Page Two DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934 “The Proletarian Revolution Is Knocking at the Door of Europe Says Pravda Austrian II orkers Still Austrian Workers Carrying on Hold Fascist Murderers Fight with Supreme Courage And Devotion, Says Pravda at Bay; Resistance Rises Social-Democratic Leaders Are Already Coming orking (lass Districts us Vienna, Main Provincial to Terms With the Dollfuss Government in Despite Towns. Remain Hands of Workers Special to Uw Dally Worker) \rtillery. Planes, Flame-Throwers MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (By Cable).— Paris Workers Defy “Austria on Fire” is the title of the leading article in today’s Pravda VIENNA, Feb. 14.—After a night of the sharpest fight- organ of the Central Committee of ing on a hundred fronts in Austria, the workers have battled the Troops; Hold Meets the Communist Party of the Soviet and fascist forces a standstill, held their most im- Union. "After the events in Paris state to and France,” article de- VIENNA STRONGHOLDS, SHELLED BV FASCISTS throughout the portant positions. TENEMENTS. WORKERS’ in Public Squares battles of the the clares, "the heroic I Despite the meagerness of the news reaching Vienna from The centers of the workers' resistance to fascist troops have largely been the workers' tenements of Austrian workmen are a new eon- I Vienna. The block shown above, a tenement in the Reomannhof, one of the workers’ strongholds, was at- great is determl- g the provinces, and despite obviously faked government reports, Anti-Fascist Actions on firmation of how the tacked by government artillery. Hundreds of women and children were killed by the fascist shells. nation of the toilers and how high it is clear that the workers have revealed a tremendous revolu- AT LEFT: The fascist murderer, Prince Ernest Starhemberg, leader of the Austrian Heimwehr. Increase Throughout the anti-fascist wave has risen. tionary resistance to the incomparably better equipped state France "The bourgeoisie, which Is becoming forces and their fascist legions. fascist, has badly miscalculated the army hunting rifle*, or old equipment PARIS, Feb. 14.—French workers, situation. It will not succeed in turn- Use Flame-Throwers retained from past years, firing at i who came out in millions on Monday ing millions of proletarians into slaves The the troops through windows with War Danger Blazes in Europe Over in the tremendously successful 24- The working class cannot be deceived. murderous capitalist state has not nesitated to use and geranium plants white curtains hour nation-wide strike against fas- “The Social Democratic workers of flame-throwers and the most barbarous scientific methods of on the sills, defending their homes. cism continued their fight on the by leaders, The working-class dead Include Austria, abandoned their destruction in it* wax on the working class. Airplanes direct the Are of reactionary Doumergue Government are carrying on their struggles With hundreds of women and children, The Threatened Seizure ol Austria batteries of howitzers, hurling shell after shell into the tenement homes of in scores of demonstrations through- supreme courage and devotion.” who fought with their men, or were out today. ■workers. <• France caught in the murderous barrages of work- The Pravda further states th»< The Dollfuss government and his Heimwehr (fascist) supporters have Oe- (Continued Page 1) In this city, large crowds of the state troops, which spared no one, from complicated war antagonisms, the he rising resistance of the revolu- ers gathered throughout the day in the Social Democratic leaders have ranging the captured workers out of hand. revealed no spark of humanity in its French carry on a bitter trade war tionary proletariat, with the Place already come to terms with the =HPJ the tremendous soli- along the de la Concorde, defyUig There are no reliable estimates of the dead. The total, which may never desperate resolve to crush the work- international with Great Britain. strengthening of the of troops Austrian government party regard- darity of the workers behind their fascist reaction, cordons and police be known, must run Into thousand.*; throughout the country. The hospitals ing class whatever the cost. The air of Europe flashes with the lays the pretext for the united front thrown around the huge square to ing capitulation, but that the masse* Austrian brothers, are now fervently against the capitulating and of Vienna are crowded with the wounded of the state forces. lay Siege to Floridsdorf Apartments lightning of capitalist antagonisms, of all the capitalist slaveholders for enforce the government’s ban on rose attempting to knit the imperialist with war treacherous maneuvers of the lead- The workers cannot take their wounded to the hospitals. front for against with war hatreds, the actual against the Soviet Union, against working class demonstrations. Meet- Troops began throwing a pontoon war our Austrian of the armies. ings were organized by Commu- ers. “The devoted fighters for their Meet of Vienna Undefeated. workers, and against the world yan- mobilization the world fortress of the victorious the bridge across the Danube during the War is on the order of the day proletarian revolution. nist Party in protest against the class, the Austrian Communists, are Xiie greater part of the working class districts of Vienna are unbeaten. to attack strong- guard of the proletariat, the Union front ranks of the present night, the workers’ and may break out in tremendous The war fever and mobilization in murder of two strikers by Paris po- in the Despite defeats at certain points, the workers rally again and again, holds at bridgehead. of Socialist Soviet Republics. small Austrian Com- fighting the Floridsdorf each the fury at any moment. Europe underline the Bolshevik fore- lice during the general strike, and struggle. The with heroism. Here stand four gigantic cooperative Yet of imperialist power* Party given thousands on revolutionary for war to seize the greatest The of in Austria sight and correctness of the 13th the wholesale arrests ordered by the munist has tenements. Os these only one, the girds shrieking howitzers government in an to of fearless to this Prince Ernst von Stahrembcrg, chief of the Heimwehr forces, stormed share of the booty. directed at the workers, is the pre- Plenum Resolution of the Communist attempt crush fighters struggle, Schlesingerhof, has been leading the great munition center of StejT this morning, after an all-night artillery taken. for the heavier In the rising revolutionary wave. At fighters who are tens of A second, Geitenstade, Is un- Hitler Moves Armies lude bombardment International. that resolution, 600 were arrested in of in He a a report the that will rock all to its passed least workers thousands workers heroic barrage. reported vlctoc-y, but previous that Steyr had fallen der a barrage of shells and Europe some two months ago. it is the past 36 hours. arrests smashing Hitler is quietly moving his armies foundations in the most savage war The were struggle. was proven incorrect. gun fire. A river gunboat stated: aimed especially at na- machine towards the Austrian frontier. The the world has ever known. revolutionary “Let the Bauer* and other despic- The workers are still holding the railway depot at Linz, having lost It carrying powerful guns has anchored "The bourgeoisie wants to post- tive and Immigrant workers. In their German fascist press openly declares bandits able traitors to the workers desert, once, and recaptured it in a heroic assault. off this point in the river, and Is The capitalist are seeking pone the doom of capitalism a attempt to split the working class, that the victory of fascism means the to prevent their doom the most by proletarian revolution Is knocking at hurling shells into the workers’ by criminal imperialist war and a the government has ordered the de- Few State Victories. “anschluss,” unity of fascist Austria criminal in history. the door of Europe] war - homes. and Germany—a step' towards counter revolutionary campaign portation of scores of militant immi- The workers are still holding their barricades at Goesting, a suburb of war They make no more grant workers, The northern railroad station In the against the Soviet Union. To secret about against the land of victorious so- including German “The events in Austria and Pan* Austria, where fortify plunge to war. refugees Graz. Few reports have come from other industrial centers of Floridsdorf district has been destroyed this “anschluss,” German fascism is their cialism.” whom the government in- are the vangard of skirmish® be- fighting equally great. government has no reports, which by shellfire, “for strategic reasons,” Henry Berenger, tends to return to certain death at ginning powerful the is Tlie issued ready to plunge to war, a war which head of the Rrench In answer to this situation, which a new and era of it has no victories boast of. the government reported. not of Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, tiie hands of the Nazi murderers. revolutionary upsurge. This upsurge show to would stop with the seizure is now a living reality, which is now Austria. yesterday declared that League News of police attacks on is proceeding the slogan of The story of two days’ fighting is a long record of heroic deeds by the Heroic Defense of Workers Center if the being translated into actual warfare workers under the of Nations does not march armies in- ; demonstrations in Marseilles. South Unity of the Proletariat, which Is the embattled workers, facing with sporting arms, old army rifles, and a few Tile At the same time, Czecho-Slovakian by the fascist hounds of Austria, and state forces claimed a victory capitalism, to pusn its further to Austria, the League will be dead France and in Algiers and other only guarantee of rletorloue battles machine guns the tremendous batteries of the state forces.