First Report - Mass Strikes in North Italy
First Report — Mass Strikes in North Italy LONDON,—On* year after the March strikes in Turin, Milan and Genoa, which chattered Mussolini'* regime, hundred* of thousands of workers in northern...
...no forced labor for Germany...
...and Dorothy Keller is s bright spot in lively gaiety...
...The demands were "No conscription Into the army...
...THOSE that see in the theatre only entertainment, only escape, will probably deem Lillian Hellman's new play too serious for their concern, as they hurry to "Follow the Girls...
...The risk was by fsr grester than in the previous year as northern Italy is a military zone occupied by picked German troops and S. S. formations...
...By the old device, shabby and shoddy but in wartime emotionally likely to succeed, the author tugs our sympathies over to tha son...
...The itrik* was led by the metal workers...
...The son hss been listening...
...Minus the striptease (but the leading lady is a striptease artist who behaves as if she's always just about'to perform), minus the bare-breasted chorus but with prettier and better trained girls, here is the spirit snd at much as the producers dared of the technique of burlesque, snapped up to the pace a nil precision of s high-priced Broadway musical...
...At the end of February It was known in Turin that for a week many factories would be idle, officially through lack of electricity...
...the son asks if hit mother was married then, and she replies: "No...
...On the same day compulsory labor for all of from 18 to 60 pears of age was decreed...
...The Milan mayor now threatened to make the tram personnel pay for this damage which according to him amounts to 782,000 lire...
...11/E have been getting sround to this...
...Stuped by Harry Delmar...
...But psuse...
...At the Century Theatre...
...One emphasis in the play is the amateur psychoanalysis to which one woman subjects another...
...There stsnds the sum total of the message the author has striven intricately to impart...
...Strikers unbolted rails...
...A few factory managers who foresaw the approaching end of the fascist regime have psid the strikers increased wages and have augmented the factory rations...
...immediate improvement in the provision of the necessities of life for workmen snd their families...
...They thought of themselves when the world had wider issues...
...that Navy Park scene, for instance, could have had a swell dance...
...And the public roared...
...for every village a definite number ef recruits was prescribed...
...Sections of large factories such as Pirelli were at a standstill owing to lack of raw materials, coal or efeFtycity...
...some were deported to Poland...
...And the son we watch is a not over-bright fellow, likely to make even greater blunder* than those he cries out sgsintt, a disorganized cry, without planning...
...Baronova, from the Ballet Theatre, brings a freshness almost out of place in the mixture of stale jokes and aex-allusions and siphon-squirts that mak* up the songs and humor of the evening...
...In getting off with nothing more than the loss of your wages you have been very lucky" write* the Milan paper {Corner* delta Sera,'' March 9...
...the year of Munich...
...Breda and Marelli were at a standstill...
...This reviewer must confess that, while there was much very pleasant cheesecake, he found most of the material just cheese...
...Ths arrest of a few factory managers was announced in order to intimidate the others...
...There's not really enough for big Jackie Gleason to do...
...Lyric* and Mutie by Dan Shapiro, Milton Pateal and Phil Charig...
...From loth towns and from Turin, Florence and Bologna, Killisions between strikers and fascists were reported...
...The year of Mussolini's taking power...
...bidden to negotiate with factory committees or other spokesmen of workers' groups...
...Set* and Lighting by Howard Bay...
...All factory committee* which Bruno Buoiai had introduced during Badoglio's 46 day* of power and which had been allowed to go on working by the nee...
...The fascists, too weak to risk mass reprisals, now boast that they could not be induced by the Allies to take mass reprisals and they want their leniency to be regarded as a sign of strength...
...First Report — Mass Strikes in North Italy LONDON,—On* year after the March strikes in Turin, Milan and Genoa, which chattered Mussolini'* regime, hundred* of thousands of workers in northern Italian industrial regions have laid down their tools...
...And we find that Emily has stolen "Cassie's" sweet heat t; but Catherine has won him back for extra-marital pursuits...
...also out of the greenhouse flower-girls could have made a charming ballet for Baronova...
...one csn be both s pster fsmilias and a patriot...
...You were born in 1924, and you were legitimate...
...At the Fulton Theatre...
...No winder these most unskilled blscklegs damaged 121 tram cars by collisions or derailments...
...her song "I Wanna G*t Married" is calacious enough to titillate the mo*t effete...
...Kd.—Zimmermann negotiations: Dagcnt \yheter," 8. III...
...44 from Chiasso...
...One slip is significsnt...
...It was not uncommon to see officers wearing the highest decorations acting as trsm conductors" (German News Agency...
...In villages compulsory recruiting for land workers i*ci Germany began...
...Leaflets were distributed among the workers by the clsndestine propaganda committee in Piedmont (Turin), I¦<¦,i> sardia (Milan), and Liguria (Genoa)" reported Radio Rome on March 7. "When the committee saw that the preparations had reached the desired point, it was tedded that the strike should begin on March 1 at 10 a. in with an air raid alarm rehearsal signal...
...Those, however, that turn searching thought upon "The Searching Wind" will see in it theatrical sophistry, tricks of the theatre covering a division of emphases and a blustering vacuity...
...All other reports from fascist sources...
...Being forced to retrace her past like an unwilling Freudian, Cassie recognizes that it is not merely her love of the man but her desire to get even with Emily thst haa been driving her to adultery...
...In Milan local traffic ceased to (unction and emergency traffic was not set up until March 4 "by members of the fascist Militia, the Italian army, the German Luftwaffe and the Fascist Party...
...Preparation* for mas* round-ups of deserter* were made for the same day, March 8. The day alter the strikes ended battallions of ths fascist militia organized a, "victory march" through tha streets of Milan, Vercelli, Verona, Brescia anil Mantua...
...but the French refugee has the most exaggerated accent I have heard outside of travesty...
...but Buster West and Tim Herbert work slippery feet...
...Here it has come...
...The yesr 1922 is mentioned...
...And the father, during these years, has been in the U. S. embassy in Rome, Berlin, Paris...
...Similar proclamations were issued among others by the Prefect* of Como, Genoa and Turin.—-It seems that on March 8 the strikes actually ended...
...It S/as then that the so-cslled sit-down strike began, that Is workers remained idle by their machines...
...And what did he do...
...FOLLOW THE GIRLS...
...Book by Guy Bolton and Eddie Davie...
...A week later ths period was prolonged till March 8; the 18-20-year-olds were called up...
...varices should be paid...
...Radio Rome cited Bologna, Brescia, Coma, Cuneo, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Novsra, Padus, Pa via, Savona, Spesia (the naval dockyard), Varese and Vicenca as strike centres...
...Gertrude Nbssen (as the strip-tease g»l who is chief hostess at the "Spotlight Canteen") knows how to put serosa thit sort of thing...
...On February 18 the neo-fascist dictatorship announced that all Italians called up for military service who had not presented themselves by March 8 would on arrest be summarily shot...
...But must all family thoughts come Christ-like to sn end at every crisis...
...By Lillian Helhnan...
...Arnold Korff has an excellent moment at a Nazi diplomat...
...malum...
...On Marrh 12 posters of the National Committee of Liberation setting out the demands of the workers appeared in Milsn...
...The strike went on...
...In nearly ail northern Italian industrial centres strikes took piece...
...The neo-fascist dictatorship prohibited this procedure and decreed March 7 that striksrs should be distnlaj**] without notice snd that neither wages, loans nor ad...
...Pretented by Don* Wolptr...
...Work mu»t be reeumed on March 8. Whoever did not turn up at work would be unconditionally dismissed and would be sent to forced labor "in Italy of elsewhere...
...The Allied armies atand south of Rome...
...Several canteens were placed at the disposal of the strikers...
...Similar negotiations took place on March 6 and 6 in Turin, Genoa and Bologna...
...On the first day of the strike workers who were looked upon as leaders of strikers were arrested in Milan (and probably in other towns...
...A preliminary conference of the two i« planned...
...but so is the play...
...The Barren Years By JOSEPH T. SHIPLIY "THE SEARCHING WIND...
...The men whose eyes still follow the girls with a speculative stare, and the women in whom ther* stirs an impulse and s "should I dare...
...Since the burlesque house* were closed, efforts have been made to slip the burlesque technique back onto Brosd-wsy...
...The direction is smooth, snd the dialogue in general is better than its burden...
...their son wants no more such blundering...
...The sets, mere suggestions, were neatly done but not well used...
...We watch Catherine, in 1944, come for dinner to Emily'a Washington home...
...Parini, the fascist governor of Milan, threatened the strikers (on March 6) with a court martial...
...Their blunders made the present world...
...About >he same time a sit-down strike began in Genoa...
...Only after an sppsal to Mussolini's Commissioner of Labor did the fascist syndicate* succeed in getting permiaaioa for those member* of factory committee* to go oa "whoso nomination haa been ratified by the legally recognised syndieal organisation, in so far as they tr« acting in accordance" with the orders of the fascist*, ("Stampa", Turin, 11...
...You Don't Dance" gives one of the best definitions of modern ji»s dancing: "you just knock yourself out to the music...
...Dudley Diggs, as the grandfather, continues our best character acting...
...He thereupon announce* he it ashamed of his parents...
...The costumes were gaudy, but color substituted for taste...
...In truth, to many of the trappings are good that few get far enough beneath them to see that the play is bad...
...Before this emphasis of the plsy looms in the son's denuncistion, the suthor picks this penultimate moment to let us know the son's leg is to be cut off—lost in a war his elders made...
...On March 1 they burst out...
...she offers regrets snd bows out of their lives...
...Surely common sense tell* us most of us must go on living in the very ways we fight to be permitted to live...
...Dennis King is an ambassadorial ambasssdor...
...Presented and ttaged by Herman Shumlin...
...All questions beyond strictly personal matter* should only be discussed with the neo-fascist heads of the state labor organization, On March 6 the Prefect of Milan issued an ulli...
...Since the middle of Februsry it was to be expected that the internal tension in northern Italy would increase considerably...
...We — and Emily's war-wounded son insists on being one of the party—are allowed to watch while the play lesps back to 1922, and then moves in * series of jumps, 1923, 1938, bark to the present...
...The fsr larger number thrown out of work by the strike in key industries has not been made public by the fascists...
...The Australian Labor Party resolved thst an Empire Labor Conference "is essentisl to achieve both national and international unity of policy and action on the part of the labor movement...
...Among the aids to the covering of this essential barrenness are excellent acting, frequently witty or caustic lines, and competent direction...
...release of all arrested strikers and the recall of those deported to Poland...
...The employers were for...
...will find outlet for their mood in "Folio* the Girls...
...Barbara O'Neil, with a more pleasant role, is a cordial movement about the more tense Emily that Cornelia Otis Skinner must play...
...Those caught in the act were forced to march through the streets, some wers taken into cinemss and theatres where fascists "heroes" held them up to derision...
...Some of the lesser lights of the evening turn in good jobs...
...This is s perfect non-tequitur...
...Empire Labor Conference Proposed . .. M. Moohan, national secretary of the New Zealand Labor Party, reports progress in discussing with hie own and the Australian Labor Party the proposal of the British Labor Party for a conference of all the labor organizations of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...fascist dictatorship were to he dissolved...
...Dance* by Catherin* Littlefield...
...Thus it is sn essentially dii-orgsnited mind that put together this play, though s careful planning of details makes it seem much sdo about something...
...In spite of that, according to fascist reports, 208,000 workers were on strike (Radio Home, 7. III...
...The strikers put forward four claims: cessation of deportation of forced labor to Germany and of military conscription...
...The workers presumed that in this week aiass recruitment of forced labor for Germany would be carried out...
...Anyone csn put a cripple on the stage...
...However, they wers sngry that the strikers, trying to take advantage of the fascists' weak position, asked for their wage* for the strike days...
...Perk Up and Whistle...
...The German military commander in chief, S. S. General Zimmermann, who is responsible for the security of German military transport, induced him to negotiate with the strikers...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 19
