The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-29
LEAGUE GETS
 RID OF STRIKES
 AND STRIKERS

Br1enos Aires, July 29.-Lfke nne Fascist of Italy the Argentine Patri- otic League, 8 semi-military organl. zation, has undertaken the task or putting down the anarchists, Com munists and the extremist elements generally of Argentina, particularly in Buenos Aires.
 The Leagues first attempt has re- suited in what it's leaders declare an unqualified success The League was backed by virtually the entire business interest of the capital which had become tired of unpatriotic man ifestations of Communists labor un- ions, what they considered to De causelesS strikes and sabotage, the Haunting of red flags, bomb outrages. and more particularly by the demor- ilization of commerce caused by strike of a Communists union Of ste vedores who had tied up the port for two weeks
 The seemingly benevolent attitude of the government toward what they held to be the unwarranted demands of the union had tried their patience and they were determined to take matters in their own hands to the point of armed intervention, if nec- eSSary-
 Today several score of the exert mist element, including numerous az itatorS of foreign birth. are in jail, some are in the hospital, several hun dred others have been under arrest, a general strike called as a protest aRalnSt me strong IAnuSo dCi1sAl4SS of the Patriotic league, has fallen to pieces and the port services nave been released from the heretofore complete control of the Stevedores' union
 The governments policy of 1enien- cy toward many Of the activities of radical syndicalism to which the In terests behind the League objected changed almost overnight to one of stern suppression of any attempt to deny the right of free labor to work or to upset the peace of the country. What the Patriotic League set out to do, the government did itself.
 The conflict centered upon the is- sue whether the government would give protection to non-union truck men to whom the members of the Stevedores' union refused to allow to deliver the goods they unfoaded from the ships. On this point the Argen- tine Patriotic league was backed up / by the Labor Protective Association and the Centro de Navegacion, an sociation of steamship agents repre- senting the overseas steamship lines of foreign nationality
 The refusal of the Stevedores union to deliver any goods to non-union truckmen was aimed at a so-called toutcast'' union of truckmen.
 The various steps which led up to the victory of the anti-radica1 gle ments have been previously reported by cable but it is only by consider ering them together that their sig nf-cance Is appreciated
 The anti-radica1 organizations fore ed the issue by sending non-union truckmen to the waterfront but found it closed by a cordon of police and marines and the stevedores on strike. For two weeks 1t was com pletely tied up while the government endeavored to reconcile the differ ences of the labor unions This fail- ed
 It was then announced that the government would exclude all outcast or non-union truckmeQ who were not allied with the striking stevedores but this decree was never issued for the Centro de Navegacion sent a strongly worded note to the govern ment threatening to boycott the port of BuenoS Aires by withdrawing their ships if the Stevedores union was permitted to dominate the situation.
 At the same time the government learned that British and American meat packing plants which buy most of Argentina's cattle were in synpa- thy with the steamship companies and were planning to close down.
 Five thousand members of the La Dor Protective association sent a de- mand to government officials for the rlsht to employ free labor in the port. Tn answer the government guaran- feed this right However, when non union truckmen reported for work at the piers the next day they were Tired upon by union stevedores. the polSe asserted. The labor associa- don-
 Then came an event that almost set BuenoS Aires on fire with patrto- tic indignation. On May 25, Argen- dna's most important national hon- day, there appeared on bill boards and in radical newspapers a mani festo signed by the officers of the Chauffeurs union calling a strike in protest against what they described as ''bachanaI of drunken bourgeois patriotism"
 This aroused the wrath of the pa triotic league and resulted in the raid on the headquarters of the ChauffeurS uufca attended by shoot