The Raymer enterprise. (New Raymer, Weld County, Colo.) 1910-19??, 1920-09-16
Attempt Of Communists to Run
Metal industries Of Italy
Likely to Fail.
TECHNICAL men HOLD OUT
lithuanlans Open HostIiities Against
The Peiss-eritish Won't Release
Irish huagsr Strikers Destrue.
tive Earthquake In ltaly-os.
veiopments In Politics.
By EDWARD J. PIckARp.

~ GOWAnO - pIONANU.
Soviet rule In the industrial region
Of northern Italy came rather sudden.
~. but II was not unexpected by those
who we're watching developments
there. The experiment Of the workers
10 Of great interest. but the indications
are that It will be failure.
Employers In the big metallurgicaI
works Of that part Of the country un-
dertook to head OF a threatened gen.
eral strike for increased wages by put.
ting q lockout into effect. The imme-
dIate result was the seizure Of the
plants by the workers. who put them
under the management Of the soviets,
and are trying to operate them on COM
munistic principles. The owners did
not resist. but the technical and ad.
authoritative stats unanimously re-
fused to Join 10 with the others, and
consequently the latter are having q
hard time In making good. They have
no one capable Of directing their ef-
forts. and thousands Of them are drift
ing away and refusing to work At all.
In the plants that are running the
waste IL said to be appalling.
80 far the communists have gener-
ally refrained from violence-indeed.
there has been no occasion for It.
Therefore the government has declined
TO Interfere. trusting that the employ
ers and men will finally adjust their
differences. The government Of Italy
10 In / more precarlous position than
any other Of the great powers and
cannot afford to antag0nize the labor
ties and communists. II the soviet
movement spreads to other industries
and interferes with the public services
and the provisioning Of the people,
Premier GiolItti may be forced to In
tervene. In order to meet that event.
uality, Il Is said. the employees Of the
communized automobile factories at
Turin are building armored cars and
tanks, and the alrplane makers at
Brescia are mounting on planes num-
Der Of machine guns that were secret
~ removed from the arsenal at ven-
ice. The situation may be cleared up
BY two conferences that opened near
the close of the week.
Italian manufacturers declare that
the wage increase demanded BY the
10000 metal workers employed by
them would add at least 1000. 000, 900
lire to their pay roll. and that this
burden could not be sustained. They
point ont that Italy pays IS times the
pre-war price for coal. while England
pays only three times. America only
8.6. France six. and even Germany
only II. As result foreign produc-
ton ID replacing Italian.
Polish troops. In their operations
against the Russians, have run afoul
Of the LIthuanians. and hostilIties have
broken out between the two countries.
The bone Of contention ID the province
Of Suwalkl. which ID inhabited main.
~ By Lithuanians and was given to
Lithuania BY Russia when the Poles
were driven out recently. Attacking
suddenly, the LIthuanians defeated the
Poles 10 the region Of Seiny and then
by forced marches advanced beyond
the city Of Suwalki, with the evident
Intention Of assaulting the Augustowo
fortress, to which heavy Polish re-en-
forcements were rushed. Poland pro-
tested to the League Of Nations against
the action Of Lithuania, but that coun-
Try refused to accept the blame, stat
Ing that II does not recognize the lines
Of demarcation fixed BY Earl Curzon
and Marshal Foch. but d ready to
cease hostiiitles and negotiate q new
line.
OF course IL Russian reds took