23 Th is principle represented a big shift with respect to the war industrial committees: no longer were the commissars picked by unions, who— as the worker Arturo Jacchia remarked— “took care of picking the members of the committee from the workers who were agreeable to the administration.” Instead, “Today it is preferable that [the commissars] belong to socialist organizations” (Jacchia 1919, I, n. 9, 66).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 1675