"The Hammer" Suppressed

Il Martello (The Hammer), Communist paper of Manhattan, was suspended from the U. S. mails pending examination of the paper by the Post Office Solicitor at Washington.

Carlo Tresca, the editor and an I. W. W. leader, tall, burly and bearded, inferred that Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S. A., was responsible for getting the paper suppressed. He said that the Prince had, on orders from Rome, organized Italians in the United States into Fascisti.

This opens up the entire question of Fascist propaganda in America. Early this year the Grand Council of the Fascisti organized a committee to direct Fascismo in foreign lands. Recently it was admitted in Rome that no fewer than 298 "Fascisti centers" existed abroad.

Prince Caetani, as the Fascisti Government's representative, can hardly escape the suspicion of being concerned in Fascist propaganda, especially since he recently made a personal report to the Executive Committee of the Grand National Council of the Fascist Party on Fascismo in the United States. But Carlo Tresca's assertions concerning his paper are nevertheless unfounded, if only from the fact that the Ambassador, when urged to bring diplomatic pressure to bear on the U. S. Government with a view of suppressing Il Martello, said that he considered the paper of no importance and therefore not dangerous.