Solidarity with the strike by subway workers in Madrid! That spread!
At that time, the Government of Romanones had no choice but to yield. It was the only way to restore a social peace that had blown up in Barcelona following a small dispute at the company Ebro Irrigation and Power, a subsidiary of the Barcelona Traction Light and Power and known as' The Canadian
in The steps echo, as the strike spread and left Barcelona without power. The Government, whose sides because few people read the press workers applied the "censorship red, militarized corporate litigants and jailed hundreds of workers who refused to return to work. "Strike committees (...) operating in the city by the dozens. Many were arrested but had been laid by two three teams designated to replace them up to what is referred to the central strike committee, "said Garcia Oliver.
in an untenable situation for both companies and workers, the government finally convinced the company to give his arm twisted. The Canadian has agreed to increase wages, reinstate the strikers and set eight-hour day, plus half pay unpaid wages for the month to strike. For its part, the Government lifted the state of war, freed the prisoners and promised to introduce the eight hours for all offices, what would two weeks later. In the Barcelona bullring of Las Arenas a meeting of 20,000 workers accepted the agreement. Months later
employers organize their revenge, but the attacks did not prevent the quantum leap from the unions. This quantum leap in the form of social revolution during the Civil War, curiously again involving the Earl of Romanones, who was unable to beat the working class 20 years earlier, even with the Army. Juan Gomez Casas tells in History of English anarcho-syndicalism that when the war ended, the count returned to their lands of Guadalajara, waiting to see destroyed knowing that they had collectivized peasants . When he arrived, he found astonished that the farmland had been expanded, new operating engineering and production increased. Jeronimo Gomez was reported in April, a member of the CNT in Madrid who had taken part in the affair, got his freedom and gave it an address of their properties. April Gomez refused. Perhaps it could not help remembering Miguel Burgos, secretary of the union of tanners, killed outside his home by the Guardia Civil during that strike which had suffered so much and with whom both had been achieved.
