Word: modena
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...Modena's cobbled streets and medieval squares were curtained in thick morning mist. Toward Adolfo Orsi's iron foundry 10,000 workers carrying red flags advanced in long columns. Police were there to meet them. The marchers swung away from the foundry toward Orsi's two other factories. The police, leaving 30 men to guard the foundry, followed the marchers. Too late they discovered that they had been outmaneuvered: the foundry was the main objective after all. The workers rushed the gates 1,000 strong, while others circled the foundry to climb over the back walls. Police...
Many of the laborers did not really want to quit the fields. But Communist squads and the Communist-dominated Chambers of Labor saw to it that the strike did not collapse. In Modena, city workers reinforced the agricultural strikers. Said they: "We have come to help our brothers in the field." A favorite Communist tactic was deliberate dislocation of labor-ordering workers needed desperately in one place to farms where there was no work for them...
...respectable (or blue-serge-suit) school of Communism, which advocates conquest of power by fooling the people instead of shooting them. Last week, Togliatti decided that, since his party was losing ground, he would be a Communist with hair on his chest. Cried he before a cheering crowd at Modena...
...bell of the University of Padua (home of St. Anthony, whom the faithful invoke to find lost articles) tolled for nine hours. Five thousand Romans jeered U.S. and British troops in Piazza del Popolo. Mobs paraded in Florence, Modena, Reggio Calabria. At Trieste, which Italy considered lost by a Paris conference decision, 10,000 nationalist firebrands stormed right up to the bow of the berthed cruiser U.S.S. Fargo and screamed: "Down with the Allied traitors! Get out of Italy and let us settle the score! Why don't you go back home to America...
While the Ministers were taking their oath, crowds before A.M.G. headquarters in Milan shouted for bread and work. In Turin, Pavia, Brescia and Novara there were similar demonstrations. In Ferrara and Modena mobs broke into the jails, Tommy-gunned to death some 30 Fascist prisoners...