[1] Catalanotti apprenticed as a tailor in his home town before immigrating to America as a young man.
[3] His last task was to head the memorial committee for the main ACWA founder, Sidney Hillman, who had died of a heart attack only days earlier in July 1946.
Other signatories included: Luigi Antonini of the American Labor Party, Rose Schneiderman of the National Textile Workers Union, David Dubinsky of the ILGWU, Louis Waldman of the Socialist Party of America, and Sidney Hillman and Jacob Potofsky of the ACWA.
[1][2] On the night of Catalanotti's death, the ACWA's new president, Jacob Potofsky, said that he would be "long remembered for his energy and idealism, his great love of humanity, and his leadership in the fight against fascism, both here and in his native land."
New York State CIO president Louis Hollander, who had served on the Joint Board with Catalanotti, said he had "earned the respect and gratitude of all workers for his ceaseless efforts on behalf of a better America and a better world.