Cermenati was adamant that "Th e worker's right to social assistance, in all cases, is guaranteed. His old age is safe from penury and indigence, he can be certain to receive proper support in times of involuntary unemployment, and soon enough, there will also be provisions for what most concerns the working classes, that is, aid in the event of illness" (Minutes of the Consiglio Superiore della Previdenza e delle Assicurazioni, meeting of December 2, 1919, in INPS, 1962, 352, quoted from Pavan 2019, 851).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1660