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Force Ouvrière, the anti-Communist movement within the Communist-bossed C.G.T. (TIME, Dec. 22), last week called an "extraordinary national conference" in Paris. Some 250 delegates crowded into a bare, smallish meeting hall on the Left Bank. Pouchy old Léon Jouhaux, Socialist co-secretary-general of the C.G.T., sat near a radiator to keep warm. He wore a grey sweater under his blue suit, and a grey hat pulled over his eyes. Old Léon has a bad heart and he looked tired...
...Jouhaux was sad. He had devoted 38 years of his life to building up the C.G.T. He wanted the Force Ouvrière rebels to wait until the September union elections, when he thought control of the C.G.T. could be wrested from the Reds. When he ended his speech a few hands clapped out of respect for the Old Man. But a speaker who followed him and echoed his sentiments got boos and catcalls. At 11 p.m. Jouhaux shuffled wearily from the hall...
...Jouhaux and his four non-Communist lieutenants on the C.G.T.'s executive board submitted their resignations. Then they moved out of the C.G.T.'s, yellow limestone headquarters on the Rue La Fayette and the four lieutenants set up shop in a grey two-story building on the Rue Mademoiselle, flanked by a bakery and a barbershop. Jouhaux refused to take the top post. He may change his mind, but if he does not, the likeliest leader is small, dark, shy Robert Bothereau, 51, a metal worker and longtime Jouhaux follower...
...France, too, Communist power in the unions is more important than the party's position in the Government. The Communists have edged aging Léon Jouhaux out of the real leadership of France's Confédération Générale du Travail, have made Communist Co-Secretary General Benoit Frachon the real boss over the Confédération's six million workers. French Communists, through unions directly controlled by Communists, can stop key industries, including metals, light & power, railroads, building, mines, chemicals, textiles, food processing, communications. The constant threat...
With the support of France's Léon Jouhaux and Mexico's Vicente LombardoToledano, the conference elected Louis Saillant, French left-wing Resistance leader, as secretary-general to balance Citrine...