workers in the important industrial city of Bilbao were reported to have fought repeated battles with police April 4 in the biggest outbreak of "labor violence" in the past decade.
Shouting, "Liberty! Liberty!" they sought again and again to charge across bridges on the Nervién River into the crowded downtown area. Women and students joined them in the demonstration.
Police contingents, massed on the bridges, beat back the workers with clubs each time they surged forward. At least 30 arrests were made.
The demonstration was in solidarity with a strike of 564 workers at a steel mill that has been going on since last December and which the employees and the Franco regime have sought to crush. The demonstration followed work stoppages April 3 organized by some 20,000 Bilbao workers. in 11 major plants and 40 smaller enterprises as pressure on the bosses and their government to grant a favorable settlement to the strikers.
THE SPRING CAMPAIGN OF THE JAPANESE LABOR MOVEMENT
By S. Okatani
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