The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-10-19
AUSTRIAN INDUSTRY
FEARS CIVIL WAR
Socialists Oppose Proposed
Foreign Control of Finance
on League Plan.
RATIFICATION EXPECTED
Chancellor Has Support of All
Anti-Socialist Groups in
Chamber.
RATIFICATION EXPECTED

VIENNA, Oct. is ASSOCIATED Press) -
Austrian capitalists are arming for civil
war. says the Arbeiter zeit1tng to-day.
commenting on an alleged confidential
circular issued to the members of the
Austrian Industrial Association by the
Leykam Jozftal, big industrial concern.
which in Austria ranks as do the SHINES
interests in Germany.
The circular protests against tax
Of per cent. on payrolls for the men
Of the concerns private gendarmerie.
The social democratic steering commit
ton calling for the arming of che pro-
letariat on the ground that Bourgeois
organizations are armed.
Anticipating the coming OF the League
Of Nations Control Commission and the
conferences regarding the reforms to be
instituted, the Socialists. who are against
the project. declare that the proposed
foreign control with a pledge that the
present and future Governments will
carry out the leagues mandates, threat
ems the life of the party. The con-
servative newspapers say the Govern
ment apparently will be able to force
through its program, which will be pre-
pared, with the participation of the
party leaders, for presentation TO the
national assembly early in November.
Special Gable TO THE NEW York IIrR.Lp
Copyright, 1929. bD TIE NEW York HERALD.
VIENNA, Oct. 1S.--Official circles are
now taking it for granted that Parlia-
ment will ratfy the Geneva agreement
for the financial salvation of Austria.
though not by a two-thrds majority
Chancellor Seipel has the firm support
of all non-Socialists. who gave him a
vote of confidence after stormy session
of the House when he presented the
draft of the measures on which the
League of Nations plan for a loan is
based.
In violent speeches the Socialists ac-
cused the Chancellor of treason and
said his scheme would be smashed by
the obstructionists. who are determined
TO defend the republic against foreign
enslavement. Dr. Karl Renner. former
Foreign Minister. declared that IL meant
not two but twenty years of foreign
control. He charged that the Entente
was using Austria as a catspaw to gain
commercial supremacy in the Balkans
The plan, he said, contained nothing
the country COulu iOt w lol ilStll IL
only the bourgeois parties would accept
the Socialist program of reform and
lend their cooperation.
DR. Renner indicated that the Social
| lists would make a determined attempt Ia
amend the plan so as to make the ar
engagements possible of termination ir
the event of certain contingencies. One
Of these was IL "a certain great economic
factor" decided to reenter European af
fairs-which was understood to NEAR
America, thus making possible a loar
on more favorable terms.
| The Government supporters. however
believe that these attacks are intended
more to save the Socialist party's face
than really to wreck the agreement
which most Austrians consider to be the
only possible means of salvation. Should
( the Socialists insist on two-thirds
majority for the legal provisions con
nected with the Geneva plan. a thing
which hitherto they have not demanded
then the non-Socialists would resort to
a general election, which they believe
would return them in sufficient strength
to sweep away all opposition.