Word: jouhaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bustling up to Moscow last week went famed Leon Jouhaux, the portly "Tsar of French trade unionism." During last year's active "New Deal" period in France, pot-bellied Tsar Jouhaux was a hero to millions of workers who credited him with browbeating the Cabinet of Socialist Leon Blum into decreeing nationwide shorter hours, vacations with pay. After Socialist Blum was succeeded this year by middle-class Premier Camille Chautemps, who reined in the New Deal and announced an official "pause" (TIME, Nov. 8 et ante) the huge bulk of Labor's Jouhaux has been less impressive...
...chemical, printing industries throughout the world. Stanchest supporters of this scheme were the U. S. delegates, including Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux; New Zealand Delegate W. H. T. Armstrong. Stanchest opponents were the United Kingdom delegates headed by Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Secretary of Labor...
French Delegate Léon Jouhaux struck the same note. To Premier Blum the voice of goatee-waggling Léon Jouhaux, epicure, onetime longshoreman, is even more a master's voice than is John L. Lewis' to Franklin Roosevelt. Léon Jouhaux bosses not half but all of France's organized labor front, key force in the Popular Front whose votes keep Premier Blum in power. Roared Léon Jouhaux at Geneva: "You cannot on one hand prepare for war and on the other develop social justice...
...founders, that, since the day has come to rejuvenate this old house, it appears impossible to invite you to participate in this restoration." Inexpressibly shocking to French business was the prompt appointment by the Government to the new board of Regents of goateed, rabble-rousing Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux, who last week flew to Spain's "Red" Government Capital of Madrid. To Paris businessmen this suggested that M. Jouhaux had gone to arrange a loan by the Bank of France to Spanish foes of Capitalism...
Coming back from Geneva to Paris, as soon as he heard that "in principle" the great majority of strikes seemed to have been settled locally, Trade Union Boss Léon Jouhaux estimated that the wage increases, the shortening of the worker's week to 40 hours and the enforced improvement of working conditions must increase French production costs by at least 35%-and they are already among the highest in the world, most other countries having cheapened their prices by cheapening their money. Unquestionably this week Le Peuple Souverain thought they had won higher wages in gold standard...