Kresťanské odbory v spolupráci a konfrontácii s komunistickými odbormi
Christian Trade Unions in Cooperation and Confrontation with the Communist Trade Unions

Author(s): Milan Katuninec
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Economic history, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Communism
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: First Czechoslovak Republic; Slovakia; Christian trade unions; Christian Social Trade Union Association of Workers;
Summary/Abstract: When the First Czechoslovak Republic came into existence, favourable conditions made way to founding trade unions in Slovakia. The rise of Christian trade unions was viewed not only as an effort to solve the workers´ status according to the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum but also as materialization of Christian political parties´ interests. Since several political parties presented themselves as Christian ones, several Christian trade unions operated in Slovakia. The Christian Social Trade Union Association of Workers turned into the most important trade union organization in Slovakia when Rudolf Čavojský became Chief Secretary in autumn 1923. Čavojský also deserves credit for the participation of the Association in concluding collective agreements and strengthening its position among trade unions. Although the study concentrates on cooperation and confrontation between the Christian and the Communist trade unions from 1939 on, it also briefly deals with the period when the Christian trade unions held the monopoly position in Slovakia.

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