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 Read Quote
On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union. Leon Jouhaux Read Quote
The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise. Leon Jouhaux Read Quote
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. Leon Jouhaux Read Quote
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. Leon Jouhaux Read Quote