Word: billancourt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have judged that, if the game is to be nine-tenths bluff (as it often has been in France), he can first outbluff and finally outbargain Jouhaux. So-called "alarming reports" of French police last week "smashing" many "spontaneous" and "premature" so-called "strikes" in Lille (50,000 strikers), Billancourt (30,000), Valenciennes (8,000), etc., had their element of play-acting-but the play was new. It was not according to the "New Deal" script of Léon Blum, under whom as Premier one million workers were on strikes & sit-downs two short years ago (TIME, June...
When Renault's (automobiles, tanks, airplane engines, shells) 34,000 workers, comprising France's biggest single company, caught retiring bourgeois President Louis Renault inside his Billancourt office, they locked him in. Though the owners were cheerfully remarking that they had never been so well protected against fire, theft and sabotage, Louis Renault had no stomach for his workers' company, shortly gave in to their demands...