Word: bergougnan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Center of the disturbance was the Bergougnan rubber factory, where a Communist-fomented sit-in strike had been in progress two weeks. When French police arrived to enforce a court order requiring the strikers to vacate, the strike suddenly became a brutal reconnaissance in force for France's Communists and for Interior Minister Jules Moch's new, mobile Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité (security police...
...divided into eight super-precincts, which covered all France, and equipped with rapid transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
Fists & Votes. Next day fighting broke out again-this time in the National Assembly. But with fists only. While Communist deputies chanted "Assassin," Moch made his report. He charged that the battle at Bergougnan had been caused by 300 Communists among the strikers, and added that the bottle bombs had been thrown by "non-workers." "Liar!" shouted Marcel Cachin, dean of France's Communists. Replied Moch: "It is easy to say others lie when one does not have an easy conscience oneself." But some of Moch's Socialist colleagues were less mild. They surged across the aisles, fell...
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