Działalność Związku Zawodowego Farmaceutów Pracowników w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w ramach Federacji Farmaceutów Słowiańskich (1929 – 1939)

Działalność Związku Zawodowego Farmaceutów Pracowników w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w ramach Federacji Farmaceutów Słowiańskich (1929 – 1939)

Activity of Trade Union of Pharmacists Employees of the Polish Republic in the structure of Slavic Pharmacists Federation (1929 – 1939)

Wojciech Ślusarczyk

This article focuses on attempts to answer the question – what nature the activity of Trade Union of Pharmacists Employees of the Polish Republic (referred to as Union) had in the structure of Slavic Pharmacists Federation (referred to as Federation) in the period between 1929 and 1939? The Union was established in 1919 as the largest Polish organization bringing together qualified pharmaceutical staff. Its aim was to protect the rights of employees, improving their working conditions and to develop their professional qualifications. The Federation was set up in 1929, merging most of the pharmaceutical organizations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. The purpose of the Federation was to coalesce the pharmaceutical environments of the member states by scientific and personal connections, equalization of professional standards and development of qualifications. The activity of the Federation was however limited to organizing biennial international congresses. Polish scientists played a leading role in the structures of the Federation. A huge contribution was also made by the members of the Union. It was not only the direct involvement – based on active participation of the Union’s members in functioning of the Federation – but also informative, realized by publishing articles concerning the Federation in “Pharmaceutical Chronicle” – Union’s press organ. A common feature for both aspects of Union’s members’ participation in the structures of the Federation was a huge enthusiasm about connection, or even unification of Slavic nations. However, this enthusiasm did not cover Polish national interests. The existence of the Union and the Federation ended with the beginning of the Second World War.

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