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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace…
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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…
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Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production,…
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Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that…
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On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union.
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