International Federation of Lithographers, Lithographic Printers and Kindred Trades

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The International Federation of Lithographers, Lithographic Printers and Kindred Trades (IFL) was a global union federation bringing together unions representing print workers.

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The federation was established in 1896 at a conference in London, as the International Federation of Lithographers and Kindred Trades. It was based in London until 1907, when its headquarters moved to Berlin, then in 1920 they moved to Brussels, and by the mid-1930s, they were in Amstelveen in the Netherlands. By 1925, the federation had 22 affiliates with a total of 45,562 members, and by 1935, its affiliates were from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and Yugoslavia. [1] [2]

In 1939, the federation agreed to merge with the International Typographers' Secretariat and the International Federation of Bookbinders and Kindred Trades. [3] However, due to World War II, no progress was made until 1946, when the British Printing and Kindred Trades Federation established a committee which drafted a constitution for a merged organisation. This was established in 1949, as the International Graphical Federation. [4]

Affiliates

As of 1921, the following unions were members of the federation: [5]

UnionCountry
Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers United Kingdom
Austrian Senefelder UnionAustria
Central Union of Lithographic Workers and Kindred TradesBelgium
Danish Lithographers' Union Denmark
Dutch Litho-, Photo- and Chemographers' Union Netherlands
Federation of Spanish Lithographers and Kindred TradesSpain
Finnish Printers' and Bookbinders' Union Finland
French Federation of Book Workers France
Graphical UnionCzechoslovakia
International Lithographic Union of Sweden Sweden
Italian Lithographic FederationItaly
Norwegian Lithographers' Union Norway
Society of Lithographic Artists, Designers, Engravers and Process Workers United Kingdom
Swiss Lithographers' Union Switzerland
Union of Lithographers and Lithographic Printers Germany

General Secretaries

1896: Charles Harrap [1]
1900: George Davy Kelley [1]
1907: Otto Sillier [1]
1920: François Poels
1927: Henri Berckmans
1929: Jacob Roelofs

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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. 107.
  2. ↑ Repertoire des organisations internationales. Geneva: League of Nations. 1936. p. 272.
  3. ↑ "International Graphical Federation (IGF)". Open Yearbook. UIA. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Bain, Peter; Gennard, John (2005). A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades. Routledge. pp. 269–270. ISBN   1134790902.
  5. ↑ "Internationale Addressen" (PDF). Graphische Presse. 28 January 1921. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
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