50 THE GREEN RISING 



possible for farm tenants to secure long-time loans 

 at low rates of interest to be used in the purchase 

 of farm homes. 



Agrarianism took the form of syndicalism in 

 Scotland. As early as 1865 an agricultural laborers' 

 trade union had been formed, and in 1921 the Farm 

 Servants' Union had a membership of approximately 

 21,000. 



, Syndicalism in Italy and Spain 



Italy has accepted rural syndicalism with open 

 arms. It is not so well established as in England, 

 but its influence has been extended much farther. 

 All those who adhere to the Partito Popolare, or 

 Catholic party, make the winning of more land for 

 the rural proletariat their final aim. This organ- 

 ization is very strong in rural Italy. A rival organ- 

 ization is the National Federation of the Land- 

 workers of Italy. The openly avowed aim of the 

 Federation is land nationalization. It is interest- 

 ing to observe that these leagues, which form the 

 National Federation of the Landworkers of Italy, 

 did not grow up in southern Italy, the land of the 

 latijundia, where farm laborers were oppressed, but 

 in northern Italy, in Lombardy and Venetia, where 

 agriculture was more prosperous and where the 

 agricultural population was more adequately sus- 

 tained. 



The ultimate weapon of both the Partito Popolare 

 and the Land Workers' Federation, like that of the 



