Jean Mathé

Jean Mathé , born in 1886 with Murat, Cantal, died in 1973, was a leading trade unionist of the postal and telecommunications authorities. Discussed personality, Pacifist integral, it was him which, in March 1936 at the time of the Congrès of Unification of the CGT to Toulouse, formulated the thought of his/her friends in a sentence: " Rather constraint that the guerre".

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December 1927, elected general secretary of the National union of the agents of the postal and telecommunications authorities. This Trade union, constituted with the national union of the employees of the postal and telecommunications authorities and the national union of the workmen of the postal and telecommunications authorities, the national federation of the workers of the postal and telecommunications authorities.
May 1928, the 10th congress of the national union of the agents of the postal and telecommunications authorities re-elects it in its functions. The trade union would count then more than 24.400 members.
December 1935, new re-election with the head of the Trade union of the agents;
1943, Jean Mathé takes part with Aimé Cougnenc, with the reconstitution of a postal, concurrent federation of the federation refondée by the post-office employees " unitaires".
1944, arrest by the patriotic Militia.
1946, after the postal strikes which have occurred in the middle of the summer, it belongs to the National committee of Strike, which is transformed into Committee of action trade unionist.
July 1947, participation in the creation of the trade unionist Federation of the postal and telecommunications authorities, which gathers all those which do not admit the influence of the Communists on the postal federation. It is the prefiguration of the future Working force Federation.
April 1948, takes part in the 1st Congress of the new central trade-union, Working force.

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