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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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The working classes were becoming more and more sharply aware of the complex causes of international malaise.
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Causes
International
Aware
Classes
Complex
More And More
Sharply
Working Classes
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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 itself.
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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 organization of the world.
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Organization
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Rational
Workers
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The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding.
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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 led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.
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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 also an instrument of industrial progress.
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Social Change
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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 than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.
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Importance
Struggle
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In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.
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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, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.
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Drawn
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Opposed
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Whom
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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 you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
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Patience
Composure
Deadline
Enough
Lying
Way
Asleep
Reporter
Endowed
Fair
True Enough
His Way
Measure
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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 the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
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Class
Danger
Ideas
Inherent
International
Labour
Leeds
Organization
Appeared
Classes
Drew
Text
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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, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.
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Materials
Organization
Raw Materials
Comrades
Expressing
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Suggested
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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 the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.
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Federation
International
Majority
Propaganda
Distorting
Efforts
Furthermore
Largely
Powers
Recognized
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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 everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.
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Crafts
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School
Spite
Me Parents School
Mother Me Parents
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