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	Carlo Tresca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carlo Tresca (1879-1943) was a skilled labour agitator.
		Tresca joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912, when he was invited by the union to Lawrence, Massachusetts to help mobilize the Italian workers during a campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, who were in prison on false murder charges.
		Prior to this, Tresca had supported the Bolsheviks, reasoning that a socialist state was preferable to a capitalist state, regarding the Communists as allies in the fight against fascism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carlo_Tresca (457 words)

	Carlo Tresca Page from the Daily Bleed's Antiauthoritarian / Anarchist Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed: A Gallery of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tresca entered the mainstream of American radicalism and labor in 1912, when the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) invited him to Lawrence, Massachusetts, to help lead the Italian workers during the campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, who had been falsely accused of murder.
		Tresca soon became known as the Bull of Lawrence and after the victory in Lawrence was active in the Little Falls, New York, textile workers' strike (1912), the New York hotel workers' strike (1913), the Paterson, New Jersey, silk workers' strike (1913), and the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, strike of miners (1916).
		Tresca became the major figure among Italians in America who tried to thwart Mussolini's efforts to organize Italian immigrants into a support group devoted to his fascist principles.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/TrescaCarlo.htm (1565 words)

	carlo tresca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tresca was active as the branch secretary of the Italian Railroad Workers' Federation and editor of the newspaper Il Germe (The Seed).
		Tresca helped shift the political orientation of the ISF to syndicalism, and, as his own views became more anarchist, Tresca resigned as editor of Il Proletario and began publshing his own newspaper La Plebe (The Plebs).
		After the victorious strike in Lawrence, Tresca was active in strikes across the United States: the Little Falls, New York textile workers' strike (1912), the New York City hotel workers' strike (1913), the Paterson, New Jersey silk workers' strike (1913), and the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, miners strike (1916).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Carlo_Tresca.html (445 words)

	Carlo Tresca Page, from The Daily Bleed Gallery; Timeline, Labor, Radical, Arts, Authors, Poets, Anarchists... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The following is the entry on Carlo Tresca, written by Nunzio Pernicone, in Encyclopedia of the American Left.
		As branch secretary of the Italian Railroad Workers Union and editor of the newspaper Il Germe (The seed) at age twenty-two, Tresca was a thorn in the side of the local religious, political, and economic elite.
		He settled in Philadelphia, where he assumed the editorship of Il Proletario (The proletarian), the official organ of the Italian Socialist Federation, and he was instrumental in orienting the majority ISF current to syndicalism.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/TrescaCarlo/TrescaCarlo.htm (1645 words)

	Sicilian Culture: The News: ITALICS - The Italian-American Video Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carlo Tresca fought hard against Mussolini's regime and quickly became known as the leader of the anti-Fascist movement.
		Tresca died before he was able to see the 1943 fall of Mussolini and his death in 1945.
		Carlo Tresca was shot to death outside his Il Martello office on January 11, 1943.
	www.sicilianculture.com /news/italics.htm (394 words)

	Commentary Magazine - All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca, by Dorothy Gallagher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		...The character of Carlo Tresca is inseparable from the labor culture of the first half of this century, with its deep idealism and spirit of selfsacrifice and its genuinely religious attachment to the redemptionist doctrines of anarchism and socialism...
		...Tresca was killed just as he was organizing a major political fight to influence the United States government in its wartime dealings with Italy...
		...Tresca and a small group of active anti-Stalinists charged that Poyntz was another victim of the Stalinist purge...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V86I5P68-1.htm (1669 words)

	The Bonanno Crime Family: Men of Honour by Thomas L. Jones
		Tresca was an old time Anarchist and at one time had supported the Communists -- seeing them as useful allies in the fight against Fascism.
		In 1921 he became interested in the famous Sacco-Vanzetti case and was responsible for bringing the controversial IWW lawyer, Fred Moore, into the fight for the defence, generating considerable publicity and financial support promoting the innocence of the doomed Anarchists.
		By the end of the decade, the Communists were conducting a campaign of character assassination against Tresca in the hopes of mitigating and destroying his influence in the anti-Fascist movements.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters2/bonanno (2940 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		Carlo Tresca, Italian political refugee, author, and editor, organized labor strikes across the U.S. He was affiliated with the International Workers of the World Organization beginning in 1912.
		Tresca published an Italian American newspaper, "Il Martillo" (The Hammer), in which he criticized both communists and fascists.
		In 1922, an FBI investigation of Tresca was initiated to determine the status of his U.S. citizenship and to review a publication of an alleged obscene article in his newspaper which he authored.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/tresca.htm (181 words)

	Washington Monthly: All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca. - book reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carlo Tresca was one of the bestknown anarchists in America.
		Tresca was temperamentally and ideologically incapable of bending to authority or direction.
		Tresca had offended Frank Garofalo, a close associate of Pope's and a high-ranking Mafioso.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n10_v20/ai_6809764 (609 words)

	Carlo Tresca: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carlo Tresca (1879-1943) was a skilled labour agitator (The labour movement (or labor movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of...)
		Tresca settled in Philadelphia (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania)
		Tresca's anti-fascist activities were being monitored in Rome (Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/carlo_tresca (1609 words)

	The Daily Bleed, on this day, January 11: A Calendar Better Than Boiled Coffee! A People's History: Social, Cultural, ...
		In Sacco & Vanzetti, the characters in the prologue are Carlo Tresca, a Protestant Minister, a Roman Catholic Priest & a congregation of worshippers.
		Carlo Tresca was a leader of the Italian Anarchist Movement in America.
		Carlo Tresca edited a number of papers which stood up for workers rights & denounced the hypocrisy & corruption of those in power.
	www.eskimo.com /~recall/bleed/0111.htm (2675 words)

	H.L. Mencken's 'The Land of the Free' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carlo Tresca is the proprietor of a small Italian paper in New York, by name Il Martello.
		Meanwhile, Tresca kept on denouncing the Fascisti, and the Italian Ambassador, it may be safely presumed, kept on nursing the conviction the Il Martello ought to be suppressed.
		Tresca, it appeared, had actually never sent a single copy of the offending issue through the mails.
	www.freedomsnest.com /mencken_free.html (1359 words)

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		In the next four years, Carlo Tresca was active in strikes that fought for the rights of textile workers, New York City hotel workers, silk workers, and miners.
		Carlo hurled insults at Mussolini, calling Mussolini a class enemy and traitor.
		Tresca did not realize that his anti-fascist activities were being monitored in Rome.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?download=-1&t=28177 (2836 words)

	FBI Releases New Records of Spying on Americans
		The FBI never interviewed Hanfstangl or knew of his exact whereabouts in the U.S. -- Carlo Tresca -- 1,358 pages Carlo Tresca, Italian political refugee, agitator, author, and editor, organized labor strikes across the U.S. through the International Workers of the World beginning in 1912.
		In 1922, an investigation of Tresca was initiated to determine the status of his U.S. citizenship, as well as his publication of an alleged obscene article in his newspaper.
		Tresca was murdered upon leaving his office on January 11, 1943.
	web.elastic.org /~fche/mirrors/www.jya.com/fbi-spies.htm (1989 words)

	Amazon.ca: Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With impressive scholarship, Pernicone portrays Tresca in the context of the Italian American labor and anti-fascist movements of which he was a central actor.
		Tresca emerges from this volume as a fearless and unrelenting champion of liberty and justice."--Rudolph J. Vecoli, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
		This biography reveals the life of one of the American left's most controversial and charismatic figures in the early twentieth century: anarchist, activist, and revolutionary Carlo Tresca.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1403964785 (477 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: True Life Tales "On the Waterfront," Part II by Stephen Schwartz
		Tresca was a prominent anarchist with a considerable following in the New York garment unions.
		Tresca and a small group of active anti-Stalinists charged that Poyntz was another victim of the Stalinist terror.
		Tresca was killed just as he was organizing a major political fight to influence the U. government in its wartime dealings with Italy.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/readarticle.asp?ID=16968&p=1 (3393 words)

	Vito Genovese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carlo Gambino did achieve a sort of de facto status, but he knew the value of humility and made no effort to grab the title.
		During the war, to further gain Mussolini's approval, Genovese ordered the execution in New York of II Duce's longtime nemesis, radical editor Carlo Tresca, a mob hit that was performed by a rising mafioso named Carmine Galante.
		Genovese probably even expected to be anointed boss of bosses at the meeting, but it ended in a total fiasco when authorities raided the affair and scooped up dozens of Mafia figures.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/genovese.html (1059 words)

	romanceessay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		(See website) Of Carlo Tresca, Camp explains, "The intellectuals idealized him as the genuine son of blood and thunder -- a natural leader who could move masses of men and women to revolt against the hard conditions of their lives" (40).
		Although Flynn's initial reaction to Tresca was that he was "too showy," she was inevitably moved by his ability to motivate the mass of people.
		After Tresca, she had numerous affairs with men who were often younger than she.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/haymarket/goodson/romanceessay.html (255 words)

	Palgrave Macmillan : Catalogue Page
		A charismatic Italian anarchist who became a folk hero to immigrant and native-born workers alike, Tresca was described by comrades as a 'freelance revolutionary' because of his independent spirit and militant activism.
		During his wild and adventurous career spanning nearly forty years (1904-1943), Tresca pursued a range of activities unmatched by any of his radical contemporaries: independent newspaper editor, labour agitator and organizer, civil libertarian, foremost leader of the Italian American anti-fascist resistance, and an indomitable foe of Stalinism.
		He is the author or of Italian Anarchism, 1864-1892 and the editor of The Autobiography of Carlo Tresca.
	www.palgrave.com /products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403964785 (208 words)

	Italian Americans \| Carlo Tresca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An anarcho-syndicalist, Carlo Tresca was an tireless labor organizer who lead numerous strikes including the 1913 silk workers' strike in Paterson, NJ.
		Tresca was an early and fierce opponent to fascism, at a time when many Americans and Italian American leaders like Generoso Pope openly supported Mussolini.
		His murder was never solved but suspects have included agents of Fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, and the Bonanno mafia family.
	www.italianrap.com /italam/heroes/carlo_tresca.html (97 words)

	Carlo Tresca
		Carlo Tresca was born in Italy in 1879.
		Elected secretary of the Italian Socialist Federation of North America and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), he took part in strikes of Pennsylvania coal miners before becoming involved in the important industrial disputes in Lawrence and Paterson.
		Carlo Tresco was leader of the Anti-Fascist Alliance and w
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAtresca.htm (157 words)

	John D. Calandra Italian American Institute: Academic & Cultural Programs
		Tresca was the most ceaseless and popular figure in the anti-Fascist camp, the chief enemy and target of Mussolini’s agents in America.
		Some speculated that pro-Fascist forces, possibly headed by Generoso Pope, were behind the murder, or that his communist enemies were responsible; others believed that he was the victim of an organized crime figure with personal or political motives.
		Regardless of who was to blame, Tresca’s death symbolized the end of the era of militant Italian immigrant anti-Fascism.
	qcpages.qc.cuny.edu /calandra/academic/afascis.html (598 words)

	GLOSS - Issue #1 - Eric Longley - Sex & H.L. Mencken
		Finally, Tresca was charged and convicted of including an advertisement for contraceptives in his paper.
		Mencken wrote that Tresca’s alleged persecution at the hands of postal authorities should refute “the common superstition that...
		By September of 1927, Mencken was referring to the Postal Service as “one of the most sinister agents of oppression in the United States.” Between the time of his Tresca article and this pronouncement, Mencken had personally felt the effects of postal censorship.
	www.glosszine.org /issue1/1longley.htm (5416 words)

	Free Essay Impact of Italian Immigration to US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1904, Carlo Tresca moved from Italy to the United States to escape a prison term.
		In 1912, Carlo Tresca was invited by the union to help mobilize Italian workers in a strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
		Tresca played an important role for Italian-Americans in trying to halt Benito Mussolini’s attempts to organize Italian immigrants into facist support groups.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=28177 (3031 words)

	Jennifer Goodson's Bibliography
		The book details Flynn's relationships with both the anarchist Carlos Tresca and her first husband Jack Archibald Jones (also a wobbly organizer).
		This is a biographical text detailing the life and death of Carlo Tresca.
		Tresca was a journalist in Italy and then America before coming onto to the labor movement scene.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/haymarket/goodson/bibliography.html (1305 words)

	Juliet Poyntz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poyntz disappeared from her New York City home in 1937, and a police investigation turned up no clues to her fate.
		In early 1938 Carlo Tresca, a leading Italian-American radical, publicly accused the Soviets of kidnapping Poyntz in order to prevent her defection.
		He said that before she disappeared, she had come to him to talk over her disgust at what she had seen in Moscow in 1936 in the early stages of the Stalin's Great Terror.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Juliet_Poyntz (301 words)

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