International Federation of Transport Workers Collection

Period 1896-1976 (1995, 1997)
Total size   0.5 m.
Raadpleging Not restricted
Repository  Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Geschiedenis

Founded in 1896 in London as the International Federation of Ship, Dock and River Workers; in 1898 renamed International Transportworkers' Federation (currently: International Transport Workers' Federation); in 1904 its secretariat moved to Hamburg, with the German railwaymen's leader Hermann Jochade becoming secretary; the ITF played an important role in the international seafarers' strike of 1911, the first internationally coordinated strike movement; by 1914 the ITF had affiliates in every continent, representing a membership of one million; the ITF ceased in 1915; in 1919 the ITF was reestablished with an office in Amsterdam; Dutch trade unionist Edo Fimmen became secretary; in the late 1930s a major campaign against fascism in Germany and Spain took up much of the organization's resources; at the outbreak of the war the secretariat was moved to London; when Fimmen died in 1942 his place was taken by his Belgian assistant secretary J.H. Oldenbroek; since 1949 there have been regional offices.

Inhoud

Collection consisting of statutes and documents on congresses and conferences 1896-1976; circulars; reports, including a weekly report on the seafarers' strike of 1911; publications and clippings; documents concerning the campaign against fascism in the 1930s; correspondence by Edo Fimmen with the Gruppe Deutscher Seeleute 1936-1937; file on the Dockers' Section Conference in Miami 1997; some papers of Thérèse Asser, member of the secretariat 1923-1959, including documents concerning Fimmen and a typescript of `ITF history' (until 1916) by Thérèse Asser; typescript of the biography of Fimmen by Lily Krier-Becker 1944; documents concerning prominent members of the ITF, such as Ernest Bevin, J.H. Oldenbroek, Trifón Gómez and Charles Lindley (pseudonym of Carl Gustav Lindgren).

NB. The ITF archives are at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, Great Britain.

Bewerking

Voorlopige lijst gemaakt door Reinier Deinum en Bouwe Hijma