The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
By CHARLES YALE HARRISON.

The killing of Carisi and Amorroso
served the fascist propagandists in
Italy and abroad with excellent ma
terial for recruiting. Fascism thrives
best on a steady diet of appeals to
violence and the pandering to the
lowest instincts of mankind.
Following Mussolini's threat to the
New York anti-fascisti, L'Assalto
(the Assault), the official fascist
newspaper in Bologna wrote: eff JUS
tice is not given to us Tin this case)
we will take it."
The New York police worked on
the case, they followed clue after clue
and there were no arrests. Indiscrim-
mate charges were made here and
there but these were discounted by
the police and the matter was drop
ped. The police admitted that they
had no evidence and it appeared that
New York would have another I'M
solved mystery on it's hands.
The detective who played an i'm
portant role in the Greco and Car
rillo case was a fascist himself. De-
tective Casso is an aspiring man, he
has the best of contacts and he is
very friendly with Count Tgnacio
Thaon Di Revel. 1t is said by some
that the counts title is spurious, but
that is neither here nor there. The
important fact is that Di Revel is
the head of the Fascist League of
North America and he has repeatedly
admitted that he is the personal rep
resentative of Mussolini in America.
Only July 18th, this year, the New
York police, working in cooperation
with agents of the fascist govern
ment, raided several Italian radical
newspaper offices and homes and ar
rested II anti-fascist workers.
This Casso, the intimate friend of
Di Revel's, supplied the information
that the killing of Carisi and Amor
roso must have been inspired from
anti-fascist headquarters.
The raiding party, heavily armed,
visited the offices of II Nuovo Mon
do, an Italian socialist daily, and ar
rested Mario D'Amico and Frank
Cancelliere. The offices of II Mar
tello were also raided and Mario
Tresca, Luigi Quintilliano and Mario
Buzzi were taken into custody. Fur
niture was smashed, files broken
open and the floor Uttered with i'm
portant papers and documents. Pal
mer in the palmy "red" raids Of 1919
could not have done better.
Earlier in the day the American
and Italian fascist raided two work.
ing class homes in Brooklyn and ar
rested Calogero Greco and Donate
Carrillo.
Greco and Carrillo are members of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America. Before they were
shackled together by handouts they
did not know each other. Being work.
ers, and militant workers at that, they
were Suspicious characters" to the
raiding party and promptly arrested.
The idea Of the raids was to round
up enough anti-fascisti, submit them
to the third degree and then hope
that someone might CONFESS"
Instead of being taken to police
headquarters for examination the
suspects" were taken to an isolated
police station in the Bronx ano there
subjected to police Questioning" For
hours after their arrest the families
Of the anti-fascisti could not trace
their whereabouts. This was so I'M
usual that the New York Times COM
mented on it and said that all in
quiries to the police were unavailing;
the place Of examination was not dis
closed.