Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].

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Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].

Description

The title on the cover also states, “Giustizia Capitalista” (Capitalist Justice), not present on title page. This work recounts the mass trial of I.W.W. members from 1917–1918 in the I.W.W.’s hometown of Chicago, in which a total of 820 years of prison sentences were handed down by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, whose later appointment as Major League Baseball Commissioner was controversial. For his role in the trial, Judge Landis became one of the intended recipients of 13 bombs mailed by anarchists in late April 1919 in a plot that was instrumental in the deportation of Galleani, and that followed as well as preceded the passage of politically repressive acts, such as the Sedition Act of 1918, and the ultra-restrictive immigration law of 1924.

Faggi (b. Florence, 1885; d. Piacenza, 1967) was deeply committed to the Federazione Socialista Italiana and had been a trade unionist active in Italy, France and Switzerland before coming to the U.S. Faggi was forced to flee from Italy to Switzerland for leading protests against Italy’s war in Tripoli, opposing the majority of Italians in the U.S., who took intense pride in colonialist wars, see, e.g., the popular 1911 Italian Book Company work written by Antonio De Martino: Tripoli italiana: La guerra italo-turca. Le nostre prime vittorie.

After leading demonstrations in Europe against the treatment of Ettor and Giovannitti during the Lawrence Bread and Roses Strike of 1912, Faggi was again compelled to leave his home, and came to the U.S. He replaced Giuseppe Cannata as editor of Il Proletario, and brought the newspaper’s focus more towards worker organization rather than propaganda.

Deported from the U.S. in 1919, Faggi returned to Italy, where he remained vehemently anti-Mussolini, pushing for both a syndicalist revolution and support for the Russian Revolution. Unable to stay out of conflict he again fled Italy, after he and several other leftists planted a fatal bomb at the Diana Theatre in Milan as a protest against bourgeois indifference to the attacks of the fascist squadristi (action squad members).

Creator

Angelo Faggi

Publisher

[Libreria Ed. I.W.W.]

Date

[1919]

Format

19 x 13.5cm; 286 p.

Language

Italian

Citation

Angelo Faggi, “Uno storico processo di classe: I precedenti e lo svolgimento del processo dell'I.W.W. a Chicago, Illinois [An Historic Class Trial: the records and the development of the trial of the I.W.W. in Chicago]. [Chicago]: [Libreria Ed. I.W.W.], [1919].,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed March 28, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/164.

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