The People's-National Union (ZLN) was a Polish political organization of a national-democratic nature, operating during the period II and continuing the thought of National Democracy (endection), focusing national and conservative environments. He was 1 of the most crucial groups on the Polish political scene from 1919 to 1928.
The organization played a key function in the process of shaping the statehood and order of the reborn Poland. ZLN was created in May 1919 at a convention in Warsaw, attended by about 3.5 1000 delegates from all corners of the revival and unifying Poland. Initially they were part of a organization conceived as a federation of various groups with a akin ideological profile, including the National-Democratic Party, the Christian-National organization and the People's Union. However, the secession of any in the first months led to the creation of a uniform
Groups.
The organisational structure of the ZLN was based on local committees that operated throughout the country. The organization besides had its own press bodies, specified as “Gazeta Warszawska”, “Kurier Poznań”, “National Thought” and dozens of local and regional journals that promoted its program and ideas. The ZLN was founded in 1922. The influences in the Polish Scouting Association were extended and held in the Gymnastic Society
"The Falcon". The National Women's Organization has besides acted quickly. In the economical spheres, the Society for the Promotion of manufacture and Trade of Polish “Development” and the Association for the Promotion of Polish State of Ownership of “Development” – the main promoters of the slogan of consumer patriotism “Your own to your own”.
The main programming requests of the organization were:
a. Building a strong national state in which Polish interests will be a priority. Already the second ZLN convention in October 1919 indicated Germany as the main enemy of the independent Polish statehood.
b. Protecting Polish culture, language and traditions from abroad influences.
c. Strengthening the function of the Catholic Church as the foundation of social life.
d. Limiting the cultural and economical influence of national minorities, especially judaic and German.
e. Promotion of economical improvement based on home capital, while opposed to excessive state interference in the economy. The ZLN besides sought to advance agricultural reform, but respecting private ownership. He opposed extremist social change, promoting a alternatively evolutionary approach to
State modernisation.
In the 1919 parliamentary election, ZLN won a crucial number of seats, becoming 1 of the main groups in the Legislative Sejm. The club had almost a 3rd of the tickets. Related results were later noted erstwhile ZLN participated in a wider coalition of the Christian Union of National Unity in 1922 (CHJN, colloquially Chjena). The organization played an crucial function in the work on the March Constitution of 1921. The ZLN supported solutions strengthening executive power and ensuring the stableness of the state, although not all organization demands were full taken into account in the final form of the Constitution.
Among the party's activists were a number of people who deserved to regain and keep an independent existence, people of science, culture and art, specified as Roman Dmowski, hr. Maurice Zamoyski – presidential candidate in 1922 and abroad minister, Władysław Grabski – author of monetary reform, Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski – pioneer of nature conservation, Edward Taylor – creator of Poznań economical school and others.
In the 1920s ZLN participated in the creation of respective coalition governments, including Polish People's organization “Piast” and Christian Democracy. The organization tried to balance between the interests of conservative landowners and the needs of developing manufacture and bourgeoisy. In abroad policy, the ZLN advocated strengthening the borders of the reborn state and strengthening alliances with Western countries, continuing the course from the time of planet War I, during which politicians of appointments put on Western Allies, creating the Polish Army in France by their side. According to estimates, the organization had 80,000-90 1000 members on the eve of the May coup. The coup by Józef Piłsudski in 1926 led to the taking over of power by the sanatorium camp. ZLN turned to opposition to sanitization, criticizing autocratic methods of governance and limiting civilian liberties. The organization was 1 of the most crucial opposition forces, defending the principles of parliamentary democracy. In the fresh political reality, leaders with Roman Dmowski at the head decided to transform ZLN into National organization (SN) which continued political activity in the changed realities of the Second Republic. The SN became the main opposition organization to the dictatorial regulation of the sanatorium camp, promoting national-democratic values until the outbreak of planet War II.
