Background
TRIPODI, Girolamo was born on October 19, 1927 in Polistena, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
TRIPODI, Girolamo was born on October 19, 1927 in Polistena, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Trade Unionist; member of Leadership Committee, Italian Communist Party Section, Polistena. Secretary Italian Communist Party, Polistena, 1956-1960. Member Federation Committee, Italian Communist Party.
Several times member Leadership Committee, Italian Communist Party Federation, Reggio Calabria. Member Regional Committee, Italian Communist Party, 1967. Vice-President of Regional Control Committee, Italian Communist Party, Calabria.
Participant in first farm-labourer and peasant struggles for work, wages and land. Active in fight for jobs, land occupations, and strikes by farm-labourers over land reform. Arrested and prosecuted numerous times and often imprisoned for political and trade union activities.
Vice-Sec. Federation of Farm-workers, CGIL, Reggio Calabria, 1960, Secretary from 1963-1969. Member Secretariat of Confederal Chamber of Labour, Reggio Calabria, 1965-1969. Member Central Committee of National Federation of Farm-Workers, 1964-1969.
Councillor, Polistena, 1956- then Mayor from 1970. Pres, of Committee of Mayors, Gioia Tauro Plain, against the coal-fired power station, and for the economic development of the district. Administrator of ASI Consortium, Reggio Calabria.
1977-1984; elected Deputy, Catanzaro-Cosenza-Reggio Calabria, 1968. Re-elected Deputy, 1972. Elected Senator, Palmi, 1987.
Secretary Committee on Agriculture and Agriculture (Food) Production.