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The union did not initially grow, so at the start of 1893, Josephson proposed that it was dissolved. The proposal was voted down, and he was instead elected as vice president, in which role he argued the unions should campaign for shorter working hours and no work on
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Josephson stood unsuccessfully for the SPD in both the 1901 and 1904 elections. In 1901, he again began working for the union, and in 1902, he was elected as its president. Initially, membership remained small, but after
Josephson decided to focus on recruiting workers at
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