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Word: giacinti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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...municipal white-collar workers who had also walked out. Suddenly, the street cleaners remembered that an Italian law forbids "sympathy" and political strikes. Hastily, they trumped up some "legitimate" wage demands (their present wages are equivalent or superior to those of Roman high-school teachers). Exclaimed Communist Francesco Giacinti, one of the strike leaders: "The government has raised the price of bread but not of lipstick . . . We're fighting for our daily bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Comeback | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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