MILAN LABOR ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200510005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

~p roved For Release 1999/ ARDP82-00457R009200510005-3
INtEI OFsa i. ,,~ dr7r
'l~ltr..c (I WWI ciao U:1t]aY ~w~ A
CENTRALLLI. Gi GENW REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY, Italy
SUBJECT Milan Labor Activities
25X1A
PLACE::y
ACQUIRE
DATE DISTR.
10 7ov. 1951
NO, OF PAGES
1
NO. OF ENCLS-
DATE OF DO NOT CIRCULATE SUPPLEMENT TO
INFO. 25X1 X REPORT NO.
25X1A1. on there was a meeting of leaders of the Partito Comuua?,ieta
Italian PCI; Italian Communist Party) at the Baracca of Sesto San Gio?.i
(headquarters of the Breda Sections of the PCI and the Associazione Nazicnale
Partigiani dgltalia (ABPI; Italian National Partisans Association ). Amca
those present were Giovanni Brombilla, Luigi Grangonat o, Angelo alli.,
Giuseppe Carra, Alessandro Vaja, Lalgi Reboni, Mauro Benedetti, and a curtain
Boccaccini of the Unions Donne Italians (UDI; Italian Womenms Union). At the
meeting it was decided to divide Sesto San Giovanni into small sectors ard
to form a Defense Committee in each sector in order to better unite and Li-
rect the workerie resistance in the current difficulties. It was also do??-
aided to include artisans and small proprietors in the Committees; In th4?9
way, the PCI utilizes not only the industrial sector of Sesto San Giovanni
but also the entire population, of which 80 per cent are PCI members.. Milan
PCI leaders are particularly disturbed because the workers so far dismis;ad
have been PCI members. If for no other reason, the Milan Federation of the
PCI will be forced to wage an all-out fight on the Breda question.
2,, There was a meeting at the Magenta Section offices on 25 September 1951
to discuss plans for the defense of the Do Angell Prua plant, The meeting
was attended by members of the De Angell Commissions Interna and Bruno
Geraei and Walter Cappuccini of the Milan Federation of the ?CIO After
hearing a report by the Commissions Interna representatives on the progress
of the discussions with the De Angell Directorate, the two Federation offi-
cials ordered the Commissions Interna to reject the De Anggeli offers. Both
Gerasi and Cappuccini emphasized that the closing of the plant would mean
not only an economic loss for the workers but a serious blow to the Con
federazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (OGIL; Italian General Confedera-
tion of Labor) and the Milan PCI Federation.
25X1 A a. on the Directors of the Economic Committee met at Fade-
ration headquarters to study plans for sabotaging the Tanoni lava It wa""
decided to approach the largest number of payees in all classes and to par-
made them to submit inaccurate statements. These statements were to be
followed by letters in which the payees asked for advice and/or a refund.-.
In this way, the tax offices would be confronted with a work load so heavy
that it could not bebandled. This sabotage has a two-fold alma a) to force
the Finance Ministry to revise the stipulated levies; and b) to give the
PCI a propaganda weapon for recruiting among the middle classes and small
ownears. CLASSIFICATION SRC 1 ' W ICIALS ONLT
STATE X 1IAVY
ARMY AtR FBt
Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RD