WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #336 - Culture, Read: Colloghan, "Universal Law to Mustache"- Graphic Book (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The exemplary Limonadier workers Restaurateurs for the right to carry the

Mustache, this is a subtitle that makes you want to know more. From the right to
wear the mustache, we talk about it, but not only! It is our friend Mathieu
Colloghan that we must thank for this moment of enraged struggle for the right to
dignity, the illustrious artist who regularly honors you to embellish the pages
of your favorite newspaper. ---- His book Universal Law to Mustache returns to an
important moment in the revolutionary unionist period of the CGT, this period of
intense construction of the struggles, during which the essential issue of
demands-dignity, weekly rest , the day of eight hours - agrees with the
radicality of the means implemented: strike, sabotage, direct action.
1907 is an important year for workers in the food sector - bakers, butchers,
coffee boys, home staff - who will organize to bring their claims to reach.
Coffee boys by the way, let's talk about it! The right to dignity is essential in
their claims. Besides, they claim to be called Limonadiers workers! And until the
1907 strike, the right to wear the mustache was refused to them.

"The hair on the beard is what makes man an entirely adult, a major
citizen.[...]Now among servants and coffee boys, men are prohibited by contract
the mustache[...]. The message is clear: you are not our brothers in humanity,
you are our servants.»»

With beautifully illustrated short texts, Colloghan immerses us in this
excitement of the mobilizations of the food professions, the feverish atmosphere
of meetings on the labor purse, the wildlife to deceive the prefecture, the
techniques of Sioux to rally the hesitant or mine the yolks.

An essential and saving reading in full battle for the defense of our pensions,
which reminds us that each of our rights was torn from employers by the obstinate
struggle and the unfailing determination of workers. Hat the artist!

Franz Müller (UCL Paris Nord-Est)

Mathieu Colloghan, Universal Law to Mustache, ABC Éditions, 2022, 18.50 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Colloghan-Le-droit-universel-a-la-moustache-livre-graphique
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