. The Saturday evening post. ess could no longer beconducted under such conditions. Uprisings Among the Peasants WHILE the workers in the metallurgical industries werethus carrying the struggle to a climax other move-ments of almost equal significance were afoot, but theygained little attention outside of Italy. Discontent was rife among the peasants in some small farmers who owned their own land had donewell out of the war. Lots of them made fortunes and havemoved into the cities, where their wives and daughtersplan to atone for years of struggle by lives of ease. Butthose who own


. The Saturday evening post. ess could no longer beconducted under such conditions. Uprisings Among the Peasants WHILE the workers in the metallurgical industries werethus carrying the struggle to a climax other move-ments of almost equal significance were afoot, but theygained little attention outside of Italy. Discontent was rife among the peasants in some small farmers who owned their own land had donewell out of the war. Lots of them made fortunes and havemoved into the cities, where their wives and daughtersplan to atone for years of struggle by lives of ease. Butthose who owned none of the land they worked failedto get their share of theprofits they saw accumulatedall round them, and becamereadily susceptible to Bolshe-vistic ideas. The theories ofBolshevism were eating intothe heart of the whole country. Uprisings of peas-ants occurred invarious simply tookpossession of theland as their own anddefied the owners, allbeing accomplishedwith hardly anyviolence. The(Continued onPage 44).


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