Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — Train Wrecks In Italy. [ARTICLE]

Train Wrecks In Italy.

There have been no fewer than 18 attempts at train wrecking in various parts of Italy, recently, particularly In the southern provinces, by means of false signals and by placing explosives on the tracks. These are the first results of a campaign of obstruction and sabotage which has begun on the state railroads because of the government’s delay in satisfying the demands of the' railroad men for higher wages. Ninety thousand of the lower grade employees out of a total of 146,000 railroad men are getting from 37 to 62 cents, a day. Most of these are married men who have large families, and many of them have worked on the state lines from fifteen to thirty years. Prime Minister Luzzattl declares that the government refuses to be coerced, and is resolved to punish severely the authors of such outrages. The railroad men’s federation threatens that unless the questions to dispute are immediately debated In Parliament and settled to the satisfaction of the staff, a general strike will be declared on all the Italian railroads on the eve of the great international expositions In Rome and Turin.