Agents of Mussolini regret their decision to attempt to break up a protest meeting of Italian workers in Youngstown, Ohio.

‘Fascist Agents Break Meeting—Badly Beaten’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 115. August 1, 1924.

But Anti-Fascisti Get Arrested for Speech

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 31.- The two Fascist agents who attempted to break up an anti-Fascisti protest meeting here are nursing their grudges and their wounds in the hospital. They were badly beaten when they refused to permit the meeting to continue peaceably.

The two anti-Fascist speakers who were addressing the crowd of steel and other workers about the crimes of Mussolini and his fellow criminals and were deploring the murder of the socialist deputy Matteotti were arrested for the disturbances the two Fascisti created.

“Il Lavoratore” Man Jailed.

Fernando Pascoli of the staff of “Il Lavoratore,” Communist daily Italian paper, and Domenico Marcovecchi, the speakers, are still in jail awaiting the raising of their bond money.

Two other Fascisti agents of the Fascist Italian ambassador at Washington and also special “dicks” of the United States Steel Corporation kept quiet when they say how badly their noisy friends were treated and instead, called the police to arrest the peaceful speakers for “disturbing the peace.”

Fascist Provocateurs.

The meeting had been in progress only 10 minutes when the Fascisti provocateurs attempted to insult the speakers and incite the crowd to violence. The agents drew their guns and knives and brandished them until the angry audience, which had requested their silence until discussion was called for, attacked them and gave them a terrific beating.

Even women who were in the hall and remembered how the Fascisti in Italy have abused their sex, added their kicks to the attack upon the dicks. These dicks are employed in the mills to keep up with Judge Gary’s “friendship” for Fascism and for its black dictator Mussolini. Their task is to stir up differences among the workers and keep them divided. They have been sent over by the Fascist government, some of the Italian workers insist.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist.

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