SYNDICALISM
RESULT OF A CONFERENCE. FRANCE FORCED INTO WAR. PARIS, 29th • September. M. Jouhaux, the general secretary of the French Labour Confederation, narrates that(|he had an interview with ll err Ligieu, the secretary of the General German Syndical Association on 25tb July, in the presence of Mr. Mertens, the representative of the Belgian Syndicalists. M. Jouhaux asked Herr Ligieu what the German comrades intended to do to avoid the threatened war, and added that the French Syndicalists were willing to act in concert with the Germans. , Herr Ligieu did not reply. M. Jouhaux concluded that the Germans were making no move, and hence he writes : " Our duty is clear. We were faced by a country seeking war, and we are bound then to accept the war forced on us. We act with the certitude that we are fighting in the cause of civilisation and progress."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 7
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145SYNDICALISM Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 7
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