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

IS almost impossible at q distance.
Which party or faction began the
bloody work. and led up TO a train
Of consequences which will draw pub
lie evils after them for years to come
is not yet definitely known. .
T he Herald-Tribune 10 reacted
promptly to the Austrian situation
and in its own peculiar way, In its
issue Of February 10, one day after
the fighting commenced in. Austria,
the Herald Tribune - under the
heading of violence in Vienna"
opened on an urbane, lofty note:
ut is perhaps premature to apply
the term revolution to the latest po-
litical upheaYal in Austria. From
somewhat conflicting dispatches it
appears that the fighting was be-
tween Socialists and a combination
Of government police and the Helm
wehr. This is not the first time that
these groups have clashed openly"
Suaye, even-tempered, oh so objec-
tive!
Nobody Knows"
The New York sun, too, had
scholarly" editorial. And like the
Herald Tribune was primarily con-
cerned over the question as to
whether fascism in Austria fore
gone conclusion to then-would be
on the italian or the German
fashion.
Despite elaborate cable service
which it carried from Vienna, the
editorial announced simply that no
body in Vienna or outside seems to
know fully what is taking place.
The Sun may have pretended not
TO know; but the workers through
out the world certainly knew-as
witnessed by the wave Of solidarity
strikes in CzechOslOyakia, and the
tremendous demonstrations in
scores of countries, including the
United States. .s
The editorial ends on a truly
whimsical" note, after the fashion
Of Christopher Morley. This is one
of those family fights" assert the
editors cheerfully in which there is
always temptation for outsiders to
interfere; if one yields the. Shindy."
The Mirror" owned by that ster-
ling patriot and humanitarian, Will
liam Randolph Hearst, showed mild
concern over the wanten slaughter
of the Austrian workers by the Doll
fuss government, until, athe "JeWish
angle" gave it an opportunity to ex-
plot this issue in a city where more
than Is per cent Of the population
are Jews. 6lI taG
Judaism Faces New Menace in
Dollfuss Fascist Rule, the Mirror
declared on Sunday, Feb.S.18.
"Dollfuss, the bantam dictator of
harrassed Austria" the & editorial
read, lis making scapegoatssof Jews
If he persists in sllch--a policy
it will mean the end of Austria.
Where the indignation against the
murder of hundreds Of workers
| their wives and children-many OF
them Jews, incidentally9
The journal Of Commerce, in its
issue of Feb. IA, observed that the
situation in Austria has now reached
such a critical stage as, to over
shadow all else in the European po-
litical arena" ~ vaae. +
The workers were certain to. lose
of that the Journal Of Commerce had
no doubt, and, Of courses little re-
greet. THE Social-DemoeFats,' the
editorial continued, ''harasSed by the
activities of the Heimwehr, are light
ing with their backs to the wall to
maintain the position which their
party achieved during the postwar
! period, but their cause appears to be
we'll nigh hopeless since all the forces
Of the government and Of the Helm
wehr are organized against them"
Easily reconciled to what appears
to be the inevitable, the Journal OF
Commerce blandly declares that with
the Socialists eliminated, ~the chief
question will be the form OF Fascism
which will prevail in Austria, the
| German or Italian" t sF@ 81
Either brand, of course, would suit
the Journal Of Commercei GID
The "Urbane" Prostitutes
The World Telegram's Whimsical
colunnist, Haywood Broun,5 said a
word or two about the struggle in
Austria. 81 do not see how anybody
can fail to regret the dead and. the
! Injured" Broun observed casually
And, he added, '9They have
fallen to such small purpose.
What is more, Broun assured his ad-
mirers-while the Austrian workers
were clutching their guns" revoiu-
tons are not won at the bafricades
no matter what the revoltitionarieS
will tell you" 90 A',H
The epochal struggle Of the Aus
trian workers gave Gilbert Seldes
the Broun counterpart on Hearst'S
New York Evening Journal, an op-
portunity for "philosophica para
graph. $3.50 -,
There is a special irony SeldeS
wrote in his syndicated column, ''ir
! the actual warfare in Vienna; the