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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Madrid and other Spanish cities on March 17, students protest against the Primo de Rivera regime, smashing his statues despite over a thousand arrests. Workers plan a general strike, and communists aim to escalate the unrest into a revolt.
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PLAN TO STRIKE
AGAINST RIVERA
Thousand Arrested But
Students Still Rebel:
Smash Rulers Statue
Communists Are Active
To Turn Intellectual's
Protest Into Revolt
MADRID, March 17.—A continuous agitation and demonstration against the Primo de Rivera regime goes on in Madrid and all other large cities in Spain. Over a thousand revolting students have been arrested, but this does not quiet the uprising.
Workers who have been suppressed brutally by the militarist government are planning a general strike. The unions are forced underground but labor leaders are coming out, to openly advocate an uprising. The Communist Party of Spain, which is illegal, is taking steps to turn the bourgeois intellectual attack on Rivera into a workers revolt.
Statues and honorary inscriptions dedicated to Rivera at the university buildings are smashed by the students.
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Primary Location
Madrid, Spain
Event Date
March 17
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over a thousand students arrested; statues and inscriptions smashed; general strike planned; communists active in escalating to workers revolt
Event Details
Continuous agitation and demonstrations against the Primo de Rivera regime in Madrid and other large Spanish cities. Students revolt, smashing statues and inscriptions dedicated to Rivera at universities despite over a thousand arrests. Workers, suppressed by the militarist government, plan a general strike with unions underground and labor leaders advocating uprising. Illegal Communist Party of Spain works to turn bourgeois intellectual protests into a workers revolt.