The International to the Workers In All Nations on the Austrian Rising
The International to the Workers In All Nations on the Austrian Rising 4PHE workers, of the whole world are profoundly • moved by the magnificent and tragic struggle of the heroic Austrian...
...And when it became clear that the old plans of the Heimwehr Fascists to destroy the constitutional State and establish a clerico- Fascist regime in Austria were finally accepted by the Dollfuss Government, and that the international situation was considered by Dollfuss to be suitable for the immediate realization of his plans, uV Austrian workers, knowing that only a revolutionary struggle could offer any prospect of success, had recourse to the last remaining means— the general strike and an armed struggle...
...Sunday he spends in Philadelphia, and on Monday and Tuesday he ia in Washington...
...To date Comrade Wirter Is k»oked up to the end of April with ¦"*•» as far west as Wisconsin...
...They did not enter the fight out of frivolity...
...Especially authorised labor representatives abroad were then ordered to withdraw these deposits in order to forestall a possible countermove of the Austrian authorities...
...On the smoking ruins of Vienna a new Red Vienna will arise...
...Everywhere he goes he wins the hearts of his hearers, and large collections are taken for the relief of his brave and suffering compatriots...
...whose hands, dripping with blood, betray the shocking crime committed against the Austrian working class, which desired nothing but peace and freedom, may be certain of the hatred and contempt of all civilized people...
...The constructive work of the Socialists created them, the guns of Fascism have reduced them to smoking ruins...
...The old name has now received a plendid confirmation, for the Red Vienna of 1934 nay proudly take its place alongside the most glorious niple of the fighting spirit of the workers, the Paris „.nmune of 1871...
...The children of Vienna Were warmly clad and fed, Before the tyrant's minions Unleashed the scourge of lead...
...We greet the intrepid fighters throughout Austria...
...But just as it was always determined not to allow itself to be provoked, so was k also determined not to allow itself to be intimidated...
...YET from Danube's bloodied billows To Miisourfs watershed The music from Vienna Is a call to heart and head...
...In former days the "Vienna Commune" was the official title of the municipal administration of the Austrian capital...
...But if the workers should ask in the future, how will Socialism fashion the world, we shall be able to point nith pride to what was achieved during the fifteen years of constructive work in Vienna...
...the workers will not allow themselves to be defeated without a struggle...
...who have used cannon to shoot at women and children...
...Friday night, March 16, James Oneal, Martin PlettI, Nathan Fine, Clara Handelman and others will speak at a meeting in Passaic, N. J., under the joint auspices of the Socialist Party, the Y.P.S.L., the Amalgamated and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...The realization of the Christian State has Income the Dollfuss Government's program, the most barbarous massacres are at its first work...
...Hemmed in between Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, Austria has become the scene of Fascist advances of every variety...
...Cities around New York began to demand dates in the brief period Comrade Winter was assigned to the metropolis, and so Seat has been the call for him st the National Office of the *«rty is trying to continue Win wr's tour after the beginning of June...
...It made the heaviest sacrifues in the hope that it would succeed, in spite of the Fascist wave, in preserving the most essential parts of the democratic constitution and the hardlywon rights of the workers...
...As investigations in the Austrian Labor Bank, now in liquidation by order of the Government, have shown transactions were performed in a highly ingenious manner...
...The final word for freedom Is never writ nor said And the light the torch is giving Remains forever red...
...The time-beat of her sea march Is in tempo with the dead...
...The fate of the wonderful municipal houses of Vienna is a symbol...
...Meanwhile other Austrian relief meetings are being held in .very part of the country...
...The Dollfuss dictatorship succeeded, however, In seising s number of secret accounts of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, amounting to four mil] ion schillings...
...New and difficult political problems will arise for the labor movement as a whole as a result of the heroic struggle in Austria...
...Workers dancing on the gibbet With a slow and dangling tread, In Vienna, black Vienna, Where embattled comrades bled, We hear the sound of waltzes, But the dancers are the dead...
...Friday night, March 18, he speaks at Savoy Mansion, Brooklyn, and at the Borough Park Labor Lyceum...
...Max Winter was but a name to most New York Socialists before he arrived here after the tragic events that began February 12th...
...There was laughter in Vienna, A clear sky overhead...
...We bow our heads in respect before the men and women who have given their lives for freedom...
...Colleges in every part of New York—New York^ University, City College, Brooklyn*College, sections ef Columia and othtrs—sent insistent demands for addresses by Winter...
...THERE is waltmng in Vienna In Vienna, once so red...
...The dead of today will be the avengers of tomorrow...
...Just as the Paris Commune was for decades a beacon for the progress of the international working class, so will Red Vienna be a torch for future struggles, and a warning signal for international Fascism...
...I>ong live the Vienna Commune I Long live the world struggle against Fascism...
...On occasion the demands are...
...The Socialists of all countries, true to their old convictions, will protest against the bestial death penalty...
...And, as it was once said by the International of the fighters of the Paris Commune, it will also be said in future of the fighters of Austria: "They remain enshrined in the hearts of the international working class...
...Austrian Labor Funds Saved By Succeaaful Ruse VIENNA.—Hundreds of thousands of suppressed Socialists and trade unionists look today with satisfaction at the helpleas indignation of the Dollfuss Government over the successful transfer of labor funds from Austria to foreign countries...
...The money was used for the purchase of large stocks of foreign bends and securities which were deposited in foreign banks...
...The days of fighting in Vienna have given this message to the world: Democracy is not sacrificed without punishment...
...for tw< or three dates a day, but never does he hesitate to work everywhere and anywhere for his great cause...
...The executioners of the Austrian workers, Dollfuss and Fey, who caused more destruction in the working class quarters than the enemy during the war...
...THERE was freedom in Vienna When Vienna's flag was red...
...During the past year the Austrian Social-Democratic Party, in loyal association with the free trade unions, has swallowed the most monstrous provocations from the Dollfuss Government because it was conscious of the full significance of the decision that was at stake...
...Long live the Austrian Social-Democratic Party I Long live international Socialism I The Administrative Committee of the Labor and Socialist International...
...But we, who have to go on working and fighting, swear that their sacrifices will not have been made in vain...
...The Dollfuss gallows have been set up, the courts martial are handing over desperately wounded men to the executioner...
...Max Winter Winning Much Support for Austrian Victims flj/lTH increasing fervor, the working people who crowd meeting after meeting addressed by Max Winter of Vienna are dedicating themselves to the cause to which the martyrs of the February battles gave their lives...
...with him will speak Norman Thomas, B. C. Vladeck, William M. Feigenbanm, and others...
...The Finance Minister has ordered criminal proceedings against the directors of the Labor Bank, although It la difficult to see what the bank officials could have done If the trade anions wanted to dispose of their money in a manner of their own...
...0U CDanuL <Walt* ¦ y S«MMl A. D.Wlt) 'THE waters of the Danube Ones blue, are running red...
...We greet the heroes of Red Vienna...
...March 22-25 he ia in Connecticut, and March 26 to April 1st he la in Pennsylvania...
...Within a few days, as store and more people came within the range of his winning personality, demands for iates began te flood the party offices and the dlffiealties of party officials began to consist mainly in selecting these at which the most good can be done for the won mi and children of Austria...
...The blood-bespattered masters Conspire in sullen dread...
...For example, last Saturday in the midst of a raging blizzard, a dinner was held by one of the Brooklyn branches to which Winter came late, and at which close to $150 was raised...
...But today, in consideration for the victims of these struggles, the most urgent and immediate duty and privilege of Socialists throughout the world, and of all free and upright people, is to help the widows and orphans of the heroic Austrian fighters...
...The total amount of the transfer: H funds Is estimated at approximately six million schillings...
...The meeting will be held at Kantor's Auditorium, Monroe St...
...They hear their doom approaching On relentless tread...
...They did ¦ot oy any means underrate the armed force of the ftate and the hordes of Heimwehr bandits, but they •ere determined that they would rather die for their Cause than go down into Fascist barbarism without a struggle...
...The International to the Workers In All Nations on the Austrian Rising 4PHE workers, of the whole world are profoundly • moved by the magnificent and tragic struggle of the heroic Austrian workers...
...Thus the former president of the Austrian Railroad Workers' Union, now a fugitive in Switzerland, has been able to save 1300,000 schillings for his organisation...
Vol. 27 • March 1934 • No. 11
