Union of manual and mental workers
The Union of Hand and Mind Workers ( Union , also UdHuK ) was a trade union closely related to the KPD , which existed from 1921 to the end of 1925.
history
The union came into being in September 1921 through the merger of three left-wing radical trade unions that did not belong to the ADGB , which, like the AAUD and the FAUD, had formed in the phase after the November Revolution in contrast to the free trade unions, which many radicalizing workers perceived as reformist . These were the numerically dominating Free Workers 'Union (Gelsenkirchen) (FAU), the association of manual and mental workers based in Berlin and the agricultural workers' association based in Braunschweig. The newly founded association joined the RGI at the international level . The Union had its focus in the Ruhr area and neighboring regions as well as in the Berlin area, the dominant industry groups were mining and metal industry.
The union, which had around 90,000 members when it was constituted, grew (with strong membership fluctuation) to over 100,000 members in 1922 and 1923 and was the strongest force in the works council elections in the Ruhr mining industry in 1924, but at the same time it lost members from the end of 1923. As part of the change in the policy of the KPD to work in the free trade unions, the members of u. a. Union led by Gustav Sobottka , Arthur Hammer and Anton Jadasch (at the end of 1924 just over 20,000, August 1925 8,000) joined ADGB unions by the end of 1925 after initially considerable internal organizational resistance.
literature
- Jochen Weichold: The union of the manual and mental workers of Germany (council organization) - an almost forgotten chapter in the history of the German labor movement. in: Yearbook for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Issue I / 2005.
- Eva Cornelia Schöck: Unemployment and Rationalization. The Situation of the Workers and Communist Trade Union Policy 1920-28. Frankfurt am Main / New York 1977, ISBN 3-593-32537-3 , v. a. Pp. 88-113 and p. 249
- Hermann Weber: The change in German communism. The Stalinization of the KPD in the Weimar Republic. Volume 1 . Frankfurt / Main 1969, v. a. P. 68f, P. 98f and P. 168.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 18, 2007 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.
