PART V. THE CONQUEST OF MOLINELLA. September, 1922. General boycott. In the month of September the Fascio and the big farmers ordered a boycott of the workers who were members of the Labour Co-operatives of Molinella. It should be mentioned that the great majority of the employers were bound by working contracts st_ill in force (many had. been in force for several years) , each one signed at the employment bureau of these Co-operatives. The contracts ·were thus broken, and from that day no one \Vas pennittecl to take on workers. Even in the government drainage vvorks at Reno, although no boycott had been declared, work was constantly being interrupted, and there was continual obstructionisn1, vvith long suspensions of vvork which came just at the mo1nents when the fat'Jners' offensive against· the organised vvorkers was . as its most violent phase. \,Vhile the boycott was thus declared (it still continues) and applied to local workers, ana while during the summer-of 1923 thousands of men and women were thus totally unemployed, workers from Ferrara, Venetia and the districts 6ordering the Bolognese were being imported into the Commune, notwithstanding that they cost much more and did less work than the local workers. September 12. The Fascists set fire to the headquarters of the workers' and peasants' organisations, in which vvere the offices of the Communal Committee, and the Communal Employment Bureaux for labourers, bricklayers, and metal workers. Everything was destroyed, including the large building. The offices ,vere then transferred to the premises of the Agricultural Co-operative Society, and its Agricultural Machine Depot, in the Via Malborghetto. 103 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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