Labor Colony Office

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The Office for Labor Colonies was an institution of the Association of Swiss Student Unions that existed in the 1920s and 1930s. The VSS founded the Office for Labor Colonies in 1925, and in 1930 it launched a " wage service "; In 1954 the student labor colonies of the VSS were abolished.

Student labor colonies

The “student labor colonies” were, in addition to the voluntary labor service for the unemployed and the international civil service , a form of voluntary service in Switzerland . They were brought into being in 1925 by the Office for Labor Colonies of the Association of Swiss Student Unions.

The student labor colonies were set up by the Association of Swiss Student Unions after Heinrich Federer called on Swiss students in 1925 to help rebuild the Misox castle ruins . While the unemployed were concerned with their employment, “in the case of the student work, the focus was on the work created as an aid to the Swiss mountain population ”. The work was expanded under National Councilor Traugott Waldvogel .

In 1932 Max Frisch worked for a student labor colony in road construction in order to distract himself with physical work.

During the Second World War, the student labor colonies carried out work that was supposed to serve the security of the Swiss peripheral regions.

Organization, history and effect of the office for labor colonies

The entire organization of the student support service was in the hands of the Office for Labor Colonies. The selection of work projects was carried out in close cooperation with the responsible cantonal and federal authorities: the Federal Forest Inspectorate and the Agriculture Department of the Federal Department of Economics, as well as the cantonal cultural and forest engineers. These public authorities were entrusted with the preparation of the projects and the technical management of the work. In 1933 the costs were between 4.60 and 4.80 Swiss francs per working day per man (women were obviously not allowed?); this was able to cover all expenses incurred by the office for labor colonies from catering, transport, acquisition of tools and kitchen materials, administration, colony preparation, etc. The office received funds for this from federal subsidies of 2.50 francs and a cantonal subsidy of 1 franc per working person and working day. The annual shortfall of around 12,000 francs was covered by voluntary contributions from patrons. The student funds came from the " colony franc ", which every student had to contribute each semester. Premises and transports could be raised / contributed / guaranteed by the communities benefiting from the work. The military contributed supplies to the students to sleep in, and the labor colonies office was able to accumulate the tools over time.

A colony always had about 50 people and four or five female students who helped out in the kitchen. If two colonies worked in the same parish, the Labor Colonies Office appointed a director for both. Among other things, the office realized student labor colonies in Misox , Bosco , Casaccia and Vicosoprano (between 1925 and 1928), and renovation work in the Coloni del Boscone Biasca (around 1936) also in Ausserberg , Ergisch and Blitzingen (Wallis).

President of the Office for Labor Colonies was Otto Zaugg and the journalist Hans Ulrich Jucker .

Federal Councilor Rudolf Minger promoted the idea of ​​the Office for Labor Colonies.

“Through its Office for Labor Colonies, the Association of Swiss Student Unions carried out student labor colonies and the student wage service. In this way, the students have been helping the needy mountain population year after year. In addition, the student labor service pursues ideal goals: the promotion of the camaraderie and community spirit and the familiarization of the students with other groups of the people. "

(Source: Federal Council Message to the Federal Assembly on the Promotion of Voluntary Land Service (dated July 9, 1946) )

Archive sources

Publications

  • The student support service: annual report and company accounts. Zurich: VSS. OCLC 637490152
  • Student Labor Service / Association of Swiss Student Unions: The student support service. Zurich-Selnau: Leeman. OCLC 605261939
  • Two years of student assistance: the work of the office for labor colonies. Bern: VSS. OCLC 637490273 OCLC 634804201
  • Pro Campagna report on the Misox volunteer colony. 1925.
  • The Bosco student holiday colony. 1926.
  • Peter Schulthess: The working colonies of the Association of Swiss Student Unions 1925–1928 (Misox, Bosco, Casaccia, Vicosoprano) . In: Swiss University Newspaper . tape 2 , no. 5/6 , 1929 (with prefaces by Giuseppe Motta & Arthur Rohn ).
  • The three student labor colonies in Valais. Annual report and balance sheet. 1929.
  • Student Aid Service 1930. 1930.
  • The student support service. 1931.
  • Labor Colonies Aid Wage Service. 1932.
  • Otto Zaugg : Labor Service in Switzerland. In: The Berner Woche in words and pictures: a sheet for native art and art , Volume 23 (1933), Issue 44, pp. 698–701. doi : 10.5169 / seals-648278
  • Annual report of the student support service, with a foreword by Federal Councilor Rudolf Minger . Review in: Illustrierte Schweizerische Handwerker-Zeitung: independent business journal of the entire championship of all crafts and trades , volume 50–51 (1933), issue 7, page 70.
  • Student labor colonies and voluntary labor service. Speech given on ETH Day 1934 (November 22) by Otto Zaugg, President of the Office for Labor Colonies of the VSS, 6 pages (1934)
  • The Office for Labor Colonies. Report on the activities in 1934. ( UNOG et al.)
  • Association of Swiss Student Unions, annual report 1934 (98 pages), including the annual report by Otto Zaugg , pages 20–29 (1934)
  • Association of Swiss Student Unions, annual report 1935 (48 pages), including a report by Otto Zaugg on the 14th annual meeting of the World Student Union in Holland, pages 39–41 (1935)
  • The Office for Labor Colonies. 1935.
  • Coloni del Boscone Biasca . Brochure with a report on the renovation work , January 1936. Zurich: Report House, 1936. (13 pages) OCLC 635579430
  • The Student Aid Service 1936-1937.
  • Student labor colonies 1937.
  • Off to the labor colonies. 1938.
  • Student labor colonies . Brochure, 1938, including a contribution by Otto Zaugg (1938)
  • Two years of student service 1939-1940. Zurich: Association of Swiss Student Unions , 1941. OCLC 600830979
  • Two years of student service 1941-1942.
  • Two years of student labor service 1943-1944.
  • Association of Swiss Student Unions: Two years of student support service - 1947-1948: the work of the Office for Labor Colonies. Horgen: Studer, 1949. OCLC 603063822

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Ritter : Rückspiegel 1944: Hay instead of thinking. In: UZH Magazin , 25th year, Dec. 2016, No. 4. Online ( Memento of the original from July 8th, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kommunikation.uzh.ch
  2. ^ Sn: From the Association of Switzerland. Student bodies . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 125/126 , no. 5 , August 4, 1945, p. 45-46 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-83705 .
  3. ^ Otto Zaugg : Labor Service in Switzerland. In: The Berner Woche in words and pictures: a sheet for native art and art , Volume 23 (1933), Issue 44, pp. 698–701. doi : 10.5169 / seals-648278
  4. ^ A b c Otto Zaugg : Labor Service in Switzerland. In: The Berner Woche in words and pictures: a sheet for native art and art , Volume 23 (1933), Issue 44, pp. 698–701. doi : 10.5169 / seals-648278
  5. ↑ Peter Schulthess: The working colonies of the Association of Swiss Student Unions 1925–1928 (Misox, Bosco, Casaccia, Vicosoprano) . In: Swiss University Newspaper . tape 2 , no. 5/6 , 1929 (with prefaces by Giuseppe Motta and Arthur Rohn ).
  6. ^ Coloni del Boscone Biasca . Brochure with a report on the renovation work, January 1936. Report house, Zurich 1936. (13 pages) OCLC 635579430
  7. ↑ sx: A thoroughbred journalist . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 17, 2007.
  8. ^ Annual report of the student support service. With a foreword by Federal Councilor Rudolf Minger. Review in: Illustrierte Schweizerische Handwerker-Zeitung: independent business journal of the entire championship of all crafts and trades , volume 50–51 (1933), issue 7, page 70.