The International Commission for Railwaymen was an early

international trade secretariat A global union federation (GUF) is an international federation of national trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups. Historically, such federations in the social democratic tradition described as international t ...

, bringing together trade unions representing railway workers. The federation was established in 1893, at a meeting in Zurich. It held further conferences in 1894 in Paris, and in 1895 in Milan. In 1898, it merged into the International Federation of Ship, Dock and River Workers, which renamed itself as the International Transport Workers' Federation.{{cite book , last1=Schevenels , first1=Walter , title=Forty-five Years: International Federation of Trade Unions , date=1956 , publisher=International Confederation of Trade Unions , page=58

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Global union federations Railway labor unions Trade unions established in 1893 Trade unions disestablished in the 1890s