International Federation of Building Workers

The International Federation of Building Workers (IFBW) was a global union federation bringing together unions representing masons.

History

The German Central Union of Masons gradually built up international contacts in the late 19th-century. In 1903, it called a conference in Berlin, to formalise these relationships by establishing an international trade federation.[1]

The federation was established as the Building Workers' International, and was based in Hamburg from its foundation. By 1925, most of its member unions had merged with the carpenters' unions in their country, and so it agreed to absorb the Carpenters' International. This gave it 26 affiliates, with a total of 756,059 members.[1]

On 1 April 1934, the federation merged with the International Federation of Wood Workers, to form the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers.[2]

Affiliates

The following unions were affiliated as of 1922:[3]

UnionCountryMembership
Central Association of Construction WorkersAustria87,154
General Union of Building, Furnishing and Other IndustriesBelgium42,065
Czechoslovakia42,413
Denmark5,074
Finland1,331
National Federation of Construction WorkersFrance6,353
German Construction Workers' UnionGermany588,271
Hungary23,249
Italy60,000
Luxembourg1,105
General Dutch Construction UnionNetherlands9,061
Norwegian Union of Building WorkersNorway2,278
Poland9,975
Romania2,390
Sweden3,999
Swiss Construction Workers' UnionSwitzerland3,825
National Federation of Building Trades OperativesUnited Kingdom253,000
General Workers' Union of YugoslaviaYugoslavia608

General Secretaries
1903: Theodor Bömelburg[1]
1913: Fritz Paeplow[1]
1919: Georg Käppler[1]
1933: Jaap van Achterbergh

Presidents
1919: Fritz Paeplow
1927:
1933: Nikolaus Bernhard

References
  1. Sassenbach, Johannes (1926). Twenty-five years of international trade unionism. Amsterdam: International Federation of Trade Unions. p. 97–98.
  2. Repertoire des organisations internationales. Geneva: League of Nations. 1936. pp. 255–256.
  3. The American Labor Yearbook. New York: Rand School of Social Science. 1924. pp. 255–257.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.