A preliminary Conference of all Jewish Parties, organisations and lodges has been held here on the initiative of the Board of the Vienna Jewish Community to create a united Jewish front to resist the growing menace of Hitlerism, as demonstrated by the last elections. The Hitlerist successes have also had the effect of intensifying the antisemitism of other political parties, which are now emphasising the antisemitic points in their programmes much more, to meet the Hitlerist competition. This has happened, for example, with the Christian Socialist Party, which, in the recent elections, lost heavily to the Hitlerists, and with the Heimwehr organisation.
The Social Democratic Party, at the same time, alleges that the Hitlerists are receiving large sums towards their funds from Jewish capitalists, intent only upon smashing the workers movement.
A second Conference is to be held shortly, which will proceed to the organisation of a Jewish defence movement in Austria.
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