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helpless, and is at loss for a solu-
ton. The Social-Democratic leaders
interviewed and got the workers to
return to work.
November.-The Social Democrats
hold Party Convention. Faced by
rising struggles of the workers, and
spontaneous strikes, Otto Bauer
issues a proclamation filled with rev.
dictionary phrases. After having
accepted meekly all the previous
Dollfuss DEGREES, Bauer stated with
a great show of bravery:
In any case the workers must
rise in order to defend the freedom
Of the people. i. Should it come
to a general strike, and the rev0-
luton, then there will be no choice
either go down fighting, or
power and victory"
This was the language the Social
ist leaders used before the Socialist
workers, straining at the leash for
struggle and resistance to the Doll
fuss dictatorship.
But for the Austrian capitalist
rulers, they spoke another Ian
guage. Only a few days later, the
Socialist paper, "Warheit," stated
editorially:
"The Austrian Social Democracy
has always fought its fight within
the limits of the law. 1t still re-
mains within the limits of the
law"
Revolution" - but ''within the
law"l That was the Socialist fraud.
Support Martial Law
Nov. 24.-Dollfuss proclaims mar
tial law. All acts of ''public violence"
become punishable by death at the
hands of a military court-martial.
Ottr isauer still supports the Doll
fuss government as the "lesser evil -
and warns against any mass strug-
giles.
December.-The situation begins
to grow critical. Reaction is increas-
ing swiftly. The Fascist troops
parade in the streets. The workers
begin to go out on strike, more and
more frequently. The tension grows.
Dollfuss comes into the open with
a plan for Fascism, calling it "cor-
porative reconstruction" The Heinz
wehr leaders hail it as the long
wished-for Fascist State.
But the Socialist leaders think
otherwise. In the Arbeiter-Zeitune
they tell the workers, the corpora
tive state may take on various
forms.
1t urged acceptance on the follow,
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Paris Workers Defy.
Troops; Hold Meets.
in Public Squares
Anti-Fascist Actions on
Increase Throughout
France

PARIS, Feb. l4.-French workers,
who came out in millions on Monday
in the tremendously successful "a
hour nationwide strike against fss-
cism continued their fight on the
reactionary Doumergue Government
in scores Of demonstrations through
out France today.
In this city, large crowds of work
ers gathered throughout the day in
the Place de Ia Conccrde, defying
the cordons of troops and police
thrown around the huge square to
enforce the governments ban on
working class demonstrations Meet
ings were organized by the Conmu-
mist Party in protest against the
murder of two strikers by Paris po-
lice during the general strike. and
the wholesale arrests ordered by the
government in an attempt to crush
the rising revolutionary wave. At
least 600 workers were arrested in
the past SO hours. The arrests were
aimed especially at revolutionary ma
tive and immigrant workers. In their
attempt to split the working class,
the government has ordered the de-
portation of scores of militant immi-
grant workers, including German
refugees whom the government in
tends to return to certain death at
the hands of the Nazi murdererS.
News of police attacks on workers
demonstrations in Marseilles, South
France and in Algiers and other
North African cities added to the
fury of the Paris workers today. At
least so strikers were seriously
wounded when Marseilles police and
troops fired on a demonstration led
by the Communist Party. The work.
ers fought back with great heroism,
killing two policemen and wounding
several others.
Three Communist workers shot ny
Paris troops in last Fridays battle
in the Place de la Republique and
at the Care de FEST died yester-
day. The workers of Paris are plan
ming a tremendous protest demon
stration and mass funeral for the
three victims of the new strong arm
national concentration government
which is tacitly supported by the
various Socialist leaders, from the
right wing Radical Socialists to Leon
Blum's Unified Socialists and the
neo-SocialistS, with their open fss-
cist program.
Police and troops were withdrawn
from public gathering places late thi.
afternoon, following the protest meet.
ings held by the Communist Party
throughout Paris.
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gency orders, and to set up State
Commissioners Of compulsory labor
service, in place Of the Unemployment
benefits.
What was the reply Of the Social
Democrats? Herr Seitz, who Is now
in the hands Of the Heiinwehr Fas-
cists, and famous as the Socialist
Mayor OF Vienna, declared merely
that he would challenge the consti-
tutional character Of the orders be-
fore the constitutional court"
1t was just this way that Severing,
the German Socialist leader, fought
Hitler in June when Hitler dissolved
the Prussian LAndtag.
At this point the Communist
Party issued united front offer
with concrete proposals to Social
Democratic workers, and the Cen
trail Committee Of the SociaI-Dem-
ocratic Party 10 fight these meas
ures.
The Communist Party, it stated,
proposed to enforce the cancellation
Of the Dollfuss emergency DEGREES by
mobilizing the entire trade union
power Of the workers-to form pro-
letarian united front for the disarn-
ing and dissolution of both fascist
groups, the Nazis and the Heimwehr.
against all wage wage cuts, against
all reductions in unemployed bene-
fits, etc., etc"
No answer from the Socialist
leaders.
APRIL 2.--This day saw one of
the most shameful Social Democratic
treacheries which could only lead
swiftly to the present unleashing of
the full fascist terror of the DolIfuss
dictatorship against the working
class. On this day the Socialist
Mayor of Viennt, Seitz, agreed to
permit the dissolution Of the Schultz
bund," the Republican Defense Corps
of the working class of Vienna
the main armed forces of the workers.
As d "counter-strike," the Socialist
Democratic leaders demanded of DOLL
fuss that he also dissolve the Fascist
Heimwehr. To this DollfusS agreed,
and the social democratic leaders used
this agreement to pacify the intense
anger Of the Socialist workers.
But "a hours later DoIlfuss REIN
stated the Heinwehr by cancelIing
the first order, the Social Demo
cratic leaders did nothing! the net
result was the strengthening of fas-
cism through the official disarming
Of the working class armed groups.
The next week, In public speech.
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a Social-Democratic conference in
Vienna, proposing that joint resolu-
tion against the Dollfuss DEGREES be
adopted in the factories and trade
unions and that a united front be
formed leading up to mass demon
StratiOn and political mass strikes,
as well as demonstrations of SYM
pathy and support for the German
working class in their struggle against
Hitler.
This delegation was not even per-
mitted to enter the hall where the
Conference was being held.
July 14.-Dollfuss issues a resolu-
ton to form voluntary defense corps"
from patriotic organizations, such as
the Heimwehr, establishing further
fascist police for the state. During
the same week Dollfuss appointed
Colonel DiakoW, notorious fascist,
prominent in the Heimwehr as head
OF the State Labor Camps.
The Arbeiter Zeitung still restraints
the workers from any action against
Dollfuss, declaring, "The task now
must be TO oppose the threats of Ger
man National Socialism to form
a united front with al Those who
desire a free Austria true As
trian united front :. will be strong
only when the working class and
sOcial-democracy, the greatest party
in the country, joins It,"
However, the revolutionary senti-
ment of the workers begin to break
out into spontaneous mass actions.
The printers go on a one-day strike,
the building workers enter into a
long strike, lasting many weeks. The
gas workers cary on form of passive
resistance. Red flags in ever increas-
ing numbers, despite the fact that
Dollfuss has declared it a crime to
disply any other flag but the State
Flag, begin to appear flying from the
chimneys and towers of the factories.
But the soc.al-democratic leaders
continued a united front with Doll
fuss 'for a Free Austria"
Break Strikes
Oct. 6.-Prince Starhemberg, now
leading the troops against the work
ers, stated in the "Neueste Zeitung"
that in the Dollfuss government
"Fascism has at last triumphed."
The Social-Democrat leaders con-
tinue to support it, and urged the
workers to support it as the 'lesser
evil"
The miners of Syria go out on
strike. The Dollfuss government is
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AUSTRIAN WOrkerS Still
Hold Fascist MrdererS
at Bay; Resistance Rises
Working Class Districts of Vienna, Main Provincial
Towns, Remain in Hands of Workers Despite
Artillery, Planes, Flame Throwers

VIENNA, Feb 14.-After a night of the sharpest fight
hundred fronts in Austria the workers have bated the
fascist state forces stsndsll and held their i'm
portant positions.
the provinces despite obviously faxed reports
clear that the workers have revealed tremendous revO
onay resistance to the ncomparaby better equipped state
forces and their fascist egions.
Use Flame ThrOwers
The murderous capitalist state has not hesitated to use
famethroWers and the barbarous scientific methods of
destruction
batteries howzes hurting
workers
sun hanging captured workers
reliable estimates
be known must thousands throughout country
Of Vienna crowded with the wounded OF the
The workers cannot take their hospitals
Of the working
Despite
on revolutionary
stshnbg Henwehr forces sormed
munon this artillery
barrage He reported victory but previous that stey
railway depot Linz having lost
t heroic
Few State Victories
still holding their barrcad GoeSng suburb Of
reports Austria
fighting equally great which
show it has victories
story fighting of heroic deeds by the
sporting rifles few
guns batteries
hafmle long
shmbes Its vast corridors
rssounded With the cries Of and children well
Defenders Face Court-AIartaL
Its facade with holes machine
assault with hrowers.
jackets their still surrounded
It's
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petty bourgeois followers OF Social
Democracy are beginning to leave the
party and to join Dollfuss' Patriotic
Front. The main tendency, however,
is the left rehabilitation Of the So
cial-democratic workers, which is
showing itself in the growing activ-
ity, in the shattering OF the dem
ocratic illusions and in the growing
sympathies for the Communist Party.
United Front.
There are numerous cases of So
cial-democratic workers taking our
Illegal literature and selling it in the
shops. There are cases of our COM
rades being invited by social-demo-
cratic workers to their section meet
ingS to speak there; another example
is Linz where a demonstration held
jointly by the cleft" al-democrats
and Communists, in which 1000
workers participated and fights with
the police took place, was carried on
completely under our slogans. A
special form of the left rehabilitation
of the social-democratic workers are
the workers opposition groups which
are being formed everywhere inside
the lower organization Of the Social
ist Party Of America.
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he rising resistance of the reyolu-
tionary proletariat, along with the
Strengthening Of fascist reaction,
lays the pretext for the united front
of all the capitalist shareholders for
war against the Soviet Union, against
the world fortress of the victorious
proletarian revolution.
The war fever and mobilization in
Europe underline the Bolshevik fore
sight and correctness of the 18th
Plenun Resolution Of the Communist
International. In that resolution,
passed some two months ago, it is
stated:
"The bOurgeoisie wants to post
pOne the doom of capitalism by a
criminal ilnperialist war and
counter revolutionary campaign
against the land of victorious So
cialisn.'
In answer TO this situation, which
is now a living reality, which Is now
being translated into actual warfare
by the fascist hounds Of Austria, and
1y the war notifications Of every
capitalist power of Europe, the Com
untst International says:
Communist Task
THE great historical task OF in
ternatiOnal Communism is 10 mobi-
re the broad masses against war
even before war has begun, and
thereby hasten the doom of capt.
talism. Only Bolshevik struggle
before the outbreak of war for the
triumph of revolution can assure
the victory Of revolution that
breaks out in connection with war.
Even those who do not wish to see
IRE not blind enough to avoid observ-
ing that war is matter OF historical
moments, and the time "to mobilize
the broad masses against war even
before war has begun" is indeed
short.
A European war will inevitably be-
come world war, with American
capitalism involved IN every phase OF
Our revolutionary task is writ plain
e must mobilize the American work
ers now in o Revolutionary struggle
OF international solidarity with the
Austrian and Other European workers
against fascist reaction and war, anc
for revolutionary fight against oul
own imperialism before the outbreak
Of war.
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18Th Plenum Of c. 1. Heard
Report on AUSTRIAN Fight

"Of decisive Importance for judg-
ing the situation i'll Austria is the
quickly growing process of radicali-
cation of the masses Of workers and
the beginning Of a new revolutionary
upsurge. The economic and political
strikes during the last few months
show the masses growing will to
struggle. OF greatest Importance was
the miners strike in the Alpine Mon
tan works, which ended with full
victory Of the miners.
Growth of Political Strike.
"T'he growth Of the political strike
movement is very characteristic of
the situation. Answering the arrest
of shop councillors and particularly
the prohibition to sell the Vienna
Arbeiterzeitung,' large number Of
shops in Vienna and in the provinces
we're struck. The number of work
ers who participated in these strikes
is about $4,000. The whole situation
and also the sentiment among the
broadest masses corresponds to the
slogan OF the political mass strike and
general strike.
Inside the Social Democratic Party
q process OF disintegration is begin
'7f'2-. This process has two sides. The
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hunting rifles, or old army equipment
retained from past years, firing at
the troops through windows with
white curtains and geraniun plants
on the sills, defending their homes.
The working class dead include
hundreds Of women and children,
who fought with their men, or were
caught in the murderous barrages Of
the state troops, which spared no one,
revealed no spark of humanity in its
desperate resolve to crush the work
ing class whatever the cost.
Lay Siege to FloridSdorf Apartments
Troops began throwing a pontoon
bridge across the Danube during the
night, to attack the workers strong
holds at the Floridsdorf bridgehead.
Here stand four gigantic cooperative
tenements. OF these only one, the
Schlesingerhof, has been taken.
A second, the GeitenStade, is UNI
der a smashing barrage of shells and
machine gun fire. A river gunboat
carrying powerful guns has anchored
off this point in the river, and is
hurting shells into the workers
homes.
The northern railroad station in the
Floridsdorf district has been destroyed
by shellfre, "for strategic reasons"
the government reported.
Heroic Defense Of Workers Center
The state forces claimed a victory
in Qua9enhof, in the Seventh district
Of Vienna. Airplanes flying over the
city direct the FIRE Of the state artil-
lery.
Some Of the heayist fighting Of last
night took the Ottakring district Of
Vienna, where the Workers Club was
finally taken--a mere shell left, walls
and roof battered into dust by big
shells, It's floors piled high with dead
and wounded, half-buried in the
debris of brick and plaster
One Of its defenders, his last cart
ridge fired, hanged himself in a win
dow as the invaders entered, prefer
ring death to capture, torture, court
martial, and certain execution.
Men All Gone from Sandleitenhof
The Sandleitenhof, another of the
gigantic modern cooperative workers
tenements, is a vast house of mourn
ing today. Its whole front SCARED
with bullets, 1t was finally Surren-
dered.
Savage RepriSals AT Ennsleiten
AT EnnSIeiten, near Steyr, the
munitions cld n1otorcar manufac-
turing town, 800 workers were re-
ported captured. OF these, 40 were
at once turned over to the court
martial, to be hanged.
Workers entrenched on Mount
Poestlingberg, overlooking Linz, made
heroic charge,
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BY MILTON HOWARD

WIIH dauntless revolutionary
" heroism the working-class
of Austria, with its back to the
wall, resists the onslaughts of
Fascist reaction. 1t shows that
the proletariat is ready to meet
the challenge of the Fascist
curse. Betrayed by the Social
Democratic leaders, their press
confiscated, their Socialist
leaders on the run, poorly
armed, the proletariat of
Austria has broken the chains
of Social-Democratic treachery
and has taken the road of mass
revolutionary struggle against
the capitalist dictatorship. The
working class of the world is
stirred to its profoundest
depths. The ocean of prole-
tartan revolution is rising.
Many Of the lower organs of
the Party, impelled by the rev.
olutionary determination of the
workers, are Welding on the
barbados the United Front of
the working class.
The Socialist leaders OF Austria
hailed Dolifuss as their defender of
democracy"
The German Socialist leaders hailed
Hindenburg as their defender of
democracy"
And now they both reap the same
harvest Of Fascist massacre.
Thanks to Otto Bauer and the So
cialist leaders with him the Dollfuss
dictatorship now drips with the blood
Of the working class of Austria.
VIII the working class Of the world
ever forget that It was this Govern
rnent which the Socialist leaders of
Austria supported with their votes?
Will the working class ever forget
that the Socialists had IS per cent
Of the votes in Vienna in the last
election, end that With these votes
hey kept Dollfuss in office?
VIII the working class ever forget
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Workers Break of
as w munE Smur@un


that the Socialist leaders had the ma
jority Of the working class behind It,,
that it held power in its hands, and
then treacherously handed this power
over to the capitalist ruling class dis
gutsed as democracy"
VIII we ever forget that the Social
ist leaders could have turned Dollfuss
out of Office at any moment they
wished-and supported him instead?
The Fascist reaction in Vienna is
the logical result of the steady sur
render by the Socialist leaders of
every concession that the workers had
ever won. 1t was the Socialist lead
ers who paved the road for the Doll
fuss dictatorship. without Otto Bauer,
without the Socialist leaders, Dollfuss
couldn't have ruled for one day.
Trace the road Of the Socialist
leaders for the last twelve months.
And now with CHASTITY clearness their
function as the advance guard for
Fascisn1, the preparers for the Fss-
cist dictatorship becomes ghastly
clear. The analysis Of the COMMIT
mist International Of Social-Demo-
cracy as the preparers of Fascism
has been confirmed again by the bru-
tai realities Of history.
I EFT us follow the Socialist leaders
IL since last year Observe the steady
march Of their treachery.
Resorting to the War Emergency
Powers Act passed in 1917, the Doll
fuss Government supported by Social
Democracy, issued an emergency de-
cree introducing confiscation Of news
papers and censorship. The decree
provided any person making "offen-
sive statements regarding the gov
eminent, or even any foreign govern
nent, is liable TO arrest. The obvious
purpose Of this latter provision was
% aim against the Communists In
the campaign against Hitler. No re-
Sistance from the Socialist leaders
This was on March II, 1888.
March 10, 19S3.-The Dollfuss Coy
eminent issued DEGREES more tyran-
meal than any that existed since the
Hapsbrg days in 1867. The Dollfuss
government decreed that the police
must be notified seven days before
hand Of any public meeting. and that
the police must be notified Of all
meetings whether public OF not.
At the same time Dollfuss an
nounced his intention to replace the
whole constitution by means Of emer-
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Revolution Knocking the Door of EUROPE Says PaVda
Austrian Workers Carrying on
Fight ,oith Supreme Courage
And Devotion, Says Prada
Social Democratic Leaders Are Already Comm
to Terms With the DOIlfuss Government
lspeelal . tAs Dang wosksei

MOSCOW, Feb. IA CBy Cable) -
Austria on Fire" is the sitle Of the
leading article in todays FrAyds,
organ Of the Central COMMITTEES OF
the Communist Party OF the Soviet
Union. After the events In Paris and
throughout France" the article de-
clares, "the heroic battles Of the
Austrian worhmen are new con-
firmation OF how great Is the deternai-
nation Of the toilers and how high
the anti-faScist wave has risen.
The bourgeoisie, which is becoming
fascist, has badly mlscalculated the
situation. It will not succeed In turn
ing millions Of proletarians into slaves
The working class cannot be deceived.
'The Social Democratic workers Of
Austria, abandoned by their leaders,
are carrying on their struggles with
supreme courage and devotion"
The Pravda further states that
the Social Democratic leaders have
already come to terms with the
Austrian government party regard
ing capitulati0n, but that the masses
rose against the captivating and
trcacherous maneuvers Of the lead
ers. "The devoted fighters for their
class, the Austrian Communists, are
In the front ranks Of the present
struggle. The small Austrian Com
munist Party has given thousands
Of fearless fighters to this struggle,
fighters who are leading tens Of
thousands Of workers In heroic
struggle.
LET the Bauers and other oespsc-
able traitors to the workers desert;
proletarian revolution Is knocking al
the door Of Europe!
1.-THE events in Austria and Paris
are the vanguard Of SSirnniSheS be.
ginning a new and powerful era %
revolutionary upsurge. This upsurgs
is proceeding under the slogan Of tbs
Unity Of the Proletariat, which IL thC
only guarantee Of victorious battles
against fasciSm, savage reaction anc
the infanny Of the ruling class"
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Reactionary Leaders of
Jewish Veterans Union
Offer Aid to DOIlfuss

VIENNA, Feb. 14.-Leaders Of the
Union of Jewish War Veterans, which
has membership of 1900, yesterday
announced that 1--WE are prepared to
stand with the [Dollfussl government
and with the Jewish general, sommer,
president OF the union"
This statement was made in re-
Spouse to the DollfuSs government,
which called on this organization to
join with it against the embattled
Communist and Socialist workers of
Austria.
Despite this statement Of the lead
erS, great numbers OF Jewish vet
Grams Of the last war, as well as jew
ish workers Of all cities, are fighting
shoulder to shoulder with their fellow
workers on the baIricades throughout
the country.