Leon Jouhaux Quotes

Leon Jouhaux — French Leader born on July 01, 1879, died on April 28, 1954

Léon Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951... (wikipedia)

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.

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.

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.

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.

Leon Jouhaux Quotes

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