The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-24
4IEF FASCIST
THUG SEIZED
INMURDER CASE
'esare ROsSi Jailed For
MGtteOtti Crime
tspeeIaI q the paIIy worker.l


ROME, Italy, June 23.-The
hief crook in Italy's greater
teapot Dome" oil and murder
scandal, Cesare Rossi. former
head of the press bureau of the
Interior department, is looked
low in the Regina CoeIi prison.
He has been hiding in a villa
near Marine, just outside of
Rome, ever since he resigned
his position a week ago over the
charges developed against him
IN the Matteotti kidnapping and
murder case.
Rossi was definitely implicated in
the cowardly crime when Amerigo Du-
mini and Filippeli made their
confessions. Up to that time he had
been denying, by letters in the Fascist
press, his part in the murder of the
socialist deputy. He refuses to say
anything from his cell, according to
police,
FInzI Sill Free.
Aldo FinEi, Italys ALBERT Fall" and
Rossi are charged with accepting huge
sums from Harry r. Sinclair for the
making of so year concession to his
consolidated oil and for favors to
Standard on. part owner in Sinclair's
company. Finzi has not yet been
caughtsin the murdeI dragnet.
Mussolini, by following the drastic
policy, forced on him by the parlia-
mentary majority, of sacrificing his
former Fascist chisftains. is more con-
fident that he has saved Fascism and
his government in Italy. His support
ers who have not been embroiled in
the graft exposures claim grandiosely
that public confidence in him is not
shaken. Senator vittorio Rolando Rio
CT, former ambassador to the United
States, is one who enunciates this view.
Workers Still Angry.
The working people Of Italy have
not so quickly recovered from the
shock and horror OF the Matteotti
Staying and have expressed their feel
ing in frequent short strikes. The
Blackshirt dictator has re-established
his Fascist Directory and is making
the greatest effort to preserve the out
ward appearance of national equili-
aluh. ~
Tomorrow the northern Italian fas-
list organizations meet in Bologna to
-eaffirm their support of the "iron
man, who is still so near the break
ng point. Rome, itself, is black with
olack-shirt troops who remain ZEN
samped, an annoyance and a threat.
Communist Urge End Fascism.
The socialists seem somewhat hes
liant to call for open flouting of the
fascist power, altho the Communists
are insistent that strong measures be
taken. The unified socialists are still
planning to resort to legal proce-
dure" in the Matteotti case and go
to court about it. The Communists
urge a united front in preparation
toward the proletarian revolution
which seems so imminent.
The censorship is extreme and only
the barest facts are given out by the
fascist officials. They have not yet
admitted publicly that Matteotti's hor-
ribly butchered body has been found.
The seni-official press is making a
ludicrous attempt to cover up the
governments practical collapse under
the burden Of graft and crime and
the things that were limited at or
actually discussed in the columns a
week ago under the public pressure
are now receiving minimum atten-
ton.
MussoIlni Badly Shaken.
Opinion among the foreigners here
generally, is that the fascist dictator's
iron grip on fascism and Italy was
very seriously threatened, that it is
still In great danger, and that Musso-
lini's power over his party has
changed somewhat to party power
over him. The king seems to have
withdrawn his alarmed gesture to
cousins" of the Order of Annuncia-
ton, all Of them political foes of Mus
solini, but no official statement has
been made.
Even here 1t is difficult to find out
just what the official status is, altho
the temper Of the people is still plain
ly that Of an extremely angry mass,
shorn of it's leaders, Qeading Com
munists and socialists are still in
prison where they were thrown when
the cutlery over Matteotti began), and
for the moment pausing before plung-