VHTL-Zeitung

Title: VHTL-Zeitung / Gewerkschaft Verkauf, Handel, Transport, Lebensmittel (VHTL)

Canton: Zurich

Available online: 1 January 1904 - 19 November 2004 (3,139 issues, 19,754 pages)

Bibliografic information (Helveticat): http://permalink.snl.ch/bib/sz001239873

Rights: private use

Segmentation level: article level

Description: Trade union newspaper of social democratic colouring; Organ of the central association that covered workers employed in the food and beverage industry as well as in the trade and transport industry, official organ of the Verband der Handels-, Transport- und Lebensmittelarbeiter der Schweiz [Association of Trade, Transport and Food Workers of Switzerland]. The Korrespondenzblatt initially appeared in quarto format (until 01.08.1907), then in folio format. The publication was initially published every two weeks, then weekly from 06.07.1929. The newspaper was initially printed in the Unionsdruckerei Bern, then from 18.07.1926 in the Genossenschaftsdruckerei Zürich. In the years 1918-1919, in addition to the Stimme der Arbeit, it was accompanied by the supplement Solidarité - Institutions de la Fédération suisse des ouvriers du commerce, transport and de l'alimentation. The French-language journal temporarily did not appear separately. The editors were among others Johann Müller, Hermann Leuenberger, E. Wyss, Jean Schifferstein. Contributions by Wilhelm Liebknecht, Herman Greulich and Robert Grimm also appeared in the Proletarier (1909-1915). It was absorbed into Work.