The trade unions, far from being content... | Leon Jouhaux

Policy Content Being

The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.

- Leon Jouhaux

Quote of the Day

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

- Herman Kahn

Other quotes by Leon Jouhaux

June

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

Nature

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

Desire Peace World

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

Mother School

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

Conflict Disaster Months First

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

Importance Struggle Peace

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.

- Leon Jouhaux

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