internal organisation of the Corporations is constituted on anti-democratic bases ; there are no electi~ns of the managing body; the officials are all appointed from above. The Corporation emanates from and is dependent on the political fasci (Fascist political groups). Theoretically, "in Fascist syndicalism, the workers, technicians and work-givers constitute a harmonious w·hole with a common discipline" (Mussolini, in the Grand Fascist Council, March 14, 1923). Actually, business men and shopkeepers, representatives of the farmers, and so on, have entered the Fascist Corporations. As mentioned above, the industrialists have obtained complete autonomy ; the autonomy of the Agrarian Federation, on the other hand, has been contested. The Prefects are completely subservient to the employers' and workers' organisations favoured by the Government. The Prefect of Genoa, for instance, has issued a decree requiring shipo"\\·ners "at all times to allow free access on board to the representatives of the seamen's organisation of which Giulietti is secretary." This last fact is connected with a curious case of exception.al treatment. The only non-Fascist workers' organisation which has been respected up to now is that of the "Garibaldi Seamen's Co-operative," of which the secretary, Giulietti, is a protege of d 'Annunzio. The Fascist Press launched a bitter campaign against it, and from the first the Commissioner of Mercantile Marine declared, in Mussolini's name, ''that no agreement _had ever been entered into. between the Fascists and Giulietti ; and that a committee had been app_ointed in order that all relations might be broken off as soon as possible with tpe Garibaldi Co-operative.'' However, owing to d'Annunzio's protection, this Seamen's Federation has not been touched, and the Fascists themselves have been ordered to -re~"".enterit; 32 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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