CORPORATIVE STATE

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 5

CORPORATIVE STATE

NEW SYSTEM IN ITALY CONTROL OF INDUSTRY “MOST IMPORTANT EVENT’ INITIATION BY MUSSOLINI By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7.15 p.m. Rome, Nov. 10. Inaugurating the new corporative, system, Signor Mussolini described it as probably the most important event in Italian history. The Prime Minister initiated 22 corporations to control all departments of industry and several professions throughout Italy. The 823 persons attending an impressive ceremony in the Julius Caesar Hall included all the Ministers, parliamentarians, senators and five women. Everybody was wearing a Fascist shirt. “It is a revolutionary movement,” Signor Mussolini declared. “It deals with all the political and social reforms necessary to the development of the Italian people and it will eventually replace the chamber of deputies, which belongs to past history.” Referring to Julius 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. Nevertheless 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 a system which harmonises discipline and power.”