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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

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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

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and the

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. However, due to

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, no progress was made until 1946, when the British

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

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Affiliates

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

General Secretaries

:1896: Charles Harrap :1900:

George Davy Kelley George Davy Kelley (1848 – 18 December 1911) was a British trades unionist and Labour politician. Kelley was born in Ruskington, Lincolnshire in 1848. He became apprenticed to the lithographic printing trade in York. Following his apprenti ...

:1907: Otto Sillier :1920: François Poels :1927: Henri Berckmans :1929: Jacob Roelofs

References

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