The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year:	1937
Number:	14-2
Nominee:
Name:	Edo Fimmen
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1881
Profession/Category:	Trade union leader
Country:	BE (BELGIUM)
Nominator:
Name:	Vladimír Clementis
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Member of the Council of the Permanent International Peace Bureau
City:	Bratislava
Country:	SK (SLOVAKIA)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Ragnvald Moe
Gender:	M
Comment:	Fimmen was elected secretary both of the International Federation of Transport Workers and the Association of International Trade Unions in 1919. He was forced to leave the latter in 1923; he had encouraged a joint action by the European trade unions against the new dangers of war and for the protection of the German working class. Fimmen was re-elected in 1924, agitating for a proletarian revolution in order to establish a union of free proletarian republics. Vladimìr Clementis was a lawyer, political journalist and communist politician. Slovakia was at the time part of Czechoslovakia.