BOLSHEVIK EXPERIMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 20 March 1920, Page 6

BOLSHEVIK EXPERIMENT.

AMUSING ITALIAN OASB. London, March 4., The correspondent of the Times at Milan states that an experiment in Bolshevism at Canayese ended in an amusing anti-climax. The Signori Mazzoni, the proprietors of five cotton mills, locked ont their employees, declining to submit the dispute to the Turin Conciliation Committee. The employees seized the mills, avoiding damage most carefully, because they assumed that the mills would for the future be communist property. They restarted work, &and the Conciliation Committee two days later requisitioned the mills, and announced their sale on the pretext that arbitration had not been accepted. : The Mazzonis were quite willing tc sell, and the employees apparently were willing to buy, but they must compete at public auction, in accordance syith the despised bomgeoise ml©.