Borsodi Levéltári Évkönyv 3. (Miskolc, 1980)
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building investment of 200 million forints was 300 thousand tons of slag Portland cement of the orders 300 and 400. The above works had been built on quite new premises so the liquidation of the old limestone works was put on the agenda. The stoppage of the light railway had already taken place in the early fifties. The closing down of the ring lime-kiln took place in 1968 because new limestone-works with a yearly capacity of 110 thousand tons were built up on the new premises in 1965. Because of the spreading of the prefabricated technology modem big works with a yearly capacity of 1,5 million tons of cement of the order 500 were built up in place of the old factory with 4,7 milliard forints being invested between 1971—75. FORMATION OF METALLURGISTS’ TRADE UNION IN ÖZD, 1913-1918 Tibor Vass At the beginning of the 19th century Ózd began to develop speedily. The owners of minor ironworks in Northern Hungary decided to set up a fairly big millwork on brook Hangony girded by spurs of the Bükk Mountains with rich coal-fields having been found in the vicinity. Construction was begun as early as 1846 and the factory had already been producing at the time of the war of independence. Ironworking had proved to be a good bargain so the owners of the ironworks had been enlarging and developing it year by year. As there were more and more factory chimneys exploitation and together with it the number of proletarians increased. The policy of Rimamurány-Salgótaiján Ironworks Share Company, which maintained the factory, more and more blocked the development of uniform labour movement. Despite this the trade union movement among workers had made a considerable progress from 1913 on. The outbreak of World War I, howevwr, hindered in trade-unionism. The drawing out of the war caused labour movement to revive at an astonishing speed. Its result was the official formation of the group of metallurgists’ trade union in Ózd on 24th June 1917. The eradiation of the October Revolution also had its effect on the development of the proletariat. On 21th January 1918 workers from Ózd were among the first to join the movement of workers in Budapest and take a stand in favour of universal peace through organizing a strike. It was in this year that they celebrated May Day with strike for the first time. As for provisions and their choice in the shops of the factory the situation deteriorated in the spring of this year. Difficulties in supply affected mainly women,so their demonstration for the improvement of provisioning on 16th May was successful. The volley fired in the machine factory of Hungarian Railways in Budapest on 20th June 1918 caused a nation-wide uproar among workers. Thereupon 2700 workers at Iron and Steel Works and 600 workers at Iron-Smelting Works in Ózd came out on strike on the following day. Contrary to the orders of the military headquarters of the war factory they resumed work only on 30th June. In the life of the workers in Ózd only the Hungarian Soviet Republic had brought about a radical change. 293
