On October 2, 1925, the Vidoni Pact, signed between Confindustria

Confindustria

Confindustria is the Italian employers' federation, founded in 1910. It groups together more than 113,000 voluntary member companies, accounting for nearly 4,200,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members...

 and the Italian National Fascist Party

National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party was an Italian political party, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of fascism...

 regime representatives, abolished Catholic, Socialist or independent unions, and replaced them with a fascist-controlled one. Essentially, it placed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

 in a far greater position, in terms of control over that of the workers within industry and effectively banned free trade unions.

It was signed during Mussolini's fascist control of Italy

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 and was one of many steps taken to establish his dictatorship

Dictatorship

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.