Word: militiaization
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Decrees Summarized: 1) The Premier will appoint from the Fascist militia the personnel of courts martial which will hereafter deal according to wartime military law with all who are charged with "political crimes"; 2) Political crimes are elaborately defined, embracing at one extreme, attempts upon the life of the Premier, and at the other "the spreading of exaggerated reports"; 3) Of other "new crimes" perhaps the most notable consists in belonging to an anti-Fascist organization of whatever sort, which will be punishable by imprisonment at the discretion of the court martial; 4) The death penalty (heretofore abrogated) will...
Strike. At Carrosio, near Turin, 1,000 factory workers struck against the new nine-hour day. Promptly Fascist militia occupied the mills, arrested the strike leaders, violently persuaded numbers of the strikers to resume work...
...failure to wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces in idealistic undertakings, has persisted. It is manifest today in the literature of Hope and Understanding that...
...second thought he appointed a committee to mediate in the strike?a committee of which he was a member, as also two generals of the state militia, his Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor (the strikers are not affiliated with the Federation of Labor). Later the two military men were removed on the strikers' protest...
...urgent call to the colors drew fully a third of them into military service, either with the Continental Army or the Virginia Militia. By 1781 one member was elected to the Virginia House of Deputies; by the end of the century a third of their number had served in that body, some being promoted to the Senate and others to the Governor's Council...