Achille Delattre

Achille Delattre (born August 24, 1879 in Pâturages , Hainaut , Belgium , † July 13, 1964 in Baudour , Hainaut, Belgium) was a Belgian politician of the Parti ouvrier belge (POB).

biography

Delattre was originally a miner and worked in a mine in Pâturages from 1891 to 1904 . He then worked as an editor at L'Avenir du Borinage newspaper and as a union official as secretary to the chairman and national secretary of the miners' union.

In 1907 he began his political career by being elected a member of the municipal council of Pâturages, where he also became an alderman in 1921 . In 1921 he was elected for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies as a candidate of the POB and represented the arrondissement of Mons in this until 1954 .

Prime Minister Paul van Zeeland appointed him Minister for Labor and Social Welfare in 1935 in his cabinet. He also held this ministerial office in the subsequent governments of Paul-Émile Janson and Paul-Henri Spaak until 1939. He was then mayor of Pâturages for the first time until 1940 . Between 1944 and 1952 he was again mayor of his native city.

For his political services he was awarded the honorary title of Minister of State on September 3, 1945 .

Between 1947 and 1948 he was Minister for Fuels and Energy in a cabinet of Paul-Henri Spaak.

Publications

Delattre was also the author of numerous books in which he dealt with the life and circumstances of miners, but also with mining from a political point of view such as the nationalization of mines. His publications include:

• La nationalization des mines , 1924
• Une Grande bataille sociale: la grève des mineurs du Borinage , 1925
• La Lutte contre le grisou , 1931
• Histoire de nos corons , 1939
• Histoire d'une famille de mineur , 1946
• Le Chant de la mine , 1946
• Dans la Bourrasque , 1946
• Combats , 1949
• L'Héritage d'Antoine Coulisse , 1950
• Souvenirs , 1957
• À la gloire du mineur , 1958
• Alfred Defuisseaux . Un homme, une période , 1959

Web links

• Biography (French)