Railway Worker's Club of the Yugoslav Radical Union (JRZ) in the Drava Governorate

Abstract

Railway Wbrker's Club of the Yugoslav Radical Union (Klub železničarjev JRZ) was one of YRU's larger organisations in the Ljubljana Railway Administration area (or the Drava Governorate). Founded in December 1937, it comprised 26 commissariats and over 3000 members in 1941. It was closely linked to the Yugoslav Radical Union leaders of the Drava governorate, and co-operated also with the central YRU Railway and Boatmen Worker's Club in Belgrade. Its organisational activities vvere more successful than its professional ones. Its members received the newspaper Slovenski železničar (Slovene Railway Worker, 1939-1941). Aside from its political role, the club was a harbinger of the »modern workers' movement« within the framework of the party's program.