A Syndicate to Help Pioneers Rome, Nov. 17.
A syndicate with a capital of 3,500,000 lire has been organized here to promote emigration and to assist the Italian emigrants in the enterprises in which they may engage in other countries. It is intended also to make a study of the opportunities offered by other foreign countries to Italian immigrants and to protect them in their efforts to find new homes and means of livelihood outside of Italy.
The syndicate includes in its membership some of the most important Italian banks, steamship companies and representatives of workmen's organizations, both socialist and Catholic.
In order to equip the emigrants for new modes of life in foreign countries, special schools have been founded to teach them to read and write and to train them for trades or for farm work.
It is understood here that Brazil is the country having the greatest need for workers, but that Brazil requires, not so many individual immigrants as it needs entire families to populate the immense extent of land. Furthermore, Ttalian emigration to Brazil is held somewhat in check by the belief that large capital would be needed to cut the forests from the land which the Brazilian Government desires to populate. It is pointed out that the syndicate now organized may furnish some of the capital required for that purpose.—Reuter. nothing, and in the event of a member being arrested, he was to say nothing, and that as soon as possible he would be provided with tin
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