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Francisco Largo Caballero, one of the leaders of the UGT during the 1917 general strike. The plans for the general strike were altered when on 19 July 1917, coinciding with the Assembly of Parliamentarians meeting in Barcelona, a strike by the Valencian railroad workers, affiliated to the UGT, began due to a labor dispute that they maintained with the Company of the Iron Roads of Northern Spain.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
January 27, 2011: The 27 January 2011 general strike against the pensions reform, organized by ELA, LAB, CIG, CGT y CNT in Catalunya, Galicia, Euskadi and Navarre. Demonstrations were held in other cities. March 29, 2012: The 29 March 2012 general strike was a general strike against the labour reform of Mariano Rajoy government.
The Crisis of 1917 is the name that Spanish historians have given to the series of events that took place in the summer of 1917 in Spain.In particular, three simultaneous challenges threatened the government and the system of the Restoration: a military movement (the Juntas de Defensa), a political movement (the Parliamentary Assembly, organized by the Regionalist League of Catalonia in ...
1916 Atlanta streetcar strike; 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike; 1917 1,227,254 1917 Twin Cities streetcar strike; 1917 Bloomington Streetcar Strike; 1918 1,239,989 1919 4,160,348 1919 Actors' Equity Association strike; 1919 New York City Harbor Strike; Boston cigar makers' strike of 1919; Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919; Steel ...
Daniel Anguiano, Francisco Largo Caballero, Julián Besteiro and Andrés Saborit, leaders of the general strike, photographed in the prison of Cartagena. 18 January – "Manifiesto de la Liga Antigermanófila" ('Manifesto of the Anti-Germanophile League') published in La España. [2] 25 June – the Juntas de Defensa made their manifesto public ...
View history; Tools. Tools. ... The General Strike of 1917 can refer to: the Australian General Strike of 1917; the Spanish General Strike of 1917;
Workers and anarchists march holding flags through the city of São Paulo in the 1917 general strike.. Indirect precedents of 1918 insurrection were the arrival of works by Bakunin, Kropotkin and other European libertarian writers to Brazil by the end of the 19th century together with Italian and Spanish immigrants from Europe, to serve as cheap labor force in factories and farms of wealthy ...