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    Léon Jouhaux (1 July 1879 – 28 April 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis...
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    French resistance member François de La Rocque, and trade union leader Léon Jouhaux. Besides the VIP prisoners, the castle held a number of Eastern European...
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    fused again with the CGT in 1936 during the Popular Front government. Léon Jouhaux was the CGT's main leader until 1947 and the new split leading to the...
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    open fire on the strikers.[citation needed] Under the leadership of Léon Jouhaux, the Confederation joined the "sacred union" to not call work stoppages...
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    sending combat troops to Indo-China to train Viet Minh guerrillas. Died: Léon Jouhaux, 74, French labor leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Born: Jake Burton...
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    without paralyzing government action. To this end, on July 30 he persuaded Léon Jouhaux to postpone the day of demonstrations planned by the CGT on August 2...
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    [clarification needed] Speaking at Jaurès' funeral a few days later, CGT leader Léon Jouhaux declared, "All working men... we take the field with the determination...
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  • Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870) 1954 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) 1956 – Fred Marriott...
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    the original on June 8, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2016. "Elie Wiesel on the Leon Charney Report (Segment)". The Charney Report. 2006. WNYE-TV. Archived from...
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  • 1878 – Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (d. 1944) 1879 – Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954) 1881 – Edward Battersby...
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