ITALY: The Hammer Suppressed

Il Martello (The Hammer), Communist paper of Manhattan, was suspended from the U. S. mails pending examination of the paper by the Post Office Solicitor at Washington.

Carlo Tresca, the editor and an I. W. W. leader, tall, burly and bearded, inferred that Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S. A., was responsible for getting the paper suppressed. He said that the Prince had, on orders from Rome, organized Italians in the United States into Fascisti.

This opens up the entire question of Fascist propaganda in America. Early this year the Grand Council of the Fascisti organized a committee to...

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