Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-19
Italian SOCIALIST
MEETING IN UPR0AR
Radical Flourishes Gun at Mod
crate in Leghorn
Meeting
DECIDE POLICY TODAY
BY the Associated Press

ny Niit ftSStCItttu t'VSS
LeehOrn. Italy, JnH. iG.-DeciSion as
to the policy Of the Italian Socialist
party relative to the employment of vio-
lence to secure control Of the govern
ment was expected to be reHCned by
the organizations congress here today.
1t was forecast that il the Moderates,
or those who hold that the Socialists
can attain power by parliamentary
means. should win. the Communists
would withdraw from the party.
Yesterdays session eclipsed In vio-
Ience all the stormy meetings held by
the congress since it opened. last Sat
urdny. The tumult reached its culmi-
nation when NinCcnzo NaCirca, n SiCil-'
ian Socialist deputy and former resi-
dent Of the United States, G1vised the
congress to follow the lead of the Mod
crates There was great excitement in
the theatre where the congress is be-
ing held when Deputy I'rmbacci. leader
of the Communist wing of the party,
drew revolver and pointed il at Va
cirra 1t was later explained that he
had 10 intention of using the weapon
upon the SiCilian, but tumult rcigned for
thirty five minutes before the meeting
could resume business.
Theatre in Tumult
Nacirca was seemingly undlSturbed
by the incidents transpiring on the hoof
and sat down in the speakers pulpit
and calmly smoked u cigarette as ne
awaited SubsidenCe of the tumult.
There were uuarrels all over the thea
tire, and many who attempted the role
of peuCemakers were drawn into squao :,
bles by remarks cast at them. hed
Guards" and other epithets were passed
up and down the aisles, and In the
meantime the officers of the congress
were trying to silence the meeting.
Their simple requests, however, were
lost in the shouting, and Signora AL
tObelE, the woman president, who was
in the chair, rang the speakers bell
without any effect whatever upon the
quarreling delegates. The disorder con
tinued until q Communist mounted the
platform and in StPntorian tones eX-
planned the cause Of the misundcrstanu-
ing. and brought order out of chaos.
The trouble started when Nacirca
said:
Ou WlSu TtNuluNlbll WIN biN hiiAAN.
looking toward SignOr BombaCci, the
head Of the Extremists, who sat in u
box, and drawing a penknife from his
vest pocket.
Il wish revolution By the revolver
retorted BombacCi, as he pulled re
vover from his pocket and pointed 1t
ut NaCirca.
Deprecates Violence
VacirCa, who is lined up with the
Moderates. continued his address when
the tumult had subsided. saying:
The policy of violence has produced
only failure. misery and hunger. II
is mistaken policy and has failed
wherever it has been tried. The his
tory of Communistic violence shows that
after it has spent its force it is aban-
doned.
AS the fighting arm of the prole-
tariat, behold the work of the American
|. w. w. For fifteen or twenty years
this most ardent prOtagUnist OF violence
braved and dared in its work unbridled
violence with the torch. gunpOwder and
dynamite. Many of them are serving
long terms in prison for their acts.
After viewing the failures which they
had rpaped, last December in their con q.
voution they repudiatcd entirely their
former policy Of violence.
They have found after these years
Of the most dogged and violent resist
ance against the American capitalist
class that it does not pay. They do not
make any progressively have failed t.
reach their goal.
\ communist in the audience at this
point cried out They have no army
in America.
NO" continued Vacirca, they have