Tuomas Bryggari

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Tuomas Bryggari
Member of the Parliament of Finland
In office
5 September 1922 – 21 July 1948
ConstituencyVaasa Province East
Personal details
Born(1881-12-08)8 December 1881
Jääski, Russian Empire
Died31 October 1964(1964-10-31) (aged 82)
Helsinki, Finland
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Finland
OccupationTrade unionist

Tuomas Bryggari (8 December 1881 – 31 October 1964) was a Finnish trade unionist, politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Vaasa Province East between September 1922 and July 1948.[1] Prior to being elected, he was imprisoned for political reasons following the Finnish Civil War.[1]

Early life[edit]

Bryggari was born on 8 December 1881 in Jääski in the south-east of the Grand Duchy of Finland.[1][2] He was the son of Paavo Bryggari and Maria Himmanen.[1][3] He studied at public school for three grades.[1][4] Bryggari started working as a child and had many jobs during his early life: farm worker/cattle herder, wheelwright, forestry worker, railway construction worker, dockworker and stonemason in Jääske and Helsinki.[1][3] He was a construction worker on the Jyväskylä–Pieksämäki railway.[2]

Trade unionism[edit]

Bryggari became involved in trade unionism in 1905 and was blacklisted by employers.[4] He was a speaker for the Union of Road and Water Construction Workers (Tie- ja vesirakennustyöläisten liitto) in northern Finland.[5] He was on the board of the Helsinki Workers' Association (Helsingin Työväenyhdistys) and Finnish Stone Workers' Union (Suomen kivityöntekijäin liiton).[6][7] During the August 1917 Helsinki strike Bryggari headed the delegation that met with the Russian Governor-General Mikhail Aleksandrovich Stakhovich and the Senate Vice-president Oskari Tokoi to present the strikers demands.[8][9]

In December 1917, Bryggari was chosen as one of speakers of the Uusimaa branch of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).[10] Bryggari was amongst tens of thousands of leftists who were imprisoned in concentration camps for political reasons by the Whites following their victory in the Finnish Civil War.[1] After being released, he was secretary of the Finnish Construction Workers' Union (Suomen Rakennustyöväen Liitto) in 1919 but was forced out after communists took over the union.[3] He was an organiser, speaker and lecturer for the Finnish Trade Union Federation (SAJ) from 1920 to 1921.[3]

In 1930 the fascist regime in Finland dissolved the Construction Workers' Union using draconian anti-communist laws.[3] Bryggari was chairman of the union's successor, the SDP led Construction Workers Union, from 1930.[3] This construction union was also taken over by the communists and Bryggari was replaced as chairman by Uno Nurminen in 1939.[3] After the SAJ was also banned in 1930 using anti-communist laws, the SDP established the Finnish Federation of Trade Unions (SAK).[3] Bryggari played a key role in the SAK until 1937.[3]

Politics[edit]

Bryggari was the secretary of the Vaasa Province East branch of the SDP from 1921 to 1922.[1][3] He was elected to the Parliament of Finland at the 1922 parliamentary election.[11][12] He was re-elected at the 1924, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1939 and 1945 parliamentary elections.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]

Bryggari, who was afflicted with silicosis from his days as a stonemason, fought for a wide interpretation of the Occupational Diseases Act.[3] Officially there were few work-related illnesses but an investigation by a parliamentary committee in 1945-1946 found that the true levels of illnesses had been hidden from the public and that clinics were being overwhelmed by patients with work-related illnesses.[3] Bryggari played a key role in the creation of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and the professional health and safety inspection regime.[3]

Bryggari belonged to the peace opposition during the latter stages of the Continuation War and after the war to the Fagerholm opposition which supported closer co-operation with the Finnish People's Democratic League, something the SDP leadership opposed.[3] Bryggari was a presidential elector at the 1925, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1943 and 1950 presidential elections.[1][3] After retiring form politics Bryggari was worked for the State Electrical Workshop (Valtion Sähköpajan) as an inspector between 1948 and 1951.[3] He was the first chairman of the SDP affiliated National Pensioners' Union (Kansaneläkkeensaajien Keskusliiton).[21]

Bryggari died on 31 October 1964 in Helsinki.[1][3]

Personal life[edit]

Bryggari was married to Lempi Maria Juhontytär (née Bergman) (1887-1926) from 1909 to 1926.[1][3] They had two daughters, Irja and Aino.[22] He married Ida Wilhelmiina Lumivuokko (née Nieminen) in June 1938.[1][3][23]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Kansanedustajat: Tuomas Bryggari" (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Parliament of Finland. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011.
  2. ^ a b "50-vuotias". Työn Voima (in Finnish). No. 284. Jyväskylä, Finland. 8 December 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Helin, Jyrki (30 November 2001). "Bryggari, Tuomas (1881 - 1964)". Suomen kansallisbiografia (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. Retrieved 22 January 2024 – via Biografiasampo.
  4. ^ a b "Sosialidemokraattiset kansanedustajat heinäk. 1 ja 3 p:nä 1922 valitussa eduskunnassa". Työväen Kalenteri (in Finnish). 1923 (16). Helsinki, Finland: Social Democratic Party of Finland: 101. 1922. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  5. ^ "Tie- ja wesirakennustyöläisten puhuja". Kansan Tahto (in Finnish). No. 286. Oulu, Finland. 10 December 1908. p. 2. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  6. ^ "Helsingin työwäenyhdistyksen". Työmies (in Finnish). No. 319. Helsinki, Finland. 25 November 1916. p. 4. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  7. ^ "Kiwityöntekijäin liittokokous". Työmies (in Finnish). No. 88. Helsinki, Finland. 1 April 1917. p. 7. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  8. ^ Tanner, Väinö (1957). Kuinka se oikein tapahtui: Vuosi 1918 esivaiheineen ja jälkiselvittelyineen. Helsinki, Finland: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Tammi. pp. 116–117. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
  9. ^ "Lähetystön tiedot". Työmies (in Finnish). No. 219. Helsinki, Finland. 16 August 1917. p. 3. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  10. ^ "Uudenmaan sos.-dem. Waalipiiritoimikuuta". Työmies (in Finnish). No. 329. Helsinki, Finland. 11 December 1917. p. 5. Retrieved 23 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  11. ^ "Valittuja edustajia". Kansan Tahto (in Finnish). No. 81. Oulu, Finland. 18 July 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  12. ^ "Den nyvalda riksdagens sammansättning". Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish). No. 187. Helsinki, Finland. 14 July 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  13. ^ "Vastavalitut kansana edustaja". Vaasa (in Finnish). No. 94. Vaasa, Finland. 23 July 1924. p. 4. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  14. ^ "Uusi eduskunta". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). No. 185. Helsinki, Finland. 13 July 1927. p. 2. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  15. ^ "Uuden eduskunnan kokoonpano on nyt saatu määrätyksi". Suomen Sosialidemokraatti (in Finnish). No. 185. Helsinki, Finland. 12 July 1929. p. 4. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  16. ^ "Uuden eduskunnan kokoonpano". Turun Sanomat (in Finnish). No. 274. Turku, Finland. 11 October 1930. p. 4. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  17. ^ "Uuden eduskunnan kokoonpano". Lapin Kansa (in Finnish). No. 75. Rovaniemi, Finland. 13 July 1933. p. 3. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  18. ^ "Uuden eduskunnan kokoonpano". Ylä-Vuoksi (in Finnish). No. 53. Imatra, Finland. 11 July 1936. p. 2. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  19. ^ "Uuden eduskunnan kokoonpano". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). No. 179. Helsinki, Finland. 8 July 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  20. ^ "De nya riksdagsmännen". Hufvudstadsbladet (in Swedish). No. 79. Helsinki, Finland. 22 March 1945. p. 7. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  21. ^ Kangas, Lasse (9 March 2012). "Eläkeläiset ja puoluetoiminta". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish). Jyväskylä, Finland. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  22. ^ "Kuolleita". Työn Voima (in Finnish). No. 245. Jyväskylä, Finland. 29 October 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
  23. ^ "Sivilirekisteri ja seurakunnat". Suomen Sosialidemokraatti (in Finnish). No. 245. Helsinki, Finland. 21 June 1938. p. 10. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via National Library of Finland.
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