regulation has been introduced into the G_overnment tobacco factories, vvith the addition of "immorality" . 1n women. Vl.-PUBLIC SERVICES. One of the loudest cries of the Fascists was that they would know how to apply the axe to the Government staffs and to sin1plify the public services. Nurriber of Employees. Instead of this, after a year we learn, from the report accompanying decree No. 2395, November 11, 1923, on the regulation of the public services, that the staff actually employed (excluding State railways and the army) numbered I 15,591 and would be reduced after the impending changes to 110,447; while before the war the total number was 103,643. Thus the total reduction is less than 5 per cent. It is true that Article 2 I I of the decree provides that by the end of 1925 there shall be a further reduction of S per cent., and a third 5 per cent. by the end of 1928. But all this is n1erely a paper promise ; while the fact is that, in spite of the endless shouting about simplification, leasing, and winding-up of public services, there has only been effected a small reduction, roughly equal to that which the past Ministries had obtained with much less self-advertisement. In the two l\finistries over which Mussolini presides, the staffs have been increased, not diminished. That of the Ministry of the Interior has been increased from 6,891 to 8,145, apart from 1,503 subordinate offioials. The staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has increased from 384 in April, 1923, to 489. Expenditure. As to expenditure, this same Ministerial Report makes the confession that it will be greater than formerly, allowing for all the cost-of-living bonuses, etc. ; in other words, precisely the opposite of what the Fascists promised ! BibliotecaGino Bianco
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