330:, and the economic hardship and unemployment that followed made recruitment to the SAF difficult. According to Lennart K. Persson, the SAF would have had around 1,000 members at the time of its foundation and around 3,000 by the mid-1930s. At its peak, the SAF had some 50 Local Federations mainly in the southern and western parts of the country, plus a handful of Local Federations in the north. The organisation was dominated by its Gothenburg Local Federation, which had some 500 members by the early 1930s. The main sectors represented in the SAF were construction workers, followed by coal miners and forestry workers.
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276:. It was mainly concerned with tactical questions. The opposition was frustrated by long strikes that demanded significant fundraising to be sustained, as well as concerns over the costs of maintaining the central SAC bureaucratic apparatus. SAC central propaganda sought to prevent the split but a number of SAC Local Federations in western Sweden, including the sizeable
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Following the split, the SAC took several initiatives towards a reunification with the SAF. In 1929, a SAF delegation was invited to the SAC congress. Discussions on unification took place, but
Welinder resisted a merger. After Welinder's death in 1934, merger talks resumed, but only by 1 January
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The SAF programme was largely similar to that of the 1910 SAC programme, albeit some parts were more drawn from the IWW. The SAF rejected the SAC as overly centralized and bureaucratic, and the SAF disagreed with the move of the SAC towards fixed-term collective bargaining agreements. The SAF saw
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as a weekly newspaper. Whilst the SAF had sought to keep membership dues lower than other trade unions, the SAF had the most frequent levy-rising activities for its newspaper of all labour unions in
Gothenburg. Between two and four times a year, SAF members had to pay levies to keep
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For a relatively small organisation, the SAF carried out significant propaganda activities, largely thanks to
Welinder's capacities as a public speaker and writer. But the launch of the new organisation was soon followed by the
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Formally speaking, the SAF had to disband following a litigation arising from an intense industrial conflict, and a supposedly new organisation was formally constituted as the 'New
Syndicalist Workers Federation'.
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tactics. The SAF stressed the importance of organizing the poorest workers to retain the revolutionary character of the movement and keeping membership fees low. The SAF retained the Local
Federation (
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where feasible, but stressed that Local
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