Josef Hudec

Národní sdružení odborových organizací ('National Association of Trade Union Organizations') was a trade union centre in the Czechoslovakia. Politically it was linked to the right-wing Czechoslovak National Democratic Party.[1][2] The centre was organized by the former socialist Josef Hudec.[3] As of 1929 organization was divided in 7 sections (mining section, textile section, metalworkers section, general trades section, sugar workers section, municipal and state employees section and waiters section) and had 304 branches.[4]

The organization was founded on April 10, 1921.[5][6] Its ideological precursor Všeodborové sdružení ('All Trade Union Association') was founded on January 26, 1910, changing its name to Česká dělnická jednota ('Czech Workers Unity') in 1912.[5][6] The name Národní sdružení odborových organizací' was adopted in 1921.[6]

It was often labelled as the 'yellow' trade union movement.[1][2] Whilst smaller than the main trade union centres, it functioned as a gathering point for right-wing workers.[2] It had fascist tendencies and rejected any compromise with the left-wing.[2][7] Its membership consisted mainly of white-collar employees from Bohemia and Moravia.[1] The organization had its headquarters on 6 Hálkova street, Prague.[8][9] Antonín Pondělíček was the central chairman of the organization, J. Svoboda its secretary.[4]

By 1925 it claimed to have some 4,000 members.[10] In the 1928 elections to mine workers councils, it was the fourth largest union and won 75 out of 1,308 council seats nationwide.[11] In the Ostrava region it won 50 out of 341 council seats.[11] By 1929, it claimed to have 29,127 members.[4] In August 1929, the Svaz báňských, střelců a dozorců v Moravské Ostravě ('Union of Mining Shooters and Supervisors of Moravian Ostrava'), with 425 members, affiliated itself with the organization but maintained themselves as an autonomous unit.[10][4] In 1931, the organization won 110 seats in the Ostrava district in the mine workers council elections.[10][7] As of the early 1930 the mining section had some 10,000 members in the Ostrava district.[7]

With the emergence of the Second Czechoslovak Republic, the organization formed a coalition with the Republikánské ústředí zaměstnanců ('Republican Employees' Centre') and three smaller unions.[12] By November 1938 these organizations merged, to form a new trade union body (Ústředna národní jednoty zaměstnanecké, 'National Centre for Employee Unity') aligned with the Party of National Unity.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Joan Campbell; John P. Windmuller (1992). European Labor Unions. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-313-26371-2.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kazimourová, Veronika. Vliv odborů na podobu personální práce v meziválečném Československu
  3. ↑ ENCYKLOPEDIE ČSSD. Hudec, Josef
  4. 1 2 3 4 Ročenka Československé republiky. 1930. p. 246.
  5. 1 2 Ročenka Československé republiky. Ant. Hajna. 1926. p. 194.
  6. 1 2 3 Porozumění: Češi, Němci, východní Evropa, 1848-1948. Nakl. Lidové Noviny. 2000. p. 91. ISBN 978-80-7106-390-2.
  7. 1 2 3 Karel Jiřík (1987). Ostrava. Krajské nakl. p. 56.
  8. ↑ Mitteilungen des Statistischen Staatsamtes der Čechoslovakischen Republik. Herausgegeben vom Statistischen Staatsamte. 1937. p. 1028.
  9. ↑ International Labour Office (1938). The I.L.O. Year-book. International Labour Office. p. 615.
  10. 1 2 3 Národní listy. Národní sdružení do nového roku. 2 January 1932. p. 1
  11. 1 2 Vladimír Dubský (1984). Závodní výbory a rady v předmnichovském Československu. Práce. p. 271, 274.
  12. 1 2 Vaverková, Karolína. České odborové hnutí (případová studie ČMKOS)
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