The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-03
LABOR TONIGHT
MEETS AGAINST
BALBO'S CRIMES
Many Organizations In
Call to Demonstrate
at Irving Plaza
Fascist Organizes Here
Mayor Walker to Honor
Murderous Gangster

Inc workers Ol NEW Iolh w
night will denounce at mass meet
ing in Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
Irving Pl., the visit of the fascist
murderer, Italo Balbo.
Today Balbo will get an official
reception in New York by Mayor
Walker and a special committee
representing many of the forces
opposed to labor. Friday he gets
banquet. Walker will receive the
agent of Mussolini's government
and wish him well in his work of
slaughtering Italian workers and
building gangs of fascist in Amer
.ica, at the City Hall. Grover
kWhalen will appoint special police
Ito guard the meeting. The Repub-
Aican-socialist Congressman La
Guardia is on the reception COM
mittee.
$50 and KILL"
At the meeting will be told the
story of the massacres of workers
after Balbo's orders in Faenza 1925,
to go and Kill. God Will Choose
His Own"
At the mass meeting, too, will
be related the personal exploits of
Balbo, in helping with his own hand
to stab to death a young boy, An
teo Zamboni, accused without evf-i
dence of attempting to assassinate
Mussolini, as well as numerous
others of Balbo's crimes, and the
reasons for his flattering welcome
by the employing class of America.
The Workers (Communist) Party
in recent statement has urged all
workers to attend the mass meet
ing. So did the All-American Anti
AImperialist League, the new Needle
KTrades Workers Industrial Union
just organized in it's New York
convention, and many other labor
bodies.
A joint committee, which was
formed by the International Labor
Defense, and the Anti-Fascist AL
lance of North America, for the
purpose of waging relentless pro-
test against the presence of Italo
Balbo in this country, representing
the fascist dictatorship of Italy, is
organizing the international pro-
test meeting tonight at the Irving
Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Pl., at
o'clock.
Story of Crime.
T. De Fazio, secretary of this
committee, states:
american employers and their
governments are welcoming Italo
Balbo, one of the leaders of the in
famous dictatorship of Italy. A
brief account of Balbo's history is
in place.
"In 1914, Balbo was republican
pacifist.
"In 1915, he was pro-war pa
triot.
'In 1919, Balbo asked for employ
ment as propaganda from the
Eerrara Chamber of Labor, then
controlled by the Communists. He
askel for 800 lires per month to
start. He was willing to become
nBolshevik if he were given a job
4 With enough pay. He had then just
II ome back from the front as a de-
ymobilized officer of the army. AS
soon as he was refused by the
Chamber of Labor, he enlisted in
the fascist groups of 'combattimen-
to- (groups of action), the action
being applied against the peasants
unions and the co-operatives of the
province of Ferrara.
"In 1922, Balbo was one Of those
who directed the march on Rome,'
which brought fascimo in power.
Regular Clubbings.
"On August 81, 1924, Balbo sent
a letter from Rome to the secre-
tary, Beltrami, Of the fascist fed
Grafton in Ferrara, which says in
part: In regard to the acquitted
of the goth of December, it is. nec-
essary to explain to them that it is
hygienic to change climate and es-
tablish themselves in other prov
inces. If they insist in remaining,
and procuring in consequences a
moral disadvantage, it is necessary
o club them without exaggeration
out at regular intervals until they
decide. Show this part Of my let
ter also to the signor prefetto (the
political head Of the province), to
whom you will say in my name that
have sufficient reasons to justify
my pretense of not wanting in the
city or province, the masnadieri
(gang). The questura Qtaliap po-
lce) would do well to keep after
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