The International Federation of Lithographers, Lithographic Printers and Kindred Trades (IFL) was a

global union federation 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 unions representing print workers. The federation was established in 1896 at a conference in London, as the International Federation of Lithographers and Kindred Trades. It was based in London until 1907, when its headquarters moved to Berlin, then in 1920 they moved to Brussels, and by the mid-1930s, they were in Amstelveen in the Netherlands. By 1925, the federation had 22 affiliates with a total of 45,562 members, and by 1935, its affiliates were from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and Yugoslavia. In 1939, the federation agreed to merge with the International Typographers' Secretariat and the

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. However, due to World War II, no progress was made until 1946, when the British

Printing and Kindred Trades Federation The Printing and Kindred Trades Federation (P&KTF) was a trade union federation in the United Kingdom. History The federation was established at a conference in Manchester on 8 September 1890, organised on the initiative of George D. Kelley. T ...

established a committee which drafted a constitution for a merged organisation. This was established in 1949, as the

International Graphical Federation The International Graphical Federation (IGF) was a global union federation bringing together unions of printing workers around the world. History Moved to establish the federation began in 1939, when the Lithographers' International, Internatio ...

Affiliates

As of 1921, the following unions were members of the federation:

General Secretaries

:1896: Charles Harrap :1900: George Davy Kelley :1907:

Otto Sillier Otto Sillier (7 November 1857 – 4 March 1925) was a German trade union leader. Born in Berlin, Sillier completed an apprenticeship as a printmaker, and joined the Senefelder Union. Due to the Anti-Socialist Laws, this later became a friendl ...

:1920:

François Poels François Poels (12 April 1881 – 27 December 1926) was a Belgian trade union leader. Born in Elsene, Poels completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer. In 1906, he joined the Union of Lithographers in Brussels, becoming its deputy genera ...

:1927:

Henri Berckmans Henri Berckmans (died 1950) was a Belgian trade union leader. Berckmans became a wood engraver, and by the 1910s, he was the secretary of the Union of Wood Engravers of Brussels. In 1913, he merged the union into the new Central Union of Workers ...

:1929: Jacob Roelofs

References

{{Authority control Trade unions established in 1896 Trade unions disestablished in 1949 Global union federations Lithographers' trade unions