Andre Février

Andre Février , born in 1885 in Vigan (Gard), died in Lyon in 1961, was a French personality of the Third Republic. Pioneer of the Trade unionism at the postal and telecommunications authorities, socialist SFIO, it is elected with the Municipal council Lyon in 1919. Appointed of Lyon of 1924 to 1940, he is minister in the majority of the governments of the end of the Third Republic.

Biography

Young post-office employee trade unionist

Wire of one manufacturing in hosiery, in 1906 Andre Février is received supernumerary postal and telecommunications authorities. At twenty years, it is a young militant of the Socialist party SFIO, member also of association of laic youths. He forms part as of his entry at the postal and telecommunications authorities of the General association of the agents of the postal and telecommunications authorities: in 1909, he is the secretary, on the town of Lyon. Of course, it takes part in the postal strikes of March and May 1909, founders in the test of the trade unionism post-office employee. That is worth the revocation of the Administration to him, where it is finally reinstated at the end six months. It reorganizes A.G then. , decimated by the sanctions. This one is transformed into trade union just after the Great War.

the Lyons politician

Extremely of its trade-union experiment, enjoying in addition the statute of former striker revoked by Clemenceau, he undertakes after the war of 1914-1918, a political career in the SFIO which brings it to ministerial responsibilities.

City council man of Lyon in 1919.
Appointed of the Rhone, in 1924, it is re-elected at the time of the three following legislatures.
1936: André Février is president of the group socialist member of Parliament SFIO.
June 1937 - January 1938, he is Minister for Labor in the Ministère Camille Chautemps.
March 13rd 1938, Leon Blum appoints it under-secretary of State to the Presidency of the council. This transitory government is reversed at the end of one month.
March-June 1940: under-secretary of State to Information in the government Paul Reynaud, then under-secretary of State to public works.
June 27th - July 12th, 1940, he is Minister for the Transmissions and… Postal and telecommunications authorities, in the last government of the Third Republic, directed by Phippe Pétain. Thus, it briefly directs, and in the rout, an administration from which it had been excluded thirty-one years earlier.
July 10th, 1940, it votes the full powerss with Pétain. However since 1941, it would take part in Resistance.
1944, in spite of that it is excluded from the SFIO. It joined the democratic Socialist party then of Paul Faure, regrouping of “purified” socialist militants. It is reinstated within the SFIO in 1955, " blanchi" by a jury of honor.

Sources

biographical Dictionary of the French Labor movement, volume 27. Note signed by Maurice Moissonnier.
Dictionary of the French Members of Parliament under the Third Republic.
Benoit Yvert: Dictionary of the ministers (1789-1989). Academic bookstore Perrin, Paris, 1990.

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