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Show RADICALS URGL j PLANTS SEIZURE; HINT AT STRIKE Italian Labor and Socialist Parties Advocate Extreme Action for Metal Workers LONDON. Sept C. Seizure of Italian Itali-an factories by metal workers as the 6turting point of a general lakini; over. I of Industry Is advocated by Italian extremists ex-tremists at the meeting of the heads of the General i vdi ration of Labor! and the Metal Workers' union ami M -presentatives of the Italian Socialist , party til .Milan, .is a dispatch to I In.-; In.-; Daily Mall from that city. Moderates j attending the meeting have insisted, upon an agreement with employers' an long us the government does not intereferC No decision on the matter ' as yet has been reached, , In tho meantime workers are in' I possession of virtually all metal e-' ! lablishini'iitb In Italy. Employers are still rejecting claims from employes for last week's wage.-, which were re- ; fused because the workers were In I j possession of the shops. .Strikers at Turin, the dispatches state, announce I that If troops are used in an attempt! to drive them out of factories, the) ; will wreck all machinery. Italian metal workers, says a Rome dispatch to the Herald organ of labor,1 ! have decided that nil factories which deny them necessary materials will be occupied. I The Home newspaper Avantl says I if the government interferes u general Btrlke win follow. i OPENS M U s i in GGLE NEW YORK, Sept C The Italian newspapers here print a communication communica-tion troin the Italian ambassador, Ba-, I ron Ayexiana, concerning the work-1 men u agitation In Italy. It says: 'In consequence of a shortage of raw material, lack of coal and high' I cojit of labor, the metallurgical in-' 1 dustrien decided to effect a loi koul Following this decision the WOrkora seised the factories at Milan, Turin and Genoa, in order to prevent tho. , lockout and to operate the factories directly "Such a move Is a new form of! struggle Ixtween capital unci labor,, j but preserves the character of an eco-1 nomic struggle, Inasmuch as it la de- veloplng without resort to violence and; without bloodshed. The situation is not alarming in the least, Inasmuch as the struggle Is Involving only the metallurgical industry.' |