Word: catanzaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mordant Retort. In Catanzaro, Italy, Carmelo Buongiorno, a Communist, was sentenced to four years in prison for ending a political argument by biting off his opponent's nose...
...Meanwhile, strikes threatened to paralyze the country. In the industrial north, 800,000 steelworkers were going out on a general strike; to Italian leftists, steelworkers are known as the "motorized divisions of the Communist revolution." In Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields: almost...