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Place of Birth: Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About René Belin
- René Belin (14 April 1898 – 2 January 1977) was a French trade unionist and politician.
- In the 1930s he became one of the leaders of the French General Confederation of Labour. He was strongly opposed to communism.
- In the prelude to World War II (1939–45) he favored a policy of appeasement.
- After the defeat of France, he was Minister of Industrial Production and Minister of Labour in the collaborationist Vichy Government, holding the latter office until April 1942.
- He oversaw the destruction of unionism.
- As a result, he was expelled from the CGT in 1944.
- After the war he tried to form an anti-communist union movement, but with limited success.
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