The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26

Fascist claims.
! Latvia-The Latvian Federation Of
Trade Unions lost 10000 members inh
1922. On January 1, 1928, its total
membership was only 1850.
Luxemburg-Her the Trade Unions
lost 5000 members in 1922. On Janu-
airy l, 1923. its total membership was
1900
NetherIands-Th membership of
the Netherlands Federation of Trade
Unions declined from 223,71S on Janu-
airy l, 1922, to 2O1,O45 on January l,
4 1928. Here unemployment was one
of the principal causes making for the
fall in membership. The clothing
trades, the agricultural workers, the
metal and transport workers were the
principal sufferers in this respect.
PoIand-The Central Trade Union
Federation membership rose from
1885, 100 on January /, 1922, to All O56
on January /, 1923. The Communists
made considerable Roadway in the
ranks of the trade unions during this
period.
Serb-Croat-SIovene Kingdom II Tho
membership of the General Fedora
ttion Of Labor remained practically
stationary during the year. On Janu.
airy l, 1928, its total was 66,166.
Spain-Despite the establishment
of Fascist government, the member
ship of the Federation of Trade I'm
ions remained practically the same as
in the preceding year. On December
81, 1922, the total members was 1885,
SCI.
sweden-The Federation Of Trade
Unions showed decline in its men,
bership from S13,2OS in 1921 to 292,-
917 at the close Of December, 1922.
Switzerland Swiss Federation
of Trade Unions lost almost 10000
members in 1921. The total member
ship fell from 225,S22 to 1922 on
January 1, 1923. The heaviest losers
were the banking employees who lost
Al per cent of their total membership;
the leather workers who lost % per
cent; the textile workers with loss
of 20 per cent; the metal workers and
clock makers with a loss of "a per
cent; the building workers II per
cent; employees of the postal telegraph
and telephone service, 16 per cent,
and the embroiderers, Is per cent.
Soviet Russia-For the fiscal years
1922-1923 Soviet Russia shows the
greatest increase in membership. This
is especially noteworthy because the
famine and the severe economic crisis
of the preceding year made heavy in
roads on the trade union organiza-
lions of Soviet Russia. According to
the last census there were 5,541 900
members in Soviet Russia trade I'M
ions on October /. 1923. This COM
pares with 4,546,000 on October 1.
1922; gain of nearly a million men,
bers in one year. The extremely ia
yorable policy pursued by the Soviet
Government is principally responsible
for the great increase in membership.
Amongst the organizations showing
the greatest gains the following may
be mentioned: the sugar workers, the
lumber workers, the food workers. the
building trades, the transport work
ers, government employees, metal
workers, mining and textile workers.
In industry the average increase in
membership was 34.3 per cent. The
greatest increase occurred in North
Russia, the Ukraine and the Ural dis
trict. The workers in Leningrad and
in the Donetz Basin showed great in
crease in trade union membership.
The World Situation.
The Amsterdam international Fed
Grafton admits heavy losses for the
aforementioned period. On January l,
1922. it claimed total affiliated men,
bership of 2O,29O,1S2. One year later
Its last official figures-it reported
a membership of 1S,174373. The
greatest losses suffered by the yell
low Amsterdam International we're
amongst the unskilled workers and
factory workers. Nearly rs per cent
of the miners affiliated with the AM
sterdam Federation in 1921 deserted
it in 1922, mainly for the Red Labor
Union International. Amongst the
skilled workers of the building and
printing industries, the Amsterdam In
ternational showed substantial in
creases for the period These in
creases. however, were in most cases
due to fusions which took place in
1922"
Summing up, it is safe to concludes
on the basis of the data in the year
book of the Amsterdam International,
that the total membership of the
trade unions of all descriptions thru
out the world was 40,92S,610 on Janu-
airy 1, 1928. This figure is inclusive
OF the strength of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor