Part 16 (1/2)
[200] _Statistique des Greves_, 1906, pp. 774 _et seq._
A: Strikes B: Establishments C: Strikers
-----------+----------------+--------------------+--------------------
Success
Compromise
Failure Demand
----------------
--------------------
--------------------
A
B
C
A
B
C
A
B
C -----------+----+-----+-----
----+-------+-------
----+-------+------- 8 hour day
2
5
45
13
1,970
25,520
88
7,556
109,786 9 hour day
36
135
2723
28
994
30,750
45
755
17,023 10 hour day
40
582
7409
16
220
2,000
27
368
7,251 -----------+----------------+--------------------+--------------------
The revolutionary syndicalists did not claim much material success, but they argued that this had not been expected. The main purpose of the movement, they a.s.serted, was, ”by an immense effort, to spread among the large ma.s.s of workingmen the ideas which animate the militant groups and the syndical organizations. The problem to be solved, at first, was, thus, by means of a vigorous propaganda to reach the workingmen who had remained indifferent to the syndicalist movement.”[201] And this task, in the opinion of the revolutionary syndicalists, had been accomplished.
The agitation had aroused the workingmen in all parts of France.
[201] _XV Congres Corporatif_ (Amiens, 1906), p. 3.