In the end, despite continued harassment in the Chamber of Deputies, Clemenceau took two Socialists into his government not as cabinet members but as commissioners. Meanwhile, the trade union leadership, with whom Clemenceau entertained workman-like relations, were given the clear signal that rather than making appeals for peace, they should vent the frustration of their members in demands for wage increases. For Clemenceau inflation was a small price to pay for a united national war effort.
