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	Léon Jouhaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Léon Jouhaux (1 July 1879 – 28 April 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.
		In an international context, his work was instrumental in the setting up of the International Labour Organization (ILO), and was elected to high positions in international trade union bodies, including the International Federation of Trade Unions and its postwar kin the World Federation of Trade Unions until that body split.
		On his passing in 1954, Léon Jouhaux was interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leon_Jouhaux (346 words)

	Léon Jouhaux - Biography
		Although Jouhaux gradually moved from a radical philosophical position to a more moderate one in his four decades of labor leadership, he nonetheless preserved a remarkable consistency in the programs of action he espoused.
		Jouhaux joined the Resistance, was arrested in December, 1941, and held in house custody until April, 1943, when he was sent to the Buchenwald prison camp in Germany.
		It was during a session of the Council that Jouhaux first sustained the symptoms of the heart trouble that was to bring his career to a close.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1951/jouhaux-bio.html (1226 words)

	AllRefer.com - LEon Jouhaux (Labor, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		LEon Jouhaux[lAON´ zhOO-O´] Pronunciation Key, 1879–1954, French Socialist labor leader.
		He headed the ConfEdEration GEnErale du Travail from 1909 to 1947, when he resigned in protest against its alliance with Communist interests.
		Long prominent in the International Labor Organization and active in the service of peace, Jouhaux received the 1951 Nobel Peace Prize.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Jouhaux.html (204 words)

	CGTHIST
		He contributes to the adoption of the Charter of Amiens (1906), which reaffirms the independence of the trade unions with regard to the policy.
		LEON JOUHAUX (1909-1947): it marks the union action of the interval war by preaching " the independence " of the trade unionism, and the action on the international level.
		He becomes secretary-general of the CGT in 1945, station which he shares with Leon Jouhaux, until the scission of 1947.
	cgtrf.ifrance.com /cgthistanglais.htm (706 words)

	REFORM AND REVOLUTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jouhaux was soon to have his own ideas, but much of this new thinking was to be grounded in research done by the metal workers leader, Alphonse Merrheim.
		Jouhaux warned the pro-Bolshevik revolutionary minority still present at the Congress "...a revolution is as much undertaking a vast task of construction, to replace the worst by the better, to create a community for the good of all, to reconcile maximum of liberty with the collective interest".
		Jouhaux reinforced this conception of revolutionary reforms stating that, "The new techniques of syndicalism are aimed to develop...an organization within capitalism which will prepare the organization and structures for when the economic power passes to the proletariat.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_archives/bakunin/graphicstable.htmlhttp://dward/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/reform.html (5289 words)

	Leon Jouhaux -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		French labor leader Léon Jouhaux served as head of an influential union, the General Confederation of Labor (Confédération générale du travail; CGT), from 1909 to 1947.
		Leon proper included the cities of León, Salamanca, and Zamora—the adjacent areas of Vallodolid and Palencia being disputed with Castile, originally its eastern frontier.
		The kings of Leon ruled Galicia, Asturias, and much of the county of Portugal before Portugal gained independence about 1139.
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	Nobel Laureate in 1951 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A worker in a match factory from the age of 16, Jouhaux soon became one of the leading propagandists of revolutionary syndicalism.
		He refused to join Leon Blum's cabinet in 1936 but in that year agreed to the return of the communists to the CGT, from which they had been split since 1921.
		During World War II the Vichy government dissolved the CGT and arrested Jouhaux and turned him over to the Germans; he spent the rest of the war in a concentration camp.
	mujweb.cz /Kultura/zidove/1951/leon-jouhaux.htm (313 words)

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		World War II he was arrested and imprisoned by Nazi Germany.
		International Labour Organization (ILO), and was elected to high positions in international trade union bodies, including the International Federation of Trade Unions and its postwar kin the World Federation of Trade Unions until that body split.
		On his passing in 1954, Léon Jouhaux was interred in
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	Leon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		León was the capital of the Spanish province and of the Republic of Nicaragua until 1855, although its great political and commercial rival, Granada, long disputed...
		French statesman Léon Bourgeois is generally regarded as the “spiritual father” of the League of Nations, the organization for international cooperation established at the end of World War I. Bourgeois had presented a draft for such an organization as early as January 1918, and he became one of the League's most ardent supporters.
		For most of his life Leon Trotsky was a “man without a country,” banished from one land to another.
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	Leon Jouhaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings werestopped by a strike.
		In the years before First World War, Jouuhaux organised severalmass protests, and the organization he led protested against the war.
		However, once the war started, Jouhaux supported hiscountry and believed that a Germany victory would led to the destruction of democracy in Europe.
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		U.S. poet, essayist, and editor Max Eastman was a prominent radical before and after World War I. He worked to further the causes that he believed in through the publication of several journals as well as a series of books.
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	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Nobel Prizewinner -- Nov. 19, 1951 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the years before World War I, Leon Jouhaux, radical young secretary general of France's labor federation (C.G.T.), raised the hair of his countrymen by plunging Paris into darkness, freezing the railroads and docks, introducing the quickie strike (grève éclair) and the slowdown (grève perlée).
		A red-hot anarcho-syndicalist risen from the factories, Jouhaux liked to boast that if war came, labor in all Europe would quench it by a general strike.
		But when war came, Jouhaux was a Frenchman after all.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,857034,00.html (142 words)

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	The Nation, 02/07/1953 - Proposals for Peace-VI by Jouhaux, Leon
		The Nation, 02/07/1953 - Proposals for Peace-VI by Jouhaux, Leon
		...Leon Jouhaux, French trade-union leader, is pressdent of the force Ouvriere and vice-chairman of the International Confederation of Free Trade Umons...
		...Proposals for Peace-VI BY LEON JOUHAUX THE struggle for peace is the oldest tradition of the working class...
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	Leon -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Leon -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		It began as a Christian kingdom in the early 10th century when García I established his court on a former Roman legion campsite.
		provincia, in the Castile-León comunidad autónoma (“autonomous community”), northwestern Spain, consisting of the northern part of the former Kingdom of Leon.
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	MSN Encarta - Leon Jouhaux
		Jouhaux, Léon (1879-1954), French labor leader, born in Paris.
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	Leon
		1941 Leon Russell, born in Lawton, Kansas, pianist and singer, Carny
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		1879 Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951
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		Leon Jouhaux - Investigate the life and career of the controversial labor leader, socialist, and anti-Communist.
		Leon Jouhaux - Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Peace
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	artnet.com: Resource Library: Corbin, Raymond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1936 he won the Prix Blumenthal and in 1955 succeeded Dropsy as professor of medal engraving.
		Corbin’s medals include portraits of Léon-Paul Fargue (1948), Marcel Pagnol (1951), Léon Jouhaux (1951) and Colette (1952), as well as thematic pieces, such as Agriculture (1950), Construction (1955) and the Three Monetary Metals (1958).
		These medals were cast or reduced from models, but in the 1960s Corbin turned towards the revival of direct die cutting in works such as the Twentieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man (1968) and the Centenary of the Commune (1971).
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	Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951 July 1 in History
		Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951 July 1 in History
		Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951
		The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.
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	The Transitional Program - Leon Trotsky
		The politics of Leon Blum's party in France demonstrate anew that reformists are incapable of learning anything from even the most tragic lessons of history.
		In France the syndicalist bureaucracy of Leon Jouhaux has long since become a bourgeois agency in the working class.
		In Spain, anarcho-syndicalism shook off its ostensible revolutionism and became the fifth wheel in the chariot of bourgeois democracy.
	www.socialistparty.net /pub/manifestcomm/transprog3.htm (3548 words)

	Hotel information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Location: 9 RUE LEON JOUHAUX - PARIS, FRANCE 75010.
		Description: This XIX th century hotel is located only 50 metres from Place de la Republique.
		Address: 9 RUE LEON JOUHAUX - PARIS, FRANCE 75010.
	online.allrez.com /hotdesc.asp?hID=jvm521&cid=waterboy (159 words)

	The Company / Access map
		Take the A6 (direction LYON) and then follow the A10 towards PALAISEAU/BORDEAUX.
		At the rounbdabout, turn right onto avenue Léon JOUHAUX and turn right at the second set of lights.
		Then, from either direction, take the CROIX DE BERNY and follow the N20 (direction ANTONY).
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	»»european Reviews««
		We do not read anything about the roots of this emergence, nor the importance of communists within French political life.
		- After 15 years of division, 1936 saw the merger of the two most important French trade unions: the CGT of the socialist Leon Jouhaux (Nobel Peace prize 1951) and the communist-oriented CGTU, led by Benoit Frachon.
		Together, they fought for the 40-hour work week and controlled an enormous block of voters, but are absent in the Hollow Years.
	www.financial-book-review.com /european/european_418.html (5274 words)

	Query: World War for Czechoslovakia? - Nicholson, Harold et al (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The query of this issue: World War for Czechoslovakia?
		Contributor's to this issue are: Harold Nicholson, Count Stephen Bethlen, Jacques Doriot, Conrad Henlein, Brig-General E.L. Spears M.P., Leon Jouhaux, Robert Machray, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Henry Lemery, Dr Kamil Krofta, The Marquess of Londonderry, Ludvig R. Wachtel, Maxim M. Litvinov, Richard Freund, General Brecart, Dr Edgar Stern-Rubarth, Karl Herman Frank, Jacques Kayser.
		Harold Nicholson, Count Stephen Bethlen, Jacques Doriot, Conrad Henlein, Brig-General E.L. Spears M.P., Leon Jouhaux, Robert Machray, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Henry Lemery, Dr Kamil Krofta, The Marquess of Londonderry, Ludvig R. Wachtel, Maxim M. Litvinov, Richard Freund, General Brecart, Dr Edgar Stern-Rubarth, Karl Herman Frank, Jacques Kayser Adolf hitler
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	Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951) July 1, 1879 in History
		Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951) July 1, 1879 in History
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		Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
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