La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.
Title
La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.
Description
Cacchione, a Consigliere Comunale [City Councilman] of New York, was the first who was a Communist Party USA member.
Only two years before this 1944 pamphlet, Cacchione was supportive of Antonini: see DRESSMAKERS ITALIANI, volete che la nostra Locale 89 sia la piu forte e la piu nita della I.L.G.W.U.? Votate per il "leadership" di Luigi Antonini! [ITALIAN DRESSMAKERS, do you want our Local 89 to be the strongest and sharpest of the ILGWU? Then vote for the leadership of Luigi Antonini!]. New York: [Communist Party] On[orevole]. Pietro V. Cacchione, Consigliere Municipale della Citta di New York, 1942.
But here, Cacchione notes that now that Mussolini has been deposed, and fascism has crumbled, it's time to pick up the pieces and help Italians find peace and be able to put bread on the table.
Cacchione criticizes Antonini, who led Local 89, the Italian section of the International Ladies Garmen Workers Union (ILGWU), for treating his union members badly, hypocritically (according to Cacchione) decreeing the lack of democracy around the world while he doesn't abide by democracy's rules in running his union; and for the other "big lie" that in Italy, the Socialists and Communists couldn't agree to work together.
Somewhat curiously, the rear cover has an ad encouraging readers to "Buy U.S. War Bonds and Stamps" "For Victory," presumably a tip of the hat to Cacchione's role as an elected representative.
Only two years before this 1944 pamphlet, Cacchione was supportive of Antonini: see DRESSMAKERS ITALIANI, volete che la nostra Locale 89 sia la piu forte e la piu nita della I.L.G.W.U.? Votate per il "leadership" di Luigi Antonini! [ITALIAN DRESSMAKERS, do you want our Local 89 to be the strongest and sharpest of the ILGWU? Then vote for the leadership of Luigi Antonini!]. New York: [Communist Party] On[orevole]. Pietro V. Cacchione, Consigliere Municipale della Citta di New York, 1942.
But here, Cacchione notes that now that Mussolini has been deposed, and fascism has crumbled, it's time to pick up the pieces and help Italians find peace and be able to put bread on the table.
Cacchione criticizes Antonini, who led Local 89, the Italian section of the International Ladies Garmen Workers Union (ILGWU), for treating his union members badly, hypocritically (according to Cacchione) decreeing the lack of democracy around the world while he doesn't abide by democracy's rules in running his union; and for the other "big lie" that in Italy, the Socialists and Communists couldn't agree to work together.
Somewhat curiously, the rear cover has an ad encouraging readers to "Buy U.S. War Bonds and Stamps" "For Victory," presumably a tip of the hat to Cacchione's role as an elected representative.
Creator
Pietro Cacchione
Publisher
Peter V. Cacchione Association
Date
1944
Format
17 x 12cm; 23 p.
Language
Italian
Citation
Pietro Cacchione, “La verità su Luigi Antonini [The Truth about Luigi Antonini]. Brooklyn: Peter V. Cacchione Association, 1944.,” Italian-Language American Imprints: The Periconi Collection, accessed April 19, 2024, https://italianamericanimprints.omeka.net/items/show/25.
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