The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-17

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Thousands Homeless
IN Vienna, thousands Of workers
are homeless, and still greater thou
sands are feeling the pangs of
starvation.
The radio today broadcast mes
sage from Theodor Habieht, Killers
Na1i commisSar from Austria, in
Munich, declaring that the Austrian
Nasis, il Austria end across the
sSSeTman border, are prepared for
action"
n Special 70 the Daily Worker
ZURICH, FEB, ls. CRuna) 49, The
Heimwehr troops have Inutined at
Hslleiu. which the workers occupied
-9eSt night
The SchuJzbund workers defense
corps occupied the city Of EoenSee,
in the Sslskanmergut region, and
dlsarmed the police late yesterday.
All workers in the town and in the
salt works went out or strike. Bar
rieades we're built in the streets. The
red forces declared martial Law.
The news OF the conquest Of Eben-
see caused tremendous enthusiasm in
Vienra.
Karl Marx Hot Regaiued
e Met resistance began 1t the Karl
Marx Court The Heimwefr was
forced 70 retreat ano began new
lsoInbaT6ment With hoTit2ers. Tae
building was hit Is times. The work
ers we're finally forced to retreat, but
without any losses.
The workers groups OF Flor
ldsdori are holding their ground
near Kagran. Vienna. The Helm
1.Tehr attacks have BEEN beaten back
2i Renewed resistance has begun at
Ssu6ieitenhof. another Of the great
workers teAer-en5s CT Vienna.
It is reported al through Vienna
THAT all red groups are concentrating
outside Of Vienna Tor a march on
s>the city. TUureen Thousand are re-
9orsed corcertrated at Vienna Neu-
StaGt
Partisan struggles Tor Vienna are
starting up in many quarters. The
government has requisitioned all
trucks in the city.
Shortly after midnight, Ebensee
9eil into t-2e hands O; overwhelming
fse!.rwchr forces
Fighting Continues in Vienna
VIENNA. Feb. is.-The roar Of
guns and the sounds of rife shot.
-resound again, after a lull last night
in many parts of the city, and al
Marchfeid, just outside the town, the
lighting has redoubled.
s,,,-r Almost to a man, the workers re.
T. iected the treacherous truck" by
Nhich Chancellor Dollfuss sought t.
break their resistance.
Savage Vengeance
In the city, the savage vengeance
OF the capitalist state is being
carrie out with horrible thorough
ness. Three more workers have beer
strung on the gallows. Literally
thousands are in the fascist prisons
awaiting the vengeance of the state
The heroic role Of the working
class women of Vienna is srimlJ
recorded ii the number Of womer
whose bodies lie in the city morgue
and Of those in the hospitals.
IT Is now revealed that hundreds
Of the working class men and womer
who died could have been saved il
medical care had been allowed them
They could not get TO hospitals
and il they had, arrest and savage
reprisals awaited them there. in
stead Of care.
Workers Mass Outside Yienns
Workers are reported massinz at
s1Illn and St. Poelten, west Of
Vienna, for a march on the city
- others are gathered at Vienna Men
egsiiadt, and at Stadlau.
Successful resistance has fiarsd III
Sgain at Neukirehen and Gloggnitz
Industrial cities south Of Vienna,
No word of what happened in the
lighting around Steyr, munitions
:seenter where Prince Won Starhem-
berg was surrounded last night, has
come, but il is known that he
escaped. At Annsfeld, in Upper
Austria, he made speech ATTACKING
DoiifusS and his Christian Socialist
party for lack of firmness.
Murderous Terror
Some conception of the fascist
terrorism can be gained from the
fact that q city employee in Linz
swas found dead in his apartment
with his wife and two children. A
note he loft said he preferred death
TO the persecution which awaited
him.
A wholesale exodus Of Jews mind.
full of the fate of their brothers in
Germany, has begun. More than a
thousand have crossed the border
into Poland. Thousands of others
have fed to CZechoslovakia, sban,
doning their homes.
Women in Heroic Re,
80 The heroism Of Vienns's working
class women continues to be attested
by every new report Of the fighting,
which still continues whenever the
workers strongholds have not beer
battered to fragments.
ao From every one Of the GREAT tene-
nents, in every proletarian district,
a7ln Floridsdorf, ottakring, Hernals,
- Sisnmering, the same report is made,
EHof women carrying ammunition,
loading rifles and revolvers, caring
+ FOR children and the wounded.
~ In hundreds OF encounters, women
= snatched up rifles and fought shJul-
der to shoulder with men. Time and
Tagain they advanced through re-
xions raked with bullets to carry
or go for supplies to tend the
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