The International Secretariat of Painters and Allied Trades, also known as the International Secretariat of Painters and Kindred Trades, was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing painters and decorators.
History The first international conference of painters' trade unions was held in Leipzig in 1907, and a second was held in Munich in 1911. This conference agreed to form an international trade federation, which was launched at a further conference, in Zürich, later in the year.
The federation was initially based in Hamburg, and by 1925 it had 11 affiliates, with a total of 181,536 members. Its headquarters moved to Amsterdam in the early 1930s, and by 1935 it had affiliates in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, with a total of 237,531 members.
On 1 January 1947, the federation merged into the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers.
Affiliates As of 1922, the following unions were affiliated:
Union Country Membership Austria 4,098 Czechoslovakia 1,758 Danish Painters' Union Denmark 5,391 Finland 962 German Painters' Union Germany 58,829 Hungary 2,458 Dutch Painters' Assistants' Union Netherlands 6,192 Norway 1,106 Swedish Painters' Union Sweden 3,802 Swiss Construction Workers' Union Switzerland 2,018
General Secretaries 1911: Albert Tobler 1914: Otto Streine 1928: Hans Batz 1933: A. J. Dooyes
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