People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-25

| Notwithstanding lnlS persecution the 30
cialist Labor Party of Italy has made
great progress in the provinces, new
branches having been formed in Lom-
hardy, Piedmont, Venice, Tuscany and
Rome. Trades Unions have been formed
and strikes carried out, the most import
ant Of these was the strike of the SPIN
ners in Bergamo, which was conducted BY
the Comrade Gallavresi, and was a bold
and long fight against the Capitalists.
They succeeded in reducing the hours
Of labor from fourteen to eleven daily.
and in raising their wages from 70 cent.
ODD to 50 cent. 3D.. to Ira QOd.) and
Ira % cent Qs.), respectively, most bril-
liant success considering the condition Of
the Italian workers. In the Province
Emilia Comrades Agnini and Prampolini
did their best to form agricultural work.
ers unions in order to dispense with the
middleman and his enormous profits. The
Trades Unions of Milan increased their
power by establishing new branches. In
this, the only important town where COM
munal elections have taken place, the
Socialists polled, without the assistance
of any other party, and on a very limited
suffrage, 1,5OO to 1850 votes.
I
Crispi, seeing this progress, began to
copy Bismarck, rigorous persecution Of
advanced ideas commenced. With the con-
sent OF a servile Parliament, composed
Of crowd of bankrupts and frauds, he
passed resolution modifying the right Of
election, which disfranchised a large num-
Der Of voters. After this he proposed the
famous exceptional law, the excuse for
which was the outrages of Caserio and
Lega. According to this law the illegal
possession of explosives the setting of
class against class, and the Qualification
of crime verbally or through the press,
should be more severely punished than be-
fore. 1t being enacted that the perpetrator
Of either of these crimes, or for disturb
ing the present social order, should be
sentenced to from one to three years de-
portation, and on second offence to five
years. And further, it provided that any
one being convicted of membership of a
revolutionary organization should be SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment. AL
though Crispi assured the Chamber, when
discussing this bill, that it is directed
against Anarchists only, We Socialists saw
lutte clearly that this law was intended as
special favor for us. The Socialist
deputies opposed the bill as an attack on
the constitution, wherein they were sup
ported by the better elements of the Ex-
IRENE Left. As soon as the measure was |
carried Crispi commenced his campaign |
of persecution against all the organiza- |
the present social order; he dissolved some |
collectivist unions in Romagna in Venice, |
and in Emilia also the Resistance League |
Qega di restenza) of the peasants in Gre
mona and all the branches of the Social |
list party. Trade unions, cooperative socie- |
ties and friendly societies. being connect |
ed with the former organizations were dis |
solved, and the National Congress in Imo-
la was prohibited.
The press, representing scientific So |
cialism in its popular way, are the week
lies Lolita di Classe' Glass War;, and |
"Battaglia" (the Battle in Milan, "Gius- |
tizia" (Justice) in Reggio-Emilia, Guido |
del Popolo" Peoples Cry in Turin, Mar
tinello" the Crane) in Cole d'Elsa,
"Plebe" People in Pavy, III Risveglio |
(the Awaken in Forby, and many others |
about fifteen to which the most intelli
gent members of the party are contrib
utors, and which issue from 100 to 1900 |
copies. Our scientific review is the Crit
lea Sociale," edited by Comrade Filippo
Turati in Milan, who endeavored to bring |
the Socialistic idea among the students |
before the party was organically constf-
tuted. The want Of a daily paper is still |
a burning question. One trial has been
made lately with the "Putonero" in Reg
gio- Emilia, but it failed probably because
it was a private undertaking, in which our
Comrades had no confidence. Another sign |
of vitality in spite of all this persecution
is the victory attained at the last election
in Palermo by Comrade Garibaldi Bosco.
and in Budrio by Andrea Costa. and it is
pretty certain that at the coming election
the Socialist party will show their would
be masters that they are very much alive.
Glasgow, Scotland.
THE PRINTERS.-At meeting of the
Glasgow Typographical Society held in
their hall on Saturday night the chief
business was the proposed alteration of
Rules. A series of paragraphs sent in by
Dundee Branch-a catalogue Of the evils
Of machinery in production-concluded
with the very Partirgtonian proposal to
stop the further introduction of machin-
cry by means Of reasonable argument"
There are some Socialists and Labor men
among the Komps and they were in evil
dence. Mr.. Craig moved that the only
remedy was Naturalization Of the Ma
chinery; he was ably seconded by Messrs.
MGeachen and Lowe. On vote being
taken Naturalization had it by a large
majority Ii will lie with the delegates