Word: jouhaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daladier's Choice. Vigorous Daladier may well 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...
...Joseph Stalin has now decided to make trouble for the democratic governments of Western Europe by promoting general strikes and "World Revolution'' (TIME, Nov. 21), and if there is anything in it for European trade union bosses not themselves Communists, Léon Jouhaux is going to get what...
Labor Boss Jouhaux might have chosen to order a General Strike when Premier Daladier broke up the French Popular Front (TIME, Nov. 7), or on account of the "rape of Czechoslovakia," or immediately after Daladier announced his latest batch of decree-laws. In fact, a Labor leader chooses to general-strike when he gets a hunch he can win. It was on such a hunch that Labor Tsar Jouhaux acted last week. He has his desk in the control tower of the French General Labor Confederation's renovated, seven-story Paris "skyscraper." There last week he telephoned, telegraphed...
Vibrating to Jouhaux, mass meetings of workers convened all over the country. It was mobilization. The speakers had four whole days in which to whip up whatever unrest they could before the day set for the one-day Jouhaux General Strike...
Veteran Appeasers. Some 5,000,000 strong, the French National Confederation of War Veterans this week viewed with such alarm the proposed General Strike of the French General Confederation of Labor, that it made two requests. It asked the 5,000,000 Laborers (i. e., Strike-Potent Jouhaux) to "reconsider the danger of general action which, pushed to the limit, would compromise the security of the nation." On the other hand, it asked the State (i. e., Decree-Potent Daladier) to "seek all means of calming the nation's emotions and of appeasing the social conflict." To most Frenchmen...