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FRIDAY? JUNE 17, 1821.
THE FASCISTI OF ITALY. the Fascisti advocate the abolition creates or boys with hia sarnings, of the so-called mensa rescovile, Governments in all lands have or allowance to bishope, paid by usually taken its patriotism for the Government, and that of the granted and unhesitatingly anori- religious congregations." They floed its interests when threaten- are, in foreign politica, expan-led by aristoarnclea`in the past or sionists, especially in the matter by privileged corporations of in-
dustrialist workmen in our day. of economic concessions.
Story of a Powerful New Organisation.
A good deal lately has been beard of a socisty in Italy known as the Fascisti. During April, All classes are to be found But the Middle Class is growi tor instance, there was fighting among their numbers. Thus, in ing conscious of its increasing between them and the Socialiste, Sicily, there are Fasai wholly solidarity, of its power, through following upon which they wreck composed of peasants, and there discipline, for order; of ils ins ed the Labour Exchange. Many are many workmen who are Fas-destructibility by reason of its Įsimilar incidents have occurred. cisti. Every year congresses of sound stock and its multiplying This Fascisti movement has be- the various districts of Italy have numbers. With class conscious- come an import factor in the in-been held, and on May 24, theness is coming impatience at ternal situation of Italy. There sixth anniversary of Italy's entry being aways expected to act the have been other Fasel before the into the war, the big congress role of the man that pays the present, for the word, derived will be held in Rome. During piper, but seldom calls the tube.
recent wallers".. strite If this buge body of law-abiding. from the Latin fascia (a bandage) the means any league or association. at the Roman hotels there were taxpaying citizens is asked to was bear much more in the way of Thus, the associations of labourers hotels where the service and sulphor workers, which roluntarily performed by young personal sacrifices to pay for caused the agrarian agitation in Fase sti, in some cases youths of the follies of those who Sicily in 1892, ware called Fasci, good family, anxious to prove willing to wreck industry so long and a year or two ago the Coal. their utility as strike-breakers. as they may put temporary an official pressure on the consumer to help tion of loterventionist parties in The movement bas Parliament was known as the organ. 11 Fasice, published at in forcing the hands of Govern-
ment, it will rev.lt Fascio, the essence of the word Milan. being the close union of different elements in 2 common cause. which binds them all together.
CLASSES.
A Warning.
Are
IN A STRUGLE FOR SURVIVAL. It will be a bad day for tha working class when its axtremist delegates aucceed in driving the
During the entire course of the is
The present Fasei di Combatti-STRIKES AND THE MIDDLE
· Middle Class to reprisals, because mento, to give them their full
in a struggle for survical it is the name. was created in March,
Middle Class which is bound to 1919. by Benito Mussolini, the
wic. England is not now kn well-known editor of Popolo
agricultural country, sad it d'Italia. of Milan, and were
only în
peasant
COLD- directed against the Neutralista,
that the working The first Congress of the new coal strike the average middle-munities organization, then numbering class person has maintained a man has the resources to hold only a few persons, was held on discreet silence. He has listened out longest. Here in England, if March 23 of that year; by the to the arguments advanced by the industry were held up indefinitely.. end of 1919 there were 40 Fasci miners' political advisers, and the industrialist workmen; whose
to-day
Pasella has scrutinised the figures roots are not in the soil, would be. Signor estimates the number o: Fasci as forward by the owners of the coal the first to go.
Why press the hitherto patient 400, with a membership of 100, mines-impartially. He has gone
without hot baths, and has eaten middle class too far? It has it bis dinner cold, has put up with traditional roots deep plaated in fewer trains and with an the roving races of herdsmen and ominosa falling off, in business merchant adventurers that get a without in any way embarrassing living by land and a long the Government or the rest of the centuries before the industrialist community, states a writer in the population was evolved from ■ Daily Chronicle.
temporary demand for factory
and
|000.
DEJECT OF THE SOCIETY. The main object of the Fascisti is "to combat Bolshevism as the degenerationofSocialism,"especi- ally because of its violence, and the Fascisti seem to have adopted the let talionis of "an eye for an
He joined the Defence Force labour arising out of the discovery ese, a tooth for a tooth. All the when he was told the country of steam. The industrialist worker Italian political parties have needed his services, and is now came with the cost—and will van~} furnished members to the Fasci, prepared to get up at 5 am. and ish with the coal when the mines except the Catholic Popolarpatty pretend it is only 7-if that will cease to be worked. But the on the que band, and, of course, help the Government to conserve middle class of merchant adven- the Commanist and Official the dwindling coal supplies of the toters and breeders of cattle, the Socialist parties, on the other nation. He has kept quiet and men and women in whose veins Even the Conservative wing of done bis best to carry on ever still runs the blood of pioneers, the Sociclists, the so-called the Government was offering the they can move on if need arise to Riformisti, is represented in miners to make up their wages pastures new; and still win s the Fasci. and the
Re-
largely out of his by no means living by the aid of inherited publicans have a few mom-bottomless middle-class pocket. discipline and education.
bers of these bodies-for the Fas-
ment.
Now that it has all ben It is maless to try to browbeat cisti accept any form of governin vain and that the miners them or starve them out off
But Republicanism in delegates have intimated to existence by destroying industry. Italy, except in the Romagna, the Goverment that the sacri- Industry, if it is wrecked, will where it is a Conservative partyfices offered on the taxpayers only starve out of existence the as against Socialism, is a small behalf are inadequate to induce workers dependent on industry and dwindling party, mainly com- the men to start coal-getting for their only possible means of posed of idealistic old men who again, the middle-class men-aye, livelihood. cherish the far-off memories of and the middle-class women, too
the Roman Republic of 1819.
But party men who enter there beginning to loosen their Fasci are first Fascisti and then
members of their respective par-"
tongues.
A QUEER MIXTURE. -
GENERAL NEWS.
ties Nationalists, Radicals, It is a queer mixture, this Liberals, and the rest. The Fascisti heterogeneous mass of citizens BIRDS NESTING IN PALL MALL. like the Catbolic Popular party, calling itselt the Middle Class. Birds are nesting in the hulls possess what is otherwise rara in Younger Fons of the old landown of the model ships which sur- Italian public life-a very prac-ing aristocracy slip down into it, mount the lamp-posts along Pall
find there before them Mall. tical organizer, for, too often, as and
solid
descen- phalanx of Tasso remarked in the "Gera usalemme Liberala:"
dants of many generations of
Alla Virtu Latima.
HARROGATE'S EFFORT. Harrogate Warriors' Day younger sons, and of the realized over £1,000, of which the
O nulla manca. O sol la discip-landed gentry that has long since Grand Opera House raised ove
lisa."
lost or been taxed off its land, and £500. Each Fascio possesses so-called has been earning its daily bread
A CURIOUS CENSUS. According to the recent Bohemian Census 11 million sugar-cards have been issued to 10 million inhabitants.
| squadre de azione (squadrons of in one or other of the liberal pro-
setion"). composed of young men fessions or in business. who bare mostly served in the Ambitions young men and war. Each of these "squadrons "maidens of the geoman class who has a commandant named by the hare benefited by technical ed- DOMESTIC TRAINING FOR UNEMPLOYED WOMEN. directing council of the particular ucation, and have "got on in the Fascia. There is a general con-world," climb up into it, only to Training in domestic work for mittee at Milan, which super- discover that the children of unemployed women is to be pro- vises the whole movement, but countless generations of peasant vided by L.C.C. Education Com- each Fascio enjoys complete pioneers have done the same mittea.
for local autonomy its own thing before them. and having I. C. C. NOT TO ASSIST. Affairs. Between the local become managers
"even The Improvements Committee and the central committee comes owners of litile businesses, of the London County Council has! the provincial federation, corres-or shareholders in 'big ones, are recommended the Council to make ponding to the provinces into now thoroughly identified in their no contribution towards the widen- which Italy is divided for admin-interests with this great central ing of Threadneedle-street (where istrative purposes. Whenever stratom of the population that the Bank of England is situate). an incident occura between has come to include all who do PROFITABLE TENEMENT Bolsberists and Fascisti. help, if not live by sub-letting part of
THE STUDENTS' VANGUARD.
Every
-
LETTING.
required, is sent to the particular their land to farmers on the one. An elderly French woman who local Fascio by other Fasci. bard, and all who are ineligible appeared at Westminster County for the working men's trade an- Court was said to have taken five houses, which she let out in Every Fascista pays to his own ions on the other.
Two vital common interests tenements, making 3 a week Fascio an annual subscription, which varies according to the bind them together. Either they profit on each.
NOT FOOD AND DRINK" TO locality; thus, in Milan it is 24 all make a living by farming the
TEACHERS! lire, in Turia 18. Besides, there products of their brains, or by buy-
A recommendation of the Ed- are benefactors who give largeing and selling compolities for sums, and who are called soci the rest of the community. Thus ucation Committee suggesting sostenitori. In
district they appreciate, one and all the that head teachers give instruc where there
students necessity for that communal dis-tion on the hygisne of food and cipline and consideration for the drink has been rejected by the the local Fascio COM- tain an avanguardia stwien tights of others which we call Liverpool City Council.
government by consent (or demo-
£240 FOR RAREST BRITISH JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the esca (students' vanguard")
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For the rarest known British patriotic societies,
PATRIOTISM TAKEN FOR of Infants and Dyspeptics; (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID which have a general secretary
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etamp, the 10d. red brown issued INSECTICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fless, Mosquitoes. of their own. Sig. Luigi Freddi; And they strongly resent social in 1865, £240 was paid at Messrs. Big Flies and all other Insect Pests in Summer days; and (4) but they all depend upon the patronags from those who live Harmer, Rooke and Co.'s suction JOHNO ILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA Central Committee. All the by sub-letting the inherited or rooms in London. SOAP3 for keeping everything clean ip Housea.
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SAFETY FIRST" FOR TRAM even female Fascisti. The ex-trialist tyranny by those who
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A request that it be made an warriors equal those of some of labour. Ariosto's fighting heroines. She Because this heterogenous offence for vehicles to pass tram- is unmarried.
Middle Class has always upheld cars which are stopping to pick The Fascisti..do not recruit law and order, the dignity of up passengers has been made to their ranks from the Catholic learning, the right to individual the Police Commissioner by the Popular party. This is partly enterprise and the right, to hold Metropolitan Municipal Tram- due, no doubt, to the fact that as his own the property a man ways Council.
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