Syndicalism in France

by Lewis L. Lorwin

[227] This is admitted by both sides. See reports of last Congress held at Toulouse (1910), p. 111.

[228] Terrail-Mermeix, La Syndicalisme contre le Socialisme (Paris, 1907), p. 231.

[229] It is estimated that France has about 40,000,000,000 francs invested in foreign countries.

[230] See [Preface to Second Edition].

[231] The active population in 1906 was over 20,000,000, out of a total population of over 39,000,000. Journal des Économistes, Jan., 1911.

[232] L'Humanité, August 8, 1911.

[233] M. Colrat, Vers l'équilibre social, quoted by Mr. J. L. Puecht, “Le Mouvement des Classes Moyennes,” in La Grande Revue, Dec., 1910.

[Transcriber's notes:
List of corrected printers' errors:
pages [14], [15], [48], [132], [145], [183] and [189] "working class" changed to "working-class"
page [5] "devolpment" changed to "development" ("it is also a development of the French Labor Movement.")
page [13] "coöperative" changed to "co-operative" ("Revolution of 1848 and the co-operative movement") and ("Failure of co-operative central bank in 1868")
page [13] "coöperation" changed to "co-operation" ("—Syndicats and co-operation—")
page [16] — added ("French workingmen—Causes of the")
page [30] "Perdigiuer" changed to "Perdiguier" ("Agricol Perdiguier, Le Livre du Compagnonnage, 1841.")
page [32] "resistance" change to "résistance" ("was the société de résistance")
page [32] "." replaced with "," ("Les Associations Professionelles, vol. i. pp. 201-203.")
page [35] "presecuted" changed to "persecuted" ("organizations were persecuted;")
page [40] "Cöopération" changed to "Co-opération" ("La Co-opération (Paris, 1904)")
page [51] "bourgois" changed to "bourgeois" ("separation which existed between bourgeois and workingmen")
page [52] footnote reference in text altered, referred to wrong footnote
page [56] "hemmoroids" changed to "hemorrhoids" (" which it leaves to the hemorrhoids of bourgeois of every stamp)
page [62] "Counseil" changed to "Conseil" ("(the Conseil fédéral national)")
page [65] "Arbeiter-bewegung" changed to "Arbeiterbewegung" ("Theorie und Praxis des Generalstreiks in der modernen Arbeiterbewegung")
page [68] missing "not" added ("they argued that the general strike could not be successful")
page [71] "employes" changed to "employees" ("of workingmen and of employees of both sexes")
page [71] missing ” added ("(Parti syndical politicien).”")
page [75] missing "(" added ("Bourses du Travail (1896)")
page [80] "Nouveoux" changed to "Nouveaux" ("Temps Nouveaux, 23 Mars, 1901.")
page [93] "Alemanists" changed to "Allemanists" ("defended by Allemanists and anarchists,")
page [93] "Guerard" changed to "Guérard" ("M. Guérard who defended the idea before the Congress. Said M. Guérard:")
page [94] "Guerard" changed to "Guérard" ("And M. Guérard, applauded by the audience,")
page [96] "recomended" changed to "recommended" ("To this end the report recommended")
page [97] "sub-committes" changed to "sub-committees" ("Only twenty Bourses formed sub-committees.")
page [98] "Congès" changed to "Congrès" ("X Congrès National Corporatif")
page [101] removed " ("the completest possible emancipation.")
page [103] "posesses" changed to "possess" ("the workingmen who possess nothing.")
page [104] "Guerard" changed to "Guérard" ("The secretary of the Confederation, M. Guérard,")
page [104] removed "," from "complained that the _Voix du Peuple_" page [109] "bourgeoise" changed to "bourgeoisie" ("alliance of the bourgeoisie and of the working-class")
page [111] footnote reference altered, referred to wrong footnote
page [113] removed " ("stop the offensive movement of the workingmen.")
page [114] missing "“" added ("“independently of all parliamentarism”")
page [116] "Parlémentaires" changed to "Parlementaires" ("Chambre des Deputés, Débats Parlementaires")
page [117] "Francais" changed to "Français" ("Parti Socialiste Français")
page [117] "Jaures" changed to "Jaurès" ("and J. Jaurès outlined a plan according")
page [126] "," replaced with "." ("the strike, the boycott, the label, and sabotage.")
page [127] missing "." added ("It is a revolutionary fact of great value.")
page [129] "merchchandise" change to "merchandise" ("and of perishable merchandise.")
page [130] missing " added to end of phrase ("source of intrigues and of "wire-pulling."")
page [135] "counterbalance" changed to "counter-balance" ("will counter-balance the centralizing tendencies")
page [137] "particulary" changed to "particularly" ("Moreover, the syndicats, particularly")
page [137] "train" changed to "trains" ("The very struggle which the syndicats carry on trains the workingmen")
page [138] "workinmen" changed to "workingmen" ("The mass of workingmen")
page [138] "massess" changed to "masses" ("keep the masses as quiet,")
page [154] "Jaures" changed to "Jaurès" ("by M. Jaurès “the metaphysician of revolutionary syndicalism,”")
page [155] "Movement" changed to "Mouvement" ("Mouvement Socialiste")
page [155] "Sozialwissenchaft" changed to "Sozialwissenschaft" ("Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik")
page [157] "Jaures" changed to "Jaurès" ("just as Kropotkin, Jaurès, Proudhon")
page [158] "Guerard" changed to "Guérard" ("General Confederation of Labor, M. Guérard, wrote,")
page [159] "approfundir" changed to "approfondir" ("his life in the deepening (approfondir)")
page [164] "," replaced with "." ("relations between the adhering federations.")
page [164] "it" replaced with "its" ("This section appoints its own secretary,")
page [169] "idemnity" changed to "indemnity" ("employment bureaus with indemnity in 1901-2.")
page [170] "Economistes" changed to "Économistes" ("Journal des Économistes")
page [172] "Guerard" changed to "Guérard"("and by M. Guérard, the delegate of the railway workers.")
page [177] "Debats" changed to "Débats" ("Journal des Débats (27 April, 1906), p. 769.")
page [181] "economie" changed to "economic" ("it was an instrument in economic struggles")
page [182] "coöperation" changed to "co-operation" ("a co-operation of various political elements.")
page [187] "," replaced with "." ("of the government. The reports of the")
page [190] "Offie" changed to "Office" ("employees grievances of the Post Office employees")
page [190] missing "“" added ("“revolutionaries”")
page [191] "coöperation" changed to "co-operation" ("soliciting the co-operation of the government.")
page [196] extra "the" removed ("the passage of the three years'") page [200] missing "”" added ("“... but particularly divergence of aims.”")
page [200] "sydicalists" changed to "syndicalists" ("The third group of revolutionary syndicalists") page [203] "Vivani" changed to "Viviani" ("(e. g., Millerand, Viviani, Briand)")
page [209] "Economistes" changed to "Économistes" ("Journal des Économistes")
page [211] extra "and" removed ("the strikers at home and creates") page [211] "yeas" changed to "years" ("in recent years")
page [211] "Fèdèration" changed to "Fédération" ("Fédération du Livre")
page [214] "sytematized" changed to "systematized" ("the principles systematized,")
page [224] "Etude" changed to "Étude" ("Étude historique, économique et juridique sur les coalitions et les grèves")
page [225] "Ecole" changed to "École" ("Conferences organisées a la Société des anciens élèves de l'École libre des Sciences politiques.")
page [226] "Evolution" changed to "Évolution" ("Kritsky. L'Évolution du syndicalisme en France.")
page [226] "," replaced with "." ("Louis, Paul.") footnote [177] "Les" changed to "Le" ("Le Mouvement Socialiste (May, 1908), p. 390.") ]