From 1890 to 1914, vagabonds were banished to colonial prisons, and unemployed people and labouring poor and rural migrants to cities were an overwhelming problems.
Võ Nguyên Giáp, then was a student of the lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi, North Vietnam, viewed this as an opportunity to use it as a political tool for the Vietnamese anticolonialist-movement.
Apparently, Vo Nguyên Giap had tried to publish another paper few months earlier under the name Hon Tre Tap Moi [Soul of Youth, new edition] in Vietnamese, to fight for democracy, to claim amnesty for political prisoners, and to approve of the French Front Populaire.
Vo Nguyên Giap then was preoccupied with how to fight the anticolonialist war, immediately thought of taking advantage of this situation for his movement.
Hon Tre Tap Moi was practically the first newspaper in Vietnam to promote democracy, and demand amnesty for the political prisoners.
Soon thereafter Phạm Văn Đồng also came to work at Le Travail (Dong was also a Politburo member and long time communist functionary).
Senior General Vo Nguyên Giap remembers Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 2003 by Currey, Cecil B