Word: mussolini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After Mussolini first entered Rome with many thousands of the black-shirted Fascisti, he forced the fall of the Government and his appointment by the King as Premier...
...immediately began to oppose the established voluntary trade unions. In Moscow, when genuine trade unionists rebelled against communism, their leaders were stood against a wall and shot to death. Mussolini set out to crush the existing bona fide trade unions of Italy. Labor papers were suppressed, union halls raided, thousands sent to prisons and others disappeared. And now Mussolini points with pride to his victory in suppressing the workers' real trade union movement of that country...
...Mussolini has organized what he terms Fascist 'unions,' which limit the membership to 10% of the employes of a district. These Fascist 'unions,' however, are given jurisdiction over all wage earners in their respective districts, but only members can take part and vote on matters of any kind. The decisions of these Fascist 'unions' bind all employes, and Mussolini dictates the policies of the Fascist 'unions...
Architect Warren scoffed at the idea of Clémenceau as an enfeebled old man: "The newspapers are always trying to write obituaries of really great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
Beneath the frown of Dictator-Premier Benito Mussolini one Fascist after another arose to find only words of praise upon his tongue: "A great step forward . . . Fascist unity of Labor, Capital and the State ... a death blow to the Marxian theory of class struggle...