The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-05

ger yon Starhemberg, national commander both of the semi-mili- tary Heimwehr organization and the "Austro-patriotic Monopoly which Dollfuss created under the name, ''Fatherland Front"
 Of these two groups the workers are the more vociferous and mill tant generally.
 Disgusted with their former leaders for fleeing to safety abroad at the first shots of Bloody Feb mary 1884" after having incltea them to revolution through years of agitation, many of the former socialists have returned again to the more moderate trade-unionism of the so-called Christian Workers Union of the veteran Catholic labor leader, Leopold Kunschak.
 Fighting Spirit Grows
 Tn this organization they brought much of the fighting spir- it which they learned from their marxist teachers.
 Of class-warfare and dictator ship of the proletariat one hears little from them now; but on every side one can note that, coincident with their arrival in its ranks, there has been an appreciable in- crease in the militancy of the Christian Workers organization.
 Starhemberg has silenced Kun schak for the time being, as he did last year with the leader of the semi-nazi Agrarian League (Landbund), Franz Winkler, be- fore killing him politically. This was done, it will be recalled, by breaking up his meetings with Heimwehr provacators and then forbidding future meetings on the ground that they disturbed public law and order.
 Holds Tight Rein
 As an old experienced politician, however. Kunschak succeeded in having Heimwehr meetings tech nically forbidden at the same time: namely, he maneuvers events so that all meetings except those un- der the direct patronage or the Fatherland Front were forbidden in one general decree.
 At the same time he also ap- pointed the commander of the military formations of the Chris tians, the Freedom League (Frei- heltsbund) as his spokesman. Then, previous to the issuance of the general decree, he caused Freiheitsbund military parade % be held, at which this spokesman, Horr Staud, voiced the demands of his organization.
 Beginning each sentence with the words, "We demand" Staud proclaimed the following as the Freiheitsbund program:
 i. Equal voice for the workers in the reconstruction of the state, and the inclusion of workers in rec ognized society.
 e. Influential position for the Christian Workers Organization generally and for the Freiheits- bund as formation.
 3. Staende state construction in the sense of the Papal Encyclial "Quadragesimo anno," namely with the Approximation of the work CTS.
 4. Protection and support for the christian organizations, espe- cially for the societies of youth with a confessional basis.
 ;. Extension of the social well fare services and their due protec- ton in practice as well as in the 6fy. 55
 6. Protection. of the family Through family wages and pro- motion of colonization on unused land.
 2. Measures against earners of R puble- and against peak Incomes out of proportion to ser Axscies rendered to society.
 8. Special protection for young workers both through the social services and through the creation of work.
 Q. An end of terrorization and blackmail in the work k-shops, by which attempts are made from different sides to force workers