By Helen Graham, Paul Preston
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The party tried to persuade the workers to return to work and to accept the modest concessions which the government was prepared to make. This caused considerable ill- 38 The Popular Front in Europe feeling among the militant workers, but the majority of radicals still remained within the party fold, and many of those who might have been tempted to leave were arrested, often to the considerable relief of the party leadership. A very small group, however, decided to make the break and on 3 November 1918 the Communist Party of Austria (KPO) was founded.
14 From the outset, then, the NSDAP in power was committed to the repression of the workers' movement and the destruction of working-class representative institutions- the SPD, KPD and the trade union movement. Yet the means by which this aim was to be achieved were by no means clear: rather, the regime was to be subjected to considerable pressures which helped to mould the form its policies assumed. 15 Foremost amongst these pressures were the activities of the party and paramilitary SA on the ground.
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