mauer still sup) the Doll- fuss government as the evil,” aps warns against.any mass strug- gles. December.—The situation begins to grow critical. Reaction is increas- ing swiftly. The Fascist troops vio! in the streets. The workers egin to go out on strike, more and more frequently. The teasion grows. Dollfuss comes into the open with ernment’s “Labor Conciliation Board” against the workers in a local chem- istry factory. of Social-Democratic Betrayal, Take Road of Revolutionary Struggle STEP BY STEP, THE SOCIALIST LEADERS PAVED THE WAY FOR THE OPEN FASCIST DOLLFUSS DICTATORSHIP; SUPPORTED IT AS “LESSER EVIL” ing grounds: “We have recognized that in ex traordinary situations it may be necessary to grant a democraiic government extraordinary powers to defend the ind of the government and to defend democ- racy.’ Thus Social Democracy became a propagandist for Fascism, This was about ten weeks ago. The slaught- ered bodies of the workers and their families in the Karl Marx tenements re the result. Workers Call for General Strike Moving swiftly now toward the open Fascist dictatorship, Dollfuss issued a decree abolishing the Cham- bers of Labor, the representative bodies of the workers in the shops and factories, a c i through bitter enege e ordered that from now on the Minister of Social Services would appoint “labor itatives.” But Otto Bauer stul continued “negotiate” with Dollfuss and reek a plan for Fascism, calling it “‘cor-| his porative reconstruction.” Heim- wehr leaders hail it as the long wished-for Fascist State. But the Socialist leaders think otherwise. In the Arbeiter-Zeitung, they tell the workers, the “corpora- tive state may take on various The miners of Styria go out on/ forms. strike. The Dolifuss government is It urged acceptance on the follow. To the very {ast hour, last week, Bauer was _nogotisting: with Delle mal teak sp ne] stopped his negotiations, and he fled to Cxechoslovakia, And then the Austrian working class, no longer willing to follow i: the footsteps of treacherove leaders, took to the barricades, te