"I know the bitterness, the disappointments, the time that union activity sometimes requires, with results that are not entirely satisfactory. I know all this well, because I too have been a union activist: you know very well that I do not come from above, I come from below."
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Giuseppe Di Vittorio
1892 – 1957
Giuseppe Di Vittorio (1892 – 1957), also known as Mario Nicoletti, was an Italian trade union leader and communist politician.
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