The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-15

lilOI Cal SpItIt VI Lie ais OoIuhuHS nFes
again
They are storming the heavens" Marx
wrote exultanty proletaria Of Paris To-
day the prolearat OF Austria is sormng the heavens
"An through the night the working class women,
mothers and young girls fought beside their men on
the barricades, the latest dispatches say Not since
the Commune OF II have such been seen. Like
lions, the proetarat OF Vienna, from the machine
works the gas houses the factories faces the fascist
blood-hounds set loose by the Dolfuss government,
born and nurtured with the blessings of Otto Bauer
and his fellow traitors Of the leader
ship
Only month or SO ago, the Communist Interna-
Jonal heir and inheritor Of the revolutionary weap-
ons Of Marxisrn, at the 18th Penum of its Executive
Committee, wrote with prophetic certitude
Even the most savage terror which the bOur-
geOisie employs to suppress the revolutionary move
ment, cannot, when capitalism Is shaken, for long
brighten the advanced strata Of the working class
and restrain them from taking action :"
The blood-hounds of Austrian fascism have dis
covered this to their surprise and dsnay. And world
capitalism looks and shvers For it cannot close
Its eyes nor its to the approach of the world
revolutionary army and in the tread Of the workers
OF Vienna hears the sounds of the first battle Of the
which swiftly opens before usthe era OF wars and
revolutions.
The prOletarian revolution knocks on the door Of
Europe" declares Prayda, organ of the Communist
Party Of the Soviet Union the Party that has already
smashed the capitalist dictatorship of Czarist Russia
greets the embattled revolutionary workers of
Vienna.
Once again, the battle cry OF the working class
SO terrible to the OF the bourgeoe rings power
fully and magnficenty throughout the world Work
ers OF the World Unitel You have nothing to lose
but your chains, and world to gain"
0AN anyone read of the events In Vienna without
being shaken to the depthsP The bourgeoisie and
their hrelingS grow pale and tremble. The working
class and the oing masses all haters Of fascist re-
action, feel the irresistible OF proletaran
power. The workers Of the world see the flames Of
Vienna. And they will rise to answer the call
"fhe civilization and justice Of the bourgeois or
der, wrote Marx in his scOrching manifesto ON the
Paris Commune, comes out In its urid light when
ever the slaves Of that order rise against their masters
Then this civilization and justice stand forth rs IN
disguised savagery and lawIess revenge"
With the blood Of the Vienna proletariat are thu
fascist gangs Of the Dofuss regime writing this truth
WHAT is it that energies from the smoke Of battle?
1t is the intellectually significant fact that in the
very fire Of battle, is being welded the triumphant
unity Of the working class that precious unity which
has for long been split betrayed by the leaders
of simultaneously busy forming temporary" coah-
lions with the bourgeoisie.
Socialist and Communist workers brothers and
k
plotaon and oppression, clasp hands at laSt-on the
barricades From this day. nothing will ever again
break that bond the bond Of class
The proetariat Of Austria has finally broken the
chains OF its Socal-Democratic leaders the chains
which bound its power and paralyzed it. while fascism
steadily strong. The latest reports disclose the
following sentiments uttered by embattled workers on
the barricades
We have been deserted by our leaders II Is
fortunate for them that they are in prison"
Such is the fury and bitterness Of the Austrian
working class awake to the infanay of the Otto
Bauers, the Sezes the Aders And the working class
Of the world cannot but share in their emotions
TOO long has the working class been divided its
strength sundered and disspated by the leaders OF
Social Democracy, who chained the masses to the
capitalist State machine with the false and rotten
Establishments OF bourgeois democracy Too long have
the Otto Wells the Vandervedes the Kautsky's the
Noskes, the Scheidemanns and the Norman Tromases
deceived the Social-Democratic workers into subms-
sion to capitalism binding them With the illusion
Of the peaceful road to Socialism"
Too long have the Social-Democratic leaders placed
wall between the class brothers and comrades the
Socialist and Communist workers warning them in
their shameless loyalty to capitalism against cement
ing the proletartsn united front In everyday class
struggle against the ruling class
Now. the immense Of working class solidarity
has swept this wall aside Now, the Socialist and
again-in struggle. in heroisrn.
AS the smoke Of the Paris Commune lifted dis
closing the streets Of Paris Uttered with the bodies
of the masSacred proletariat, Marx wrote speaking
of the revolutionary struggle Of the proletaria
THE soIL OUT OF WHICH TT GROWS is
MODERN SOCIETY ITSELF. TT CANNOT BE
STAMPED OUT BY ANY AMOUNT OF CARNAGE
TO STAMP TT OUT, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD
HAVE TO STAMP OUT THE DESPoTTSM OF
CAPITAL OVER LABOR-PRECISELY THE CON-
DITION OF ITS OWN PARASTTICAL EXISTENCE"
This is the guarantee OF victory.
g.a
nUT Of its bitter experience having tasted its fruits
with the Social-Democratc leaders pleading for
reliance bourgeois democracy the road to Social
ISM the workers of Vienna, Of Austria have finally
rejected with true proetaran wrath the path of bour-
geois democracy as the path to Socialism, the path
onto which they were led by their democratic
leaders.
The Austrian proletsrst has taken the road cf