The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23
I DEPENDS ON WHO HOLDS THE GUN!
An analysis of Editorial Reactions Austrian Uprising

building which was smashed by the
governments howitzers was generally
considered the best planned home for
the workers ever built. It was called
Karl Marx Court: it represented the
most intelligent city planning; il was
a symbol Of new era. And il was
destroyed in the first battle between
The workers and the government"
Arthur Brisbane, realtor and
dean" Of the newspaper coluinnists,
wrote on Austria on the 14th, 18th
and 18th in his column To-day"
True to his newspaper traditions"
Brisbane's reaction-first and fore
moSt-is to the "neWs-interest" in the
situation. Civil war in Austria" he
writes, in the rapid-fire, Staccato
style of his fellow craftsman, Floyd
Gibbons, provides big, and lnpleas-
ant news. Hundreds are shot, the
| government Of the energetic little
anti Communist and anti-HitIer die
tator, Herr Dollfuss, fighting saw
agely against the Austrian Socialist
worhman's party. DOllfuss hitherto
has been fighting to keep the Ger
man Nazis and their influence out Of
Austria, struggling to prevent first
political and next territorial absorp-
ton by Germany.
Nov the fight is at home. So
cialist workmen, entrenched in the
Karl Marx apartment house, in vi
emma, a huge, four million dolla-
structure, biggest apartment house in
Europe, are using machine guns,
hand grenade5 and gas against Aus
trian troops"
tits Swell Yarn"
Brisbane tells the story casually.
no needless excitement, always the
"objectivity' Of the mendacious cap
italist press. He continues, upper
turbed:
Late news, tells Of Austrian can
non battering down the big apart
ment house. housing 1000 men
women and children, killing many OF
them"
No indignation. No ruffed emo
ticns.
Brisbane gives his o. X. to fas-
cism. Bloody violence in Austria"
he writes, Shows what might have
happened in Italy il MussoIini had
not taken charge with his Black
shirts and his castor oil, sup
pressing all differences of opinion.
and in Germany if Hitler had not
seized power, crushing not only
conflicting political opinions and
all radicalism. :"
The next day Brisbane reported
that fighting continues in Austria,
spreading to small villages and then
fastened on to announce that;
John D. Rockefeller, whose illness
has worried his family for some
months. has recovered and is on the
way to his winter home, accompanied
by his son.
Those who understand the work
that Mr., Rockefeller has done for in
dustry, science, health and knowledge
will be glad to learn Of his re-
covery.
The Socialist workers Of Austria
with guns in their hands. have en-
tered the Bolshevik road Of struggle
against fascism. Fear that theil
heroic and inspiring deeds woulc
serve as an example to the worker,
of the United States in their owl
fight against nascent fascism here
this was the dominating factor in the
editorials of the American capitalist
press
THE civilization and justice Of
the hnurPpOiS ardar r7wofo E,-J
Marx in discussing the Paris Com
mune, comes out in its Iurid light
whenever the slaves and drudges in
that order rise against their mas
tiers. Then this civilization and jus
tice stand forth as undisguised saw
agery and laWless revenge
Stripped bare in this lurid light j,
the free" press Of the United States