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Show !FEAD HAPSBURGS WILL SEIZE RULE Austrian Social Democrats Wage Vigorous Campaign for Control VIENNA, Oct. 2. The Social Dem-j cratlc party of Austria, numerically the ingest in the Austrian parliament charges In an appeal Its leaders have j issued asking for votes In the election , fm- the National Assembly on Octberi 17 that the counter revolutionaries hav been victorious in Hungary and that their lynchlngs and guillotine.-' are preparing the way for restoration! In that country of the rule of the Haps. ' burgs This is the line of w hich the late Kmperor Francis Joseph and his son ' Carl we re i1e;eeiiilpnrv on I GIVE VP THI THRONE "Carl Hapsburg has broken his won! and refused to resign the Austrian thane." the Socialists aver. "He is to be made King of Hungary in Mud.ipest and from there he j. to bring German Austria Into subjection. The blood of our peasant.'; and our workers Is again to be placed in the service of tho Hiii garlan feudal lords who are arming for war to reconquer Slovakia, Sleben-buergen Sleben-buergen and th Ranat." The Socialists Social-ists then charge that the Kunschak-Funder Kunschak-Funder group of the Christian Socialist Social-ist party in Austria Is the too of the Hungarian monarchists. This appeal and othei campaign literature, lit-erature, not only of the Social Jit groups but the Conservatives as well, cleverlj continues the agitation for union with Germany. "From the .1 iv of our breakdown.'' it says, "we social Democrats have said German Austria alone cannot be a living state. i'co-nomic i'co-nomic misery will he our lot so long as union with Germany does not free us." it blames France for preventing this end but declares thfl the hlston- of the Czechs, the Fobs and Jugn-H.i proves that a people finally achieve i Its own right of self-determination In anlta . . nil ,t 1 1 ... ..,,,1 ..ll i.u.aIi,c If only it remains firm in its desire. l LD M l. I INDVSTR1 I The Social Den rats put forward i as their lesues the reforms they have advocated since the formation of the republic und which they assert have j been defeated by the combined bour-i bour-i goois opposition. In the main these J are suppression of the power of the 1 clericals, taxation of capital and great estates, aire and Invalid insurance, school reforms Including separation of schools and church, adequate pay for public servants, and similar measures, To this end it demands the socialization socializa-tion of great Industries, mines, vast ; realty holdings and banking so that 'their earnings. Instead of enriching I private persons may give to the Btati ' the means for fulfilling Its social and i cultural tasks. 1 The Christian socialists are charged with obstructing this program so long j that the control, of many of the most valuable natural sources of wealth such las the iron mint s of Btyrls and Carln-tlii.-i have passed td Italian control and now foreign protests make Impossible Im-possible the full realization of the socialization so-cialization scheme. |