South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-28
PEASANT MOTHER
SAYS HER0ISM HAS
STOPPED SLAVERY
Organizer of the Peasant
Movement in Italy Gives
First Interview.
By CLARA VOID.


ROME. April ZT.-From one end
az ITALY 20 the other there runs a
legend that il YOU treat the peasants
unfairly the women of the land viii
r.-e up and fight you. They viii take
what weapons they have. whether
they be pltchforlss or mere feminine
determination. even as women have
done through all the ages.
And that says the workers. lis
what Argentina Alfobelii has done.
Argentina AltobelH Is known 70
italy and 10 the rest II the world as
"thc mother OF the organized peas
ant movement. There are many
fables about her en- r'le cities OF Italy,
because she almc1t always is work
irc with the peasants in the country
end so Is nearly as impossible 20 see
~ the king or queen.
you viii never ind iler F.oms, 90
one person told me- "Sae $ an old.
cd woman who has been aghung
FOR the peasants for 90 years or
more" said another. she took the
peasants off the land and made
them throw away the butter ana
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