Alexandru Ionescu (socialist militant)

Alexandru Ionescu was a Romanian typographer, early labour leader and socialist journalist. A founding member of Romanian Social Democratic Workers Party , he was part of its leadership throughout its existence, at the same time working for the unionisation of the Romanian workers. One of the few party leaders with actual workingclass background, Ionescu opposed collaboration with the bourgeois political parties, and continued to support the existence of a workers party even after the other leaders of PDSMR decided on the partys dissolution. A founder, along fellowminded socialists, of the Workingclass Romania circle, Ionescu grew estranged from the main socialist grouping due to disagreements over the newly established labour legislation. Joining the governmentsanctioned corporations, he supported at times ideas contradictory to his former socialist positions, but ultimately he rejected corporatism as a form of labour organisation. Despite some attempts at collaboration, he would nev

Alexandru Ionescu was born in Bucharest, in a workingclass family. After finishing primary school, he was employed as a compositor at the State Publishing House, then as a student typographer at the Carol Gbl publishing house. Becoming a makerup, he also worked in the typographic enterprises of the newspapers Curierul financiar and Le people Roumain. In 1880, after four years of apprenticeship, he became a qualified worker, and was employed by the typography of the newspaper LIndpendance Roumaine.

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