The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-01

portfolio of the minister of justice which had long
ago been abolished Up to the 18th of July the
Austro Marxists howled that they would resist this
miserable business; but the End of August the
National Council decided to ratify the formation
of the new ministerial posti
The International working class is informed re-
garding the shameful campaign of persecution and
the dissolution of district committees are being
carried out! Very few days have passed without
confiscation of the "Rote Fahne" (offcia organ of
the Austrian G. P.-Ed). This systematic destruc-
ton of the working class press is now to be en-
bodied in laws. The government has introduced
Press Law Reform BIZ about which we will speak
in detail later. And the democratic leaders? They
have openly expressed their fundamental approval
of the bill!
On the 23rd of July the social democratic party
conference decided that a full amnesty should be
demanded in parliament for all those arrested in
connection with the July events. The bourgeois par
ties in parliament refused even to discuss the mat
ter. What does the brave democratic 43 per cent
majority do? 1t postpones the debate until the late
Autumn as in the meanwhile the over-worked Ma
donal Council is packing up for its holidays And
up to the time of the debate a hundred probe
tarians will sit in prison and the vindictive class
justice is commencing its work"
Capitulation, miserable, pitiable eapitulation of
Austro- Marxism in parliament! But not only in
parliament! In the Vienna Municipal Council Setz
the social democratic mayor, has two-thirds ma
jority and the social democrats wished to play this
trump. On the 18th of July it formed municipal
guard. This municipal guard was of course from
the first moment of it's existence nothing but an
auxiliary body for the police of Schober. (Schober
the police president of Vienna responsible for the
shootings.-Ed); and in all their declarations from
the very beginning, the social democratic leaders as
sured the public that their guard lit consisted of
about 1900 picked social democratic officals) would
cooperate with the Sehober police and that it was
intended to restore law and ORDER against undis-
eIphned elements, that it had been formed against
the Communists. ION the 31st of July this latter
statement was made expressly in the "Arbeiter
Zeitung The official organ of the Austrian Social
Democratic Party in Wenna--Ed.). Nevertheless,
an attempt was made to make out to the workers
that this guard had been formed as a partial arm
ing of the proletars~ IN 4 protection against the
Schober police.
But Sepel felt himself strong enough to prevent
the social democrats from achieving any sort of
prestige success, and he therefore demanded the
dissolution of this municipal guard. The Municipal
parried the first demand and reduced the guard to
1000 men; secondly it declared that the guard was
only formed for the purpose of doing night service
to protect the buildings and the land of the munich
pality. And finally Seitz declared on the 29th of
July that if the constitutional court should declare
the formation of the municipal guards to be Illegal
han he I'd h. rafo