Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...principal 26.000 miles of railway in France and its rolling stock; 2) sent steel-helmeted Mobile Guards to take away from alien workmen their permits to work in France, telling them on Saturday that if they came back to work Monday and showed a disposition to work Wednesday (General Strike Day), they would get back their cards Monday; 3) put on the alert the General Staff, the Army and all engines by which the State might reasonably expect to crush (in blood, if it should come to that) the scheduled 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...
Specifically, the veterans suggested that the general strike be postponed on condition that Premier Daladier convene Parliament, a move he has successfully blocked for several weeks, on December 6 for a full debate and a vote of confidence, a course which might prove disastrous to Premier and Cabinet. To this proposal the General Confederation of Labor's executive committee soon answered...