The Fédération nationale des Jaunes de France (
English: ''National Federation of the Yellows of France'') was a French '
yellow
Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing. In t ...
' or
company union
A company or "yellow" union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article ...
founded by
Pierre Biétry on 1 April 1902 and active until 1912.
According to historian
George L. Mosse, the union "received this name when workers who refused to strike used yellow paper to stop up the windows of their meeting place, which had been smashed by strikers" in 1901 at
Montceau-les-Mines
Montceau-les-Mines () is a Communes of France, commune in the Saône-et-Loire Departments of France, department in the Regions of France, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan C ...
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See also
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Yellow socialism
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Trade unions in France
Trade unions established in 1902
1902 establishments in France
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