MUSSOLINI'S AMERICAN INTRIGUES
Mussolini's American Intrigues Fascist Terrorization Extends Its Sway To Citizens of the United States ITALIAN Fascism extends to the United States and American citizens of Italian birth are...
...Under his direction the Brotherhood has enrolled various schools as members as well as teams in corporations...
...R. C. Bell's findings were published in the report of the Senate Public Lands Committee...
...Italian business looses, Italian banks and Italian professional men are comjdled to support Fascism or face ruin...
...Labor, the weekly publication of the railroad labor organizations, carries a story of the astonishing indifference of the Federal Government to the activities of Parini in the United States and an Italian trade unionist makes the following observations in its columns: "Our government must know what Mussolini** agents are doing in this country...
...The newest end greatest oO scandal deals with Salt Creek oU but not with the royalty ofl which has the subject of scandal No...
...Ha was offered a place but since that would leave the Central Body in the minority, Ryan led his delegates but of - the committee and the movement collapsed...
...If they are fraudulent, did the present lessees know of the fraud...
...by . . . These applications should be denied, because: 1. The applicants have been guilty of fraud, had knowledge of reasonable grounds to know of fraud, and have not acted honestly and to good faith...
...There is one ¦bVFascist daily in the world, II Nuovo Mondo, published in tin city...
...Employer* Are Approached ^ft* of the ways in which Matthew Woll has apB^Qy favored big business interests has been 2*2* the Sportsmanship Brotherhood...
...Compare the Emancipator with Mussolini...
...Modica and other Italian-American citizens must obey this force agency of Mussolini or be prepared to accept "extreme measures...
...more to the government for the I oil...
...All of these questions were brought up at the time the companies now operating in Salt Creek applied for their leases in 1920...
...The royalty oil, which the government received as rental for its Salt Creek, Wyoming, oil land, la but a small percentage of the ofl which Standard OU and Sinclair interests are taking from government land in Wyoming...
...Like the minor scandal of the Salt Creek royalty oil it resolves Itself into a scandal of negligence and Incompetence in saving the nation's natural resources from Illegal exploitation...
...All funds have come from business men, except the few dollars that schools pay ss membership dues...
...I know they wfll not fauV The only time when the Sportsmanship Brotherhood has mads an attempt to cooperate with organized labor occurred last year in New York City...
...Nor is this all...
...The A. F. of L. news service of February 9 points out that the "property of any Italian living abroad is seized in the event that he opposes the Fascist in his adopted country...
...One prospector could unite with seven others hi working a maximum claim of 160 acres, General use of automobiles came and the new demand for motor fueL During the Taft Administration the government withdrew all of the Sett Creek ofl field which had not already been captured by prospectors...
...Given the win to this adventure which should thrill the Imagination of every redblooded young man, ways and means can soos be found to bring it to fruition...
...It is Interested in every acre sought by them, and a lease to anyone of them will inure to its benefit...
...This is precisely what | they did in the Continental Trading Company case—and the price of Salt Creek oil has been suspiciously low...
...One man the liberatarind the other an enslaver...
...It supports the whole creed of Fascist dictatorship...
...Woll was early interested in the Sportsmanship Brotherhood...
...Congress owes a duty to the American people to investigate this hateful and unspeakable thing or admit that ItalianAmerican citizens have no rights' that are higher man the will of the bandit who rules Italy...
...But the claimants were to very few cases the actual prospectors who had pioneered to the field...
...Fascism is reversion back to the sad days of absolutism...
...Administration of justice simply legalizes Fascisf lynching...
...It has waged war against Modica and its columns have been devoted to inciting violence against him...
...For that act of "disloyalty" to the Italian dictator Fascists have threatened him with injury and have tried to drive him out of office...
...The government owned the mast valuable land tn Wyoming and allowed prospectors to roam over it and establish chums under the old aatntew law of 1872...
...If Italian-American are to be terrorized for support of the democracy of Lincoln against the dictatorship of Mussolini it is time mat we should have some official confirmation of this policy...
...It prostitutes the whole intellectual life of a people to the will of murderous fanatics...
...Blackmer as absolute lord of the Salt Creek field and Stewart as master of Standard Oil of Indiana have had an unprecedented opportunity to bilk the United States and Wyoming out of royalty and stockholders out of profits by ' conspiring to sell Salt Creek oil to them¦ selves at less than It is worth and to I keep the profits...
...Thus the fourth and greatest of the oil scandals Is not like Teapot Dome...
...Harry Blackmer, now dodging trial for fraudulent practices by hiding In France, defied the law against monopoly control of Salt Creek when as president of the Midwest Refining Company he created a voting trust by which all the stockholders gave their votes to three men, and the other two men passed them on to Blackmer...
...He even insists that American-born children of Italian parents are Italians and not Americans...
...Treasurer, James O. Blaine, banker...
...He quoted with approval the view of Prof...
...The Central Trades went along on this proposal and participated In a joint committee of about thirty in which the Sportsmanship Brotherhood and the various athletic associations were also represented...
...But the Department of the Interior decided for the oil companies—and Clay Talman, Commissioner of the Land Office of the Department of the Interior In charge of the matter, retired a few weeks later to accept a position with the chief oil company involved in the claims, the Midwest Refining Company...
...Woll has sometimes talked to a different vein, especially in trying to explain the Sportsmanship Brotherhood to organized labor...
...Santo Modica is secretary of the Italian Hospital at 617 East 83rd Sweet, New York City...
...WYOM- | INO ASSOCIATED OIL COMPANY AND MANY OTHER LOCAL COMPANIES...
...One-third of the industries that formerly maintained organized base-ball teams and conducted games between the different companies have discontinued these activities...
...If not, let us line up behind the Sportsmanship Brotherhood and hold out the hand of friendship and good will to other lands...
...That law Immediately opened the great public oil lands of the government for twenty-year leases not purchases—to be granted at public auction to the highest bidder...
...The paramount reason urged by applicants in support of their claims Is that they Innocently and in good faith have expended vast sums in the development of the field, but the true facts render this contention impotent, because almost all the capital used, not only for development but also to purchase claims, was the money received for the oil taken by these trespassers from the public lands...
...he keeps his pride under in victory...
...Before long great pressure was brought to bear-upon the Republican and later upon the Democratic administrations to release the fields for development...
...in all our history we have never had such brazen insolence...
...Ethelbert Stewart of this Bureau further states that a survey in Industries maintaining recreation for employees indicates that recreational facilities and actlvtttea have been discontinued in more than one-half of the establishments that previously maintained them.*' The Only Union Contact Mr...
...pERE is a healthy and increasing interest in . athletics in the labor movement in all coun^"P- Kept within the sphere of the organized **ers this movement helps to cement the JPJht of labor solidarity...
...On this question of the valid'ty of the Fttzfaugh-Henshaw leases hinges several, hundred million dollars...
...The Italian may be an American voter, he may be a good citizen and comply with every requirement of American citizenship and yet be lives in fear of his life if he does not agree with the castor oil bandit who rules Italy...
...X The applicants are requesting a greater acreage than the matimnw, allowed by said act...
...Compare Lincoln with MusWwsi, oiganiaer of massacres, da feet or of the murder of Matfijifc assassin Of Italian liberty, the paranoic who sneers at Pjpowaey, who has destroyed popular elections and who* |k transformed Italy into a slave state...
...Qd rarini order this latest raid on II Nuovo Mondo four days fctfore he returned to his master...
...In every ZJJJJJ0- form of endeavor, personal, national and SjEJJJjJ*'' to Play the game of life fairly and ¦"¦•"•Jy- The Brotherhood is supposed to keep off existing sports organizations, seeking 3j° control them or to compete with them but -7 j° cooperate with them in stimulating and t^fffjy Snod sportsmanship...
...PTTZHTJGH-HKNSHAW AND OTHER "ORIGINAL" CLAIMS SOLD TO ABOVE...
...FASCISTS THREATEN VIOLENCE II Grido delta Stirpe is a Fascist organ published in this city...
...The contacts established between the Sportsmanship Brotherhood and big finance and business show am appronehanent to the "welfare plans*1 of the company unions rather than a preference for the labor ideal In the field of athletics- If that tendeoey became pronounced in this country it would end by the complete emaarnlwttnai of the labor ideal and finance daw Iww in still sp«rtsmsnsnip of the company union...
...The hearing before the Senate committee has revealed the fact that the Department of the Interior never followed up the attack upon the oil companies operating In Salt Creek by catting a hearing in Wyoming or examining independent witnesses in that area...
...Two special assistants from the Attorney - Generals Office, R. C. Bell and A. B. Bouten, analysed the claims exhaustively and declared them fraudulent...
...One company in the Middle West with 17,000 employes has placed an athletic and recreation program to charge of a recreation committee and athletic director...
...Foremost among the claimants were a number of oil companies organized in Denver, and the richest part of the Salt Creek field fell to some speculators who bought out the claims of two original "occupants," William G. Henahaw pi California and William M. Fttzhugh, a roving engineer...
...When he came to America in 1923 W*«t the International Match race between EngTtripyniB and American Ze^» he sought an opjr '^ty to interest Americans in his project...
...Here is an example of this amazing insolence...
...Sterling has been obviously chosen not for purposes of prosecution but to smother the whole scandal In pious verbiage...
...They must •wear allegiance to Mussolini and to Fascism...
...Toe New York Central Trades, and Labor Council had been inclined to abandon lw annuel Labor Day celebration because of the poor reaponwa received on other occasions...
...The State of Wyoming has leased a : field of Its own In the middle of Salt i Creek for 63 per cent of the gross production while the oil companies psy only 16 I per cent...
...laborize it for the welfare of the organMs ausses...
...Sees Sports as Labor Incentive Mr...
...Woll wss more concerned about advancing the interests of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood than those of organized tabor...
...be keeps from hitting a man when he Is down...
...MUSSOLINI We have just been celebrating the birthday of Abraham Imcota...
...The troublesome question was this: What special rights should the original oil "squatters" have under the new leasing system ? This and other knotty problems were finally lumped together and disposed of to the "relief sections" of the leasing act of 1920...
...Lincoln, Winding between two eras, said as the old order was dying mat if it cost "all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hunired years of unrequited toil" and if "every drop of blood '-daws by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the -ptfftT jrankjiy* shall be free...
...ALL OF THIS THE GOVERNMENT COULD AND SHOULD RECOVER...
...Some capitalists on the Board of Directors are Marshall Field, Otto H. Kahn, C. C" Goodrich, and Owen D. Young...
...At this point Mr...
...It is a crime in Italy for the human mind to function...
...In Natrona County, Wyoming, are Teapot Dome and Salt Creek...
...All groups of Italians in this country, whether they have become citizens or not, are called "colonies...
...He proposed to make the arrangements for several sports events at Fort Hamilton in the afternoon of Labor Day and to have the Innovation of conducting athletic contests In the morning to no less than 200 public parks, playgrounds sad school fields from one end of the city to the other...
...No Italian can be a candidate for parliament without the approval of the Fascist Grand Council...
...They assure Americans that their party is no different than the Democratic or Republican party, when in fact the Fascist control Italy...
...And let the workers play their full part In this honorable crusade...
...They found that the oil companies leasing Salt Creek were guilty on all three of the test questions enumerated above...
...While we pay our tribute of afcetion to Lincoln, Mussolini's force squads do the Avork af Parini in the heart of New York City...
...Woll has taken his duties aa president of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood seriously...
...The impression left with labor men in New York City was that Mr...
...he keeps the faith ^^ettBirsQe, plays the game for his side...
...Thus will the workers play a part to establishing the data* of their country to be la the forefront of democratic progress...
...Third Vice President, Colonel Preston Davie, lawyer...
...No claim has been made that Modica is not an efficient official His sole offense is "disloyalty" to the Italian dictator...
...Fascist dictatorship is pngbt and attempts to enforce it are made through the boycott, f^ndation ami the use of physical force...
...Then the whole controversy was dragged out again last spring before the Senate Public Lando Comittee on resolution of Senator Norrls and the public was given the chance to examine the official reasons why those Salt Creek leases were not canceled after the BellBouton report...
...That SJ* came at a dinner attended by many promiy*JQrtanen the evening of the match race, when Creed was able to broach his idea...
...These prospectors could establish placer chums for twenty acres of hunt provided they actually discovered minerals or oil and worked the claim personally to...
...The trade union movement he leaves out of consideration altogether...
...Finally after a long and bitter struggle to Congress, the leasing act of 1820 waa^paased under which the great oil companies now operate Salt Creek...
...At the annual meeting of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood held at the Hotel Blltmore last year, Mr...
...Why this strange toleration of Fascism by government offrhfa...
...It is true that stocks have been sold to the public, but surely the government should not sacrifice the public property, a greatly needed natural resource, to make these oil stocks good...
...As a first practical step we must take stork of our existing athletic capacities, and of the contacts which can be thereby established with our fellow men overseas...
...Most workers realize this fact and from them has come a demand for more help from industry to providing space and facilities for sports suited to the needs of the different conditions of employment...
...We are inclined to think that an investigation will show that the trail of Fascist activities leads directly to the door of the Italian Ambassador...
...The Greatest Oil Scandal $500,000,000 Taken from U. S. Fraudulently rpEAPOT Dome is small-scaled robbery— Continental Trading is a piece of minor Republican peculation— The Salt Creek royalty ofl teases Is a trivial steal— These three scandals, tremendous as they appear must bow take their place as Incidents in the corruption, theft and bribery which is the story of the American oil industry...
...Concerning the leases under the main provisions of the leasing act there is no scandal...
...Labor organizations and cooperatives have been conscripted to the service of fanatics...
...Terror dogs his heels if he does sat agree...
...WoU Becomes President Mr...
...Political parties have been destroyed by force...
...Never before has there been the keen and widespread Interest to sports and games that Is abowa today...
...Piero Parini, secretary-general of Mussolini's Fasdft Organizations in Foreign Lands, has been in the United Sates for several weeks, A protest was filed with the Labor Department against his admission but Parini continued his folk without molestation...
...LABOR OPPOSES...
...Imagine the barren hills of Wyoming in the opening years of the present century...
...Ameri«ja»oil and terrorize Italians and Italian-Americans who fail tj swear allegiance to Mussolini...
...With this end In tfc>5 ~* adopted a coda of honor of a sportsman BJJ*': H* keeps the rules...
...So resourceful were these promoters and capitalists that at no time did they rUk any considerable part of their own moans...
...He is an American citizen and en»Ded as a member of the Republican party...
...Needless to ssy labor's representatives were by far In the minority...
...and the leases, If granted as requested, or at least Interests therein, would inure to persons, associations, or corporations for a greater aggregate area or acreage than the w«Ttmmn in said act provided for...
...be keeps Us tamper...
...On February 5 it was again raided, its machines damaged and the plant criplied...
...On many of the acres there were half a dozen claims...
...He then su^jests that the Sportsmanship Brotherhood is the best means to attain that end...
...Nash of New York University, who has studied the subject, that "Workers...
...He is the head *f the New York section of the Sons of Italy and as such he refused to send a telegram of allegiance to Mussolini...
...j...
...Woll was reelected president The other officers chosen were First Vice President, E. K. Hall, Vies President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and a member of the National Civic Federation...
...Secretary of State Kellogg would get terribly excited if the chief propaganda agent of Bolshevism were to attempt to get in, but he will not raise a finger to bar Parini, whose work seriously menaces the peace and happiness of Italians who are citizens of this country and lore its institutions.** // is time that Congress made a thorough investigation of the activities of the Fascist bands in the United States...
...STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF INDIANA OWNS 99 PER CENT OF THE atlllWIWI REFINING COMPANY...
...This orP**non was founded by Captain Percy Redfurn Pja, aa English athlete, sportsman, soldier, writer ™l***g8tter...
...LINCOLN VS...
...In an article in the "American Federation 1st" of June, 1926, be asked "What are we doing to promote the Brother hood of Man...
...He said: The spirit of cooperation and good wfl between werttotoants fat active sports la net Siialnut by watching some star performance, or by a trip to the movies, valuable as these recreations are as a part of a well rounded program...
...Despite Woil's connection with the labor movement no effort at all has been made to enlist teams connected with trade unions in the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, although some general publicity has been carried on in labor circles...
...Fascism has been too lenient and generous," declared this organ with reference to Modica...
...These relief sections lesse the land they had title to at a specially low rate from the government, progave the original squatters the right to vided they renounced all claim to ownership, and provided that no one individual or corporation churned mom than MO© O O 0 There was a rush of applicants for leases...
...It says' 'Given a square deal, industrial amateur athletics organtoed on a business-like basis will promote a plant morale quicker than any other single method...
...An Italian in (bt United States may be enrolled as a Republican, a Demaoat, or a Socialist, but this does not have any significance fcr Mussolini The Italian-American is enrolled as a subject ef the Fascist government...
...To put It graphically the titles run back thus, with the Fltzhugh-Henshsw claims at the base...
...Chase has made a point of enlisting employers in his cause, showing how plant mprale could be built up by athletics, and the code of "honor...
...Having looked after his force sands he sailed for Italy on February 9. Fascist dictatorship anr strengthened by the toleration shown Parini by the offiids at Washington...
...Some difficulties had arisen when it became doubtful whether the Sportsmanship Brotherhood could live up to its promise of supplying the athletes to participate^ in the afternoon sports...
...It concerns not any one party but both the Republican and Democratic parties...
...He says: "If any man knows a better, a more democratic, a more practical medium, let him produce It...
...Fascist organizations in this country have only one object—to spread sTpropasuxnda which is hostile to our scheme of government...
...Who knows...
...Mussolini has ordered its destruction...
...Italian journalism has become a brothel...
...This difficulty, however, might have been overcome had not a more serious question arisen...
...A new ofl scandal of grantor dtmswstowa than any of these has been Bwoowaesd, The Sew Leader to enabled, through the courtesy of The Nation, to presort the facta of this super-steal stnniltaaeouaty with its publication in that organ...
...Such relatives in Italy art practically hostages who may bt struck down or bt imprisoned because of any "disloyalty" here...
...tee After the public hearing of last spring which reopened the whole question the Senate Land Committee appointed as chief attorney and investigator—of all men— former Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota, aged reactionary, father of the very relief provisions of the leasing act under which the great oil corporations are farming the government fields...
...The Midwest Refining Company has an absolute monopoly of the Salt Creek field, and in one way or another controls every one of the above-named applicants...
...Having done that the next thing in order is to prohibit celebration of Lincoln's birthday and make the castor oil bandit our ideal of democracy...
...The private lessees have taken about one billicn dollars' worth of oil out of Salt Creek under j these special squatter leases for which > they have paid a royalty of approximately IS per cent and they have made a clear profit of at least $600,000,000...
...Anti-trade union and •¦ftpiny union corporations in this country have to capitalize this idea as a part of WiK servile "welfare plans...
...Few automobiles with their demand for gasoline, no general knowledge concerning the place of oil in the new civilization...
...They feudalize ^tUmanship for company gains while trade P...
...They hare seised the Italian government, abolished free press, speech and popular assemblage, made parliament a puppet and rapplanted trade unions by Fascist labor organizations controlled by the State...
...these first pioneers had sold their claims to financial adventurers and shrewd lawyers from Denver and the East...
...Italian Fascism openly demands the alhgmet of Italian-Americans to the dictator of Italy...
...They have no equities worthy of consideration...
...It has been aided by Fascist bands a number of times...
...They let the property pay for itself and for Its development...
...Woll points to the significance of this closing sentence of a report of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics on the subject: "With the Increasing specialization to manufacturing processes and the consequent monotony and dulling of interest on the part of the workers it is imperative that a systematic effort be made to furnish an incentive to such workers, and nothing, it seems, can better meet need for self-expression than the friendly rivalry and interest furnished by competitive sports and games...
...Joseph P. Ryan, President of the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York City, insisted that labor have representation...
...Its claims are based on titles that an thoroughly salmsiad with fraud, and trues the ******* fatal rm.aw.li TTuntiaa ctkfcns at fraudulent because titer were dmrrmy claims under an arrangement whereby Hensbaw contributed the money, FUafaagsi eM faa work, the profits were spot between tbesm on an agreed basis under a eanttaca, and the names of a boat of l littlest and friends were used as drrmrnha without bay contribution or bona fide abare at the profits on their part The cleans tocidentally, were made after tba Salt Oraffc field bad been withdrawn by President Taft • • • The charges of Bell and Boutcn aroused the oil speculators and brought to the capital a swarm of lobbyists...
...j The three great questions concerning the validity of the present leases of Salt j Creek oil land are these: Are the placer j mining claims upon which present eases' are based legal...
...j Have these oil companies limited their operations to the prescribed 3,200 acres...
...He became president being nominated by Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Board of the General Electric Company, a company union corporation...
...FASCISM Labor organizations in this country without any exception whatever are recorded against extension of this police, spy, and terror activities of Italian Fascism...
...Mussolini's American Intrigues Fascist Terrorization Extends Its Sway To Citizens of the United States ITALIAN Fascism extends to the United States and American citizens of Italian birth are regarded as th« subjects of Mussolini...
...Nothing more was said about the matter until the long slimy trail of Teapot Dome led back to the old record...
...Ital' am in this country whether American citizens or not are retarded as "colonies" of die Fascist government...
...Leases to the withdrawn oil lands of the Salt Creek field, Natrona County, Wyoming, have been requested under the act of February 35, 1920...
...The next step of the force bands will be to insist that Italian-American citizens pay dues to the Fascists to show their allegiance to Mussolini...
...he keeps a sound soul and a clean mind in a healthy body...
...While Parini was at work in this country his bands in ffcw York Gty were doing an important job...
...should have a part to forming all programs connected with the use of their leasure time...
...he keeps a stout heart in defeat, accepts it with good grace...
...The A F. of L. news service goes on to sayt **The Fascists use honeyed words fat this counttry to conceal their philosophy...
...MOSTLY "PAPER" CORPORATIONS SELLING THEIR OIL AT LOW RATE j TO MIDWEST REPINING AND STAND- j ARD OIL OP INDIANA WHOSE | STOCKHOLDERS SKTM THE CREAM OP THE PROFITS...
...Stated in a paragraph the newest oil scandal is this: THE GREAT OIL SYNDICATES ARE DRAWING OIL FROM THE SALT CREEK FIELD...
...The code has attracted to the Brotherhood employers who are carrying on company welfare work...
...Second Vice President, Devereaux MUburn, lawyer...
...It is certain that no representative to a foreign government will be appointed by Mussolini who is not in full accord with the despotic creed of Fascism...
...8, involving Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior, and Mr...
...Hoover's campaign manager...
...The crowd asking such valuable concessions at the bands of the government already has become Immensely wealthy at its expense...
...It was he who warmly defended President Harding for Urging Congress to ratify the fraudulent Teapot Dome contract between Fall and Sinclair...
...The present leaseholds of the Standard Ofl subsidiaries to the best pert of Salt Creek are based directly upon the Fltshugh-Henshaw placer mining claims of 1910...
...PROBABLY SSMMKHMMo TS ILLEGITIMATE PROFITS, PAST AND FUTURE, HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY THE STANDARD AND SINCLAIR COMPANIES...
...Yet to spits, of this the report ef 4a United States DepaUawtwl of Labor, Burets at twatlsttaa, issued in May, 1927, states that there has been a falling off in the last, ten years in the amount of participation by workers...
...In the opening paragraph Mr...
...there must be dose cooperation between employer and employes, and programs should be broad enough to provide forms of activity suited to the needs and desires of the various age groups.'' The "Times" article appeared to an extended form to the "Elevator Constructor" for July, 1928, under the title "Let Us Play...
...Weft came along and offered to the Central Body the facilities of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood...
...Centred Trade* Drops Out The Brotherhood suggested that a finance committee of five be set up consisting of prominent business men such ss William H. Woodln, President of the American Car and Foundry Company, and persons of his type...
...publisher...
...Big Business Goes In For Sports TkU is the sixth of a series of articles in •war* Jibe A'ete Leader it considering the feactes of Matthew WoU, vice president of **s American Federation of Labor, and Jnmr relation to the policies of the Amer*°»* trade union movement...
...the extent of (100 a year...
...Since 1921 many new discoveries have bean made revealing the corrupt control of Salt Creek oil companies...
...They have become a scandal and a disgrace...
...Thus the chlMren would be inculcated with the spirit of sportsmanship while celebrating Labor Day...
...We*hoped that things would change witlwut resorting to extreme measures" Evidently the force squads of Mussolini regard themselves as an extension of the police department of Rome...
...WoU deplores the decline of sports activity in employers' welfare work: "America appears to be lagging behind oilier natlsns to the promotion of sports, games and athletics for industrial workers...
...If this is to continue the State Department at Washington should at least make this extension of Fascist power to this country legal by treaty with Mussolini...
...The dictator takes the position that the Italian who becomes an American citizen still owes allegiance to Italy, or rather to Mussolini himself...
...The major evidence submitted by the department to explain Its reasons for granting the leases was an ex parte affidavit submitted by Karl C. Schuyler, personal attorney of Harry Blackmer, who with O. H. Shoup organized the oil company that exploited the Henshaw-Fitxhugh locations—this in spite of a specific warning from R. C. Bell that so shadowy a case sbou'd not be, determined by ex parte evidence...
...Is an article to the New York Times, January 8, 1928, he baa pointed out bow sports could be utilised by employers to control their employes...
...If Moscow were to openly send an organizer of the fijpmnnist International to this country he would not be lotted...
...The official organizer «f Italian Fascism has travelled freely in the United States, p^mrrinf his Fascist bands in the technique of dictatorship...
...Not a cent has ever been contributed by labor to the organization...
...Relatives of Italian-Americans who live in Italy are also victims of the terror if Fascism is-opposed here...
...Squatter claims seemed to be growing on every acre of oil land...
...Bou ton spent five or six years almost exclusively in investigating the Salt Creek and agreed with Bell's findings...
...Since its establishment several years ago this paper which has refused to bow to the brute who rules Italy has seen the victim of raids, intimidation, boycott and terror...
...he r» ¦uwealf fit...
...MID- . WEST REPINING COMPANY HAS A TUrrUAL MONOPOLY OP HALT CREEK OIL THROUGH CONTRACTS WITH LOCAL COMPANIES TO OPE-, BATE AND TRANSPORT OIL...
...John Barton Payne, who was serving as Secretary of the Interior In the last Cabinet of Wilson, referred the matter to his assistants, and called a hearing...
...The club and castor oil bottle have become the symbols of sovereignty...
...Executive Secretary, Daniel Chase...
...Let our adventurous youth, throwing Itself with enthusiasm Into this peaceful crusade, set sail for foreign lands, bearing ss its credentials of introduction the banner of American Sportsmanship...
...It was ¦sT""1118 Mia' wiUl enthusiasm, ggasupposed objects of the Brotherhood are to Waste the gospel of good sportsmanship throughworld, to encourage all mankind...
...The present Executive Secretary of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood is Daniel Chase, for years prominent in the New York State Department of Physical Education...
...If they had been compelled to bid for these leases In the open market tnnteart of relying upon the special rights of placer c'alms they j would have had to pay several hundred I rnini^m...
...Fascist bands operate on...
...Some of the more progressive employers are cooperating with the employes in the matter and they'testify to Its value...
...Fourth Vice President, Onnond G. »™<th...
...Italian Fascism has become a monstrous Caliban that must be quarantined as we quarantine healthy communities against leprosy...
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