Arturo giovannitti sermon on the commons
Arturo giovannitti sermon on the commons
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Arturo Giovannitti
Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist and poet
Arturo M. Giovannitti (Italian pronunciation:[dʒovanˈnitti]; –) was an Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist, and poet.
He is best remembered as one of the principal organizers of the Lawrence textile strike and as a defendant in a celebrated trial caused by that event.
Early life
Arturo Giovannitti was born January 7, , in Ripabottoni in what is now the Province of Campobasso, Italy, at the time part of the Abruzzi but now part of Molise.
He immigrated to Canada in and, after working in a coal mine and railroad crew, began preaching in a Presbyterian mission.
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He soon came to the United States, where he studied at Union Theological Seminary. Although he did not graduate, he ran rescue missions for Italians in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh. He also began writing for the weekly newspaper of the Italian Socialist Federation.
In , he became the newspaper's editor.