Leon Jouhaux Quotes

• I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

  León Jouhaux

  Struggle, Heart, Unions

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• También nosotros, por falta de conocimientos y de una reflexión suficientemente madura, confundimos la apariencia exterior visible del fenómeno con el fenómeno en sí.

  León Jouhaux

  Reflection, Mature, Appearance

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• This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

  León Jouhaux

  Realization, Months, Firsts

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• At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.

  León Jouhaux

  Class, Organization, Ideas

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• This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

  León Jouhaux

  Class, Progress, Social

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• From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

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  Organization, Desire, World

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• My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

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  Mother, Art, School

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• True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

  León Jouhaux

  Patience, Lying, Way

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• A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

  León Jouhaux

  Simple, June, Effort

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