The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-28
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Washington, May &c. - After Mus
solini's secret envoy, Thaon DeReveI,
son Of an italian ex-minister of war,
began his operation in the United
States in order to carry out the avow-
ed policy Of the fascist despotism to
exterminate all criticism on the part
Of former italian citizens in France
and America, things began to happen
in this country.
Not only were murderous attacks
made on individuals, but the very riff
raft of Italian immigrants, the spies,
provocateurs, adventurers and conspi-
rators Of the past suddenly come to
life and appear at anti-fascist meet
ings in order to provoke disturbances.
Poignant Appears.
AT a recent mass anti-fascist demon
stration in New York City addressed
in English by C. E.. Ruthenberg, ex-
ecutiye secretary of the Workers
(Communist) Party, and in Italian by
A. Sormenti, well-known anti-fascist
agitator and writer, one Poignant
known to be an agent provocateur and
active in anarchist circles in New
York number of years ago, appear
ed in company with well-known
faseists. This creature, Poignant is
remembered as the police spy who,
twelve years ago, manufactured the
bomb that was given to certain peo-
pie to explode in st. Patrick's church.
OF course the bomb did not explode
and the police proceeded to try to ex-
terminate the group into which Poll
gnani has wormed his way in order
to destroy it.
Fear Frame-Up.
The presence of such welI-known
spies and expert provocateurs as
Poignant. in company with the agents
Of DeRevel, has caused the Italian
Political Exiles League and other anti
fascist organizations to be very wary,
as frame-ups and police raids always
follow in the wake of such creatures.
Engage Private Detectives.
In addition to hiring individual spies
and frame-up artists, the bloody Mus,
solini government also engages priv,
ate detective agencies to carry on its
nefarious work. One of these nests
of stoolpigeons and provocateurs is
known as the Fiaschetti Detective
Agency, operating in the Italian cen
tiers in New York and other cities.
The thugs and gangsters employed by
the Fiaschetti agency not only engage
in ordinary proyocation, but have been
guilty of deliberately kidnapping anti
fascist workers on the streets in
broad day light and taking them
aboard Italian ships that lay in the
harbors of New York. One of the
Italian workers opposed to the Mus
solini regime in Italy was thus kid
mapped and later turned over to the
New York police on the charge of
stealing some trivial thing so that
he may be convicted of crime which
will then give the United States gov
eminent a chance to deport him to
Italy where he will be instantly
murdered by Mussolini's agents.
The enemies of fascism are kid
mapped and held prisoners while the
frame-up is perfected. then when
charged with crime they can prove no
alibi because their captors will never
admit their part in the plot.
Every effort is being made to bring
these atrocities to the attention of in
fiuential senators here in order to
force an investigation of the disgrace
full assistance rendered Mussolini and
his agents by the state department
and the department of labor.