European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

Then I started working in construction, in civil projects, doing repair work on ships.

I did all sorts of different things, always manual work though.

I was 16 years old in 1936 and I worked in factories.

I had simply become a worker and got to know the whole period of 1936, the strikes and all that it represented.

The strikes of 1936 were the beginning of it all.

There was a labour movement that manifested itself. I was already part of the working class.

In these conditions the 1936 movement manifested itself a little bit everywhere and there were big demonstrations.

It meant very much to the working class movement in France. It was important.