Word: proletarianism
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...strongly pressed by the Communist Deputies among his supporters, had sought to obtain from Parliament. Ignoring the peasantry, the numerous artisans and small shopkeepers and the French middle classes, the Communists got the Premier to write into his bill a measure which would automatically have raised the wages of proletarian factory workers and other small-salaried employees on a sliding scale in exactly the proportion that French living costs rose-as they are sure to rise-in terms of the devalued or "Blum franc." This attempt by the Communists to exempt the proletariat, in which they have their main following...
...avenues of succor or escape, the White Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco were advancing with such vigor that Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet were daily rumored, via Rebel sources, on the point of flight. Disciplined effectiveness suddenly appeared in the roving mobs of Premier Largo Caballero's proletarian militiamen. These have fought bravely enough time and again, but too often only in their own good time and place. This week they hurled themselves into a savage counterattack, and the Madrid radio broadcast that they had recaptured the important Maqueda junction on the Toledo road...
...week opened, the facade of the "Spanish Republic" was noticeably crumbling. At Geneva last week the diplomatic representative of Premier Largo Caballero, "The Spanish Lenin," made shrill speeches about Democracy being at stake in Madrid, but uncensored dispatches brought by courier pictured the Capital as ruled in fact by proletarian Terror. Estimating that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons have been executed by Government firing squads in Madrid or simply butchered in their homes and on the streets by mobster adherents of Premier Largo Caballero, a courier dispatch from the New York Times correspondent declared: "A majority of Madrid...
...withstood Red Militia assaults for the whole period of the Civil War. Against the six-foot walls of the Alcázar more than 6,000 four-inch projectiles and more than 4,000 six-inchers had been vainly fired by the Madrid Cabinet's untrained proletarian artillery. The Government's trained miners had failed to blow up the Alcázar's rock foundations with dynamite charges totaling four tons. Futile were thousands of gallons of gasoline shot from Red flame-sprayers. Futile were hundreds of Red air bombs. Just before the final White assault last...
...Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually a prisoner. Desperate, the Spanish Cabinet issued a manifesto appealing to the "people of Madrid" to somewhat paradoxically "organize and perfect the defense of the Capital, so as to be prepared for somethings even so incredible...