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...drew a sharp historical parallel. More than a quarter century ago Red chaos had paved the way for Fascism; now the Communists were again pursuing tactics of conflict and disruption. De Gasperi reviewed recent violent events, dwelling particularly on last month's Communist-led riots in Modena, where police shot down six strikers...
...wonder," he said, turning to the leftist benches, "if it's really true that such massacres occur because there is a 'black priest-ridden government?' Surely you cannot deny that many men were told to go into Modena who had no legitimate business there . . ." The chamber exploded with cheers and boos. Togliatti cast aside his blue-serge-suit respectability, leaped to his feet, bellowed "Liar!" Other Communists surged up crying "Murderer! Assassin...
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...
Result: six new Red martyrs. Into Modena's streets crowded 150,000 spectators, and 50,000 with 5,000 red flags followed in the cortege. Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti delivered an oration: "A society which doesn't provide work for all its components is a cursed society. Cursed are those who hold reins of power in this cursed society. Cursed are those who reject with armed violence, with murder and massacre the humblest request a man can make: a request to work . . . These acts cry to God for vengeance...
...Rome, a visiting British M.P. wondered why those who held the reins of power in Modena had not tried to stop the strikers without shooting. "Why do you never use water hoses?" he asked Minister of the Interior Mario Scelba. "They make people ridiculous without hurting them." Answered Scelba: "You see, we have no water in so many places...