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Show J- MORAL VICTORY I FOR LABOR SEEN Italian Workers' Vnte to Return Re-turn Plants Blow to Revolutionists Bl mm.tiis BKOMlllElt i nropsaa Masss N i L H HOME, Italy, net. . By their setz- BBH urr of Italian plants and Industries und ' H their return of them to their owners by ( Pl their own vut . the workers have ' Achieved moral rather man a ma-terlal ma-terlal victory. Vjfl Although the workers themselves BM claim It Is an actual victory, the attl- , JB tude of the government Is that the vlc- fl tor Is largely a mom I one. bbH Komi- sppesf to feel that the work H ere have Rained an Increase of four llr,. a das .md little .Is.- an. I lhaf It B will la a Ions;, tedious prn.fss thai tttm Will gl v- Mi. to reel additional ndvan- BLOU Hi RK VOl I ll'AIM-H ll'AIM-H The ot- l4 return the plants was nj BflU cruahlnjr bios to tho rev olutionist. I 1 anarchists and Itolahevlks In tho ranks J of the Lftboi ffleialt party. fl The referendum r-ntrie at tho pro- ( ppH aeeaj of Premier QlolItU that u joint j ppppS committee of six manufacturers and HH sin workers study conditions, and: fM make a report through him to iho sen- " etc with n recommendations. ftJH Extremists In the ranks of labor anted iht men to hold the plants. nBN lgn..r lin'jtit ,nd othei mode;. ilea HHI urged a vote to restore the plant. H A total of 127,904 workers voted for pppffl the restoration resumption of W wtk undei the former owners while A i i 1 1 1 opposed the plai Lombardy, Including the Industrial Mra center at Milan, of .l 33,702 to 3865 1 Ppfl tor th- r. turn, and lu Turin, a hotbed jjH Of the reds, the vote was lb, 740 for! pppH and ic.siu against It. jH Itome, which affected, pppjpj singularly enough, ioted 373 for re-1 pB and 902 against II. Flor.-mc, pfl but slightly effected, gave a bare ma- pLpH JOrtty to Huozzl. The rest of Italy' ppH lined up eolldlj behind his plan. MX i i i-i n , 1 1 i 1jtU it pppH with had grace. Ii scolds work- BH men foi forgetting "the peered fire of I 1 SUed n circular to workinon telling pppjfj them thai they have won u victor)'! 1 over their employers and that the Gio-. ppptl Iht i plan w ill in time result In syn- 1 dlcallst control of Indus! rv Hl I'hej ask lli.- labor unions to explain I HH In "ei. members thut the Ulollttl de-j PWffl ore will ..iiow trie worker to gain J I n Ini Ighl Into all the di tails ..i th L Indus i ind 1 1 ut p)ao i hi m in i position to block moves not In labor's' l thai will be ppM position to fore,, it opinions as to I n International exchange of raw ma-1 pppH terlal end product and in a position ppH to control markers. This training will PPH I .. pore the workers for collective bar-, M in the future, they hold. pppB The plan will give the men control: hiring, and firing In the plants. B I hard to understand how Buossl l received their notional . itlillig that responsible government J I have said or written support ppppj fl i have talked to high government B ' Who Will not permit thcm-i I Mlve .to be ouoted because of the- B - n i.. i, It s 8VNDI4 M l COM TOOL ' Th government, thev have told me, ppV tOge not countenrfheo soviet or syn-j ppHj dlculist control of industrv. it does M not propose that the men-shall con- pH trol the plants or that the former own H crs shall be M All it has in ,lM jV r range - HPMj men! whereby the workers may lrurr. jftfl BOm thing of how the Industries are Hfpk managed. The govi ri i ont holds that the men FM will !.! a.si. higher wages and short, r hours If tl se the Industry Is mak-l Ipg bur profit and that, contrawiso, ihe owner will increase their wages Shorten their hours If the men s WU lrge profits being made. Hie effect, the government leaders rope, will be to trunqullize labor con- :iolltt Is not hgvlng an euay lime The senate, made up for the most part of capitalistic representative ap-i pointed for life by the king, recently grilh-d him for what they said wa I B his lenience toward the workers who I Mr.-.l the plants Thev angrily ln- MSted he should l,,v, taken Steps I... '"" "' vv ..rki-r.-. ir..n. Ihe pl.ud.s and to ,1iive compelled respect for t-rop-rights. With the senate made up of such i men It Is not likely thut any radical I recommendation of the "proposed Joint committee of workers and om-Meyers om-Meyers will be mad Into law. BBSSSSl nn |