High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! On October 2, 1925, the Vidoni Pact, signed between Confindustria and the Italian National Fascist Party regime representatives, abolished Catholic, Socialist or independent unions, and replaced them with a fascist-controlled one. Essentially, it placed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini in a far greater position, in terms of control over that of the workers within industry and effectively banned free trade unions.