A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #345 - History, CGT: "Le Peuple", daily organ of trade unionism (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On January 4, 1921, the first issue of a new union daily, Le Peuple, 
appeared, the organ of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT). It 
takes over from La Bataille - named La Bataille syndicaliste when it was 
created in 1911 - itself being the continuation of La Voix du peuple, 
created in 1900 and which was, until 1914, the official weekly of the 
CGT . ----- The objective of this daily is twofold. On the one hand, it 
is a necessary tool for the struggle, as affirmed by the general 
secretary of the CGT, Léon Jouhaux, in the editorial of the first issue, 
entitled "Our efforts and their goal":

"We must therefore continue and increase the fight against capitalism, 
against the corporate powers united in the business consortiums which 
dominate the big press and which bend those in power to their 
will.[...]The General Confederation of Labor created this body to put a 
weapon that has become indispensable into the hands of all workers. ".

On the other hand, it allows us to position ourselves in relation to two 
other daily newspapers, La Vie Ouvrière, the trade unionist magazine for 
minorities, created by Pierre Monatte in 1909, and L'Humanité, the daily 
newspaper founded by Jean Jaurès in 1904, which became the The official 
organ of the Communist Party-French Section of the Communist 
International (PC-SFIC) following the Tours Congress of December 1920 
and directed by Marcel Cachin, one of the founders of the PC-SFIC.

The daily found itself in competition with La Vie Ouvrière, which had 
become the official organ of the General Confederation of Unitary Labor 
(CGTU) after the split in 1921. The following year, Pierre Monatte left 
the review to found it a few years later, in 1925 , The Proletarian 
Revolution.

Even if, in 1936, Le Peuple became the official confederal organ of the 
reunified CGT - La Vie Ouvrière continued its weekly publication - the 
abundance of union press titles did not allow it to achieve commercial 
success; the publication becomes loss-making. Becoming a weekly at the 
very beginning of the war, its publication was then suspended under Vichy.

Le Peuple reappeared in September 1944 and was then led by trade 
unionists from the CGT-Force Ouvrière tendency. No longer distributed on 
newsstands from 1952, Le Peuple lost its status as the mass press organ 
of trade unionism at the CGT, in favor of La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière 
(NVO). It then becomes the bimonthly vector of the internal life of the 
CGT, intended for the organizations of the Confederation. The historical 
collection of the People (1921-1946) has been digitized by the 
Bibliothèque nationale de France and is freely available on the Gallica 
digital library ( Gallica.bnf.fr).

Céline (UCL Lyon)

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