The Agricultural Labourers Union of Southwestern Slovakia was a

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

of Hungarian agricultural labourers in

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. It was affiliated to the Hungarian-German trade union council ''Union''. Gyula Nagy, an important figure in the leftwing in Slovakia at the time, was the secretary of the Agricultural Labourers Union (as well as being the secretary of ''Union'' and a parliamentarian of the

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).Duin, Pieter van.
Central European Crossroads: Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921
'. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. p. 364Magyar Tudományos Akadémia.
Studia historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
', Volume 110-125. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1975. p. 25 The Agricultural Labourers Union held a congress on April 4, 1920, in

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. At the congress Gyula Nagy argued that reaching collective wage agreements and

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were more pressing issues than revolutionary struggle.Duin, Pieter van.
Central European Crossroads: Social Democracy and National Revolution in Bratislava (Pressburg), 1867-1921
'. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009. p. 366

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