Austrian Jewry is manifesting increasing signs of nervousness as a result of the intensification of anti-Semitic agitation, led by minister of justice Franz Hueber, in connection with the parliamentary elections on Sunday. While no anti-Semitic disorders have occurred, thanks to the precautions taken by the authorities, a clash between a Heimwehr torchlight procession and a group of Socialists resulted in severe injuries to a Jew.
Meshulum Wenkert, a Jewish Socialist, had his eye nearly taken out when one of the torches carried by the Heimwehr procession was accidently poked into his eye. He was rushed to a hospital where an immediate operation was performed in an endeavor to save the eye.
While Hueber is going through the country-side making rabid anti-Semitic speeches he is being supported by the efforts of a group of German Hitlerite deputies who have come to Austria to aid their colleagues here in the election campaign.
According to a report in the Graz Leben, Heuber declared that the Soviet revolution imposed Jewish and Asiatic leadership on the country instead of German and Aryan. He said that even in the Czarist days the labor question in Germanic countries was racial because the workers “were misled through Jewish leaders.” The anti-Semitic minister also described “as dangerous enemies that race of aliens and foreign-speaking people.”
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