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Some results of the Fascista regime in Italy: In 1920 30,500,000 individual workdays were lost through strikes, in 1923 less than 250,000 were lost; in October, 1921, there were nearly 500,000 unemployed persons in Italy, in 1922 the number was little more than 300,000, in October, 1923, the figure was 20,000; in the fiscal year of 1914 Italian taxpayers paid 2,245,000,000 lire, in 1921 they paid 11,786,000,000 lire, in 1923 13,361,000,000 lire...
Deputy Aragona, head of the Italian Labor Federation, was not optimistic. Said he: "This Fascista labor union conception is a fiasco. To be sure, there is a compact in which a commission of five is nominated, but in times of great stress these agreements become scraps of paper. The conflict between capital and labor is not a question of production, but one of distribution of earnings. To work more and to produce more-both capital and labor are agreed upon this, but, how much is to go to the capitalist and how much to the workman-there is the inevitable...
Whatever the reasons for this step, it was perfectly obvious that the Fascista Party, which means Mussolini, had everything to gain and nothing to lose. Under the provisions of the Electoral Reform Bill (TIME, May 28 et seq.) the Party with a plurality of votes obtains two-thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies. On the basis of the last elections (1921) this would give the majority party 356 seats out of 535. For the Fascista Party this would mean an increase of 324 seats, in itself a very great advantage to Fascismo...
...British Fascista organization has been definitely established with Baron Garvagh at its head. It is a " purely patriotic movement for protection of King and Commonwealth." A leaflet describing the Party's political aims stressed the fact that it is "not a swashbuckling concern, nor a Ku Klux Klan, nor any form of terrorism, nor even a class movement." On ceremonial occasions the British Fascisti will wear a black badge surmounted by a large...
...procession, sustained by the Fascista battle-song, Giovinezza, at last came to Piazza Venezia. Mussolini was the cynosure of all eyes. Dismounting from his carriage, he walked, with his arm outstretched before him in the Roman salute, past the tomb of Italy's Unknown Warrier, around which were men, women and children bowed in silent prayer. The spectators were moved to tears...