Giuseppe Di Vittorio

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Giuseppe Di Vittorio (* 11. August 1892 in Cerignola , † 3. November 1957 in Lecco ) was an Italian communist trade union functionary .

Life

At the age of 19 he joined the trade union federation in 1911 and became a member of the central committee of the trade union federation in 1913 . In June 1914 he participated in the "Red Week" in part that the proclamation of the Republic of Ancona led, but fled to the suppression of this uprising and the beginning of World War I in Switzerland . Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy and did his military service between 1915 and 1918 .

Di Vittorio, who became a member of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI) in 1924 , was arrested several times in the 1920s and fled to France in 1925 after being sentenced to twelve years in prison . In 1936 he went to Spain , where he was one of the organizers of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War . After returning to France in 1937 he was the editor of the communist daily La voce degli Italiani , before he was extradited to Italy after his arrest in 1941, where he was exiled in Ventotene until 1943 .

In June 1944 he was elected general secretary of the newly founded General Trade Union Confederation of Italy ( Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro ) .

At the same time he became a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Camera dei deputati ) after the Second World War in 1948 and belonged to it until his death.

At the 2nd World Trade Union Congress in July 1949 he was elected President of the World Trade Union Confederation as the successor to Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine . He held this office after his re-election to the III. World Trade Union Congress in October 1953 in Vienna and at the IV World Trade Union Congress in October 1957 in Leipzig until his death. He was succeeded by Agostino Novella .

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SURNAME Di Vittorio, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian politician (KPI), member of the Camera dei Deputati and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Cerignola , Province of Foggia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1957
Place of death Lecco , Province of Lecco