COMMUNIST DESIGNS UPON AUSTRIA
VIENNA, March 28.
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 Communistcontrolled factories in eastern Austria, said the Vice-Chancellor (Mr Adolf Schaerf) to-day. Mr Schaerf added: “Now we can announce that the workers adhered to their Socialist and democratic beliefs,”
Mr Schaerf said dial Austria today was (he most politically stable nation in Europe.
A Government spokesman in Vienna said that the Socialist and tile Right-wing parties would 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, the President, or Parliament were unable to fulfil their duties for any reason whatever, all their powers would be transferred to special, emergency bodies. ......
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Grey River Argus, 31 March 1948, Page 5
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