The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-06

French Rivieria to Italy. After an account of the demonstration the dispatch closed with these words: "The Chamber of Deputies, which is to be supplanted by a new house, met today to vote itself out of existence"
 The significance of this event cannot be underestimated. Fas- cism is a new form of social or- ganizatiOn in which the state makes an attempt to regulate and control the economic system.
 Mussolini, in his early days as premier, began to tinker with this idea. He had been socialist, but he had also been syndicalist. When he abandoned socialism and became the great champion of saving capitalism in Italy, it was natural that he should turn to the syndicalist pattern. And this is what he did.
 ITALIAN
 MIRA
 He as a dictator, of course, was to be supreme. But there must be bodies which could make the rules and regulations for business, rules to govern production, to regulate prices, to regulate what he called flair trade practices" !" rules governing competition in all it's forms.
 He therefore decided that the proper way to do this was to turn it over to the trades organized as Such-tO trade associations and to organizations of workers. He set up something like the structure we established under the MIRA. He called them cOrporatives. We called them codes of practice. The code authorities or corpOrativeS
 made the rul-s in the first place.
 They had to be approved by the representatives of the government finally.
 So immediately Italy had two governing groups functioning un- der the dictator. One was the Chamber of Deputies elected by geographical districts which made the laws governing the political state. The other was the corpora tives which made the rules and regulations for the economic state.
 But the inevitable happened. The political Chamber of Deputies and the corporatives soon clashed. The chamber still retained a semi blance of the democratic tech- nique. It was elected by the people. But the corporatives were far from democratic. They were elected by the employers, a small group of people. Little by little the chamber grew weaker and corporatives became stronger. Un- til finally the Fascist leaders be- gan to demand the extinction of the last vestige of the democratic sociey in Italy - the Chamber Of Deputies.
 DICTATOR'S
 TECHNIQUE
 This agitation had reached this point in 1883 just as we began to experiment with the same dan gerous instrument. We did it, of course, without realizing what we were doing. Our experiment broke up because we had no dictator, by harsh and ruthless measures to compel compliance, and because our democratic chamber (Con- gress), though 1t had grown weak CT through what might be called its "yesiness," was still strong enough to attack the MIRA and be- cause the Supreme Court unani- mously said it was unconstitu- tional.
 But in Italy the dictator decided to abolish the chamber and to make the corpOratives supreme. Later a new constitution was adopted aboIishing the national congress of Italy and providing new chamber which would repre- sent the trade assOciati0ns-the corpOratIves. This week that
 Chamber of Deputies met for the
 last time to pronounce its death. It was to that melancholy event
 the dispatch quoted referred. Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl