International Landworkers' Federation

Last updated

The International Landworkers' Federation (ILF) was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing agricultural and forestry workers.

Contents

History

The federation was established in 1920 at a conference in Amsterdam, and set up its headquarters in Utrecht. In 1924, it relocated to Berlin, but returned to Utrecht in 1933. By 1925, it had 15 affiliates, with a total of 377,800 members, and by 1954 this had grown to more than 1,000,000 members, principally in Europe. [1] [2] [3]

In 1960, the federation merged with the Plantation Workers International Federation, which mostly represented workers on plantations in poorer countries, forming the International Federation of Plantation and Agricultural Workers. [4]

Affiliates

In 1954, the following unions were affiliated to the federation: [3]

UnionCountryAffiliated membership
Agricultural Labourers' Union Israel120,000
Danish Gardeners' Union Denmark5,213
Danish General Workers' Union Denmark35,000
General Dutch Industrial Union of Agriculture Netherlands39,800
General Union of Workers in Building, Household and Related Occupations Belgium2,000
Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union West Germany115,000
Italian Federation of Agricultural Employees and Labourers Italy325,000
Italian Union of Land Workers Italy140,000
Likomba Plantation Workers' UnionBritish Cameroons3,000
National Agricultural Workers' UnionUnited States8,500
National Federation of Free Agricultural Technicians and EmployeesItaly4,000
National Union of Agricultural Workers United Kingdom135,000
Norwegian Union of Forestry and Land Workers Norway8,000
Rural Workers' Union Finland14,000
Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union Sweden41,171
Transport and General Workers' Union United Kingdom9,000
Union of Agricultural WorkersFrance2,000
Union of Commerce, Transport and Food Switzerland1,300
Union of Employees in Governmental EnterprisesSaarland236
Union of Agricultural and Forestry Workers Austria69,186

Leadership

General Secretaries

1920: Piet Hiemstra [1]
1924: Georg Schmidt [1]
1933: Piet Hiemstra [2]
1938: Oscar Levinsen
1942: Walter Kwasnik
1950: Adri de Ruijter [3]

Presidents

1920: Walter Smith
1924: Joseph Forbes Duncan [2]
1950: Edwin Gooch [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sassenbach, Johannes (1926). Twenty-five years of international trade unionism. Amsterdam: International Federation of Trade Unions. p. 105.
  2. 1 2 3 Repertoire des organisations internationales. Geneva: League of Nations. 1936. p. 287.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Mitchell, James P. (1954). Directory of International Trade Union Organisations. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Labor. pp. 73–78.
  4. ↑ Docherty, James C.; van der Velden, Sjaak (2012). Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor. Scarecrow Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN   0810879883.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.