The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-20
BATTLES MARK
WORKERS RAGE
AT MUSSOLINI
Communists for Action
in Matteotti Case
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

ROME, August 1o.-Workers
from every corner of Italy are
pouring into the city by the
thousands. They are arriving
on foot, in open trucks, in rail-
road cars so crowded that there
is hardly room in them to
stand.
They are here to attend the
public mass funeral which the
parties of the opposition, under
the leadership of the Commun-
lists, are arranging for the body
of Giacomo Matteotti, socialist
deputy who on June IL was
murdered by the Fascist.
Funeral in Defy of Mussolini.
The government has not rescinded
its decree that no public honor may
be paid to the dead Socialist. The
mass funeral which is to be held on
Sunday is an act of open defiance of
Mussolini's regime.
Pitched battles between workers
who are holding anti-Fascist demon
STATIONS, and black-shirts who have
been ordered to put down all out
bursts against the government, have
taken place in nearly every large city
of Italy since the mutilated body of
Matteotti was discovered at Crofano.
At Naples, where blackshirts raided a
protest melting, ten carabineers, fight
ing on the side of the workers, were
seriously xonnded.
carabineers Join Opposition.
The carabineers have gone over to
the side of the opposition almost as
a body.
In spite of the strict censorship
DEGREES, the Italian press is openly in
citing to revolt against the Mussolini
dictatorship. "Unita," the Communist
daily, published in Milan, has for
weeks made insistent demands for
more revolutionary action than the
refusal of opposition deputies to at
tend the sessions of Parliament until
the national militia has been dis
solved. 1t has pointed out to the work
ers that this move, which serves as a
formal protest, must be backed up by
militant aggression on the industrial
field and in the field Of everyday life.
"Avanti," organ of the Maximilists,
a party oscillating between alliance to
she Second and the Third Information
ais, is demanding that all parties of
the opposition become active against
the government. 1T is time to come
down from Avetino hill" is their
rallying CRY.
The reference is to the historic hill
overlooking Rome, on which, legend
goes, the so-called "neutrals" in the
battles of ancient Italy-those whose
sympathies were definitely with one
side, but who refused to take part in
the actual truggles-would remain to
await the outcome of the fights.
"Avanti" Coming Back?
BY its open hostility to the govern
ment, "Avanti" is showing once more
something of the revolutionary spirit
which it lost when Serrati, its former
editor, went to Moscow to attend the
sessions Of the Third International,
leaving Pietro Nenni, brother-in-law
of - -. in charge. In order that
Nenni might continue his work within
the Maximalist body, Mussolini or
dered Serrati arrested at the Italian
border, and thrust into Jail. A show
of impartiality was made by the Fas-
cist premier by the subsequent arrest
of Nenni, who was released within
few days and allowed to resume
editorship Of the paper.
Rome is tense with excitement
while preparations go on for the re-
moval Of the body of Matteotti to the
city.