The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1934, Page 1

REVOLUTION ! Help Spur It! Get New Subs for the “Daily” Daily ,QAWorker CENTRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) MARCH IN UNITED RANKS TO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AMERICA’S ONLY WORKING CLASS DAILY NEWSPAPER Vol. XI, No. 41 ea Sew York, N. ¥., under th Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at he Act of March 8 1879 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1934 WEATHER: Fair, colder (Six Pages) Price 3 Cents VALIANT AUSTRIA WORKERS HOLD OUT AT MANY POINTS; STRIKE TODAY AT 3 P.M.! SUPPORT AUSTRIAN WORKERS! All Czechoslovak Unions Call For General Strike In Austrian Protest ¢ Workers Will Strike at 3 P.M. and March to Madison Sq. Garden UNITE ALL WORKERS Needle Union, A. F. of L. Shops to Come Out NEW YORK.—To swell the mighty united protest of the American working class against the Austrian fascist murderers, the Needle Trades Workers’ Indus- trial Union issued a ringing call to all furriers, cloakmakers, dress- makers, tailors, millinery and cap workers, whitegoods and knitgoo’s workers, custom tailors and others, to down tools today at 3 p.m. and march from the shops with their banners to the Medison Square Garden demon- stration. “The Austrian workers are waging @ heroic strugele against the b'oody fascists,” says the call issved by the Nee Trades Union. “Tt is our proletarian dutv to come to the aid of the brave revolutionary fichters in Austria. Tone live the revo'ntion. ary firht of the workets in Austria!” Cal Socialists to Unite Minited front pronesa’s were sent hv Irving Potesh, secretorv of the N. T. ‘W. 7, 17, to dinius Gerber, member of the Cor ee of Action for Sm- port ef A tan Workers, paling far the unitv of all workers in the struesle for the defense of the Aus- trien workers. The letter from part: / ‘Tn our sincere desire to unifv all the werkers in suvvort of the Aus- trisn revolution, we exnect that you will nermit a revresentative of our union to address the Madison Square Garden meeting.’ Th Potash said, in national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union issued 2 call yesterday for a stoppage of wore to take place at 3 7 need for a A call to all unions to come out today st 3 o'clock in a meneral nolit- ical strike in defense of the Austrian workers, was issued yesterday by the A. F. of L. Trade Union Committee for Tinemployment Insurance and Relief. *, ° NEW YORK.—The Central Com- mittee of the left group of Local 22, International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union announced yesterday that it will supnort the general stoppage teday at 3 p.m. . Furniture Workers is Walk Out Furniture workers should come to the union headquarters at 812 Broad- way, where we will march to Mad- ison Square Garden with banners. $175 Donated To Cause Of Austrion Workers yn Lie ; (Special to the “Because of the refusal Popoff, arrested in Germany, ‘ontalist Party and the Inter- | Grant Soviet Citizenship to Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff MOSCOW, Feb. 15 (By Radio).—The Soviet press pub- Hahed the following statement today: te consider George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi ters’ relatives requested the Soviet government, through its Berlin embassy, to adopt them as Soviet citizens. “The Soviet Government has granted this request, mak- ing ’ 1 three—Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, Soviet citizens,” © Where to Assemble For Austrian Meet Needle workers, leave your shops 3 P. M. and assemble at the fol- lowing points: The furriers at 29th St. and 7th Ave. The cloakmakers, dressmake+« and all other needle workers will assemble at 36th St. and 8th Ave. From there all will march to Madison Square Garden! “Strike Today at 3,” Urges N. Y. Dis'rict) Communist Party Appeals to Socialist and Communist Worker to Form United Front NEW YORK.—Appealing to. the Socialist and Communist workers, A. F. of L,, and other trate union mem- bers to strike at 3 P. M., today in support of the valient Austrian work- ers, and against fascism, the New York District of the Communist Party today issued a statement for the mobilization of a united front of all workers for the strike and for the march to Madison Square Gar- den. Tae statement follows: Socialist and Communist work- ers—American Federation of Labor members—all unorganized workers —White and Negro—young and adult! The inspiring struggle of our Austrian fellow workers, fighting with the greatest heroism against fascist terror, slavery and war calls for the most energetic immediate support and so.idarity of all work- ers. The continued blood frenzy of the Doilfuss government of the Austrian bourgeoisie, and the threat of intervention by the Mus- solini fascist government that has already mobilized 75,000 troops at the Austrian border, and the plans of French imperialism for interven- tion coupled with the baring of fangs of the Hitler Nazi murder regime ready to leap at the throat of our great class heroes, The New York District of the Communist Party hails the mili- tancy and growing desire for unity of action of the New York Socialist workers, We declare that the So- cialist workers in their militant demonstration yesterday, together with the Communists, have shown the immediate possibility and im- mediate urgency of the broadest united front movement of all hon- est enemies of fascism, We call upon all workers to lay down tools today 3 P.M. in pro- test strike in a great manifestation of international working class soli- darity in support of our brave Aus- trian class rs in death grips with the fi st monster. We call upon all workers to demonstrate at Madison Square Garden at 3 P. M today. Workers! Jam the Garden in mass formation. Mobilize your en- tire membership. Come as organized bodies with your banners fiying. Give expression to your desire and will for the united front of all workers in support of the Austrian revolution, for the struggle to the death against fascism! For sup- port of the struggle for a Soviet Austria! New York District Committee, Communist Party. Daily Worker) of the Bulgarian government as Bulgarian citizens, the lat- Rally Today at Madison Square Garden TO ALL WORKERS! TO ALL TRADE UNION MEMBERS! FELLOW WORKERS, COMRADES! TopaY, at 3 p.m., tens of thousands of New York workers, regardless of their union or political affilia- tion, will down tools in a monster, mass political strike for the support of their brave, heroic Austrian brothers fighting the murderous fascist hounds in Austria. Fellow workers! All out on strike today! Mobilize your shop, your local, for this expression of a united action in support of your Austrian comrades. Walk out of your shops in a body. Form your ranks at 3 p.m. and march in a body to Madison Square Garden under the banner of your organi- zation, in one mighty demonstration of international soli- darity. * * * UR Austrian brothers, with a daring heroism, are ral- lying the whole working class of Austria in a revolu- tionary siruggle against the vilest, barbarian swine of Austrian fascism. They are looking to you for the firmest expression of a united support of their great battle. The working class throughout the world is showing its heroic determination to rally to the support of their Austrian brothers. The whole Czechoslovakian working class went on a 5-minute general strike Austrian comrades, EI Seeese se! * NEGRO AND WHITE pen | in support of their heroic Socialist workers! Communist workers! Unite your ranks in a united mighty struggle against the fiendish pest whose bloody assault is murdering our brothers, their wives and children. Communist workers! frater- nize with your Socialist shop-mates. * * Anyone who splits the ranks of the workers at this time helps the fascists, injures the valiant struggle of our heroic brothers in Austria, and is a contemptible | enemy of the working class. Forward to the mass strike for the support of the | Austrian proletarian revolution! front of Socialist and Communist workers. Socialist workers in New by the bloody murder of their Austrian comrades, an- xious to join the struggle for their support, have forced their leaders and the trade union bureaucrats to issue the call for strike. It is up to all workers, Socialist and Communist, to make the call into a real, powerful, effec- tive united front action. * Long live the united | York trade unions, aroused | Above—Robert Minor, Commun- ist leader, who led a delegation into Austrian Consulate to protest murder of Austrian workers, Right — Police brutally attack workers at Wednesday's demonstra- tion in New York, Delegation Forces’ Mayor to Pledge ‘No Police Inter ference’ Minor Exposes Fascist Action of Police at Wednesday’s Rally NEW YORK.— Mayor LaGuardia, confronted in his own suite at City Hall yesterday by a delegation pro- testing the brutal police clubbings at Wednesday's demonstration before the Austrian consulate, was forced to promise that there would be “no po- lice violence” during the remainder of his administration. The delegation, composed of repre- sentatives of four working class or- ganizations which participated ac- tively in Wednesdgy’s solidarity dem- onstration with the Austrian work- ers, broken up by a vicious police attack, came to demand the freedom of the city’s streets for the work- ers of the city. In the investigation into police brutality on Wednesday, which Po- lice Commissioner O’Ryan an- nounced he was carrying on, the Socialist Party leadership won q glowing tribute from the Fusion ad- ministration chief, whose police clubbed workers before the Austrian consulate, The Socialist leaders, declared O’Ryan, who only two days ago an- nounced his plans to remodel the New York police force along U. 8S. Army lines, had “coopergted 100 per cent with the police.” ‘The group of five which presented its protests and demands to LaGuar- dia for almost an hour was headed by Robert Minor, of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party, who was painfully attacked by police on Wednesday; Louis Cooper, represent- (Continued on Page 2) 4 | Workers in Many Cities Meet To Support Austrian Workers NEW YORK.—Workers in all parts of the country are replying to the call of Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party, for immediate or- ganization of protest and United Front demonstrations of solidarity with the heroic workers of Austria and Germany, reports here reveal. Monv meetings have already been arranged, in some cases for the first time that the Communist Party has ever been able to call a meeting in that particular city or town. All workers are urged to take up the question of immediate protest meetings against Austrian fascist ter- rorism and massacre. Immediate steps for the cementing of the United Front of the working class should be taken in all workers’ mass organiza. tions. In the trade unions, Socialist Party locals, every effort should be made to arrange United Front meet- ings to show solidarity with the em- battled workers of Vienna, fighting against the fascism of the Dollfuss government. . e 8 CHICAGO CALLS DEMON- STRATION (Daily Worker Mid-Western Bureau) CHICAGO, Feb. 15. — The newly formed Chicago branch of the Amer- ican League Against War and Fascism issued a call today for a mass dem- onstration of solidarity with the Austrian workers this Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 o'clock, in Congress Plaza, Grank Park, at Congress and Michi- gan. ‘The demonstration is endorsed by she Communist Party which immedi- vtely issued 30,000 leaflets calling on ste ener 50 Sunes Mass pres- sure is being mobilized to force the police to issue a permit for the dem- onstration. At noon on the same day there will | m, be a demonstration against Polish ‘escism at Washington Square, 900 North Clark street, Sens Sy aeaioas of the International Labor Defensa, the United Ukrainian Toilers and other organizations. The Socialist Party 1s reported con- sidering the invitation of the Amer- can League for a united front dem- onstration, BROWDER IN PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH, Feb. 15. — Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S. A., will speak under the auspices of the Com- munist Party in Pittsburgh “On the present Crisis and the Way Out.” He will make particular references to revolution in Austria, the barricades in Paris, and the general strike in Spain. Special emphasis will be put on the Program of the Communist Party as (Continued on Page 2) World Workingclass Masses to Support) Austrian Workers London Workers Protest Dollfuss Terror At Consulate LONDON, Feb. 15.—A mass dem- onstration of protest against the Aus- trian state war on the workers gath- ered in the East End yesterday, and marched to the Austrian consulate, at the call of the Communist Party. Thousands took part. The Communist Party has issued a zall for united action to the Inde- pendent Labor Party, the Trade | ready for immediate action along the | Workers Halt in Solidarity Strike | Ruthless sympathy with the Austri today. completely stopped. Uni strike was 100 per cent The workers’ ammunitions ° VIENNA, Feb. 15.—Prince | berg, fascist chief, is reported | troops. | Workers of this great munitions center command all the heights which surround the city, with machine guns and one piece of artillery. Linz, where the fighting be; 2 War Tension Grows, | ‘Italian Troops On ‘Austrian Borders Mee o link Mobilizes | 75,000; Nazi Storm Troops Gather | NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—The menace | of war moved closer today as Mus- solini swiftly massed 175,000 troops | most strategic points of the Austrian borders. Meanwhile, Nazi Germany is moy ing Fascist Storm Troons close to the | northern Austrian border. Thousands of Austrian fascists who went to Germany for closer contact with the Nazis are massing in newly formed regiments at the Austrian borders, it has been reported. French Antagonism to “Arschluss’ British imperialism has heavy |- stakes in Austria, as well as being in- terested in keeping Italian imoverial- ism from maintaining its influence over the Austrian government. Italian imperialism is fighting to} prevent an “anschluss” (union) be- tween Austria and Germany because this would weaken its position among 250,000 Germans who are now, as a result of the Versailles Treaty, under Italian rule, as well as its position in the fight against the German fas- cist drive for markets and colonies. French imperialism is determined that Nazi Germany shall not unite with Fascist Austria. Recent events, therefore, may have brought it closer | to Italian imperialism. | Meanwhile, the various European imperialist powers are striving to find a solution to these antagonisms) through some form of movement (Continued on Page 2) toward an anti-Soviet bloc. All Out on the Streets at Noon Today! Spread New Special ‘Austria Edition’! NEW YORK.—A second ex- tra special Austria edition of the Daily Worker, following close on the publication of Wed- nesday’s special issue, will be published at noon today. This edition will be ready for sale and. distribution in the streets between noon and 1 p. . today. Workers of New York — ae ae clubs, as well as members of the Communist Party and Young Communist League — are urged to report to the fol- lowing addresses between noon and one o’clock without fail. The addresses listed are the headquarters for the special distribution of the extra edi- tion. District Office, 35 B. 12th St., store, organizations and ner of 96 Avenue “C”—Section 1 headquarters. 108 Bleeker St-—Section 1. 56 W. 25th St.—Section 2. 131 W. 28th St.—Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, fourth floor. 326 Lenox Ave.—Interna- tional Workers Order Center. 350 E.8ist St—Hungarian Workers’ Home. 1413 Fifth Ave—Spanish Workers’ Center, Bombardment Batters Ammunition is Giving Out; Fascist Chief, Starhemberg, is Surrounded Trains, street cars, factories and mines were | able. | ultimatum Workers Whose PRAGUE, Feb. 15.—Czechoslovakia was com pletely paralyzed by a 5-minute general strike in an workers, at 1] a.m. on leaders reported the effective. ZURICH, Feb. rr Was The eateae of the Vien- | nese workers valiantly continues at numerous points. Dolifuss has ordered the ruthless use of heavy artillery to crush the workers’ resistance. are giving out. Ernst Rudiger von Starhem- bottled up at Steyr with his/ gan last Monday, is once more | in the hands of the workers, after having been reported taken by the fascist state forces. In this city, the zovernment | repeats its claim of yesterday, belied by the renewed upsurge of the workers who recaptured many lost positions, that it was near victory in the city. “It is all over but the hanging,” boasted the fascists. Many of the workers’ strongholds Be shell-torn wrecks, no longer ten- Others are charred and de- stroyed by fire. Ozgy of Reprisals Begins. At noon today, Dollfuss issued an over the radio, and through leaflets, promising clemency to those who surrendered, “all but the acers.” Some workers, exhausted after four |days of fighting, their ammunition hausted, have given up. An orgy of reprisals, with hanging tor the most heroic of the fighters, and a systematic design to destroy all the workers who showed greatest vower of leadership, is now begin- ning. Over 2,000 In Prison. More than 2,000 workers are in the prisons of Vienna. Meanwhile, only meager reports come in from the provinces, and it is ~ot known what the actual situation is tonight. All trade unions and workers’ or- zanizations were outlawed by govern- ment decree last nicht. Tremendous State Battery A tremendous state force, with bat- teries of artillery, moved across the Reich Bridge today to an assault on workers who had entrenched them- selves on the Apern and Eszling Heizhts, overlooking the city. These were some of the workers driven out at last from some of the great working class tenement houses, particularly the Goethehof. Heroi¢ Last Stand The workers, in hastily dug trench- es, with meager weapons, fought back under an overwhelming bombard- ment of heavy artillery and machine guns, in a heroic last stand. Late today, the noise of battle had died down. Special police went the rounds of the city today, confiscating all copies of all foreign papers. This was to keep the workers in ignorance of the heroic fights of their comrades in other parts of the country, and of the wave of solidarity actions in many countries. Heroic Fighting Through Night The workers of Vienna fought | through another night of heroic ree (Continued on Page 2) “Life in America,” by J. Spivak Omitted Today The series of articles by John L. Spivak describing “Life in Amer- ica” is omitted from today’s Dail” Worker The series on Bre-s+h TE Se In tomo! ‘8 Worker, °> a & new series on chaxae a North Carolina, es