Abstract EN:

Study the condition and the background of the cgt scission, and the birth of the cgt force ouvriere in the haute-garonne county has the advantage of working on a network which cross-checks to the national evolution. Indeed, the cgt county union, which was led by the "ex-confederes" before the second world war, finally fell into the hands of the "ex-unitaires", helped in this by the development of the cgt confederation and of the french communist party. The originality of the the toulouse scission is linked to the fact that julien forgues, general secretary of the county union, and a supporter of jouhaux, remained in the cgt : this indering the escape of militants from the ranks of the cgt to those of the the new county union. The toulouse example shows how influential the orientation and the activity of the socialist and the communist parties proved to be in bringing about the splitting of the trade-union movement. The political line in favour of "union nationale", with the liberation onwards, has layely contributed to the painful period of the scission. A decisive factor in the splitting lies in the way the november-december nineteen forty seven strikes were led. Within a situation verging on a general turn-over, the epilogue led to a decline of the workers movement.