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63: 227: 125: 683:(SDECE), to break the strikes. The creation of the riot police was to ensure the loyalty of police "relocating" the maintenance of order (it used police from across the country, not just in the locations concerned, to quell the riots). In the north, the military nevertheless assured that it would intervene only in case of violence and tolerate the miners if they had only stopped working. 22: 388:. Soon there were 3 million strikers; 23,371,000 working days were lost to strikes in 1947 versus 374,000 in 1946, but the movement stayed less important than in Italy, where the Communists were also excluded from the government. In May, the Communist ministers in effect left the government, which ended 486:. Plaisance, a secretary of the CGT, said outside the factory: "This morning, an anarcho-Hitlero-Trotskyist band wanted to blow up the factory". The CGT then claimed "The strike arms the trusts". Despite the communist opposition, the strike quickly brought in more than 10,000 workers. 501:
wage increase. On 9 May, two thirds of the CGT voted to return to work, but some remained on strike and paralysed the factory. The strike ceased on 15 May, after the government granted a bonus of 1600 francs and an advance of 900 francs for all employees.
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and former leader of the Federation of Pas-de-Calais in 1947, was found dead in Paris. Refusing to criticize his superior to the central committee, Auguste Lecoeur, former deputy secretary of state who was responsible for the sabotage, committed suicide.
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On 9 December 1947, the central strike committee, consisting of the CGT federations, ordered a return to work. Ten days later, a split divided the CGT, with a majority close to the PCF and led by
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who were supported by the Gaullist militants. The government was secretly negotiating with the PCF by exchanging immunity of four activists to the party supporting the resumption of work.
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was concerned about the radicalization of the movement, as shown in the reports of SDECE. Saboteur activists believed that the train was carrying CRS officers to support non-strikers from
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On 30 June 1953, the Supreme Court delivered a leading case and considered that the train was still responsible because it had, given the social climate, expected that kind of act.
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fare increases. Four strikers were charged after the demonstrations. To free them, 4,000 demonstrators entered the courthouse and then went to City Hall. They insulted and
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to assault communist picket lines and to harass union officials in Marseilles. Several murders of striking workers were traced to the Guerinis at the time.
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basin. The next day, more than 80,000 miners were on strike. On 19 November, the strike resumed at Renault and Citroën and then spread to the
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in the municipal election in October, a vast movement of insurrectionary strikes shook the country for several months. It began in
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approved a law on the "defence of the Republic and the freedom to work". Three years later, the arrest of Dehaene caused the
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remained important, and living conditions were difficult, particularly since France struggled to meet its energy needs.
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The plant employed 30,000 men, and the CGT claimed 17,000 members. The strike was started, among other things, by the
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district, where several nightclub owners were accused of organizing the black market. The young communist worker
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On 5 May 1947, the Communist ministers were excluded from the government by Paul Ramadier. From that moment, the
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In Saint-Étienne, protesters took advantage by riding on three military vehicles, which were armed with
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The strike spread to miners; on 17 November, 10,000 of them stopped work to protest the dismissal of
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Among the miners, there were 100 sackings, 1000 suspensions and 500 forced displacements of
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On 29 November, 30,000 striking mining, railway, and textile workers demonstrated in
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rail link by unbolting two rails, which caused a train derailment near
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magazine, titled "A teacher, an engineer, a journalist, leaders of the
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On the night of 2 to 3 December 1947, activists of the Federation of
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The strike of 1947 at Renault also denounced the repression of the
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In March 1954, the case rebounded when the former deputy
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In June, a wave of insurrectionist strikes protested the
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and CGT supported the social movement, which extended to
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On 4 December, after extremely violent discussions, the
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than the wave in May, and it explicitly denounced the
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