 Some claim that the FVdG influenced strikes in the arms industry as early as February or March 1918 , but the organization was not re @-@ established on a national level until December 1918 . On December 14 , Fritz Kater started publishing Der <unk> ( The Syndicalist ) in Berlin as a replacement for Die Einigkeit . On December 26 and 27 , a conference organized by Kater and attended by 33 delegates from 43 local unions took place in Berlin . The delegates reflected upon the difficult times during the war and proudly noted that the FVdG was the only trade union which did not have to adjust its program to the new political conditions because it had remained loyal to its anti @-@ state and internationalist principles . The delegates reaffirmed their rejection of parliamentarianism and refused to participate in the National Assembly . 
