Show Ec Economic n miC Pressure Expected Expected- t td to Make lake e Skirts Longer in Italy I i By FRANCES REA United Press Staff Correspondent ROME May 31 United Plc Picas Press Press- The c campaign n started tart d by the 10 bishops bishops bish bish- ops here against immodest feminine feminine femi femi- nine fashions fashions directed directed principally at short skirts skIrts has has assumed much wider ider and more serious proportions 1 To date the camp campaign Ign has been beena a total failure The casual observer has not been able abl to see s-ee even en the slightest sUs sign that women and girls mean to heed the counsel of the strict moralists N NOw it develops that the Industrialists industrialists Indus indus- have hav become interested in modesty modest and that they mean to impose im- im Im pose poso that commodity upon the young oung ladles of the land by using an economic economic economic eco eco- weapon ISSUES EDICT An Important industrialist In north northern n Italy has Issued an nn order to the female workers of hIs hs hugo huge cotton colton works informing forming them that they would be bo discharged im immediately immediately im- im mediately If Jr after a certain date they came oame In to the tho factory wearing skirts which were less than four Inches below the kne knee The owner of or the tho mill Informed them at the same time that they would suffer the same fate if it he receIved re re- re received received reports of Incorrect conduct conduct conduct con con- duct by them even outside the fac fac- tory The reaction to this edict is awaited with interest Many of or th the girls working w In the plant regard the ordinance as an infringement on I Ith th their Ir personal rights They contend that the tho economic weapon held over them amounts amounts' almost to slavery In Genoa an association of ot young men has been formed to combat immodest st feminine fashions The members have hav pledged themselves not to be seen in the company of girls wearing short skirts skirts- transparent transparent trans trans trans- parent par nt dresses or low-cut low blouses blou es The bishop of Lor oreto L-oreto to h has s ordered that the following noU notice e be be- posted on the doors of all aU churches of his his' diocese dlo-cese Grown women wamen and nd girls who are not completely covered and do n not t wear vear their skirts at least sIx sit inches below lw the knee will not not be allowed to enter this chur church h. h |