Union of Manual and Intellectual Workers

The Union of manual and intellectual workers ( Union, also UdHuK ) was one of the KPD affiliated union, which existed from 1921 until the end of 1925.

History

The Union was formed in September 1921 through the merger of three not the ADGB belonging to radical leftist unions, which had as the AAUD and FAUD in the phase after the November revolution in contrast to the many radicalizing workers formed as a reformist perceived Free Trade Unions. These were the numerically dominant Free Workers' Union ( Gelsenkirchen) (FAU ), the Association of hand and brain workers, headquartered in Berlin and the farm workers association based in Braunschweig. The newly founded association joined at the international level of RGI. The Union had their focal points in the Ruhr area and adjacent regions as well as in the Berlin area, the dominant industry groups were mining and metal industries.

The constitution in its approximately 90,000 -member Union grew (in the case of a strong fluctuation members ) in 1922 and 1923 to over 100,000 members and was present at the council elections in the Ruhr mining industry in 1924 the most powerful force, but lost at the same time since the end of 1923 to members. As part of the conversion of the German Communist Party policy on the participation in the Free Trade Unions, the members of, among others were led by Gustav Sobottka, Arthur Hammer and Anton Jadasch Union after first significant intra- organizational resistances to the end of 1925 ADGB unions ( just over 20,000, August 1925 8000 end 1924).