International Landworkers' Federation

The International Landworkers' Federation (ILF) was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing agricultural and forestry workers.

History
The federation was established in 1920 at a conference in Amsterdam, and set up its headquarters in Utrecht. In 1924, it relocated to Berlin, but returned to Utrecht in 1933. By 1925, it had 15 affiliates, with a total of 377,800 members, and by 1954 this had grown to more than 1,000,000 members, principally in Europe.

In 1960, the federation merged with the Plantation Workers International Federation, which mostly represented workers on plantations in poorer countries, forming the International Federation of Plantation and Agricultural Workers.

Affiliates
In 1954, the following unions were affiliated to the federation:

General Secretaries

 * 1920: Piet Hiemstra
 * 1924: Georg Schmidt
 * 1933: Piet Hiemstra
 * 1938: Oscar Lewinsen
 * 1942: Walter Kwasnik
 * 1950: Adri de Ruijter

Presidents

 * 1920: Walter Smith
 * 1924: Joseph Forbes Duncan
 * 1950: Edwin Gooch