International Secretariat of Painters and Allied Trades

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The International Secretariat of Painters and Allied Trades, also known as the International Secretariat of Painters and Kindred Trades, was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing painters and decorators.

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History

The first international conference of painters' trade unions was held in Leipzig in 1907, and a second was held in Munich in 1911. This conference agreed to form an international trade federation, which was launched at a further conference, in Zürich, later in the year. [1]

The federation was initially based in Hamburg, and by 1925 it had 11 affiliates, with a total of 181,536 members. [1] Its headquarters moved to Amsterdam in the early 1930s, and by 1935 it had affiliates in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with a total of 237,531 members. [2]

On 1 January 1947, the federation merged into the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers. [3]

Affiliates

As of 1922, the following unions were affiliated: [4]

UnionCountryMembership
Austria4,098
Czechoslovakia1,758
Danish Painters' Union Denmark5,391
Finland962
German Painters' Union Germany58,829
Hungary2,458
Dutch Painters' Assistants' Union Netherlands6,192
Norway1,106
Swedish Painters' Union Sweden3,802
Swiss Construction Workers' Union Switzerland2,018

General Secretaries

1911: Albert Tobler [1]
1914: Otto Streine [1]
1928: Hans Batz
1933: A. J. Dooyes

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sassenbach, Johannes (1926). Twenty-five years of international trade unionism. Amsterdam: International Federation of Trade Unions. p. 109.
  2. Repertoire des organisations internationales. Geneva: League of Nations. 1936. p. 279.
  3. "Robert Kolb". Tätigkeitsbericht: 3. 1949.
  4. The American Labor Yearbook. New York: Rand School of Social Science. 1924. p. 270.