Leon Digat

Leon Digat , born in 1889 with Mills-Engilbert, Nievre, died in 1968, was a militant trade unionist of the postal and telecommunications authorities of more in sight, between 1920 and 1939. Faithful to the CGT of Leon Jouhaux, it was in 1930, among the 22 confederated signatories, unit and autonomous, of a Proclamation claiming the trade-union unit.

biographical reference marks

  • March 1902: entry at the postal and telecommunications authorities.
  • 1905, adheres to the socialist party SFIO, of which he remains member all his life.
  • June 1920, elected general secretary of the National federation of the workers of the postal and telecommunications authorities, adherent with the Cgt.
  • 1921, member of a.C. of CGT. It takes part between 1918 and 1938 in all the Congrès of the CGT
  • June 1921, it is re-elected general secretary of the postal Fédération which, by 159 votes against 129, pushes back at the time of its 2nd congress, adhesion with the trade-union Internationale red, appendix trade-union of the Komintern.
  • 1921-1925, remains general secretary of the Federation of the postal and telecommunications authorities
  • General secretary of the national union of the employees of the postal and telecommunications authorities, which gathers the factors, of 1919 with 1936.
  • Regular member of the economic National council, 1925 to 1929.
  • 1930, signatory of the Proclamation of the 22, asking the Trade-union unit.
  • 1943, adopts the postal federation reconstituted clandestinely by the unit militants. It writes in September 1943 with the militant " unitaire" Parisian Emmanuel Fleury a call to the trade-union reunification of the " militants of all tendances".

sources

  • biographical Dictionary of the labor movement French.
  • Georges Lefranc: The trade union movement under IIIe Republic. Payot editions, 1967.
  • Emmanuel Fleury: Increase, documents on the Parisian postal and telecommunications authorities in Resistance. Social editions, Paris, 1969.
  • Vincent Présumey: a movement for the trade-union unit with the beginning of the year thirty. In Pierre Course-Dirtied, Rene Mouriaux: The trade-union unit in France, 1895-1995. Editions Syllepse, Paris, 1996.

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