vailing public conviction, cannot altogether overlook. Besides, a testimonial of good conduct from me, let me say plainly, might give grounds for speculations of a political character which it is well to avoid arousing, among other reasons in order to attain with all speed that complete pacification which is your hope and mine, and which by good fortune we have at length almost entirely succeeded in attaining. ( Signed) CAR NEV ALLI, Prefectoral Commissary. Following this forcible dispossession of the Cooperative and Workers' Organisations of Molinella, the Pr~fect of Bologna came upon the scene, not to restore them to their legitimate owners,· but to sanction ar;cl legitimise their unjust expropriation with the following decrees : (r) ''Whereas, on the occasion of the disturbances towards the end of last October, the premises of the Workers' Co-operative Societies of Molinella ·vvere occupied by representatives of the National Fascist Party; and whereas, having been invited to give up the rooms of the said associations with whatever they might contain, the aforesaid representatives replied that that was their intention, and begged for an inquiry by the public authority into the working of die various bodies ; ''Whereas, from expert investigations it appears that only the Agricultural Co-operative Society was regularly constituted, while, as regards the other associations, it is not possible ( !) to ascertain immediately vvhat persons legitimately represent the interests of the members, and are therefore entitled to have the respective premises restored to them ; ''Whereas, under such conditions, it is clearly necessary for the moment to make provision, by means of a suitable official, for the entering into possession and for the custody of the premises and of the goods of the 106 BibliotecaGino Bianco
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