European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

That night from the Ghiardo we could see the fire in Scampate, since they were burning down all the houses like that.

Strike on the 1st of March 1944

Then we organized the strike on 1st of March.

There had already been some in other places.

I was a member of the committee who prepared the strike,

we got together quite a few times,

the last meeting was at my house.

My father agreed, so we had the meeting and assigned the tasks.

Alberta and I got together early in the morning (we had already handed out all the leaflets)

and went to Montecavolo, stopping by all the farmers’ homes who were milking the cows,

and telling them “remember that there’s a strike later, after you take the milk to the dairy, join in”.

“Alright, yes, we’ll be there”, they replied.

And we gathered together. The strike went well.

The farmers (in Montecavolo there were mostly farmers) and some factory workers, went on strike,

so the strike in Montecavolo was a success.

The strike was against the war, against all the things they were doing to us, against hunger too.

They were taking everything from us, we pooled wheat.

Farmers had to bring wine, grapes, everything, they were taking everything.

That’s why afterwards there were even some casualties

when we went to these stockpiles to take back all the stuff they had taken from us.