Organisations Based in Austria-Hungary - Trade Unions of Austria-Hungary, Odborov Sdruen ?Eskoslovensk (Paperback)

Chapters: Trade Unions of Austria-hungary, Odborov Sdruen ?eskoslovensk, Miners' Union in the Czechoslovak Republic, Reichsgewerkschaftskommission. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Odborov sdruen eskoslovensk ('Czechoslovak Trade Union Association', OS) was a trade union centre, founded in 1897 in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. With the break-up of the empire, the OS emerged as the major trade union force in Czechoslovakia up to the Second World War. Odborov sdruen eskoslovansk ('Czechoslav Trade Union Association') was founded in Prague on January 31, 1897. The OS represented a desire on the part of Czech trade unionists to build a Czech trade union movement separate from the Viennese Imperial Trade Union Commission (the 'Vienna Commission'), the culmination of two years of complaints by Czech trade unionists that the Vienna Commission was neglecting the Czech labour movement. The formation of OS did not, however, represent a total break with the Vienna Commission; several OS unions retained affiliations with the Vienna Commission. The founding congress was attended by 108 delegates, representing 90 trade union organizations, who met in the metalworkers' assembly hall in Karln. Fourteen trade union organizations not represented at the congress also supported the OS's formation. Josef Rouar was elected its secretary. The new organization was linked to the Czechoslav Social Democratic Workers Party. The OS and the Vienna Commission had a complicated and vacillating relationship for several years. In 1902, the OS accepted that the Vienna Commission would be the sole representative of the trade union movement in the Austrian Empire to the international strike fund of the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Cen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20465786