Talk:Free Association of German Trade Unions

message: This is a superb article!  I did do a little copyediting, however. I copyedited the first three sections (Localist roots, Founding, and Early years).  I replaced the used of the term "Stewards' Centralization" with "Representatives' Centralization" for consistency purposes.  I hope that is OK.  If there was a name change from Stewards' to Representatives', that should be noted and the changes I made undone.  I also changed the term "central committee" to "Business Committee."  A Business Committee was the only one mentioned in the article.  I assumed "central committee" meant Business Committee, so I changed the terminology throughout the first three sections in order to be consistent and avoid confusion.  If that change is not correct, please feel free to undo my changes.  (If there was a central committee in addition to a Business Committee, that fact should be noted in the article.)  I deleted the reference to the founding of the masons' and carpenters' union because they occurred before the founding of the FVdG.  If their founding is important, then their creation should be added to the narrative on localist movement.  As written, the two unions' founding made no sense (they came before the founding of the FVdG, but were used to prove that the FVdG was widespread). Finally, it was not clear why the first system of strike support (paid in part by the SPD) created problems.  The article implied these were political problems, so I clarified that.  If this is incorrect, please undo and clarify the point. I hope to do a little more editing tomorrow. - Tim1965 02:17, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a lot for your edits. Your interpretations were generally correct except for the first paragraph of the "Localist roots" section. The way I phrased it was ambiguous, I've changed it now and hope I've made it clearer.--Carabinieri 11:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyediting of the first three sections 

message: I copyedited the final four sections of this article (Radicalization and expulsion from the SPD; Pre-war period; World War I; and November Revolution and re-founding as FAUD).  Most of the changes are, I think, not controversial. Translating from German often leads to run-on sentences in English, so I tried to clear that up.  I hope the original author can review the changes I made; I had to interpret the meaning from what was written, and I am not much of an expert in German trade union or socialist politics.  Some points to consider:
*In the sixth paragraph of the section "Radicalization and expulsion from the SPD," the term referendum is used. My understanding is that a referendum is usually and up-or-down/yes-or-no vote on an issue.  Voters are not usually asked to choose one among many options. The way the sentence was worded, the sentence implied that there was a choice. I reworded this.  However, if this is incorrect, please change it back.
::I guess survey might be more exact.--Carabinieri 12:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I really meant "in addition to" and not "despite". I'll rephrase it to make it clearer.--Carabinieri 12:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks again for your help.--Carabinieri 12:36, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Not a problem!  The changes you made greatly clarified the meaning, and addressed all the questions and concerns I had.  It's an excellent piece! - Tim1965 13:58, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyediting of final four sections 

message: Is it better write p. or pp. for page or pages, in the references instead of pg.?Coronellian (talk) 05:11, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References, p. versus pg.

message: Can someone explain what is a "Landauer-esque anarchist"? I am translating this page into catalan, and I want to know what is esque in english language. Please help me! Coronellian (talk) 14:28, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That just means that Augustin Souchy's views on anarchism are rather close to Gustav Landauer's. Essentially Landauer espoused more of a "cultural anarchism", which in some points contradicts the working-class ideology prevalent in the FVdG. Thanks for a lot for translating this article. :)--Carabinieri (talk) 18:59, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Landauer]]-esque anarchist

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