EVENT: ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIONS OF THE ASSASSINATION OF CARLO TERSCA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00024492
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2023
• Case Number: F-2021-01777
• Publication Date: January 18, 1944

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Al:NINTILRSARY COI:MIQRATIOES
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: The followers of the Italian anarchist Carlo Treace;:-,�.:771 '
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who was assassinated'll January 190; are now split
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two rival ,groups. Both comlaeriorated, his death by
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and ecatterine red carnations at the place vhere
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;as killed :-- the corner of Fifth Avenue .and Zest, �
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The PCarlo Tresca Group'.isa body of the late '
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.anarchist' follOv,,e-rs �ihich continues publication of
semi-monthly' paperi fl. nartello. A number of forraei'
members of the croup, ;toward vhom Trescat s
sympathetic, have.reCently broken away and fprmecl their.
own so-called ',old Group. . On 25 Do �ember they ,I;e'eaxi
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publication of e ,competitive, semi-monthly paper, LIA.Tvenire.-
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T1.6 l'Oid Group,, o'n,the scene
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.150Aemft Dattended, thou6h an 'account in the weekly.
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arola 115 January put ther i-e,9re'.at.1,000; The apeakers,
were Ciccio CancellierI1 on& of the. editors of LI Avyenire*,'
.Harry Kelly, john T. Finerty ot tAe C.iilLertis.jJ1ont:',
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Cancellieri protested N:ainst the failure of au- -
thorities to discover the mi,Lrder.rs.lor �Tresca..
,..-Finerty. spoke-of the New-,:YckrIc polAce. as, honest-,but
inefficient. He stated that ,the De;)artnent ,of -�Justic,
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: and the FBI had refused to touch. tAe ease becquag
had no international-ramifications. In
,such readfications, whethar they werp,Fasciat or Com-
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munist, did exist. ,The speaker then attaclzed ,
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attitude toward Poland.
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Norman Thomas praised Tresca .for tis effective Tqork-
dn exposinc, Fascists in,New,x'oxic, where,' ha .said,
were still powerful today... Ile said,thatzit, was in
tapping wires for the Tresca.pase that,District.
torney Ho6an uncOvered the,s,candal.conqected,vit4_
Thomas Aurelio's, candidacy foz: the 12ench.,,Tt,seme4:aD7
parent to Thomas that the FBI had founcl the-.Tresca-coSe ,
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too hot to touch.' He expressed a wish that /Tayor
La Guardia, District Attorney Moan, Governor Dewey,
Attorney General Biddle, and J. 2dlyar Hoover miPht be
among his audience. An unsolved murder of this sort, !le
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� The f101d Group u meeting lasted only three-quarters
of an hour; it broke up with the scatterino: of red carna-
tions on the spot where Tresca was killed.
The uCarlo Tresca Group" met in the evening at $ p.,m.
in the Rand School, New York City. About sixty ceople.�-
attended, including Vanni Irontana publicity director of
the Itallan-American Labor �Counc-ii,and Unberto.Gualtieri,
member of the n'ew Council of the r.a2]zini Society and
editor of Nazionitnite. The sneakers were H. R. Cantine,
editor of an it.lerican anarchist pai3er, Retort, and Felice
Guadagni of the staff of the'rrartello.
Cantine read a euloGy of Tresca.
Guadagni gave a history of Tresca's career. The
present meeting, he said, was a rite, not a commemoration;
the latter could not be held Until after the discovery of
the murderer of Tresca. Guadagni extolled Tresca's lork
for the emancipation of the working class. S2ea1in6, of
other ant.-Fosciats, he said that neither liberals no
Catholic liberals, such as Don Luigi urzo, held strong
enough ideas'
After the meeting a procesion went to the northwest
corner of Fifth Avenue and Fast �th Street and scattered red
carnations.
At neither meeting was reference made to the rival
group or its celebration,
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