Pagine scelte [Selected Works]. Brooklyn Libreria dell'I.W.W., 1930.

Pagine scelte [Selected Works]. Brooklyn Libreria dell'I.W.W., 1930.

This work contains Giovannitti’s speech (entitled “Davanti ai Giurati di Salem, Massachusetts” [Before the Jurors of Salem, Mass.]) in 1912 to the jurors in the trial at which he, Joseph Ettor and Joseph Caruso were accused of the murder of Anna Lo Pizzo during the Lawrence millworkers strike in 1912. The strike is an event memorialized in a famous painting of Ralph Fasanella.

The jurors rightly believed the defense that the police were instead responsible, and the arrest of strike leaders Giovannitti and Ettor, in particular, was a pretext to make them unavailable to lead the strike that crippled the factories in Lawrence.

The work also includes L’Evoluzione del Pensiero (The Evolution of Thought) of Giovanni Gianformaggio (1859–1901) and Emma Goldman’s Sindacalismo: Lo spettro del capitalismo (Syndicalism: The Spectre of Capitalism), with a preface by Giovannitti. 

The volume also contains some poems in Calabrian dialect.

Arturo Giovannitti

Giovanni Gianformaggio

Emma Goldman

Libreria dell'I.W.W.

1930

17.5 x 10.5cm; 61 p.

Italian