Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-22
BLAME GERMANY
FOR SUCCESS OF
ITALIAN STRIKERS
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government. The Giolitti newspapers
have published the alleged Giolitti
plan Tor a royal decree establishing
factory control. but other newspapers
doubt it's genuineness.
The decree calls for government
ally appointed bipartisan commission
to establish the details of the control
system giving factory councils or so
viets the rights of inspection of &C
counts and veto over hiring and
firing" The industrialists have &C
copied this in principle, but with
many p, vague reservations. Premier
Giolitti has not appointed this COM
mission and refuses to conyoke par
lament. Thus the workers are left
to starve in the factories while the
committeeman talk. BY some this is
believed to be Giolittfs plan for starv-
ing out the bolshevist agitation by
means of delaying action.
Negotiations Interrupted.
On Saturday the negotiations were
interrupted because the industriafists
refused to promise that they would
not dismiss the strike leaders. The
negotiations were to be resumed in
Rome. but the socialists decided that
they could not let the discussion drag
on. and hence. on Sunday, they is
sued an ultimatum that unless the
lndustrialists surrendered they would
intensity the struggle and occupy all
compromise is possible, true agree
ment is impossible. This is evident
from the authoritative statements ]
have secured concerning the meaning
to each side of factory control.
II believe said Signor Perrone.
that control in a modified form will
come. This win maintain the prin-
ciple of discipline. and. control within
the factories will be confined to ques-
tons as these: Increased output, tarih
matters, minimum wages and hours,
standardization of jobs. details of col
lective bargaining, industrial COM
plants. and some other matters. be-
lfeve that a commission will be APP
pointed to study the whole subject
and submit proposals for. discussion
in parliament" *,
Want Complete Control.
I'VE shall demand complete control
in the sense. of isupefvfHi6nr by the
workers themselves and not by the
state" said Deputy Bacci, director or
hip" of the socialist delegation in
parliament. Each factory will have
a workers council; with control over
the hiring and dismissing and access
to the tompany's books perhaps by
an expert accountant hired by the
union. The workers will inform them
selves OF the cost of raw materials.
overhead charges. selling prices. net
profits and so on; also profiteering
speculation and juggling of accounts.
We shall determine in each individual
instance II any and why an industry
cannot raise wages in proportion to
the cost of living and il the public
is being robbed by the merchants.
I'VE shall study how to increase
production and also have an elected
board of directors to check up on
speculation and trickery. Thus the
workers control will be in the inter-
est Of the workers and consumers
and national economy. But this is
only the beginning. The factory coun-
public economy composed only OF
workers and their representatives.
This council will survey the whole
problem of national production. in
the ALLEGATION of raw mate
rails. tariffs. the financing Of indus
workers will penetrate the mystery
which now surrounds the production
of wealth. We will learn how to
manage industry and after a year or
two we win take over and run the
whole system in the interests of the
1t is evident that these two pro-
grams can never be brought into
Whatever compromise is
now reached the struggle is likely
to continue with increased bitterness.
Workers Leave Factories.
LONDON, September % (by the As
ISOLATED Press).-Evacuation of the
Milan factories by the workers is pro.
ceeding, says q Milan dispatch to the
London Times under Tuesdays date,
but at Turin, where the movement has
been of a more violent nature, it re-
ports that nothing has been done
toward vacating the works.
Difficulties, arising through Premier
Giolitt's plan for settlement of the
between the metal work.
ers and their employers is fore-
Swallowed in a Rome dispatch to the
Times, because representation of the
workers on the commission for syn
dical control will be confined to the
Confederation of Labor. while the
Catholic labor organization, which is
of considerable strength throughout
the country, is not represented and
because the popular party long ago
was assured that the monopoly for
settling labor questions would not be
given to the confederation"