Enea Matta · L’Ordine Nuovo

Name: Enea Matta
Born: 20 August 1888, Livorno Ferraris, Italy
Died: July 1974, Le Puy, Haute-Loire, France; exact day unknown
Aliases: Enea Matta (printed signature); other aliases unknown
Position in 1919–1920: Body-shop worker; worker correspondent of L’Ordine Nuovo; employed at Lancia in the postwar period according to ANPI
Affiliations: Italian Socialist Party, Turin section; L’Ordine Nuovo; later Communist Party of Italy (1921) and French Communist Party
Council delegate: unknown — ANPI places him among the Lancia workers who formed early factory councils, but the consulted evidence does not specify an elected mandate or office.
Bio: Matta’s 31 May 1919 article identifies him as a body-shop worker and draws on workshop experience to advocate mutual teaching. ANPI records his arrest during the 1917 antiwar unrest and subsequent work at Lancia. He participated in the Turin socialist movement and became a Communist Party founder in 1921. He later emigrated to France and participated in the Resistance at Lyon. Jean-Yves Frétigné (2021, pp. 85–86) credits Enea Matta and Aron Vizner, whom he spells Aron Wizner, with originating the idea of using internal commissions as the institutional basis for developing factory councils.
Articles: 2
Indexed full catalog cards · Issues I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7, I.8, I.9, I.10, I.11, I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17, I.18, I.19, I.20, I.21, I.22, I.23, I.24, I.25, I.26, I.27, I.28, I.29, I.30, I.31, I.32, I.33, I.34, I.35, I.36, I.37, I.38, I.39, I.40, I.41, I.42, I.43, II.1, II.2, II.3, II.4, II.5, II.6. Coauthored cards count once for each named author. Serialized installments are counted as separate issue cards.
Brief records / quotations: 0 · Separate from the Articles count.
Other Notes: The occupational byline is direct contemporary evidence: Issue I.4, p.[I]29. The issue does not name his factory or establish council-delegate status; ANPI supplies the Lancia connection. His later labor-secretary positions are not assigned a 1919 start date. I.32, pp.254–255, repeats the body-shop occupation and records his first-person account of proposing internal-commission representation at the Turin labor-chamber congress of 15–17 June 1919. It describes two unnamed workshop episodes; neither factory nor a personal elected mandate is established. I.38, p.302, reports that Matta spoke at the Parma congress of the Unione Sindacale and briefly spoke there with Corriere della Sera reporter Silvestri. The editorial supplies no elected council office or formal union membership; neither is inferred.

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