Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objected furiously to the recent series of decree laws introduced by Premier Daladier (with parliamentary authority previously voted and to be confirmed or withdrawn by Parliament) mainly for one reason: they claimed, justly in the main, that on their face these laws impose sacrifices which bear more heavily upon Labor than upon Capital. The businessman's side of the argument is, of course, that these laws are intended to redress some of the undue wealth-destroying laws which Labor won under the "New Deal" Cabinets of M. Léon Blum (TIME, June...
...Frenchman would rather have a big British Army in existence than any other army, except the big French Army. The way in which things are looked at in France, even by the proletariat, made the defense moves taken in Paris last week important (not necessarily decisive) in the labor war which anti-Daladier zealots tried meanwhile to kindle, with some success...
...Blum is No. 1 politically in the French Left. No. 1 in a trade-unionist sense is M. Léon Jouhaux, General Secretary of the French General Confederation of Labor, with 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists-many not French-whom he has to try to keep behind him. This William Green or John L. Lewis of France (and neither cap quite fits Jouhaux) is nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin...
...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...
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...