ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the impact of the establishment of the many Jewish branches, the Intersektsionen Byuro (IB) and Der Idisher Arbeyter on the interaction between the Jewish and the French unions and between the Jewish and the French workers. The Jewish furniture makers denied working as strike breakers and explained that so few of them were organized because in the past many Jewish workers had regarded Paris solely as a transit station. The Jewish leather workers accounted for over 22 per cent of the total number of leather workers in Paris but over 42 per cent of the union members. Jewish and non-Jewish members launched joint campaigns in trades where working conditions allowed such practices. The integration and assimilation strategy of the Confédération Générale des Travailleurs (CGT), the IB and Der Idisher Arbeyter was successful in this respect. The CGT and consequently the IB and Der Idisher Arbeyter stressed assimilation.
