Léon Jouhaux

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Léon Jouhaux
Born	(1879-07-01)1 July 1879 Pantin, France
Died	28 April 1954(1954-04-28) (aged 74) Paris, France
Resting place	Père Lachaise Cemetery
Spouses	Catherine Metternich (married 1904-1946) Augustine Brüchlen (married 1946-)
Parent	Adolphe Jouhaux (father)
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize (1951) Legion of Honour

Léon Jouhaux (1 July 1879 – 28 April 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.^[1]

Biography

Jouhaux was born in

his father, was dismissed, and worked at a succession of jobs until union influence saw him reinstated.

In 1906, he was elected by the local union as a representative to the

In the years before

there.

After the war, Jouhaux split from the CGT to form the social-democrat

In an international context, his work was instrumental in the setting up of the International Labour Organization (ILO), and was elected to high positions in international trade union bodies, including the International Federation of Trade Unions and its postwar kin the World Federation of Trade Unions until that body split.

After his death in 1954, Léon Jouhaux was interred in

in Paris.

Legacy

• The rue Léon Jouhaux in Aix-en-Provence, Grenoble, Lyon, Genas, Villefranche-sur-Saône and Paris are named for him.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Quotation

"I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart." Léon Jouhaux^[8]

References

External links

• Léon Jouhaux on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1951 Fifty Years of Trade-Union Activity in Behalf of Peace