The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-18
The Austrian Masses Satter the Fiction Of Capitalist
Stability"

Austria by league as laboratory in
which conduct vvisecion experiments in Sterilization
the working Austria the classic much advertised
ample of in capitalist postwar reconstruction by the
evolutionary action Of hundreds of thousands of workers. carried
thru defiance of their sociademocrac leaders, has become
sign manual OF the failure Of the whole postwar capitalist
program.
important part program using
social democrat leaders buffers between the capitalist state and
the millions of workers whose and working conditions
whose social and cultural status in word whose whole standard
OF lie mas been sharply reduced to make possible the bosteng
of the capitalist system shattered by the world
Austria stripped of OF her territory and population by
treaty dependent for upon neigh
boring countries carved out of her territory order set
balance of in Central Europe regarded nation
whose working class had been rendered impotent
This feeling of security the capitalist statesmen
all the greater Austria there powerful social
democratic party weorganzed and based the trade unions
able to muster 100000 votes out of total of 100000 skilled
in the use OF left phrases and whose leaders not only accepted
the necessity of abzaton but actually became the eff
of the league inducing
to accept its regulations
Polling 43 per Of the total in the elections
the socdemocra leaders just before election day dropped their
agitation majority vote for their candidates The reason for
this clear Since the possibility actually existed that their
candidates might receive majority of and these
leaders had constantly stressed the possibility capturing power
having meet demand by the workers that for the exercise of
state power in behalf Of the
The truth that leadership
in unofficial coalition with the capitalist parties for
is evident from dispatches that they demanding
actual coalition Instead of extending the struggle against
government of allied capital and creating real base for workers
and peasants government instead of calling for the immediate
formation of council of workers. soldiers and and the
armng Of the the social democrat leaders negotiating
for entry into the capitalist government.
In other words they using the revolutionary action of the
attempt eaze the coalition already in existence
with the government.
The social democratic leaders demanding power
for the working class but power working class
Their designed strengthen gov
eminent not to weaken ito strengthen it against the working
class.
this treacherous scheme is carried thru will severe
blow to the revolutionary movement but will also dp
the prevailing illusion that the leadership the Austrian
democracy revolutionary than that of other sections of
the second international
is already apparent that the failure ocaldemocrat
leaders to to utilize the tremendous indignation which
acta of the guilty of whole series of murders of
workers. would their pacfs and apologize attitude to-
ward the great uprising have shown their
tenders of the present order to wide sections of the Austrian
working class.
The capitalist press correspondents practically in
ascrbng leading role in the struggle to the Communists
caHy in the factory districts.
There will immediate consequences of the Austrian
revolutionary struggle "a struggle whose immediate progress
is difficult to estimate due to lack of nformaton)
First the hollow mockery capitalist sterilization brought
into sharp relief in country where American loans
have been spent like water for will be made
parent thruout the world.
Second the demonstration of by the formerly
under the influence of the socademocra leaders country
which Germany hopes for unity with will great in
preventing the immediate entry of Germany the antSov
Union bloc under the leadership of Great Britain.
Third the labor movement of Germany especially the
whole of Europe will receive impetus the left as
result Of the great struggle of the Austrian working which
with it the before the worlds working class the
last symbol of revolutionary integrity remaining
lnternatonathe left leadership of the Austrian social
cratic parya leadership which today by everyone to be
using its influence to blow life into the putrd corpse Austrian
capitasa which the millions of allied capitalism
could not revive.
Furthermore it of significance for us that the
general strike and civil in Austria time when the
British ruling class has, by the aid of the refom
victory over the working class when imperialism China thru
rachey Of Chang Kashek and the weakness middle class
leaders, has obtained breathing SPELL
The working class of Austria of treason their gen
volcano whose crust is thin and which composed mostly
of the Bureaucracy of the second international.