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The Cio News
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland
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Joseph Catalanotti, a Sicilian-American union leader, urged Sicilians to support Allied forces invading Sicily to liberate them from Fascist rule, hailing the landing as emancipation's first step and expressing joy among Sicilian-Americans whose relatives fight in the operation. (Reported July 17 from New York.)
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Invasion
New York, July 17-The Sicilian
labor underground, as well as the
civilian population generally, was
yesterday called upon
by
Joseph
Catalanotti, vice-president
of the
Amalgamated Clothing
Workers of
America, to impede the Nazi and
Fascist war machine and give all-
out aid to Allied invading
forces
"who have arrived to liberate you
from the Axis yoke."
Catalanotti, who is an American
citizen of Sicilian extraction, hailed
the Allied landing as the first step
in the emancipation of the Sicilian
people
from
the
"20-year
night-
mare
of Fascism and domination
by
Mussolini's Nazi masters."
The appeal to the Sicilian labor
undergrounds was joined, Catala-
notti declared, with an expression
of joy on behalf of thousands of
clothing
workers of Sicilian
ex-
traction at the news of the Allied
invasion.
Many
have
sons
or
brothers in American Army ranks
who are participating in the land-
ing operations.
Catalanotti said he was convinced
that American and Allied soldiers
would be welcomed with open arms
by the civilian population of Sicily.
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Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Sicily
Event Date
Reported July 17
Key Persons
Outcome
american and allied soldiers would be welcomed with open arms by the civilian population of sicily
Event Details
Joseph Catalanotti, vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and an American citizen of Sicilian extraction, called upon the Sicilian labor underground and civilian population to impede the Nazi and Fascist war machine and give all-out aid to Allied invading forces who have arrived to liberate them from the Axis yoke. He hailed the Allied landing as the first step in the emancipation of the Sicilian people from the 20-year nightmare of Fascism and domination by Mussolini's Nazi masters. The appeal was joined with an expression of joy on behalf of thousands of clothing workers of Sicilian extraction, many of whom have sons or brothers in American Army ranks participating in the landing operations.