Approved on May 14th, 1970, entered into force on the 20th of the same month, the Workers' Statute required an unusually long gestation period. It began to be talked about in early 1920, when Filippo Turati, a reformist socialist, introduced a bill in Parliament for the approval of a "Statute" of civil, political, trade union rights. The advent of fascism, however, put the end to any discussion on the subject.