Christian Workers Union of Sweden (1899)
The Christian Workers Union of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges kristliga arbetareförbund) was a short-lived Christian anti-socialist labour organization in Sweden. The organization was founded in July 1899, but was dissolved the following year.
Founding conference
The Christian Workers Union was promoted by sectors of the
According to the protocols of the organization, the delegates at the founding conference represented over 1,000 workers. However, only delegates representing 600 workers had mandates from their respective associations to affiliate themselves to the new organization. According to a statement by a delegate of the Swedish Workers Union, the new Christian Workers Union had some 500 members in total at the time of its foundation (half of them from Göteborg).[3] Many of the persons joining the Christian Workers Union did so in response to the sharp increases in the membership fees of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.[4]
Programme
The organization sought to counter the
Demise
The Christian Workers Union was dissolved in 1900. By this point the organization had nine affiliated associations, with a total membership of 243. These associations joined the Swedish Workers Union instead.[3][5]
References
- ^ Wörlund, Ingemar. Kampen om det ideologiska rummet – En studie av variationer i SAP:s regionala väljarstöd 1921–1940 mot bakgrund av partiorganisatorisk aktivitet och lokal organistationsmiljö. p. 134
- ^ Palm, Irving. Frikyrkorna, arbetarfrågan och klasskampen: Frikyrkorörelsens hållning till arbetarnas fackliga och politiska kamp åren kring sekelskiftet = The Free churches, the question of the working man, and the class struggle: the position of the free churches in regard to the labour union activities of the workers and their political struggles around the turn of the century. Uppsala: Uppsala University, 1982. p. 66
- ^ a b c d e Flink, Ingvar. Strejkbryteriet och arbetets frihet: en studie av svensk arbetsmarknad fram till 1938. 1978. pp. 27–29
- ^ Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia historica Upsaliensia, Vol. 34. Esselte studium, 1971. pp. 45, 165
- ^ a b Lundkvist, Sven. Politik, nykterhet och reformer. En studie i folkrörelsernas politiska verksamhet 1900–1920. Uppsala: univ, 1974. p. 216