COMMUNIST SETBACK IN AUSTRIA
WORKERS REFUSE TO GO ON STRIKE VIENNA, March 27. Austria passed its big test three Weeks ago, when Austrian. Communists tried to start workers’ strikes and it was feared that 40,000 workers would walk, out of Communist-con-trolled factories in Eastern Austria, stated the Vice-Chancellor, Mr Adolf Schaerf, to-day. Mr Schaerf said: “Now we can announce that the workers adhered to their Socialist and Democratic beliefs.” Mr Schaerf declared that Austria to-day was the most politically stable nation in Europe.
The Government spokesman said that the Socialist and Right Wing parties will soon sign a political agreement designed to prevent a Communist coup in Austria, Socialist officials said that the Government was preparing legislation by which, in any emergency, in which the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, President or Parliament were unable to fulfil tlieir duties for any reason whatever, all their powers would be transferred to special emergency bodies.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 142, 29 March 1948, Page 3
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