[177] Le Mouvement Socialiste (May, 1908), p. 390.
[178] Le Mouvement Socialiste (March, 1911), pp. 184-5.
[179] J. Guillaume, L'Internationale, vols. i-iii; also Report of 7th Congress of “International” in Brussels in 1874.
[180] In 1906 the statutes were so modified as to admit no new trade federations. This was a decided step in the direction of the industrial form of organization.
[181] At the last congress of the Confederation which was held in Havre in September, 1912, a resolution was passed that the Bourses du Travail in each Department of France should form Departmental Unions (Unions Departmentales), and that on January 1, 1914, these Departmental Unions should take the place of the Bourses du Travail in the organization of the Confederation. The resolution has not yet been fully carried into effect, and the process of reorganization is still going on. When it is completed, the General Confederation of Labor will emerge with a more compact and centralized form of organization embracing Federations of industry, on the one hand, and Departmental Unions, on the other. The single Bourses will not disappear, and their functions will not be curtailed; but they will henceforth form the constituent elements of the more comprehensive Departmental Unions and will have no individual representation in the Confederal Committee. The reorganization was made necessary by the rapid growth of Bourses du Travail, the number of which far outstripped the number of Federations of industry and which thus controlled the policies of the Confederal Committee. The number of the Departmental Unions can not exceed eighty-seven (87), as there are but eighty-seven political subdivisions in France called Departments.
[182] E. Pouget, Le Confédération Générale du Travail (Paris, 1908), p. 16.
[183] From Jan. 1, 1914, called the “Section of the Federation of Departmental Unions.”
[184] Increased in 1909 to 60 centimes. For further increase see page 195.
[185] When the reorganization is completed, this section will consist of one delegate from each Departmental Union, who will form the Comité des Unions Departmentales. See note [181] on page [162].
[186] Changed in 1909 to five centimes for each member per year.