7-523: (Redirected from General Workers Union ) General Workers' Union may refer to: General Workers' Union (Argentina) , a labor confederation from 1903 to 1909 General Workers' Union (Belize) General Workers' Union of Germany , a left communist organisation active in 1918 and 1919 General Workers Union in Ivory Coast , a trade union federation established in 1962 General Workers' Union (Malta) ,
14-539: A trade union federation General Union of Workers (Portugal) General Workers' Union (South Africa) , a union active from 1977 until 1986 General Workers' Union of Yugoslavia , active from 1917 until 1939 Unión General de Trabajadores , in Spain Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title General Workers' Union . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
21-633: The 1902 Residence Law , which allowed the expulsion of subversive aliens and collaborated on many strikes. On the local level, the cooperation was even more intense. During its last years of existence, the UGT was unable to gain members. Therefore, it merged with the more moderate syndicalists in the FORA in 1909, to form the Argentine Regional Workers' Confederation (CORA). Residence Law Too Many Requests If you report this error to
28-624: The federation. The UGT was thus founded by the former and it was more moderate than its predecessor. Unlike the FOA, it did not discourage participation in elections and encouraged its members to become Argentine citizens - as the majority of the Argentine working class at the time consisted of European immigrants who were thus disenfranchised. Nonetheless, it claimed that general strike "can be an effective means of struggle", but rejected starting it for "violent ends". This position became more radical in
35-495: The following years as the relations between the syndicalists in the UGT and the Socialist Party became more strained, and in 1906 the UGT declared that the general strike was "an arm of struggle of superior effectiveness". The UGT had 7,500 members in 1904, membership peaked at 10,000 in 1906. Despite the two organizations' rivalry, there was a lot of cooperation between the FORA and the UGT. Together, they fought against
42-485: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=General_Workers%27_Union&oldid=1044177386 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages General Workers%27 Union (Argentina) The General Workers' Union ( Spanish : Unión General de Trabajadores , UGT )
49-559: Was an Argentine national labor confederation from 1903 to 1909. It was founded in 1903 as a rival to the country's first national labor confederation, the Argentine Workers' Federation (FOA), known as the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) from 1905. Around this time, the FOA had become more openly anarchist , leading to tension between the socialist syndicalists and the anarchists in
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