in total, leon blum's government adopted 133 laws aimed at improving working conditions.tion to the forty-hour workweek, annual paid holidays and two days off per week were introduced in france. these measures led to a sharp reduction in industrial production. the omnipotence of the trade unions, endless strikes and strikes virtually paralyzed the work of the plant. french writer andre maurois recalled: the occupation of factories by striking workers, the inertia of the government and crazy demands trade unions catastrophically reduced the production of the aviation industry. in 1937, the monthly production of aircraft was an incredible 38. and this was at a time when germany was producing a thousand aircraft every month. french financiers and industrialists perceived the reforms of the popular front as a national disaster and began to withdraw their assets abroad. in just one year, as a result of flight. as a result , the government was forced to nationalize all railways and some military factories. on the pages of the right press, french industrialists launched a fierce

the new government of france was headed by socialist leon blum.lt crisis, blum's popular front government came to power. and they took a whole series of very drastic measures. this includes a forty-hour work week, an increase in social benefits, and in general an expansion of the social base, that is, it is quite expensive, but france had the money for all of this, another thing is that there was an overlay, it was at this time that it became clear that the situation critical, in the thirty-third hitler came, in the thirty-fifth hitler announced that there was no more reisfer, that there was a wehrmacht that operated on the basis. universal conscription, that is, something is clearly coming. french philosopher and publicist raymond oron wrote: “what could not help but amaze us all was the contrast between the paralysis of democracy and the impressive revival of germany. what kind of government could find a way out among the endless competition of parties, carried away by parliamentary intrigue and unwilling to face reality. the fall in the birth r

in total, leon blum's government adopted 133 laws aimed at improving working conditions.e forty-hour workweek, annual paid holidays and two days off per week were introduced in france. these measures led to a sharp reduction. and this at a time when germany was producing a thousand aircraft every month. french financiers and industrialists perceived the reforms of the popular front as a national disaster and began to withdraw their assets abroad. in just one year, as a result of capital flight, france lost an incredible amount at that time, about 100 billion francs. as a result, the government was forced. nationalize all railways and some military factories. on the pages of the right-wing press, french industrialists launched a violent campaign against the popular front. propaganda campaign. publicist raymond oron recalled: these sheets, fed with hatred, expressed the psychology of a certain part of the bourgeoisie, including that whose symbol became the famous phrase: “better hitler than blum.” as stated. to build 300-400-700 tanks a year there in order to begin rearmame