ITALIAN AFFAIRS
(United Service Telegrams)
MORE FACTORIES SEIZED. ROME, September 16. Latest news shows tin? industrial crisis continues and grows in magnitude. It is a most serious development. The working class are continuing to take control, and a further seizure of property is going on. The workers have occupied the cotton mills in Lombardy, and the wool factories in Bella, .and Piedmont, employing many thousands of hands. The railway men’s and seamen’s organisations have decided to transport any raw material to the revolting factories, despite the manufacturers veto on so doing. The- Council of the Italian Confederation of Industries (the employers) have resolved not to open negotiations with the workers unless they quit the workshops.
GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE. ROME, Sepetmber 16. Regarding the industrial crisis, the Italian. Premier, Signor Giolitti, has refused so far to make any moffi to dispossess the workers of the factories seized by them. Signor Giolitti recently met a delegation of the employers, who asked the Government to get them back their factories. Signor Gibiitti replied: “But the workmen are inside, If they are turned out, they will invade the streets.” The delegation replied: “But it is your legal duty to put them out.” Signor Giolitti: “How?” The delegation: “Make a terrible jxample. Bombard a factory.” Siignor Giolitti (with a sardonic pmile) replied: “If so, he sure then I’ll begin by bombarding your factories.” s'
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