Giacomo Matteotti - The fascisti exposed

Calzolari Nello, collectors of dues for the Labour Exchange. On May I the workers belonging to the Confederation \Vere suspended from work under the Reno drainage ,vorks, the only ,vork open to them, in order to reduce them to submission through hunger. On the 5th Fascists arrested workmen named Martelli Filippo and Rizzoli Giuseppe because they vvere found in possession of receipts for their payments to the Labour Exchange. On the I 5th a Fascist beat a working woman named Rubini Stella, and threatened her septuagenarian father. Fascists arrested the foreman Stagni Ettore and Fattori Giulio. * * * * * On August 1, 1923, while the Fascist threshing 1nachine, imported against the will of the tenant farmer Calzolari, was threshing the corn, and the farmer's fan1ily vvere.working in the fields, four Fascists came up to Calzolari, an old man of 70, and beat him till he bled. Returning to the farmyard, carrying their arms, they made the vvomen and children shut themselves up in the house, and the Fascists then threshed the corn as though it had been their own property. On the 4th a Fascist beat a workman named Mazzeri Giuseppe. On the 5th, in Borra, in the ha1nlet of Marmorta, Fascists beat Colti Federico, a workman belonging to the Confederation of Labour. On the 6th a Fascist band beat a workman named Nanni Amerigo in the hamlet of Selva, and also other workmen in the same hamlet, named Fattori Adelmo and Buriani Aldo, warning them to get out of the Confederation. On the 9th Fascists broke into the farm tenanted by II I Biblioteca Gino Bianco

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTExMDY2NQ==