"Our Fascio has about six thousand members," he told the journalist Adolfo Rossi, in an interview for La Tribuna from Rome in the autumn of 1893.

[4] In July 1893, he hosted a conference at Corleone that drafted model agrarian contracts for labourers, sharecroppers and tenants and presented them to the landowners.

When those refused to negotiate a strike against landowners and against state taxes broke out over a large part of western Sicily.

The so-called Patti di Corleone, are considered by historians to be the first trade union collective contract in capitalist Italy.

[5] In the summer of 1893, Corleone became the strategic centre of the peasant movement and the epicentre of the strike wave, thanks to Verro's charisma and to his hard-nosed choices, including a strategic alliance with a Mafia clan in Corleone and alliances with prominent Mafiosi in outlying towns, most notably Vito Cascioferro and Nunzio Giaimo in Bisacquino.

The Mafiosi were sometimes needed to enforce flying pickets with credible threats of violence and to make the strike costly to landowners by destroying their property.

[6] In order to give the strike teeth and to protect himself from harm, Verro became a member of a Mafia group in Corleone, the Fratuzzi (the Brothers).

In order to be admitted to the Fratuzzi, [I] had to undergo an initiation consisting of some trials of loyalty and the pricking of the lower lip with the tip of the knife: the blood from the wound soaked the skull.

"[3][6][7] However, during the great strike of the Fasci in September 1893, the Fratuzzi mobilized to boycott it, providing the necessary manpower to work on the lands that the peasants refused to cultivate.

Together with other leaders of the Fasci Rosario Garibaldi Bosco, Nicola Barbato he tried to board the steamship Bagnara that was about to leave for Tunis.

[12] In June 1896, just released from prison by amnesty, he formed a consumer cooperative, part of "La Terra" (The Earth), a federation bringing together all the farmers in the area of Corleone.

Convinced that in Sicily there was little space for political action, he decided to emigrate to the United States, to propagate socialism overseas.

[14] Once released, in January 1899 he established a consumer cooperative in Corleone involving some 800 heads of households that could buy basic necessities at a much lower price.