The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
On the
World Front
Another SarajevO?
The Rifle Is Raised
August l This Year
HARRY CANNES.

llnl agent was slaughtered
by the Nazis who want their
fascist dictatorship estab-
hshed combined with the rule
of the Krupps and Thyssens in
Germany
Again the murder gangs fall out
and butcher one another. But this
time the murder may turn out to
be another Sarajevo. The Nazis
are deliberately shooting into the
powder magazines Of Europe in or
der to explode it into a new bloody
imperialist war Mussolini has al
ready modified the entire armed
forces of Italian fascism in order
to seize Austria on the pretext Of
preserving its independence"
As the Communist International
pointed out last December, the i'm
perialist bandits, unable to solve
the rapidly deepening crisis of world
imperialism, unable to bridge the
growing chasm Of catastrophe, are
on the verge of plunging the world
into a new bloody, criminal i'm
perialist war.
THE slaughter of Dollfuss (himselt
4 the murderer of the Austrian
workers just as Roehn, Heines and
Co. were the butchers of the Ger
man proletariat) was the handiwork
of the Hitler forces in Germany,
The German ambassador in Vienna
was party to the plan, and person.
ally tried to arrange the safe-con-
duct of the Nazi gangsters to Ger
many.
At the same time, on the German
border near Austria, the Austrian
Nazis had modified over 5000
heavily men for invasion. We
can be sure, also, that tens Of thou
sands more of picked Nazi troops
we're ready for the war adventure,
and are ready at this moment. 1t
is race now between German and
Italian fascism as to who swallows
Austria as the first step to more
gigantic battles for imperialist plum
der and for war against the Soviet
Union.
THE desperate situation in Ger
many prompted the Nazi blood
hounds to attempt to seize Austria.
The battle has only begun. Through
out Austria civil war is raging be-
tween Nazi forces and troops loyal to
the Starhemberg -Schuschnigg pro-
Mussolini regime. No one can now
say whether this sporadic gunfire
may not at any moment be drowned
out by the roaring of cannon, the
howl of bombing planes, and the
actual beginning of the greatest and
deadliest imperialist world slaugh-
ter.
The working class of the entire
world is now confronted with war
in the making-not with the danger
of war-but with all of the prelim-
inaries to an imperialist blood bath.
The events at Sarajevo which led
to the last imperialist war almost
20 years ago to the day were mild
compared to what is now taking
place in Austria.
THE struggle against imperialist
1 war is now struggle not against
the bosses armies preparing and
making ready for war, but against
the impsrialist bandits with their
rifles raised and their finger on the
trigger.
August l this year may be not
only the anniversary of the first inn
perialist world slaughter but the
day of the next world butchery.
Never has the cry to rally the
working masses against the impe-
rialist war danger been SO necessary.
so great as it is right at this mo-
ment.
If the toiling masses are to be
modified to stop imperialist war,
they must be modified now. Every
Communist, every militant worker,
every enemy of imperiahst war,
must exert every ounce of energy
at his command, to sound the alarm,
to rally the forces of revolutionary
struggle against war, in order to
stay the bloody hand of the i'm
perialist bandits.
AUGUST 1st this year will take
r. place under the blacklist clouds
of war ever to threaten humanity,
| if it does not take place amid the
torrential showers of bullets and
cannon fire.
The time to stop the imperialist
robbers from plunging the world
into oceans of blood is indeed short.
In this time, every worker, every
fighter for peace, must do all he
can to awaken the workingclass, to
mass the revolutionary forces
against war
American imperialism is not re-
naming quiet in this situation.
True, the newspapers are silent on
the Roosevelt governments war
preparations. But we can be sure
the War Department already, in the
light of European news, is massing
| its forces. is moving troops, is RADIO
| ing its battleships, preparing, IN Or
der to insure any advantage to Wall
Street that may grow out of the
next imperialist war.
1T is this fact we must bring to
the minds of the American work.
ers. The bloodshed that may break
out at any moment in Europe i'm.