Labor Party (Stronnictwo Pracy)
The Stronnictwo Pracy (SP ) ( German Labour Party ) was originally a Polish Christian Democratic Party, which was in the People's Republic of Poland to the block party.
History
The SP in the Second Republic
The SP was constructed by fusing the three predecessor parties Polskie Stronnictwo Chrześcijańskiej Demokracji (Christian- Democratic Peasants 'Party of Poland), Polish National partia Robotnicza (National Workers' Party ) and Związek Hallerczyków ( Haller Union party leader was Józef Haller ) was formed on October 10, 1937 (see front of Morges ). Party chairman was Wojciech Korfanty. Strongholds of the party were Silesia and Pomerania.
The SP in exile
With the division of Poland between the National Socialist German Reich and the Soviet Union ended in 1939, the national independence of Poland and thus the possibility of political activity of SP.
Your leading members went into exile and took part in the Polish government in exile in London. Party leader at this time was Karol Popiel. The party was by Cyryl Ratajski (1940-1942) Jan Jankowski (1943-1945) and Jerzy Braun ( 1945) represented in the government in exile.
Gleichschaltung after the war
During the Second World War, Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union. Not the London government in exile, but the Moscow-backed Lublin Committee took power in the conquered territories. This initially prevented the readmission of the SP. Ideological parties had, according to the communist rulers no place in Poland.
Instead, the Communists raised an offshoot of the SP, the Moscow-backed Stronnictwo Zrywu Narodowego under Zygmunt Felczak and Feliks Widy - Wirski in the world. A re-registration of the SP made the Polska Partia Robotnicza depend on a collaboration with this group. Karol Popiel rejected this cooperation, as this would involve a complete subjugation of the SP under the control of PPR. Therefore, not the SP but the Zryw group was represented in the Krajowa Rada Narodowa and in the state administration.
The range Popiels to forgo the traditional name of the party and the SP under the name Chrześcijańskie Stronnictwo Pracy ( dt: Christian Party of Labour, ChSP ) to let occur was rejected by the Communists. 1945 SP gave in and was merged with the Zryw group, but re-admitted under the old name. After 1946, the Zryw group had torn the majority on the board itself, the freely elected prior Board approved the dissolution of the party on 18 July 1946. Popiel renewed the request to obtain approval of a party ChSP. This request was not complied again and Popiel fled to London in summer 1947.
The control of the SP by the PPR was not yet widely: In the massive fake Sejmwahl in Poland 1947, the SP could still run as a separate list and deny the compulsion to join the PPR -led electoral bloc. Josef Stalin pointed the SP in the choice of 4.7% of the votes and 12 mandates.
The direct connection of the SP, however, was unstoppable. In the presidential elections in Poland in 1947 the deputies of the SP assist with the parties of the block Bolesław Bierut. The party continued to exist as a block party until 1950. Party leader was 1946-1950 Tadeusz Michejda.
In exile
The refugees in the free West of the SP members continued the party work in exile. Leading activist exiled party was Hugon Hanke, who served as Prime Minister in the government in exile. He proved to be an agent of the Polish secret and fled to his unmasking to Poland. With Zygmunt Muchniewski the SP presented July 20, 1970 to July 13, 1972 again the exiled prime minister.
After the turn
On 12 February 1989, the Labour Party was in the country ( initially under the name " Christian- Democratic Workers' Party ) revived.