ABSTRACT
In 1911 the Intersektsionen Byuro (IB) was opened. It consisted of representatives from the capmakers' union and the Jewish furriers', leather workers' and tailors' branches. The main objective of the office was to disseminate propaganda for the trade unions, with the newspaper intended as the chief instrument. The links with the Confédération Générale des Travailleurs (CGT) meant that revolutionary syndicalism was the main ideological foundation of Der Idisher Arbeyter. Because the IB comprised representatives from the different Jewish trade union branches, which each had their own political ideologies, however, other views were heard as well. The Jewish CGT branches joined forces and organized a protest demonstration straightaway on 6 April. Many of those present attended the gathering. From 1909 onward the different Jewish branches discussed the publication of a trade journal in Yiddish for Jewish workers in the different trades. Finally, the Jewish workers had their own paper and their own umbrella organization. This promoted the rise of the Jewish trade unions enormously.
