hardliners. In the ROH leadership elected at the congress, different political strands were represented. Karel Poláček was the ROH chairman at the time. Gradually, however, ROH returned to following the line of the Communist Party. Organization ROH was organized along democratic centralist lines. The national leadership was the Central Trade Union Council (ÚRO). The organ leading ROH between ÚRO meetings was its 14-member presidium. In the districts, there were the District Trade Union Council (KOR). The KORs had around 20 members each, elected at District Trade Union Conferences. ROH published the newspaper Práce''. As of August 1958 ROH had over 3 800 000 members. International cooperation ROH was a member of the World Federation of Trade Unions. The WFTU had its headquarters in Prague. Later period In 1989, autonomous trade unions and strike committees surged in Czechoslovakia, which called for the dissolution of ROH. A parallel Trade Union Coordination Centre was formed. ROH tried to manage the situation by declaring its independence from the Communist Party. The Slovak branch of ROH decided to subordinate itself to the Coordination Centre. The Czech ROH organization hesitated somewhat, but at a trade union conference held 2–3 March 1990 ROH dissolved itself. In its place a new trade union federation, ČSKOS was founded. See also Bohemian-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions Confederation of Trade Unions of the Slovak Republic References National trade union centers of Czechoslovakia 1945 establishments in Czechoslovakia 1990 disestablishments in Czechoslovakia Trade unions established in 1945 Trade unions disestablished in 1990 World Federation of Trade Unions Czechoslovak Socialist Republic