AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 March 1934, Page 5

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS

BRUTALITY CONTINUES SPIRIT OP REVENGE. Press Association Electric TelegraDh—Copyright LONDON, Monday. The “News-Chronicle’s” special investigator says that extreme brutality continues in most Austrian prisons, which are filled with (1000 Social Democrats. t Hundreds were beaten with rubber truncheons until they agreed to give evidence against their leaders at the approaching trials. Others were bayoneted in underground cells. The Heimwehr, under Major Fey and Prince Starhemberg’s orders, ruthlessly searched workers’ houses. They threatened to outrage the women, terrorised children, and knocked out suspects’ tooth with rifle -barrels. As a result the workers are joining - l> the Nazis wholesale, many simply in a spirit of revenge, determined'to* be in at the death. NEW CONSTITUTION. VIENNA, Monday. The police at Klagenfurt prevented 1 an attempt of 100 Nazis to disturb a meeting ,of 15,000 peasants addressed ■ by Dr. Dolfuss, and made many arrests. Several persons were injured. Dr. Dolfuss promised the publication of the outline of his new Constitution within a week. It would largely preserve the autonomous administration of the Federal States, and be operative until the corporative reconstruction was completed. ONE BIG TRADE UNION.

VIENNA, Monday. Cabinet has approved a draft creating a comprehensive trades union'under the supervision of the Ministry of Social Welfare, grouping all privately employed wage earners, but excluding civil servants, federal and railway employees. It will be empowered to conclude collective agreements, initiate the settlement of collective disputes, and safeguard the interests of members.