FASCIST ITALY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 296, 12 November 1934, Page 7

FASCIST ITALY.

THE CORPORATIVE SYSTEM,

ADDRESS BY MUSSOLINI

ROME, Nov. 10. Inaugurating the new corporative system, Signor Mussolini described it as “probably the most important event in Italian history.” The Duce initiated twenty-two corporations to control all departments of industry, and several professions throughout Italy. The 823 people who attended the impressive ceremony, which took place in Julius Caesar Hall, included all the Ministers, Parliamentarians, and Senators, and five women. All wore Fascist shirts.

Signor Mussolini declared: “It is a revolutionary movement. It deals with all the political and social reforms necessary to the development of the Italian people, and will eventually replace the Chamber of Deputies, which belongs to past history.” Referring to Caesar, whose giant statue stood behind him, Signor Mussolini added: “I am carrying on the work begun by Caesar, who was the first to regulate labour. The corporative system will give Italy higher social justice. Last century proclaimed political equality among citizens. Fascism went further by regarding all men workers as indistinguishable _by any social grades. it _is too early to consider the redistribution of wealth. The new corporation will increase Italy’s powers and its world expansion, but nobody' should expect miracles. All nations will eventually adopt the system which harmonises discipline and power.”