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Show BOLSHEVIKI GAINING CDNVERTSJN ITALY SHARP FIGHTING IN STREETS OF TRIEST BETWEEN SOCIALISTS AND SOLDIERS. Textile, Chemical and Boot Factories Seized by Operatives, Who Have Despaired of Possibility of Settlement Set-tlement of Differences. Milan, Italy. The revolutionary movement Is extending In Italy, the Bolshevik! having gained many converts con-verts of lute. Soviet agents are working work-ing In every section, with results, they claim, that are most satisfying. A Socialist revolt, In which barricades barri-cades were erected In the streets and artillery, rifles, machine guns and bombs were freely employed In a struggle between the rioters and the military, broke out at Triest, . Saturday Satur-day afternoon. Italian troops and naval na-val forces, however, had succeeded by 8 o'clock at night In completely restoring restor-ing order. According to' news from Turin, a large number of textile factories were seized Saturday morning, while the Milan Mi-lan chemical and boot factories are in the operatives' hands. According to a reliable source, the workmen's action v.ms not warranted by. the responsible oriizatlons, which are permanently sitting in Milan examining the situation situa-tion and deciding on the conflict. Two important meetings took place during the day. The prefects of Milan and Turin discussed the situation with the masters and workmen's representatives. rep-resentatives. The secretary of the labor la-bor confederation decared afterward that the possibility of a settlement cannot be absolutely excluded. In the afternoon hundreds of members, mem-bers, representing the most Important Italian organizations and the whole socialist parliamentary party, at the direction di-rection of the socialist party ami the central committee of the labor conference, confer-ence, assembled here. |