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...boiling pot will blow its lid off if it is too tight," said a Spaniard explaining Barcelona's recent cost-of-living strike riots (TIME, March 19). Last week the lid was tightly clamped back on Barcelona...
...Barcelona's Governor Eduardo Baeza Alegria laid the blame for the riots on "Communist agitators." That might well be true, although Barceloneses could understand their grievances without help from the Communists. The current battle of Barcelona followed a remarkable, week-long rebellion over a simple, nonpolitical issue: the price of a trolley ride...
...Attack. Last month the Barcelona streetcar company announced a 40% fare rise from 50 to 70 centimes. Students and workers were furious. As D-day for the fare rise (March i) approached, protest posters appeared on walls, chain letters floated through the mails: "Be a good citizen, show your courage. Starting March i, hoof it to work." Kids chanted in the streets: "If you want your morning jolly, stay away from the trolley...
...crew. They came to a halt at each stop, while the conductors tried to lure passengers in; nobody boarded. Any weary hiker who yielded to temptation was promptly hauled back from the trolleys by indignant pedestrians. Owners of private cars offered lifts to elderly people. At noon, Barcelona's entire police corps was mobilized; two cops mounted each streetcar to "protect passengers." But the cops were the only passengers on the flashy red-and-white cars...
Days passed, and still Barcelona s staunch people walked. After one stormy meeting at the city hall, Governor Baeza Alegria announced: "What we need is a civic example from the highest." Out he marched, and boarded a streetcar to set an example for strikebreakers. But he rode alone. Eventually his trolley bumped into a stone barricade, and he gave...