Louis Saillant

French labour activist. Born in Vallance, Drôme, in the south of France, he was involved in trade union activities as a furniture maker. He served as secretary of the regional federation of furniture makers, then secretary of the national federation, and in 1938 became an executive member of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). During World War II, he played an important role in the resistance against the Germans, and in 1944 was elected chairman of the National Council of the Resistance (CNR), a federation of resistance organisations. After the war, he became secretary-general of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) when it was founded in 1945, but came into conflict with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions after it separated from it as the Cold War progressed. He was a labour movement leader loyal to the line of the French Communist Party, and was awarded the Lenin International Peace Prize in 1958.

[Tetsuya Hirase]

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フランスの労働運動家。南フランス、ドローム県バランスに生まれ、家具工として労働組合運動に従事した。家具工県連の書記、ついで同全国連合書記を務め、1938年には労働総同盟（CGT）の執行委員となった。第二次世界大戦中は対独レジスタンスにおいて重要な役割を果たし、1944年には抵抗諸組織の連合体である抵抗全国評議会（CNR）の議長に選ばれた。戦後は1945年の世界労連（WFTU）発足とともに書記長に就任し、冷戦の進展に伴って国際自由労連が分離したのちはこれと対立した。フランス共産党の路線に忠実な労働運動指導者として一貫し、1958年レーニン国際平和賞を受賞した。

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