Achille Grandi

'''Achille Grandi''' (24 August 1883 – 28 September 1946) was an Italian [[politician]] and [[catholic]] [[syndicalist]].

Grandi was born in [[Como]], Italy. In 1918, he entered the secretariat of the Confederazione Italiana dei Lavoratori CIL being one of its founding members, with Ulisse Carbone.<ref>Grandi had been former president since 1914 of ''Sindacato Italiano Tessile'' (SIT), the trade union of the textile industry and thanks to this assignment he entered the CIL executive organism.</ref> He was elected CIL general secretary from 1922 to 1926 and brought the CIL up to 2 million members. In 1919 he was among the founding members of [[Italian People's Party (1919)|Partito Popolare Italiano]] becoming member of the [[Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy|parliament]] the same year. During [[fascism]] he didn't collaborate and survived working in a printing house. On 3 June 1944 he was one of the promoters and signatories of the Pact of Rome, which originated the ''unified [[Italian General Confederation of Labour|CGIL]]'' and was the germ of all post-war Italian trade-unionism.<ref>From the CGIL split in 1950 the [[Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions|CISL]] and the [[Italian Labour Union|UIL]].</ref> In August 1944 he founded the Associazioni Cristiane dei Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI) becoming just for 6 months their president. As member of [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Democrazia Cristiana]] he was elected in 1946 to the [[Constituent Assembly of Italy]]. He died two months later in [[Desio]] nearby [[Milan]], aged 63.

==See also== *Pact of Rome *Associazioni Cristiane dei Lavoratori Italiani (ACLI) *[[Constituent Assembly of Italy]]

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==External links== * [http://www.aclilombardia.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=72 Achille Grandi file on aclilombardia.it]

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