Revolutionäre Gewerkschafts Opposition

Efforts to establish an independent union were renewed,[2] and the KPD began to systematically set up an opposing faction within the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB).

On March 14, 1929, the central committee of the KPD decided to register as members people who had been expelled as radicals from a trade union.

As of 1930, the RGO was promoted as a "red class trade union" and several cross-over campaigns were initiated, but never to great success.

[3] Large sections of the unionist wing of the KPD left the party and more than half of the RGO was unemployed.

Because the Communists lost influence in the trade unions from people leaving, and to a lesser extent, from expulsions, in 1931, they changed their strategy.