Un document inedit – memoriul adresat de Ioan Flueraş generalului Ion Antonescu (ianuarie 1941)
An Unpublished Document – Ioan Flueraş’s Memoir to General Ion Antonescu (January 1941)

Summary/Abstract: Ioan Flueraş was one of the most important leaders of the social-democratic movement in Romania. He played an essential role in the unification of Transylvania with Romania in December 1st 1918. He was appointed chief of the Ministry of Health Care. In 1918 he was elected General Secretary of the Social-Democratic Party in Transylvania. He was against the extreme left wing of the social-democratic movement and refused the affiliation of his party to the third International in Moscow. Between 1924 and 1939 Ioan Flueraş was the President of the General Confederation of Work in Romania, and one of the leaders of the trade union movement in Romania. Ioan Flueraş played an important role in rebuilding the Social-Democratic Party in 1927. He was elected a member and then a vice-president of the executive committee of the party. During 1928-1932 he was elected a deputy in the Romanian Parliament three times. In 1938, Ioan Flueraş and other important leaders of social democracy endorsed the authoritarian regime of Carol II in order to protect the workers’ interests. His name appeared on the list of the founders of the National Rebirth Front in December 1938. The document we publish is a memoir that Ioan Flueraş submitted to the leader of the Romanian state, General Ion Antonescu, in January 1941. The document belongs to the Archives of the National Committee for Studying the Archives of the Security. The memoir was submitted to Ion Antonescu in a very difficult moment in Romania’s political life, right after the crushing of the Iron Guard’s revolt. The document is about the iron guardists’ attempts to attract workers to their organization, the reprisals against the social-democratic leaders and the hope that Antonescu’s new regime will pay special attention to the working class. It also mentions Ioan Flueraş’s suggestion that measures should be taken immediately to help reorganize the unions.

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