Augusto Vuattolo

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Augusto Domenico Vuattolo (called Bruciar ; in German often also August Vuattolo ; * July 25, 1882 in Tarcento ; † November 13 or November 20, 1960 in Zurich ) was a trade unionist of Italian origin who was active in Germany and Switzerland.

Life

Augusto Vuattolo was the son of the brick manufacturer Domenico and his wife Caterina nee Treppo. He also became a brick maker and, like many Friulian migrants, emigrated from Cividale del Friuli to Austria and Bavaria at a young age . 1910–1912, Vuattolo headed the Italian Secretariat in Munich , a branch of the Udine Emigration Office , which was supposed to take care of bricklayers from the province of Udine who had immigrated to Germany. The secretariat received financial support from the Milan- based non-profit Società Umanitaria and the German factory workers' association . From 1912 until his expulsion from Germany in 1913, Vuattolo was the editor of the trade union newspaper L'operaio italiano (organo settimanale in lingua italiana dei sindacati professionali della Germania) .

Vuattolo settled in Switzerland from 1913, where he was the central secretary of the Association of Masons and Handlers, the successor to Georg Käppler , who came from Germany . At the same time he was also the head of the secretariat of the workers employed in the tunnel construction. From 1920, Vuattolo was secretary of the Swiss Construction Workers Association (SBAV), which merged with the Woodworkers Association (SHAV) to form the Construction and Woodworkers Association (Federazione Lavoratori Edilizia e Legno (FLEL), later the Construction and Wood Union (GBH)). At the same time, Vuattolo was the editor of the trade union paper L'edilizia svizzera , 1917–1922 senior functionary of the Swiss Trade Union Confederation (SGB) and from 1945 secretary of the International Building and Woodworkers Association. Vuattolo was also party secretary of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) in Switzerland. Due to his participation in the state strike in 1919 he received an expulsion order, which was later suspended and officially lifted in 1944 after Ernst Nobs had been elected as the first social democratic federal councilor a year earlier . During the Second World War, Vuattolo worked with the PSI's Socialist Foreign Center Zurich, headed by Ignazio Silone , and belonged to various anti-fascist organizations that were headed by the Cooperativa italiana (Coopi) in Zurich . Via the consulate in Bellinzona , the Italian fascists planned to kidnap Vuattolo to Italy, which was made more difficult because of his Swiss citizenship, which he had meanwhile acquired. In 1948 Vuattolo retired and died in Zurich in 1960. He wasn't married.

Works (selection)

  • History of the Swiss Construction and Woodworkers Association, 1873–1953. Volume 1 (General labor movement; the importance of the construction industry; history of the associations of woodworkers, carpenters, painters and plasterers up to 1920/21). Zurich 1953.
  • History of the Swiss Construction and Woodworkers Association, 1873–1953. Volume 2 (The history of the associations of bricklayers and henchmen, stone and brickworkers, construction workers until 1920/21). Zurich 1955.
  • History of the Swiss Construction and Woodworkers Association, 1873–1953. Volume 3 (History of the Swiss Association of Construction and Woodworkers 1922–1953). Zurich 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Pasquale Genasci: Augusto Vuattolo. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 20, 2012 , accessed January 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gian Luigi Bettoli (2016): Vuattolo Augusto Domenico (1882–1960) in: Dizionario Biografico dei Frulani (accessed on January 21, 2020)
  3. ↑ Martin Forberg (1987): Employment of foreigners, unemployment and trade union social policy. The example of the free trade unions between 1890 and 1918. Archive for Social History 27. Pages 51–81. pdf
  4. ↑ August Vuattolo: History of the Swiss Building and Wood Workers Association, 1873-1953. Volume 2 (The history of the associations of bricklayers and henchmen, stone and brickworkers, construction workers until 1920/21). Zurich 1955. p. 56.
  5. ^ Bernard Degen : Trade Union Construction and Wood (GBH). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2014 , accessed January 18, 2020 .
  6. ^ Adrian Zimmermann (2016): Wage pressers, strikebreakers - comrades. From xenophobic riots to common union struggle. In: Hans Baumann, Roland Herzog, Beat Ringger, Holger Schatz, Sara Schilliger, Bernhard Walpen (editor): Migration without borders. Denknetz yearbook 2016. Edition 8, Zurich. Pages 109-116. ISBN 978-3-85990-296-1 . pdf
personal data
SURNAME Vuattolo, Augusto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vuattolo, August; Bruciar; Vuattolo, Augusto Domenico (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Swiss trade unionists
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarcento
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1960 or November 20, 1960
Place of death Zurich