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Stinnes-Legien Agreement (November 15, 1918)

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This agreement is to govern the relationship between employers’ associations and unions of white collar employees as well.

Berlin, November 15, 1918.


Union of German Employers’ Associations

Association of German Metal Industrialists

Employers’ Association for the Northwestern Regional Group of the Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists

Coal Mining Federation

Association of German Railcar Manufacturers

Employers’ Association of the German Textile Industry

Berlin Chemical Industry Employers’ Association

Employers’ Association of the German Paper, Pulp, Cellulose, and Wood Products Industry

National Association of the German Piano Industry and Allied Trades

Employers’ Alliance for the German Building Trade

Employers’ Protective Association for German Locksmiths and Allied Trades

Alliance of Berlin Employers’ Associations

Central Federation of German Employers in the Transport, Trade, and Transportation Industries

Protective Association of German Lithographers

Upper Silesian Mining and Ironworks Association, Kattowitz

Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists, Main Executive Board, Berlin

Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists, Eastern Group, Kattowitz

Central Federation of the German Electro-technical Industry

Employers’ Protective Association for the German Wood Industry

Employers’ Federation for the Pipe-Fitting Trade

General German Employers’ Protective Federation for the Baking Trade

General Commission of German Unions

General Federation of German Christian Unions

Federation of German Craftworkers’ Unions

Polish Trade Union

Association of Business Federations

Association of Independent Clerical Workers

Association of Technical Federations

Dr. Sorge, Hilger, Hugo Stinnes, Vögler, Beukenberg, Hugenberg, Springorum, von Raumer, von Rieppel, Dietrich, Paul Westermayer, Dr. Tänzler, Avellis, Schrey, Lammers, Paul Mangers, Dr. Emil Franke, Karl Friedrich von Siemens, Rathenau, Ernst von Borsig, Albert Müller, Ernst Purschian, Deutsch, C. Legien, A. Stegerwald, Gustav Hartmann, Hugo Sommer, Dr. Pfirrmann, Dr. Höfle.



English translation courtesy of Prof. William Patch. Some additions made by GHDI staff.

Source of original German text: Gerald Feldman and Irmgard Steinisch, Industrie und Gewerkschaften 1918-1924, Die überforderte Zentralarbeitsgemeinschaft. Stuttgart: Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahreshefte für Zeitgeschichte, n. 50. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1985, pp. 135-37.

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