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South African Industrial Federation
The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) was established in 1914 as an amalgamation of the Industrial Federations in the provinces of South Africa. The federation attracted most of the trades unions in the country. It had a policy of support for white labour, believing that employers had a policy of using black labour to drive down wages. The Cape Federation of Labour Unions which represented many coloured workers refused to do so. It was led by Archie Crawford, and its membership reached 60,000. It was active in the Rand Rebellion in 1922, but it largely collapsed following the defeat of the associated general strike. The remnants of the federation attempted to reform as a single general union, the South African Industrial Union, but the government refused it permission to register, and it soon dissolved. Instead, the federation was replaced in 1924 by the South African Trades Union Council The South African Trades Union Congress (TUC) was a national trade union fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Federation Of Labour Unions
The Cape Federation of Labour Unions (CFLU) was a trade union federation in South Africa. The federation was founded in 1913. It aimed to represent all workers in the Cape Province, although most of its membership consisted of unions representing white and "coloured" workers. It initially only attracted three affiliates, including the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. It was initially led by secretary Joe Dean, who was replaced by Bob Stuart in 1914. The federation grew significantly under Stuart's leadership, and it survived the start of the 1920s, when many other labour movement organisations collapsed. By 1926, the following unions were affiliated: * Amalgamated Engineering Union of South Africa * Building Trades' Union of the Eastern and Western Provinces * Butchers' Employees' Union * Cape Fishermen's Union * Cape Motor Drivers' Association * Cape Town and Camp's Bay Tramway Workers' Association * Iron Moulders' Society of South Africa * National Union of Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Crawford
Archibald Crawford (1883 – 23 December 1924) was a Scottish-born South African trade union leader. Born in Glasgow, Crawford completed an apprenticeship as a fitter, before joining the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, after which, he settled in South Africa. He became a fireman for the Central South African Railways, then a fitter in the railway workshops. He joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1903, and became secretary of the Pretoria Trades and Labour Council. In 1906, he became involved in action against lay offs, which led to his own dismissal from the railways. After his sacking, Crawford was a founder member of the Transvaal Independent Labour Party (ILP). He was initially only supportive of white workers, but after hearing Keir Hardie speak, he changed his views, and began arguing that the party should admit non-white workers. He stood unsuccessfully in the 1907 Transvaal general election, but won a seat on Johannesburg Municipal Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rand Rebellion
The Rand Rebellion ( af, Rand-rebellie; also known as the 1922 strike) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Jimmy Green, a prominent politician in the Labour Party, was one of the leaders of the strike. Following a drop in the world price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) per fine troy ounce in 1919 to 95s/oz (£4 15s) in December 1921, the companies tried to cut their operating costs by decreasing wages, and by weakening the colour bar by promoting cheaper black mine workers to skilled and supervisory positions. History The rebellion started as a strike by white mine workers on 28 December 1921 and shortly thereafter, it became an open rebellion against the state. Subsequently the workers, who had armed themselves, took over the cities of Benoni and Brakpan, and the Johannesburg suburbs of Fordsburg and Jeppe. The young Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took an active part in the uprisin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Strike
A general strike refers to a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large coalitions of political, social, and labour organizations and may also include rallies, marches, boycotts, civil disobedience, non-payment of taxes, and other forms of direct or indirect action. Additionally, general strikes might exclude care workers, such as teachers, doctors, and nurses. Historically, the term general strike has referred primarily to solidarity action, which is a multi-sector strike that is organised by trade unions who strike together in order to force pressure on employers to begin negotiations or offer more favourable terms to the strikers; though not all strikers may have a material interest in the negotiations, they all have a material interest in maintaining and strengthening the collective efficacy of strikes as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Union
A general union is a trade union (called ''labor union'' in American English) which represents workers from all industries and companies, rather than just one organisation or a particular sector, as in a craft union or industrial union. A general union differs from a union federation or trades council in that its members are individuals, not unions. The creation of general unions, from the early nineteenth century in the United Kingdom and somewhat later elsewhere, occurred around the same time as efforts began to unionise workers in new industries, in particular those where employment could be irregular. Proponents of general unions claim that their broader range of members allows more opportunities for solidarity action and better coordination in general strikes and the like. Detractors claim that the broader remit means they tend to be more bureaucratic and respond less effectively to events in a single industry. In the United Kingdom, general unions include the GMB and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Trades Union Council
The South African Trades Union Congress (TUC) was a national trade union federation in South Africa. The council was established in 1924, as the South African Association of Employees' Organisations. It was founded at a special congress, held after the collapse of the South African Industrial Federation, which was called by the Minister of Labour, Frederic Creswell. All the affiliated unions were registered under the Industrial Conciliation Act 1924 and represented white workers. The federation was expected to be very moderate, but unexpectedly elected the leading communist Bill Andrews as its general secretary.Wessel Visser'Exporting Trade Unionism and Labour Politics: the British Influence on the early South African Labour Movement' ''New Contree'' 49 (2005), 145-62 As president, it elected Jimmy Briggs, a Labour Party Senator. The unexpected radicalism of the federation led some long-established unions not to affiliate, while the Mine Workers' Union and South African Typog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravan Press
Ravan Press, established in 1972 by Peter Ralph Randall, Danie van Zyl, and Beyers Naudé, was a South African anti-apartheid publishing house.Ravan Press in Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H. R. Woudhuysen, ''The Oxford Companion to the Book'', online ed., 2010. Ravan Press was initially established to print the reports of the South African Study Project of Christianity in Apartheid Society (Spro-Cas). In 1974 it became a donor-funded oppositional publishing house, specializing in anti-apartheid literature. In 1984, following its release of 's novel ''Fools and Other Stories'' ( |
Defunct Trade Unions In South Africa
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Trade Unions Established In 1914
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
