Bernardo Berenger Delom was an Argentine socialist politician and organizer of cooperative movements. He was born on August 19, 1884.[1] He was an electrician by profession.[1] He served as treasurer of the Socialist Party,[1] and he represented the party in the Executive Committee of the Labour and Socialist International between August 1928 and February 1934.[2]
He eventually moved away from party politics, and became a leading figure in the cooperative movement.[1] He served as chairman of the Argentine Federation of Consumer Co-operatives.[3] He represented the Argentine cooperative movement in the International Cooperative Alliance.[4] He was a board member of El Hogar Obrero cooperative.[4][5] He published the journal El cooperativismo, and authored El cooperativismo en la escuela ('Cooperativism in the School') and El ABC del empleado cooperativo ('The ABC for the Cooperative Employee').[4]
At the 1953 General Assembly of the organization Delom and other non-Peronist officials of the Argentine Federation of Consumer Co-operatives were removed from their posts.[6] Delom went into exile.[6] He died on July 15, 1956.[1]
The Bernardo Delom Popular Library was founded on July 15, 1958.[7] In 1959 the City of Buenos Aires named a square in Villa Lugano after Delom (34°40′12″S 58°28′45″W / 34.670080°S 58.479030°W).[4][8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Co-operative Review. Co-operative Union Limited, Publications Department. 1956. p. 177.
- ^ Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. pp. 282-338.
- ^ International Labour Office (1943). The co-operative movement in the Americas: an international symposium. ILO. p. 41.
- ^ a b c d Buenos Aires Ciudad. Origen y razón de sus nombres
- ^ Alicia Kaplan de Drimer; Bernardo Drimer (1975). Las cooperativas: fundamentos, historia, doctrina. INTERCOOP, Editora Cooperativa. p. 526.
- ^ a b International Co-operative Alliance. Report of the Congress. p. 58.
- ^ Sistema provincial de bibliotecas: uno red cultural de acceso a la información : guia 2004. Instituto Cultural, Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. 2004. p. 230. ISBN 978-987-21809-0-4.
- ^ Buenos Aires Ciudad. La Ciudad reinauguró la Plaza Delom, en Villa Lugano