Carlo Donat-Cattin

thumb|Carlo Donat-Cattin Carlo Donat-Cattin (1919 – 1991) was an Italian politician and trade unionist. A member of Christian Democracy, he was several times minister of the Italian Republic. He was leader of the internal left current of the DC Forza Nuove (New Forces). Quotes There is a profile that stands above the political one, and that is the moral profile. Valeria Mosca and Alessandro Parola, L'Italia di Donat-Cattin. Gli anni caldi della prima Repubblica nel carteggio inedito con Moro, Fanfani, Rumor, Forlani, Andreotti, Piccoli, Zaccagnini, Cossiga...‘’, Marsilio, 2012. [In 1986] [...] Juventus is a bit like the Christian Democracy party: even when it plays badly, it is always at the top, a little lower, a little higher, but always at the top. From Roberto Buttafarro, Giovanni De Luna, Marco Revelli; consultation by Leone Piccione; ‘’Un fenomeno in bianco e nero‘’, episode 2; broadcasted on RAI 3, September 23, 1986, at 17m 17s and sqq. In recent times, Giovanni Goria has been traveling all over Italy with his traveling theater troupe to promote the biggest deal around today: the 200 trillion lire pie that concerns the health and social security sectors and is tempting to the large private groups that manage insurance companies, namely the Agnelli, Ferruzzi, De Benedetti and Berlusconi families. Goria has been traveling around promoting the merchandise. Sometimes I saw the liberal De Lorenzo with him, the man who is now Minister of Health. :*‘’"Goria propagandista d'affari‘’, ‘'La Stampa’', August 12, 1989. The country will have to face great sacrifices, and great sacrifices are accepted when one is guided, in having to make them, by high moral dignity. It is that strength that Alcide De Gasperi had in leading Italy out of defeat and toward democratic reconstruction. From a speech at the 1991 Christian Democracy conference; reported in ‘'Terzafase’' no. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. I-VIII (insert). Democratic balance is also marked by the fact that, on the one hand, financial power controls the levers of the market economy, while on the other hand, the masses, having achieved universal suffrage, can obtain, through parliamentary representation, civil rights and therefore social rights, the welfare state. From a speech at the 1991 Christian Democracy conference; reported in ‘'Terzafase’' no. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. I-VIII (insert). (About Arnaldo Forlani) We will not be late today. We must allow the secretary to go to the Pope. At least for a blessing: he needs it. In every respect. From a speech at the 1991 Christian Democracy conference; reported in ‘'Terzafase’' no. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. I-VIII (insert). Quotes about As Minister of Labor, he completed, with the approval of the Workers' Statute, a reform that would enhance the role of trade unions and which, in his opinion, would mark the completion of the system of constitutional freedoms in our legal system. Pier Ferdinando Casini, quoted in Presentazione del volume dei discorsi parlamentari di Carlo Donat Cattin, Turin, 18 March 2006. The then Minister of Labor did not conclude negotiations with the metalworkers until I agreed, after several hours of resistance, to rehire a hundred workers who had been responsible for violence. I remember that, blackmailed by these conditions, I agreed to the rehiring. And the humiliation was not in accepting, or suffering, this form of blackmail, but in returning to Turin and informing the factory production managers that I had given in and that they had to rehire these hundred violent workers. That was the beginning of ten disastrous years of brutality and violence in the factory, which was only corrected after more than three thousand days. Gianni Agnelli, quoted in Sergio Zavoli, La notte della Repubblica, Nuova Eri, Roma, 1992. His lifestyle had the rare strength of a fundamental choice: the capacity for contradiction. Nicola Mancino, quotes in 'Una forte umanità forgiata dalla radice cristiana, Terzafase N°. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. 55-56. His intransigence always had popular roots and connections. Alien to secular temptations, freed from instrumental conventions, he strove toward far-reaching ideals. A clear religion. His lesson: never give in. Arnaldo Forlani, quoted in Ai problemi della gente dedicò le energie migliori, Terzafase, N°. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. 4-5. A man who has constantly fought to maintain a strong link between institutional structures and the needs of the world of work. Giovanni Spadolini, quoted in Un senso del dovere anche a costo dell'impopolarità, Terzafase N°. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. 32-24. A life characterized by a refusal to compromise. He paid a heavy price for this conception of political dignity; he was not always understood, and many friends turned their backs on him. Franco Marini, quoted in La forza dei principi uniti a quella della ragione, Terzafase N°., Year IX, April 1991, pp. 6-10. I once told him, “You're gruff even when you say thank you.” Francesco Cossiga, quoted in Aldo Moro mi disse: Carlo è un pezzo di storia della DC, Terzafase N°. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. 24-29. External links Category:1919 births Category:1991 deaths Category:Politicians from Italy Category:Italian trade unionists