The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-29

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"A cember 10th under the direct
auspices and in the presence of the
Prime Minister Mussolini, between
the leaders of Italian industry and
the principal leaders of the Fascist
Trade Unions, the complete failure
of the programs and the practice of
Fascism in the spheres of Trade I'm
ionism had to be recognized.
The feverish attempts made by
F'ascism, before and after having OBJ
tanned power, to create trade union
movement which would be at it's
service, are well known. 1t is also
known, how these attempts, while
succeeding to rather considerable
degree in the agrarian field, have
failed almost completely in the in
dust1ial sphere. It was easy for the
Fascist, in view of the life and
working conditions of the poor peas
ants, and of the rural workers dis
persed in great number Of villages
with feeble ties between the Trade
Unions, to destroy the Socialist or
CARNATIONS Of the land workers and
to force the rural masses by means
of physical terror and Of the eco
nomic boycott, to enter into their
corporations. It was otherwise in
the industrial sphere, except with the
railway employees, amongst whom
much can be obtained by state coer-
cion and by the ever threatening
menace of discharge, and also with
the lockers who had already their
strictly guild-like organization deter
mined by the conditions in the traf-
fic at the Italian ports which is de-
veloping very spasmodically, in rela-
tion to the preponderance of exports
and imports and to the seasonal ac-
tivities for grain, Goals and coffee.
Made Up Of Criminal Elements.
In the large industrial towns, the
Fascists only succeeded in gathering
inconsiderable groups, consisting
, nearly everywhere of unemployed
and of criminal elements, who, by
means of the Fascist party ticket OBJ
tain impunity for sabotage, theft in
workshops and personal violence
against foremen. And yet it was
necessary for Fascist politics to win
JuC uidooCS Ut dlig pIlCCs
The Fascist Government can only
maintain power so far as it renders
life impossible to other organizations
which are not Fascist. Mussolini
bases his power on large strata Of
the petty bourgeoisie, which (sincc
they have no function in the pro-
ductive life and hence do not feel
the antagonisms and the contradic-
lions resulting from it), in fact be-
lieve the class struggle to be dia-
bolical invention of the socialists and
communists. The entire so-callcd
hierarchic conception of Fascism is
dependent upon that fact. 1t is in
dispensible for this conception that
no independent organization Of a
typical class character exist and the.
the modern social life be organized
in series of petty corporations sub
ject to and controlled by the Fascist
elite, being the concentrated express
sion of all the prejudices and utopian
visions of the petty bourgeoisie
Hence the necessity for Integral
Trade UniOnism, which is a revised
conception Of the Christian demo,
cratic Trade Unionism, substituting
the deified nation for the religion.
idea.
Opposed by Industrials.
This program was resolutcly Cd.
posed by the industrials, who refused
to enter the Fascist corporation, t.
allow themselves to be controlled BY
Rossoni and his like. The Fascists
some months ago, in face of the re,
pulses by the industrials, began {
demagogic fight, which went so fal
as their announcing and propagatinf
in great style a general strike of the
metallurgical and textile workers
The campaign against the industrial,
eliminated Immediately after tn,
visit paid by Mussolini to the Fla
works of Turin on the anniversary
of the Fascist 'March on Rome.
The workers Of the Fiat, six or sever
thousand Of whom had been gathered