The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1934, Page 8

Pare Eicht Daily <QWorker SPETRAL ORGAN COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL? “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N, Y. Algonquin 4-7954 Telephone Zable Ad Subscription Rates: M except Manhattan and B Weekly 18 cents MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1934 Build United Front to Aid Our Austrian Brothers! in which N THE very morrow of the heroic bat the Austrian mass coming Fascism, the sections of the International Red Aid, parent body of International Labor Defense, raised a powerful voice in appeal for the victims of the Dollfuss-Fascist terror. “Toilers of all countries,” it cried—“In this ser- ious hour, the International Red Aid appeals to you, and asks you to come to the aid of your broth- ers who have fallen into the hands of ferocious enemies, as well as their families, and the families of those who have fallen heroically on the barri- cades. “Long live the united front of the toilers, re- gardless of political and trade union tendency and affiliation, for the relief of the victims of the bloody repression by Austrian Fascism!” Comrades of America: The need of the Aus- trian workers was great at that time. It is greater still today The terror which took its toll of thousands with machine guns and bursting shells has given way to ft: more hidden terror of wholesale arrests and tortures, evictions, discharges, deliberate, systematic starvation of the wives and children of revolution- ary workers, by the thousands. OW have we responded to this fervent’ appeal, this call from our class brothers tortured and tor- mented by the iron fist of Austrian Fascism? Already, in the first days, we contributed a good sum at the Bronx Coliseum, which was rushed to Austria In many meetings and shops since sums have been collected, and turned over to the International Labor Defense to be transm*ted to the International Red Aid Committee for Austria. But, comrades, this is not enough done our share. We have not Thousands upon thousands of workers, men, women, and children, need our aid. They need our aid in defense, to snatch them from the murderous fascist vengeance which seeks to bury the best, the avest proleta fighters in the living graves of the fascist dungeons. They need our aid, our relief, to save them from literal starvation. Help for the women and children of the victims of Austrian Fascism is outlawed in Austria. They are condemned by the Dollfuss gov- ernment, with its innumerable police and Heim- wehr gangsters enforcing its will, to wither and fall by disease and hunger. They need our aid! It is not a question of a few dollars, or a few hundreds of dollars. It must be thousands of dol- lars. The first quota, set by the International Red Aid for the International Labor Defense, to meet the first, immediate needs, is $3,000. Comrades, our class brothers in Austria cannot wait. The fascist terror, the hunger, disease, misery, do not wait ee COMRADES, the workers and collective farm- ers of the Soviet Union, in gigantic meetings in every corner of the workers’ fatherland, enthusias- tically subscribed sums in excess of $200,000. They have prepared to give homes to hundreds of Aus- trian workers’ orphans. Is it not a question of our revolutionary honor we follow their example? The workers of the Soviet Union well under- stand that the heroic struggles of the Austrian proletariat is a struggle in defense not merely of the workers of Austria, They understand well that it is a vanguard action of the world proletariat. It is a battle for the world revolution. The Austrian workers, giving their lives with- out fiimching, devotedly, on the barricades, were fighting our fight, just as they were fighting their fight We must support them with more than words! that 'HE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE has taken up the task of organizing the moral and material support and relief of the Austrian workers. We must respond in far greater. measure than hitherto to the appeal of the International Labor Defense. We must throw all our weight behind the campaign of the International Labor Defense. We must reach farther and farther into the masses, tap those reservoirs of proletarian sym- pathy and solidarity which have been swelled by the dramatic news of the Austrian workers’ fight. In every organization, in every shop and mine, in every trade union, at every meeting, wherever men and women gather who are in sympathy with the heroic Austrian workers—and they ‘are millions strong in the United States—the question of direct, practical, concrete support of our Austrian brothers must be raised. Build a broad, powerful united front of aid and defense for our Austrian brothers, against the bloody hand of Fascsim! Defend the victims of bloody Dollfuss-Heim- wehr fascism! Protest the Austrian terror at every consulate! Support the Austrian workers’ fight; support it practically, concretely, with cash! Make the International Labor Defense cam- paign a gigantic campaign to draw new forces into the anti-fascist front, to uphold with a powerful, proletarian hand the struggles of the heroic Aus- trian masses! Organize to Demand Wage Increases To Meet New Deal Price Boosting «i, ¢ Lady” Gives: (Continued from page 1) i the Department of Lebor is now | 20 per cent above the low point | reached in April. 1933. It is 19 per | cent higher than the level for a year ago, and 1 per cent above the high point for last year, which was on Sentember 26, 1933. Clothing Costs Higher. While the report does not contain information of price rises in cloth- | ing and other necessities, facts from | other sources show these are rising | even more rapidly than the cost of | food. “In a few weeks,” writes C. F. Hughes in Sunday's New York Times, “clothing for Easter will be offered at an increase of 50 per cent over a year ago, and re- tailers are more than worried over what ts going to happen.” They know that the workers’ wages under the codes are lower than ever before, and with prices skyrocketting they know that the amount of goods sold will drop be- cause it is impossible for the work- ers to feed or clothe themselves properly under present prices, and 8. As a result of these rapidly as- than at the worst point of the crisis | in 1933! urprise was expressed at the Washington conferences by gov- ernment officials,” writes C. F. Huges, in his column “The Mer- chant’s Point of View,” New York Times, Sunday, March 11, when they were told by retailers that, while dollar sales had been rising, the actual amount of merchandise being moved was less for the country as a whole. “The figures now available for February Hlustrate this condition again and emphasize the danger to which attention was drawn. “The gain of 16 per cent in de- partment store sales last month was made possible by an advance of about 25 per cent in prices over the year. The loss in unit volume was therefore about 7 per cent, which means that 7 per cent less merchandise was sold than last year, with unemployment at a peak and the banking situation at its orisis.” In short, while more workers were employed than last year, less food was eaten and less clothes bought DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY. MARCH 12, 1924 Austrian S.P., CLP. Workers Form Action Committees New Recruits In Ranks of Austrian C.P. CoP, Appeal Is Eagerly Read and Discussed Throughout Austria VIENNA, Feb. 28 (By Mail).—A Communist Party functionary who has just come from Carinthia re- ports that both in Klagenfurt and jin Ferlach, committees of action | are being formed by social demo- |eratic and Communist workers. | Hundreds of Republican Guards and workers are joining the Com- munist Party here. The Commu- nist Party has getic organization industrial centers. A special number of the illegal Rote Fahne” has appeared, ad- dressed especially to the Republican Gu The number has been en- thusiastically received by the social | democratic workers. The statement of the Austrian Communist Party on the events is thousands in all parts of Austria. Workers are eagerly taking it, and discussing it. It has made a pro- found impression on many hun- dreds of workers. The full text of the statement | of the Communist Party of Aus- | tria is printed on Pare 5 of this | issue of the Daily Worker—ED.) in the Styrian | | Jailed for Aiding Workers | VIENNA, March 11.—For giving a few pennies from their purse to the families of the Viennese workers | killed or jailed in the recent anti- | | fascist fighting, two Englishwomen, Mrs. Betty Waddington and Miss Elizabeth Leacock, were arrested here Friday. | They were told by the police that | |it was illegal to give any aid to} |the dependents of victims of fas- |cism, who have been cut off from | all government relief as well as |being deprived of their wage-earn- | ers. The Heimwehr is relaxing its | anti-Nazi campaign, and many Aus- |trian Nazis are being released from jails and concentration camps. Their places are being taken by anti-fascist workers. | Employers are empowered to dis- miss any worker who takes part in any demonstration against the fas- cist government, according to a de- fuss government. Archduchess Ileana of Hapsburg, | daughter of Marie of Roumania, |yesterday appealed to women to support the fascist, government. |she said. report to the recent “field day of critics” meeting in Washington, pre- sided over by General Johnson. |They declare that by Spring, all merchants admit, prices will rise faster than ever before, lowering the workers’ living standard. | The increased prices that the | workers are forced to pay for less | Soods, has resulted, furthermore, in |a big rise in profits. | Reports from worker correspon- dents in all parts of the country to the Daily Worker on actual prices paid in stores, especially in com- pany controlled stores, show that | prices of food, clothing and other goods, are even higher than the doctored government reports con- cede. Can't Hide Facts The results of the N-R.A. are al- |Teady playing havoc with the whole | working class. The government can no longer conceal the lowering of | living standards. At the same time, hundreds of thousands are losing | their jobs, and with relief cut every- where, millions face starvation. | It is against these conditions that ; the “epidemic” of strikes, admitted | by the working class because their | by General Johnson to be the most cending prices, due to the N. R. A.| real wages (the purchasing power of | severe in the history of the coun- codes and inflation, sales of goods|their wages) had been definitely) try, is mainly directed. The work- is less this year than last year in| the period of the severe bank crisis. | Roosevelt's Lying The Roosevelt lowered. The Roosevelt government lers are feeling the mountainous burden of the New Deal and are | achieved this lowering of the work- | fighting back. government, by | ers’ living standards, mainly, by two The Communist Party from the faking statistics, is trying to make| moves: First, by inflation, lowering | beginning showed that this would it appear that there is an imerease| the value of the dollars paid to the | be the effect of the New Deal, with in the sale of goods over last year,| workers, and second, by giving the its inflation and the N.R.A. Now by publishing the report of a rise big trusts, and other bosses under, more than ever the workers should in the money volue of goods sold.} While it is true, with the tremen- dously increased prices, the cost of goods is higher, it is the outstand- ing fact that the quantity of food and clothing sold in the department and chain stores is 7 per cent less} By KARL RADEK (Continued from Page 5) the pride and joy of the interna- tional social democracy as its one achievement. Masses Versus Leaders However, the Austrian proletariat was not to be duped quite so easily and a persistent struggle went on in the ranks of the Austrian social democracy between the rank and file members and their treacherous leaders. The masses favored the idea of a proletarian dictatorship and demanded a struggle for its establishment. The leaders of the Austrian social democracy were compelled to take this powerful feeling into consideration and in consequence, fearing to lose their influence on the masses, they dared not oppose the idea of the prole- tarian revolwtion so openly as the leaders of the German social- democratic party. They expressed “feelings of friendship” for the Soviet Union, they even admitted the N.R.A., tremendous power for raising prices through N.R.A. codes, while holding wages down to the coolie level of the minimum scales. However, the rise in prices is just beginning. as admitted by the N.R.A. Consumers’ Advisory Board in its og mobilized to increase their strug- |gles for higher pay, to meet the rising cost of living, for organiza- tion, to rally their forces to win bet- ter conditions from the bosses who | have profited so heavily from the INRA, Cynical “Cheer” To Dying Porto Ricans SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Mar.| 11—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt tripped daintily through the | squalid slums of this jisland victim of American im- perialism, and piously expressed the hope that “something can be done to end these conditions which are a menace to the gen- | eral health.” Her visit to this most horrible example of a whole people en- during slow death under the de- stroying hand of American im- perialism has aroused hopes in | the minds of thousands of the | Porto Rican masses. These hopes are as tragic as | the unparallelled hunger, misery, and disease under which they suffer, for the only hope for the Porto Rican masses is the revo- lutionary smashing of imperial- what she came to head off with | her demagogie hypocrisy. The sugar companies have not | left a foot of this fertile island | to the native population, and the American shipping companies have plying food at immense prices from America, since the sugar companies allow none to be grown here. One of the major industries here is the sweatshop needle trade industry, of which one of the chief exploiters of Porto Rico’s | Socialist congresswoman. Wages | are so low that it is cheaper for New York firms to send work here than to have it done in the starvation sweatshops York’s East Side. commenced ener- | recent | being distributed by | cree published yesterday by the Dol- |“We now know God was with us,”| ghastly | ism in the island, and this is just | a strangle-hold monopoly on sup-| of New i “Put Away Your Gats Boys, These Are Right Guys.” | | | the A. F. of L. “Their interests are your interests! Ba? Pe NEWS ITEM: “General Johnson tells industrial conference to trust the heads of py Smith Acquittal Greatest Victory in History of Canadian Labor, Defens Secretary Says; Thanks U.S. Workers Smith, On Witness Stand, Placed Capitalist System On Defensive, | Exposing Terror, Siarvation of Masses; Contrasting Condi- tions In the By OSCAR RYAN (Special to the Daily Worker) | TORONTO, Canada, March 11 “The greatest victory in the history of the Canadian labor movement,” is how A. E. Smith, veteran labor leader and General Secretary of the Canadian Labor Defense League, | | characterized his acquittal by jury | in the sedition trial by which the Canadian government sought to illegalize the Canadian workers’ de- fense organization. “It is a victory for the right of free speech, and vindication of the demand for an open investigation on the attempt on Tim Buc life in Kingston penitentiary,” con- | tinued Smith. | Victory Result of Mass Pressure Canadian Labor Defense League | throughout Canada and the United | | States and expressed the pro- | foundest appreciation of the solid-| arity of U. S. workers who sent Leo} Gallagher, International Labor De-| fense attorney, to represent them in| the legal defense of Smith. The verdict of Not Guilty was returned by the jury desyite the red-baiting, flag-waving speeches of | the Crown counsel and the highly) prejudiced charge of Chief Justice} | Rose. The trial took four days. | Smith took the witness stand in his | own defense on the second day and speedily put the capitalist system on the defensive. Answering a question regarding his intentions in} | making the Hygeia Hall speech for | which he was indicted, he declared: “My view is that ill-will and dis- | | content arise out of economic con-| | ditions and not through speeches. ‘We have today suppression of free speech, suppression of organization, suppression of assembly. This more | than anything I can say has set class against class and created ill- | will and discontent, in addition to) economic conditions.” Smith Puts Capitalism on Defensive The. crown prosecutor then in- jected the question of religion, de- manding of Smith “why did you leave the church?” “I left the chureh in connection | with the big strike in Winnipeg,” Smith answered. “Did you feel your that matter was not co1 your place in the church sition nt with |on a world scale. Officials this evening declared) Smith's acquittal the result of the! great mass s¢ntiment aroused | ~ in| was not consistent with the ad- Soviet Union productiok and exchange based on Red Leader OfHamburg | Struggle for Thaelmann | Must Be Intensified In Face of Terror HAMBURG By Mail).—Wilh Dolognor, political leader of the Communist Party for the waterside district of Hamburg, was arrested on the evening of Jan. 16. The he was dead. said “probably suicide.” The body was hurriedly buried, but his relatives forced an. exhumation mit, An examina- tcnein the nee of the police showed that one-half of the face was completely covered with thin ae ee véred eye on the right side, was injured by a deep |lengthwise wound. There was no sign of suicide whatever. Willi Dolognor was not only murdered by the Hamburg State Secret Police, but he was also robbed. Party records show that he had a large sum of money on him. His relatives were given 10 pfennigs by the police. A bag he carried, containing personal property, was also kort hy the Nezi ghouls, | Bolshevik Since 1917 | Dolognor had been one of the | Party's most devoted fighters since | 1917, when, as a prisoner of war in | Russia, he met the Bolsheviks. He was born in Wedding, Berlin, and worked in the A-E.G. (General Elec- jtric Co.), where his mother also |worked, and as a seaman. He |fought in the revolutionary upris- jing in Berlin in 1918, and joined \the German Communist Party | when it was founded in 1919. |. He was one of the leaders of the | Red Unions, and led the Mansfeld | miners’ strike. | He worked with the Berlin or- ganization of the Party after Hit- ler came to power, until he was sent to Hamburg to become head of the organization. * #8 * | Fight for Thaelmann | This murder of another leader of the Communist Party in Germany emphasized the determination of |the Nazis to destroy every Commu- | nist leader they manage to seize. | It is another Nazi promise not to vance of society,” Smith retorted. production for use and not for leave Ernst Thaelmann, leader of Although’ he had got his fingers! burned for injecting the religious) question, the prosecutor blundered | on, asking Smith how often he had| visited the Soviet Union, and for yhat purpose. Smith who had been in the U. S. S. R. once, replied: “T had the honor of being elected |a delegate of the World Congress | | of the International Red Aid. It defense movement The Canadian | bor Defense League is part of) ent of 16,000,000 workers. | é is the Soviet Union?” the presecutor ingeniously asked. “Tt is a foderation of some 56 in- dependent, autonomous states, or- gani: as a workers’ republic and | w 0 a federation known as | Soviet Socialist Re- publics,” Smith enlightened him. “It n ef 170 to 180 mil- is the workers’ lion | oot ts enyace.” Tells of Workers’ Rule In Soviet Union “What is the object of the Soviet Union?” the prosecutor queried. “It is a workers’ state. whose ob- ject is to build a social system of ‘and for reading of the record of profit.” “Controlled by whom?” “By the workers.” “And the capitalist class?” quer- ulously demanded the spokesman of | Canadian capitalism. | “As a class is going out of ex- istence,” replied the veteran work- ing-class leader. Defense Attorney In Eloquent Appeal | In one of the most eloquent | speeches heard in years before an| Ontario court, E, J, McMurray, | chief defense counsel, riddled the testimony of the crown witnesses, traced the long fight for free speech, the persecution of fiehters for free- | dom end demanded if the court still | believed it was possible to drive | jidees into neople’s heads with po-|Over the top. licemen’s clubs. The jury brought in its verdict after being out for six hours, dur- ing which it had returned for addi- tional instructions from the judges, the crown’s cross-examination of Smith, ““New Deal, No Deal,” Blasphemes Coughlin WASHINGTON, March 11. Father Coughlin, the demagogic radio minister, reached a new height of sensationalism when he de- manded in a recent radio speech that President Roosevelt keep his pledges to the people, “or elfe the New Deal will be no deal.” Waving an admonishing finger in great demegogic style, he asked that the early promises for the New Deal be remembered and placed in operation by the Roosevelt admin- istration. The “ficry” minister at- tacks Reosevelt, and points as a way out: “Netionalization of currency and credit.” He and the President, the press! fears, are nearing a break. Coughlin, an erstwhile ardent. s ter of the “New Deal” is be- 1g to feel the discontent with |the N.R.A. among the workers: and | Canadian Students is therefore conducting the sham “Tha position of the church Austrian Workers Break Through 18 battle with Roosevelt, it is intimated. | fairs Vote Against War LONDON, Ont., Mar. 11.—Students | of the University of Western Onta- | rio joined American and British | students in their fight against im- | perialist war when they resolved that “under no circumstances would we take up arms for King and coun- try,” at a meeting held last week. The action followed a debate on the question. BRITISH TROOPS INVADE CHINA HONGKONG, March thousand. British troops invaded Chinese -territory on Dec. 19, in Yunnan Province, near the border of French Indo-China, to “cover” mining activities, according to a report of the People’s Foreign Af- Committee of Southwest 11.—Two the German Communist Party, alive the ent of the farcical “trial” \they are preparing for him this month. Only the power of mass pressure all over the world has restrained the hands of the Nazis until now. Only an immensely intensified cam- paign of protest can save Thael- mann now. Finnish Workers Set Bolshevik Example in ‘Daily’ Sub Campaign Among militant foreign language groups, the Finnish Federation is the most active in helping to put the Daily Worker circulation drive News subs come {steadily from the jTyomies Society ‘in ,Superior, Wis. and from the Finnish Federation in Fitch- ‘ burg, Mass. Com- ' cade Mary Koski, Mary Koski member of the Federation in Fitch- burg, Mass." is one of the leading sub-getters for the “Daily.” The Finnish workers are showing through real action that they real- ize the importance of our Daily Worker in the struggle against de- portations of militant foreign-born workers, and in the campaign for united struggle by native and for- eign-born workers against hunger, war and fascism. But the comrades of the German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, and of other foreign lan- guage organizations are doing very poorly so far, to get new subs for our Daily Worker. Follow the Bolshevik example sei by the Finnish comrades! Make more powerful our revolutionary movement by seeing to it that your English - speaking children, your friends read and subscribe CORRECTION The cartoon for Saturday show- ing the Cuban telephone workers | cutting the telephone wires of | President Mendieta leading to the American White House should have read, “President Roosevelt! Hello! China, Hello! Hell---!" Years of Bauer Treachery Union and consoled the workers with the idea that if this were really the case and if it were suc- cessful then the workers of other countries might be able to try it too, They did not even reject the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat on principle. God forbid! In their opinion the proletarian dictatorship was something like an umbrella, to be kept in reserve for a rainy day. If it rained, then one would put up the umbrella, otherwise one kept it neatly rolled in a corner. If the bourgeoisie refused to permit the development to socialism along peaceful lines, then even Mr. Bauer would order to put up the umbrella of dictatorship. However, the dictatorship was a difficult busi- ness and could be overdone. It must not last Jong, just long soca to intimidate the bourgeoisie. bourgeoisie would let itself be in- timidated easily. The struggle would not last long and then the clouds would pass amd the sun that perhaps socialism was really being established in the Soviet. would shine, and then, of course, up again and the proletariat would rule like all decent respectable people by means of democratic in- stitutions, Workers Demand Action But the workers of Vienna de- manded to see action, They felt that in order to be able to put up the umbrella it was first necessary to have it. So they demanded the formation of armed organizations of the proletariat. The leaders of the social democracy were willing to oblige up to a point. They founded the. Republican Defense League which, in their opinion, was to be a sort of plaything, a sort of safety-yalve for the martial spirit of the workers. In the meantime the reaction went steadily about its work until in 1927 the Vienna workers rose spontaneously against the Seipel government which sought to crush the proletariat by administrative terror. This rising of the Vienna workers was crushed by the social democratic Mayor of Vienna, Seitz, with the troops of the Austrian the umbrella could be neatly folded | bourgeoisie, Still, for a time, the Vienna in- surrection of 1927 held up the advance of the counter-revolution, but the coming of the world eco- nomic crisis strengthened the fas- cist tendencies both in Austria and Germany. When fascism came to power in Germany, the Austrian working class was deeply moved and apprehensive. ‘It called on its leaders to show some signs of fight, to organize an effective resistance against fascism. But the Austrian social fascist leaders abandoned one position after the other with- out fight. They watched the forces of fascism grow steadily stronger and held the workers back from action with a strong hand on the bridle. They even proposed an al- liance with the Austrian fascists against the German fascists and the only condition was that the Austrian fascists should give the social democracy in Austria a breathing space. However, the Austrian fascists, who were preparing a deal with | the German fascists, were unwill- ung to grant the Austrian social democracy even honorable terms of surrencer: “They feared the social democzatic workers would use their organizations for resistance. The Austrian fascists prohibited the Austrian Communist Party and then began to occupy social demo- cratic and trade union quarters: And as the social democratic lead- ers even then showed no signs of yesistance, the workers themselves took a hand in the game at the very last moment. In Linz the rank and file of the . Republican Defense League, formed by the social democratic leaders to hold the workers back from the revolu- tion, went into action independ- ently. United Front in Linz It was. not fortuitous that the great struggle began in Linz. In his speech to the Thirteenth Plenum of the E. C. C. I. the Aus- trian Communist leader, Koplenig, declared on Dec. 2, 1933: “Of decisive importance for judging the situation in Austria is the rapidly ing process of radicalization ig the working masses and the beginning of a new revolutionary advance .. . A process of disintegration is beginning within the social demo- cratic party . The petty bour- gecis supporters of the social fomocrats are besinning to abanden the party and join the ‘Fatherland Front’ of Dotifuss, ‘The main tendency, however, is the left wing radicalization of the social democratic workers, which is finding its expression in in- creased activity, in the breakdown of democratic illusions and in a growing sympathy for the Com- munist Party. There have been many cases in which social demo- cratic workers haye taken our il- legal literature and distributed it in their factories. There have been cases in which our comrades were invited by social democratic workers to attend the social demo- cratic branches and speak at them. There have been cases of joint demonstrations carried out by social democratic and Commu- nist workers, for instance, in Linz, where 4,000 workers took part and demonstrated entirely under Com- munist siogans and resisted the efferts of the police to break up the demonstration.” . In Linz, in particular, the local Communists. have succeeded, de- spite the weakness of. their organ- izations. in approaching the sccial democratic workers and establish- ing close contact with them, leading to the setting up of a real united front from below. By their armed resistance to the attempt of the fascists to occupy the local head- quarters of the workers, the work- ers of Linz gave the for the armed rising of the Austrian pro- letariat, The bourgeoisie is doing its best to represent this struggle of the Austrian workers as a rear-guard action of an army in full retreat. That is a lie. The poletariat of Austria, a country in which the Communist organizations are weak, rose in a heroic struggle against the forces of ie, against numerical superiority, against an enemy equipped with all the mocern weapcens of warfare. machine-guns, artillery, armoured cars and aeronianes, and fought for days, announcing thereby to the workers of the world that the tide of proletarian resistance to fascism is rising. The proletariat is adopting a counter-offensive. The armed ris- ing of the Austrian proletariat was an advance guard bettle, just as the general strike of the French proletariat, was a preliminary skirmich in the advance of the pro- letariat against fascism. Fascism in Germany has re- vealed its features in all their hide- ous brutality to the workers of the world and the international pro- letariat is drawing its own con- clusions in action. — : The weak Communist Party otf Austria, laughed at by its enemies. proved to be the heart. and soul of the Austrian proletariat. It is leading the struggle of the Aus- trian workers against fascisma and for socialism.