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Organizer of the strike, 37-year-old Arturo Galavotti, is boss of Modena's labor and of its Communist Party. A townsman calls him "one of the harshest among the harsher members of the Communist Party." Galavotti has been disrupting Industrialist Orsi's factories with "hiccup strikes" (successive stoppages in one department after another). Last month Orsi closed the foundry, blamed rising production costs. At Galavotti's insistence, he offered to reopen this month. Orsi refused, however, to rehire 30 workers whom he called Communist troublemakers. Galavotti turned down the offer. Orsi stood pat, refused to postpone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Red Fog | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...week's end, the Orsi foundry announced that it would reopen with 80 workers, including all 30 of the ousted Communists. Everybody realized that, for the moment at least, Communist Galavotti had won the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Red Fog | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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