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- The General Workers' Union (Spanish: Unión General de Trabajadores; abbreviated UGT) was an Argentine national labor confederation from 1903 to 1909. It was founded in 1903 as a rival to the country's first national labor confederation, the Argentine Workers' Federation (FOA), known as the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) from 1905. Around this time, the FOA had become more openly anarchist, leading to tension between the socialist syndicalists and the anarchists in the federation. The UGT was thus founded by the former and it was more moderate than its predecessor. Unlike the FOA, it did not discourage participation in elections and encouraged its members to become Argentine citizens - as the majority of the Argentine working class at the time consisted of European immigrants who were thus disenfranchised. Nonetheless, it claimed that general strike "can be an effective means of struggle", but rejected starting it for "violent ends". This position became more radical in the following years as the relations between the syndicalists in the UGT and the Socialist Party became more strained, and in 1906 the UGT declared that the general strike was "an arm of struggle of superior effectiveness". The UGT had 7,500 members in 1904, membership peaked at 10,000 in 1906. Despite the two organizations' rivalry, there was a lot of cooperation between the FORA and the UGT. Together, they fought against the 1902 Residence Law, which allowed the expulsion of subversive aliens and collaborated on many strikes. On the local level, the cooperation was even more intense. During its last years of existence, the UGT was unable to gain members. Therefore, it merged with the more moderate syndicalists in the FORA in 1909, to form the (CORA). (en)
- La Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) fue una central sindical fundada en la Argentina en 1902. Se originó en el desprendimiento de varios sindicatos (albañiles, constructores de carruajes, mecánicos, sastres, etc.) de la recién creada FORA, por entonces aún con el nombre de FOA, instalándose de ese modo dos centrales sindicales en el país. La razón de la división se debió al enfrentamiento entre el sector anarquista, por un lado, contra los sectores socialista y sindicalista revolucionario, por el otro. Los primeros en la FORA, los segundos en la UGT. A diferencia de lo decidido por la FORA en eso años (luego cambiaría), adhiriendo expresamente a la ideología anarquista, la UGT no adhirió a ninguna corriente ideológica, habilitando la participación de diversas corrientes sindicales, aunque en su Declaración de Principio, si invoca «el pensamiento de Carlos Marx: la emancipación de los trabajadores ha de ser obra de ellos mismos». Durante el breve lapso que existió la UGT, los sindicatos y dirigentes socialistas fueron desarrollando y creando en la Argentina la corriente sindicalista revolucionaria, inspirada en Sorel y la CGT francesa. Esta corriente y el socialismo serán las corrientes predominantes hasta la década del 40, en tanto que el anarquismo fue perdiendo importancia desde finales de la década del 10. En 1909 la UGT se autodisolvió para fusionarse con otros sindicatos autónomos y crear la Confederación Obrera Regional Argentina (CORA). La CORA, a su vez, en 1914 se disolvería para integrarse a la FORA, como paso previo a que las corrientes sindicalista revolucionaria y socialista desplazaran de la conducción a los anarquistas, en el IX Congreso de 1915. (es)
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- The General Workers' Union (Spanish: Unión General de Trabajadores; abbreviated UGT) was an Argentine national labor confederation from 1903 to 1909. It was founded in 1903 as a rival to the country's first national labor confederation, the Argentine Workers' Federation (FOA), known as the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) from 1905. Around this time, the FOA had become more openly anarchist, leading to tension between the socialist syndicalists and the anarchists in the federation. The UGT was thus founded by the former and it was more moderate than its predecessor. Unlike the FOA, it did not discourage participation in elections and encouraged its members to become Argentine citizens - as the majority of the Argentine working class at the time consisted of European immigrants (en)
- La Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) fue una central sindical fundada en la Argentina en 1902. Se originó en el desprendimiento de varios sindicatos (albañiles, constructores de carruajes, mecánicos, sastres, etc.) de la recién creada FORA, por entonces aún con el nombre de FOA, instalándose de ese modo dos centrales sindicales en el país. La razón de la división se debió al enfrentamiento entre el sector anarquista, por un lado, contra los sectores socialista y sindicalista revolucionario, por el otro. Los primeros en la FORA, los segundos en la UGT. (es)
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