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E I Hoe easesord a mm ma ; LE At ae ae Page Six Daily, QWorker | SHWTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PANTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST IeTEREATIONAL) “America’s Only Working Class Dally Newspaper” FOUNDED 19% | PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAIL¥ PUBLISHING CO. INC, 4 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Algonquin 4-7954. | Telephone: Zable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, XM. Y. Washington Bureau: Room 954, National Pres Butiding, 4th and F. St... Washington, D. C. Subscription Rates: By Mail: _ (except and Bronx}, 1 year, $6.00; | } months, $350; 3 month: 1 month, 0.75 cents. | Manhattan, Bronx, and Canada: 1 year, $9.00, ‘months, $5.00;.3 months, $3.00 ay Carrier: We 18 cents; monthly, ts. ‘THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934 On the Road to Soviet Power!| IHE proletariat of Vienna is making history. On hastily erected barricades the im- mortal spirit of the Paris Commune lives | again. “They are storming the heavens,” Marx Wrote exultantly in 1871 of the proletariat of Paris.. To- day the proletariat of Austria is storming the heavens. | “All through the night the working-class women, mothers and young girls fought beside their men on | the barricade: he latest dispatches say. Not since | the Commune of 71 have such scenes been seen. Like | fions, the proletariat of Vienna, from the machine | Works, the gas houses, the factories, faces the fascist | blood=-hounds set loose by the Dolifuss government, born and nurtured with the blessings of Otto Bauer and his fellow traitors of the Social-Democratic leader- ship. Only a.month or so ago, the Communist Interna- tional, heir andinheritot of the revolutionary weap- ons of Marxism, at the 13th Plenum of its Executive Committee, wrote with prophetic certitude: “Even the most savage terror which the bour- geoisie employs to suppress the revolutionary move- ment, cannot, when capitaiism is shaken, for long frighten the advanced strata of the working class and restrain them from taking action . .” The blood-hounds of Austrian fascism have dis- covered this to their surprise and dismay. And world capitalism looks on and shivers. For it cannot close its eyes nor its ears to the approach of the world Teyolutionary army, and in the tread of the workers of Vienna it hears the sounds of the first battle of the era which swiftly opens before us—the era of wars and revolutions. “The proletarian revolution knocks on the door of Europe,” declares Pravda, organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Party that has already Smashed the capitalist dictatorship of Czarist Russia, as it greets the embattled revolutionary workers of Vienna. Once again, the battle cry of the working class, So terrible to the ears of the bourgeoisie, rings power- fully and magnificently throughout the world: “Work- ers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains, and a world to gain.” eal anyone read of the events in Vienna without being shaken to the depths? The bourgeoisie and their hirelings grow pale and tremble. The working class and the toiling masses, all haters of fascist re- action, feel the irresistible heroism of proletarian power. The workers of the world see the flames of Vienna. And they will rise to answer the call. “fhe civilization and justice of the bourgeois or- der,” wrote Marx in his scorching manifesto on the Paris Commune, “comes out in its lurid light when- ever the slaves of that order against their masters. Then this civilization and justice stand forth as un- disguised savagery and lawless revenge.” With the blood of the Vienna proletariat are the fascist gangs of the Dollfuss regime writing this truth. wt is it that emerges from the smoke of battle? It is the incalculably significant fact that, in the very fire of battle, is being welded the triumphant unity of the working class, that precious unity which has for so long been split and betrayed by the leaders of Social-Democracy busy forming “temporary” coali- tions with the bourgeoisie. Socialist and Communist workers, brothers and comrades in the class struggle against capitalist ex- ploitation and oppression, clasp hands at last—on the barricades. From this day, nothing will ever again break that bond, the bond of class. The proletariat of Austria has finally broken the chains of its Social-Democratic leaders, the chains Which bound tts power and paralyzed it, while fascism steadily grew strong. The latest reports disclose the following. sentiments. uttered by embattled workers on the barricades: “We haye been deserted by our leaders. It is fortunate for them that they are in prison.” Such is the fury and bitterness of the Austrian working class, noW awake to the infamy of the Otto Bauers, the Seitzes, the Adlers. And the working class of the world cannot but share in their emotions. ged jong has the working class been divided, its strength sundered and dissipated by the leaders of Social-Democracy, who chained the masses to the capitalist State machine with the false and rotten blandishments of bourgeois democracy. Too long have the Otto Wels’, the Vanderveldes, the Kautsky’s, the Noskes, the Scheidemanns, and the Norman Thomases “deceived the Social~Democratic workers into submis- sion to capitalism, blinding them with the illusion of the “peaceful road to Socialism.” Too long have the Social-Democratic leaders placed ‘@ wall between the class brothers and comrades, the Socialist and Communist workers, warning them, in their shameless loyalty to capitalism, against cement- ing the proletarian united front in every-day class struggle against the ruling class. Now, the immense ocean of working class solidarity thas swept this wall aside. Now, the Socialist and Communist workers are finding their common unity again—in struggle, in herotsm. As the smoke of the Paris Commune lifted, dis- closing the streets of Paris littered with the bodies of the massacred proletariat, Marx wrote, speaking -of the revolutionary struggle of the world proletariat: “THE SOIL OUT OF WHICH IT GROWS IS MODERN SOCIETY ITSELF. IT CANNOT BE STAMPED OUT BY ANY AMOUNT OF CARNAGE. TO STAMP IT OUT, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TO STAMP OUT THE DESPOTISM OF CAPITAL OVER LABOR—PRECISELY THE CON- DITION OF ITS OWN PARASITICAL EXISTENCE.” - ‘This is the guarantee of our victory. ; sae BN 0" of its bitter experience, having tasted its fruits, with the Social-Democratic leaders’ pleading for reliance on bourgeois democracy as the road to So¢ial- ism, the workers of Vienna, of Austria, have finally rejected with true proletarian wrath the path of bour- geois democracy ss the path to Socialism, the path onto which they were led by their Social-Democratic leaders. _ ‘The Austrian proletariat has taken the road of k DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934 revolutionary struggle. It is the on! lead to the overthrow of the hi tatorship, It the road of the Coi national, the road that leads to the smas! bourgeois State and the establishing of Soviet power, of the Proletarian Dictatorship. It is the road long ago laid down by the immortal founders of the First International, Marx and Engels, when they declared: “The Commune was compelled to recognize that the working class, once come te power, cannot carry on business with the old State machine; that in order not to lose its newly-won supremacy, the working class must smash the old repressive machinery of the State...and set up the dictatorship of the proletariat.” It is the road of Lenin, who led the October Revo- lution, and showed the road to the toiling masses of the modern world, oppressed by world imperialism. The working class everywhere strives for unity against fascism, for unity in struggle. Side by side in the daily struggle this unity 1s being forged. The proletariat of Austria and Germany show the road. It is a road that we, here in this country, must and will follow. Eternal honor to the workers of Austria! Socialist fellow workers, united we go forward in revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of the bour- geois dictatorship! “Every proletariat must settle with | its own bourgeoisie,” Marx taught us. The spirit of Marx, Engels and Lenin, the spirit of the Paris Com-~- mune, of the Communist International leads us! For- ward to Soviet power! Forward to proletarian dic- tatorship! United Action in Solidarity. 'With the Austrian Workers Ausirian workers, fighting heroically against ter- rific odds to drive back fascist reaction, must have the united support of the international working-class if they are to win. Deserted by the Social-Democratic leaders, who month after month have aided Dolifuss in his efforts to demoralize and disarm them, the So- cialist and Communist workers are unitedly making a last desperate stand against the fascist blood-hounds. Already in bloody barricade battles they are fac- ing the combine forces of black reaction within Austria. The foreign armies of Italian and German fascism, and the equally reactionary forces of imperialist France, are concentrating on the Austrian borders, All the counter-revolutionary forces of. Europe are preparing to stamp out the Austrian revolution in blood. In such a situation immediate and decisive. action was and is necessary to rally the broadest international working-class support for our struggling Austrian com- rades. The bloody hand of fascist reaction must be stayed. Mass support must be rallied for these heroic anti-fascist fighters. . Hed Communist Party of the United States, without delay, recognized its responsibility to the Austrian working-class. It immediately sprang to action.*‘Dem- onstrations were called throughout the country, mass meetings are being organized, Tens of thousands of additional copies of the Daily Worker were printed and circulated in the factories, calling upon the workers for solidarity action. In all of the activity of the Communist Party, the fundamental slogan was the unity of all workers, Com- munist, Socialist, A. F. of L., and non-Party workers, in solidarity with the revolutionary workers of Austria. It was to unite the ranks of the American workers in the struggle against fascism and against the danger of war brought closer by the Austrian events, that the Communist Party undertook to rally the workers. Tt addressed its calls to the workers of all Parties, to workers of all union affiliations, and particularly to the Socialist workers. The Communist Party stands unshakeably for a united mass movement that will sweep the entire country in support of tHe Austrian Tevolution and the world struggle against fascism and war. ‘The Communist Party did not wait to negotiate with Teformist leaders.’ It publicly issued its call for united action. It undertook, as a first step, to rally the work- ers in the streets before every Austrian Consulate in America. ° . 2 . \ ep biesomias representatives of the Student League for Industrial Democracy, of the Young : People’s Socialist League and of the League for Industrial De- mocracy called the Communist Party national office on the phone and proposed one united demonstration in New York City. The Communist Party immediately, and without question, agreed. We invited them to meet immedietely to work out the joint arrangements, The Special Edition of the Dafly Worker, which was run off at noon yesterday, was held for half an hour to carry the joint appeal of this committee and of the Communist Party. Tt must be said to the credit of the young comrades of the L. I. D. and the Y. P. 5. L. that they readily agreed on proposals for joint action. A joint state- ment was drafted and set in type. The edition of the paper was already to go to press with this joint ap- peal for a united demonstration at 4:30 yesterday after= noon at the Austrian Consulate. Suddenly an alien hand was felt in the negotiations. A representative of the City Committee of the Socialist Party, Jack Altman, intervened. He met with the representatives of the YPSL. and LID. in a room provided by us in our headquarters. And under the pressure of this City Committee representative, these young comrades, who wanted unity, were forced to agree to withdraw the joint appeal for united action. ‘The appeal at the last minute had to be pulled out of the special edition just before it went to press. The Communist Party sees in this another act brand- ing the leaders of the Socialist Party as the barriers in the e:ort to unify the workers in the struggle against fascism and war, in the struggle to support the heroic Austrian workers. * i tese Communist Party again declares its complete adherence to the policy of united front. We want unity of the masses, effective unity, based on the principes of the class struggle against the assault of the bosses on the workers’ living standards, against the reactionary drive toward Fascism, against the closely approaching imperialist war. The Communis: Party knows, and this act of the representative of the City Committee of the Socialist Party proves, that the Socialist leaders are barriers to effective unity,—a barrier that must be hurdled by the honest rank and file workers who desire united action. The Socialist and Communist workers are fighting and dying together on the barricades in Austria. doesn’t this, comrades, of the Socialist Party, prove the need for unity here? Comrades of the Socialist Party! Workers of the American Federation of Labor! All workers! The need is urgent. Events are developing at a rapid tempo. Revolutionary struggles are developing everywhere. War is closely approaching! Close your ranks! De- care your solidarity with the Austrian workers, with the workers everywhere, fighting against fascist re- action, against Imperialist War, for the Defense of the Soviet Union. For united action of all workers! ° ° 'U. 8. Workers Rally’ 'To Defense of Heroic Austrian Workers (Continued from Page 1} “Against Imoverialist War and Fas- cism! Aga: Roosevelt’s Govern- ment.of War and Hunger! For De- fense of the Soviet Union! For the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill! For a shorter working day—for| iftcrease in wages. | FS . | CLEVELAND, Feb. 14.—The work- ing class of Cleveland will rally in four mass united front demonstra- tions Saturday in solidarity with the |; Austrian workers’ struggle against fascism. The demonstrations have | been called by the District Commit. tee of the Comniunist” Party. Calling on all workers to join in| huge militant protests against the | brutal murder of working men and | their wives and children by the| Austrian fascists, the Communist | Party sent proposals for a united |front to the Socialist Party, Work- | ‘men’s Circle, Slovenian National Alli- ance; German Sick Benefit Society, A. F. of L. locals and Bohemian So- cialists. ‘The Unemployed Councils and the Trade Union Unity League have is- sued calls to the workers to rally to the demonstration in masses, All. sections of the Communist Party in Ohio, Eastern Pennsylvania and -West Virginia are being mobilized to. organize and lead mass protests. ‘One hundred thousand anti-defense week leaflets and an additional 8,000 copies of the Daily Worker are being | distributed among the workers in Gleveland and vicinity by the Com- munist Party, trade unions and mass organizations. . Demonstration Saturday in Philadelphia -PHIGADELPHIA, Feb. 14. — Phil- adelphia workers will demonstrate this Saturday afternoon, 1 o'clock, at Heyburn Plaza, in solidarity with the heroic struggles of the Austrian work- ers~against the bloody fascist Doll- fuss regime, which has turned heavy artillery on the working class districts of Vienna and other cities. The demonstration is called by the Phila- delphia district of the Communist Party, with the support of many other ‘working-class orgenizations. Sa e Brooklyn Shop Denounces Fascist Attacks BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The workers of Bleyer Metal Shop here unani- ome adopted the folowing resolu- on: _“We the workers of the Bleyer Shop protest against the slaughter of women and children by the Austrian fascist government and pledge our solidarity to the Austrian workers’ struggle for freedom. “Adopted at a meeting held Feb. 14, 1934" Solidarity Meets in Minneapolis Sunday MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 14. — The Communist Party is organizing two solidarity meetings in support of the Austrian workers’ revolt against Fascism. The mass meetings will be held Sunday afternoon, 2:30 o'clock, at the Humbolt Hall, 1317 Glenwood Ave, N., and at the same hour at the Metal Workers Hall, 329 Cedar Ave., 8. Invitations have been sent to So- cialist Party and Farmer-Labor Party locals to join with the Communist Party in a united front, and to send speakers to the meeting. oer Protest Actions in Baltimore, Phila. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14—Demon- strations in solidarity with the Aus- trian workers are being arranged in this city and Baltimor:. In additten to Saturday's. demon- stration at Reyburn Plaza, at 1 o'clock, a mass meeting will be held Friday night, Feb. 23 at one of the largest halls in the city. The Communist Party has issued 20,000 leaflets in connection with these anti-fascist actioiis. Additional leaflets have been issued by the Trade Union Unity League, and other or- ganizations. The Socialist Party in Baltimore and Philadelphia has been approached with an invitation for a united front struggle against fascism. Leaflets have also been issued addressed fo the members. ° Re) a Detroit Holds Meet DETROIT, Mich.—A mass meeting to protest the fascist terror in. Austria and to support the heroic Austrian workers will be held at 1343 E. Ferry Ave. tonight at 7:30. . The present situation in Austria will be discussed, and the tasks of the American Communist Party will be outlined. OVER THEIR HEADS! W orkers Prepare F ight Against J ingoism —By Burck | | i Austrian Workers Regain Positions in Heroic Fight, @ (Continued from Page 1) to take up arms against the workers. Attempting to shake the morale of the workers, the government is issu- ing confident bulletins over the state radio, which are belied by all the facts. Wounded Shoemaker Hanged The official massacre of captured worker fighters has begun. Official reports say 74 are being court-mar- tialed today, with the prospect of| immediate hanging. Franz Minnichreiter, 43, e shoe- maker, was hanged at 4:30 p.m. today. He was taken before the court-mar-| tial in a seriously wounds condition, | convicted at once, and hanged secret-| ly, with only a handful of officials present, in the court of the Lande: gericht prison. | Fe went to the scaffold with head| high, and before the hangmen sprang} | | the trap, he declared, “I am justified in what I have done for the revolu-/} tion!” | Prisoners Massacre‘ | The government has offered a re- | ward of 1,000 schillings ($180) for | each worker delivered to the hang-| man, Fierce fighting is reported from Steyr, Eggenberg, Bruck-an-der-Mur, Judenburg, Woerfl, Kufstein, and many other provincial points.- Word has come of a savaze mas- sacre of cavtured workers at Thomas- ruth. After 36 hours of intense fighting, the state troens entered the | workers’ center there, after a flag of truce had been set up. The fascist troops turned on their prisoners and massacred them to the | last one. | Steyr Still Fighting | Although Prince Ernst von Star- |} hemberg, leader of the fascist Heim- wehr, claims to have subdued the| workers of Steyr, motor car and munitions manufacturing center, con- tinued. fierce. fighting is reported from ‘there. Workers are holding a huge factory in Linz, capital of Upper Austria, under a tremendous artillery bom- bardment. Guns Blaze Again From Karl Marx Hof Karl Marx Hof, the gigantic work- ers’ co-overative tenement, battered and smashed by artillery bombard- ment, was again in the hands of the workers ate’ today, and workers’ rifles and machine guns blazed from, its windows at the state troops. __ All trains from Prague to Franz- Joseph station have been stopped, be- cause they are in the line of fire from the Karl Marx Hof. Workers Hold Shell-Torn Floridsdorf ‘The workers have taken their stand in a state building in the great Flor- idsderf working-class neighborhood, much of which has been turned into @ shell-torn shambles. Tomas St. is strewn with dead. Two great working-class apartment houses, the Schlingerhof and the Goethehof, are reported in flames from the explosion of shells, The workers have held the district of the Leopoldau gas plant in Vienna, after repeated charges by cavalry and a constant fire from machine | guns. As night fell, firing increased in the Simmering and Ottakring work- ing-class distryts, where the workers’ resistance remains unbroken. Special Austrian “Daily” Editions Reach 123,000Total (Continued from Page 1) | | | the Daily Worker among them. This action of the outside unit of Section 7 was but one tyvical in- stance of the reaction to the strug- gles of the Austrian workers in the ranks of the Communist Party in meetings Tuesday night. Eager workers volunteered for the “shock” mobilization necessary for carrying out the solidarity actions in support of the heroic Austrian work- ers, Unit discussions pivoted on the Austrian events. Units of Section 1, lower East Side, adjourned their meetings to go out and canvass house to house with copies of the Daily Worker. Unit 16 members sold 150 copies in its terri- tory. Working-class hatred for the So- cialist leaders was constantly ex- pressed by members. The New York Socialist. leadershin was condemned for calling the figgt in Austria “one for restoration of civil rights.” “When do we go to bat here?” asked a longshoreman on the lower West Side waterfront as members of Unit 31, Section 1, distributed Daily Workers, ca!'ing them to the demonstration at the Avstrian Con- | sulate this afternoon. Avvroval of his question was voiced by other men in the early morning “shape-up.” ‘Tired Communist workers left their unit meetines later than for many months, but early morning found them at the concentration points of the Party, swinging into action, in Bolshevik response to the call of their Austrian brothers. | Fuchsenhof, in Meidling. New Forces Join Fighting Workers In Austrian Cities (Continued from Page 1) morning, although the government claims the conquest of this district of Vienna. “Several Communist centers of re- sistance were occupied,” said a gov- ernment communique. “Others will be occupied after preparation by ar- tillery.” The slaughter-house at Santmark, including the municipal settlement, was successfully defended against the heaviest attacks, Near the Aspang railway station the Heimwehr was thrown back to Ungar Street. A new center of resistance has been estab- lished in the municipal building, Seek to Aid Viennese Comrades Strong detachments of workers from Wiener Neustadt tried to come to the assistance of the workers in Vienna. A sharp battle developed} between them and government troops brought to the scene by requisitioned | private automobiles. The battle for the railway shops in Simmering is still undecided. The freight depot at Santmarx is still in the possession of the workers. Street fighting continues in the outlying districts of Linz, The Steyr arms factory is still in the possession of the workers. An attempted in- surrection at Kufstein is said to have been put down. The struggles at Woergl are continuing. At Karpfen- berg, in the Wuerz Valley, the work- ers regained possession of the county building, but were forced out again under howitzer bombardment. The mountain regions around Bruck were relinquished by the workers after an articliery battle, In Uhrfahr a baitle| is taking place for possession of the state insurance building. All railroad traffic to Czecho- slovakia was stopped yesterday after~ | noon. On the southern railroad a number of stations are in possession | of the workers, “Lenin on the Woman Question” Is Published NEW YORK,—Released today by Interns- | tional Publishers, “Lenin on the Woman Question,” by Clara Zetkin, has a vital mes- sage not only for the working woman, but for workers of all ages—men and women, boys and giris. The pamphlet consists of Zetkin’s con- versations with Lenin on marriage, the prob- Jems ef working class youth, the organiza~ tion of women, bourgeois morality. There is ‘also a speech by Tevin on “The Tasks of the “ing Women’s Movement in the Soviet Union.” ‘Help put the Daily Worker cir- culation campaign over the top. Capitalist FA’ “Last Ditch Fight”; Terror Played Down . By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK.—In an exceedingly ‘vicious and unabashed manner the Amierican capitalist press has ‘launched into a campaign aimed at ‘completely discrediting the heroic i les of the Austrian working ! against the bloody Dollfuss gov- ernment. _ Tie thief aim of the whole capi- 'talist controlled press service is to arouse the American people against the Austrian workers and rally them in support of the gory fascist mur- derers. The words “Revolt De- feated,” or their equivalent, could be found in practically every headline of-evéty capitalist paper this morn- ing, at a time when the workers were fighting bravely against the fascists, repulsing them and driving them back. Even at a time when it was reported that a section of the gov- ernment troops had joined the work- marching —~ 5 “Times” Calls pare: Vienna, the lying bourgeois press Press Lies About the Austrian Workers said the workers were fighting a losing fight. Knickerbocker. writing in the Even- ing Journal, attempts to play down the struggle by stating that the con- flict is “very like civil war.” Any kind of rule is better than workers’ rule; any measure is right, murder, rapine, destruction and ar- son, as long as it protects the profits of the rich—such is the attitude of the American capitalist press. The New York Tribune, in the fol- lowing casual manner, plays down the fescist terror and attempis.to make it appear that ali is well with the Austrian bourgeoisie: “Banks revorted normal business and Vienna Bourse, interpreting the developments as a victory for the pinata regime, was remarkably The “liberal” World-Telegram does its part in attempting to play down the whole struggle by playinz up un- der a large headline Dollfuss’ state- ment that the “uprising is now only history.” ganda machine of bourgeois journal- ism has been mobilized by the ruling class to put this idea across. The highest paid and most skillful writers have been put to work at the dirty job of helping the Austrian fascists | slaughter thousands of workingmen | and women. | “It is a last ditch fight and quite hopeless,” says a front-page article in the New York Times. This, indeed, is a vicious lie. The struggle of the Austrian workers, the heroic battles of the French workers, the mounting strugeles cf the work- ers throuvhout the world against fas- cism and war—these struggles will never be defeated. There are "10 last ditch fights for the working: class. The workers of the world ar. march- ing forward to victory. W suffer temporary defeats, but victory is in sight. But most vicious of all in the whole general newsvezer attack against the | Austrian workers is the slimey Ar-/| thur Brisbane, leading columnist and vice-president of the Hearst news-} paner chain. Fearing that the American work- ers might follow the example of their Austrian brothers, the whole propa- Patting the murderous Mussolini and Hitler on the back, Brisbane in his column in the New York American > ye as Brisbane Marches in Open Alliance With | Fascist Hangmen today comments in the following manner on the situation in Austria: “Bloody violence in Austria shows what might have happened in Italy, if Mussolini had not taken charge with his Black Shirts and his castor oil, suppressing all differences of opinion, and in Germany, if Hitler had not seized the power.” Here at last we find Brisbane openly and brazenly marching in the ranks of the fascist hangmen. ‘The worthy editor then discioses a vious wish which is closest to his heart: “If England can talk about imitating Italy, if Germany's intelli- xent millions, trained in political thinking since the war of 1870, can suddenly subordinate their thinking and will power to Hitler, a self-chosen ‘eader from Austria, anythiog may happen anywhere.” Bicody fascism everywhere! In Europe and America and all over the world! This is what you are driving at, is ‘it not, Mr. Brisbane? and War CP.,SP.Groups Join in Call for Anti-War Meet) Mass Meeting Called in Brownsville: Fight Must Be Redoubled NEW YORK.—Word of programs inst war and against the Roosevelt campaign of jingoism continues to come in from various parts of the country. Mass meetings are called, broad distribution of leaf- lets “National Defense have taken action in addition to those which are reported in today’s Daily Worker. But the work must be pressed at a far greater rate still. “National Defense Week” must be made the occasion for the broadest exposure in meetings, demonstrations, and in trade unions, in the shops and mines, of the tremendous preparae tions for w hich are going on in the name of “defense,” and “arm- ing for peace.” e Cc. P. and S. P. Groups Call Anti- War Conference WAUKEGAN, Ill—The Section Committe: of the Communist Party and the Waukegan North Chicago Branch of the Socialist Party issued a joint call for a -local conference against war and fascism to take place Sunday, Feb. 25, 2:30 p.m., at Slovenic Hall, 10th and McAlister, Waukegan, Th. The call is signed by H. Erickson for the Communist Party and by J. J, Cerk, for the Socialist Party. The call is issued to all working class organizations in Waukegan and de- clares in part, that “the sharpening aggressive policy of Japanese imper- jalism creates a danger of war and intervention against the Soviet Union. The greatest naval race in history is now on between the U. S., England and Japan.” In calling for a struggle againsi war, the call declares that the task of all working class organizations is to unite their forces and to arouse the masses “within each country for active struggle against the war pol- icies of their own imperialist gov- ernments.” . Plan Big Brownsville Demonstration NEW YORK.—Ninety delegates of 40 organizations with a membership of 5,000 workers formed a provisional committee to organize a Brownsville branch of the American League Against Wax and Fascism, at a meet- ing at 1813 Pitkin Ave., Brownsville, Monday. 10,000 in Protest On Dollfuss Terror In New York City (Continued from Page 1) them out of the building, threaten- ing to club them if they didn’t “move att Hundreds of police surrounded not only the building in which the Aus- trian Consulate {s located, but ad- joining buildings as well. They were hidden in the basement, inside the halls and even some of the offices. During a ten minutes’ stay in the office of Gallinger, the operating manager of the building, in Room 22, moze than a score of frantic calls came from tenants. On each occasion Gallinger assured them that there was “nothing to worry about” and that there was “ample police pro- tection.” Three women were knocked down by cop's blackjiacks on the top steps of the Public Library. Several workers, whose names could not be learned, had their heads split open, and the blood streamed down their faces. One of the most brutal policemen wore the badge number 18286. Long before the demonstration be- fore the Consulate was scheduled to start, large grouvs of workers were vouring out ef the subways and mak- ing their way to 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. Shortly after 3:30 the first group of demonsirators arrived, care rying placards and banners saying: “Down with Dollfuss!” “Sclidarity With the Brave Austrian Proletariat!” A few minutes later a group of members of the National Student Seevve who had filled the entire top of a Fifth Avenue bus, alighted in front of the Consulate at 42nd Street end Fifth Avenue. Thousands on the steps of the Public Library and on the street nearby cheered lustily as the students unfurled a banner over the length of the entire bus, saying, “Down with Fascism! Support our Comrades in Anstria!” When the delegation of three—con- sisting of Minor, James W. Ford and Julia Stuart Poyntz—tried to enter | the building, the cops permitted the last two to pass by, but blocked Minor, saying that they had orders to permit only two into the Consulate. Forcing his way past the police, Minor declared that the deiegation consisted of three, and demanded en- trance. Whereupon half a dozen eops seized Minor by the shoulders, lifted him off his feet and carried him out of the building, while Minor shouted at the top of his voice: “Damn these LaGuardia fascist police.” Minor continued his protest on the street, and when the workers who were circling the Consulate building heard him shouting, they ceased marching and surged toward the building. Fearful that the demonstrators would attack them, the police hur- riedly cpened the way and permit. ted Minor te re-enter the building. He joined Ford and Poyntz, and toxether they went un to the Con- tulate effice. . ‘Xhe united front character of the de:constration was exemplified by the Placards carried by a large group of Secialist needle traders workers. “The Socialist garment