Etiqueta: Partido Socialista Obrero Español

  • La sangrienta guerra entre la patronal y el sindicalismo afecta a los directivos franceses pero no a los alemanes

    Syndicalist campaign of murder and intimidation against French managers
    LABOR TERRORISM RAMPANT IN SPAIN
    Five French Industrial Managers Murdered in the Last Two Months.
    BARCELONA PANIC-STRICKEN
    Deputy Gives Notice of an Interpellation on the Subject in the French Chamber
    By WALTER DURANTY.
    Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

    PARIS, June 28.– An amazing reign of terror in Barcelona and the surrounding region, in the course of which five Frenchmen were murdered by gunmen of the Spanish Labor Party, will form the subject of an interpellation in the near future by Deputy Emanuel Brousse. He will ask the Government, the Matin says, to take steps to insure the protection of the lives and properties of French citizens in Spain in view of the impotence of the Spanish authorities.

    The interpellation will be none the less urgent because German industrialists have been wholly untroubled by what looks like an organized campaign of murder.

    A typical case occurred only this month. François Lefèvre, the French manager of a metallurgical concern in Barcelona, had occasion to dismiss a 20-year-old employee, a Spaniard named Poch. A week later, at 11 o’clock in the morning, while work was in full swing, Poch walked coolly into Lefèvre’s office and shot him dead in front of his terrified clerks and secretary. Poch then departed without molestation and no attempt to arrest him has been made. Four other French industrial managers have been murdered in Spain for equally trivial reasons in the past two months, without any one having been arrested, and twelve others have been forced to leave the country by threats of a similar fate.

    Not long ago the French Consul and a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce demanded protection from the Military Governor of Barcelona, General Anido, who is alleged to have replied that it was all he could do to protect his own life from labor malcontents.

    His civil colleague, Mayor Domingo, was not even successful to that extent. A fortnight ago, while driving his automobile in the principal street of Barcelona, he was surrounded by a group of workers and made the target of a hail of bullets, one of which passed through his body, and he is now lying between life and death.

    The following day three well-known Syndicalists were unexpectedly released from Monjuich Prison, where they had been held since the 1st of March. On their way home all three were shot dead by persons unknown. Their labor comrades attributed the killings to police reprisals, with the result that death warnings have now been received by the majority of the municipal authorities and the principal business men.

    A state bordering on panic prevails among the population, as is illustrated by an incident which occurred outside the Lyceum Theatre, in the main street of Barcelona, a few days ago.

    The engine of a motorcycle suddenly gave vent to a series of loud explosions. Immediately there was a mad rush for shelter on every side. Café tables and flower stalls were upset by the panic-stricken mob. This increased the confusion, to which the Civil Guards and carabineers put the finishing touch by firing their rifles and revolvers indiscriminately in all directions.


    BARCELONA, June 28. — A Syndicalist leader named Bandella was shot and killed here last night while trying to escape from an escort of civil guards. The authorities declare he was one of the most dangerous and active Syndicalists in Barcelona and that he was involved in many recent outrages in this city. Another well-known Syndicalist was found in a street here yesterday morning. It is said he was one of the men who plotted an attack on Mayor Domingo a few days ago.

  • Entra en fuerza la ley de vagos y maleantes

    Ben Freeman, Vagrants and Criminals: Church, the State and Gay Rights in Spain and Paraguay
    In 1933, lawyer Jimenez de Asua drafted the now-infamous Law of Vagrants and Criminals []. Scholar Nathan Baidez explains that the original law had a “preventative character” and that it had the “goal of rehabilitating the individual.” Indeed, the law’s stated purpose was originally to “rid the cities of the presence of people who live a bad life without resorting to police methods that belong to the margins of legality and that trample liberty.” While homophobia certainly existed in Spain during the Republican period, it did not become rampant and legalized until the Franco regime won the Spanish Civil War in 1939.

  • Largo Caballero y Companys, decididos a derrotar a los anarquistas

    The entire effectiveness of the Leftist Government has been in the series of compromises making it possible for a mixed salad of political parties to work in some sort of harmony. Immediately behind last week’s Cabinet crisis was the brief Anarchist revolt in Barcelona of fortnight ago (TIME. May 17). Premier Largo Caballero and President Luis Companys of Catalonia are both secretly determined to put the Anarchists, most hot-headed of Leftist groups, in their places, but the Anarchists are politically potent.

  • Companys deniega permiso a los anarquistas para conmemorar el aniversario del inicio de la Guerra Civil

    Catalonian anarchists supporting the Leftist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin asked leave to stage anti-Fascist rallies and parades on the first birthday of Spain’s civil war last week, but were sternly repressed. Catalonia’s President Luis Companys cared to risk no street riots among his Communist, Anarchist, Socialist and Republican supporters, and anyhow Leftist Spain was grimly straining every resource in its first large offensive of the war.

  • Tras el 23-F, más de 250.000 personas y casi todos los partidos se manifiestan en la lluvia en defensa de la libertad, la Constitución, y el Estatuto de Autonomía; elogios de Jordi Pujol al Rey y al Ejército

    Más de doscientas cincuenta mil personas, según la Policía Municipal, participaban a las ocho de la noche en la manifestación en defensa de la libertad, la Constitución y el Estatuto de autonomía convocada por la práctica totalidad de los partidos políticos y centrales sindicales.

    Encabezaba la marcha una pancarta con el lema de la convocatoria, sostenida por líderes de las citadas organizaciones. La manifestación comenzó media hora más tarde, en razón de la lluvia, que prácticamente no ha dejado de arreciar en todo el día en Barcelona. Los gritos más frecuentes eran los de ¡Libertad, libertad! y ¡Dictadura, no! En la plaza Tetuán, donde comenzó la marcha, y por todo el paseo de San Juan, fueron constantes los aplausos de los vecinos que presenciaban el cortejo en las aceras y en las ventanas de los edificios. Hasta el momento no se han registrado incidentes.

    Convergencia Democrática, Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC-PSOE), Centristas de Catalunya (CC-UCD) y Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya han hecho público un comunicado en el cual acusan al PSUC de extralimitarse con criterios partidistas ante la manifestación unitaria de ayer.

    Por otra parte, la Comisión Permanente del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona ha acordado por unanimidad darle el nombre del Rey a una plaza de la ciudad, según han manifestado a Europa Press fuentes municipales. La resolución ha sido adoptada a propuesta del PSC-PSOE.