The Organizer

I compagni is a movie starring Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, and Gabriella Giorgelli. A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile...
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle