AUSTRIA: Twin Strikes

Impudent, a Communist mail carrier did not doff his cap one morning last week in the presence of the Herr Direktor of the Vienna Post Office. Irate, the Herr Direktor bellowed, gave this minion a thoroughgoing rebuke. . . .

Soon the chided mail carrier complained to his union. Followed last week, a one-day "sympathetic strike" of all the postal employes in Austria.

Next day, in protest against the killing of two Socialists by Fascists in a tavern brawl near Loipersbach, the well and widely organized Socialist party ordered a "general strike" lasting...

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