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III. Inspectorate : d) To see that all social and labour legislation was 

 applied, and denounce those contravening it to the competent authorities. 



IV. Conciliation : e) To settle amicably disputes between employers 

 and workmen and between the latter and contractors, and in general aU 

 disputes as to agreements relative to labour contracts. 



V. Placing of labour : f) To place workmen and wage-earners, receiv- 

 ing offers of and demands for work, bringing workmen and emplo^'ers 

 together, and facilitating the conclusion of contracts. 



VI. Thrijt, mutual aid, co-operation: g) To contribute generahy to a 

 large development of saving, thrift, mutual aid and co-operation in the 

 working classes, and to render the organization of mutual and co-opera- 

 tive societies more eflScient by co-ordinating them in federal institutions ; 

 and especially ; h) To indiice working people, by means of an active propa- 

 ganda and increased assistance, to join individually or collectively the 

 Cassa nazionale di previdenza per I'invalidita e la vecchiaia degli operai, a 

 national thrift bank providing against the disablement and old age of work- 

 ing people, and other government institutions of thrift (Cassa nazionale 

 di assicurazione per gl'infortuni degli operai sul lavoro, National Fund for 

 Insiurance against the Accidents of lyabour) ; i) To popularize rules for the 

 constitution and the successful working of co-operative associations of cre- 

 dit, labour, production, consumption etc. ; thrift and mutual societies in 

 their different forms ; societies for mutual insurance against mortality 

 among live stock, damage done by fire or hail and the accidents of labour ; 

 mutual aid societies ; mutual educational and forestry societies, etc. ; as 

 well as aU institiitions aiming at the moral and material improvement of 

 the masses ; and to help the establishment of such societies on the most 

 scientific and practical models; ?') To help and to superintend all the 

 economic institutions by means of frequent inspections, inducing them to 

 keep regular accounts, and directing co-operative and mutual organization 

 towards a uniform system of book-keeping which would produce scientific 

 and uniform records fitted to be the material of statistical labour. 



This section proposes to reach its aim : a) B}- propaganda, oral and 

 written ; assistance given to the social and economic institutions in the mat- 

 ter of technique and book-keeping ; legal advice and aid in the matter of 

 giving opinions, solving problems, arranging reconciliations, etc. {peripa- 

 tetic chair of thrift and mutuality) ; b) By competitions, exhibitions or other 

 forms of encouragement to the better economic institutions, and by propa- 

 ganda and social aid. 



There would be assigned to the maintenance of the institution : a) an 

 annual sum allotted by the province and provided by a special fund; 

 b) the annual contributions or subsiches of public or private institutions 

 (ministries, national bank of thrift, savings bank, communes, agricultural 

 societies, etc.) ; c) the donations and legacies which might accrue; d) various 

 income. 



To take charge of the administration and working of the institution 

 there would be a council of eleven members — six of them chosen by the 

 provincial council and five by a meeting of the representatives of the soci- 



