Action for the Small Farmer (in
Dutch
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: ''Actie voor de Kleine Boer'', better known as ''Actie Bouwman'') was a
political party
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in the
Netherlands
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. The party was led by
Alphons Bouwman, a
RKSP
The Roman Catholic State Party ( nl, Roomsch-Katholieke Staatspartij, RKSP) was a Catholic Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1926 as a continuation of the General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses. ...
member. The party drew its support from rural
Catholic
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sectors. It emerged after large-scale dissatisfaction amongst Catholic farmers towards the
Northern Brabant Christian Farmers League (NCB) during the agrarian economic crisis of 1933.
The party was founded in 1934. In February the party changed its name to the Christian Organisation of Self-employed Persons (''Christelijke Organisatie van Kleine Zelfstandigen''). The party expanded rapidly during 1935, during which the party had 110 branches and 20,000 followers. Thousands visited during 1935.
In 1937 the party was radicalized. In 1940 it merged into the Agrarian Front of the
National Socialist Movement, in which Bouwman became an important leader.
[http://www.inghist.nl/pdf/kpp/actie_bouwman.pdf ]
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