Catholic workers' association (Fulpmes)

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The workers ' organization of the Stubaier Werkgenossenschaft in Fulpmes in Tyrol called itself a Catholic workers' association .

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In the industrial town of Fulpmes, the Catholic workers' association was founded by the industrialist and farmer Leo Mair-Grotter around 1900 under the influence of Christian social teaching and the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum . The ideas of the Christian-social member of the Reichsrat , Dr. Aemilian creator .

In close ties to the Catholic Church and in contrast to the German national forces in the area, the workers organized themselves under the guidance and control of the local master blacksmith, especially under the control of the later mayor of Fulpmes , Leo Mair (vulgo Grotter), the workers in the Catholic Workers club. This offered its members in the house of Leo Mair-Grotter a consumer association , which supplied the members with cheap goods from the wholesale markets in Innsbruck , and organized their delivery initially by cart, from 1904 by the Stubaitalbahn . In the war years 1914–1917 in particular, this food supply was of great importance to Fulpmes.

The Catholic Workers 'Association also offered its members a minimum of social security by paying for the members' medical expenses. In addition, Leo Mair-Grotter bought the Neuwirthaus in Fulpmes and made it available to the Catholic workers' association. Club premises were set up there, and later also a stationery shop. In the garden of the Neuwirthaus Leo Mair-Grotter had a movie theater built, the oldest country cinema in Tyrol. The demonstration device was purchased together with the local pastor. Leo Mair-Grotter granted the light game license to a war invalid and required him to only show morally pure films.

In Fulpmes, while socialist parties emerged at the same time elsewhere, the association prevented the emergence of these in a sense of cooperation between capital and the church. After the municipal administration of Fulpmes took over social tasks in the 1920s, the Catholic Workers' Association lost its importance and influence , at the latest at the beginning of the Second World War . As early as 1934, the Catholic Workers' Association was gradually absorbed into the Austrofascist Patriotic Front . Since the turn of the century, however, the Catholic Workers' Association, together with the Vinzenzverein, also founded and led by Leo Mair-Grotter, was the most important political and social force in Fulpmes.