The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23


throughout the world where the
capitalists rule, is the freedom to
buy up the papers, the freedom TO
buy writers, to buy and manufacture
public opinion in the interests of
the capitalists."-Leniu.
-FOUR unemployed workers were shot
l down in cold blood in the Ford
Hunger March of March Z, 1882, but
capitalist press headlines announced
that Harry A. Bennett, head of Ford's
private stool pigeon crew was struck
in the head with stone and knocked
unconscious.
According to the capitalist press
editorial credo, when workers are
beaten or murdered in the class strug-
gle, they simply pay the penalty for
their folly; when the hired thugs Of
the bosses are bruised, it is an occa-
sion for lamentation against "vio-
lence."
The New York capitalist press last
week, for example, displayed great
solicitude and sympathy for one OF
La Guardia's cops who left his club
at home. but showed little concern,
naturally, for Clarence Hathaway who
was set upon and murderously slugged
by Socialist leaders and their strong
arm squads.
While the Vienna wOrkers-their
wives and children were waging an
heroic battle for the very right to
live. the editorial writers of the
leading capitalist papers in the
United States were "deploring
their needless violence"
Not only was the New York press
extremely slow in commenting edi-
torially on the fascist butchery OF
the workers and their families, but
in almost every instance their edi-
torials contained an implicit defense
of the claw and order" Of the fas-
| cistS.
Viennese waltzes was the leitmOtif
of of the liberal" New York World
Telegram whose editorial on Feb. 10
was headed "Bittersweet Vienna.
This editorial appeared in the same
editions which announced that the
Socialist rebellion against the govern
ment of Chancellor Dollfuss col
lapsed in the capital today" and
after hundreds had been slain in the
valiant fighting by the Socialist
workers.
Mourns Monarchy
"The lovely capital of the Haps-
burgs," said the World Telegram edi-
torial, was left to die Of economic
starvation after the war, but even in
decline it retained an exquisite au-
tumnal charm.
1.-THE city which had known
Marcus Aurelius, Richard Coer de
Lion, Napoleon and Francis Joseph
which had been an unsurpassed
world capital for music and medi-
cine, which was the symbol for gay
romance, still chung to life"
The World Telegram is wistfu
about the old days Of the monarchy
Vienna was not the same. And il
could not be without bright uniforms
to adorn its palaces, without gold tc
support its frivolities, without soma
hard practical reason to exist in g
world of stern realities. Yet the
ghosts haunted Vienna, lending fra
GRANGE to its lilac bushes and impart-
ing leisure to its coffee houses. Freuc
and Schnitzler remained. The peo-
pies habits Of gentleness and ur-
oanity were fixed indelibly. The
mood was bittersweet."
Two days preYiously-on Tuesday
the World Telegram had lamenteo
that "if ever civil war was needless
that In Austria is the most futile
Fascism, it declared, lis the road tc
destruction" Fascism, 1t feared, lis
the road to revolution and war"
The New York Times, powerful ad-
ministration organ, did shed few
dry tears. In an editorial on "Tht
Austrian Crisis" on Feb. IS, the
Times asserted that mo one can be
so callous as not to be shocked by
the news from Vienna. Turning
heavy guns loose on great apart
nlent houses is something new anc
terrible in what amounts to civil
war"
How Good Is Your Memory
Publisher Ochs, do you recall, sir
the lurid yarns you published in you
paper way back in 1917-18-l9
and even later about the Bolsheyik
atrocities? Do you recall that
famous little collection Of Times
"atrocity' stories" on Russia, calleC
Liberty and the News compiled BY
Walter Lippmann, obscurantist-ex-
traordinary of the New York Herald.
Tribune, and companion on Medi-
terranean cruises Of Thomas w. La
mont of j. P. Morgan and Co.?
Where is your righteous indigna-
ton, New York Times editors?
Turning heavy guns loose on great
apartment houses is something new
and terrible" declares the Times.
! eyes, exact fixing of responsibility