Word: sanlucar
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...last week, three impatient shrieks of a locomotive whistle shattered the morning calm of Sanlucar de Barra-meda, a small Spanish city in the grape country around Cadiz. On the dusty railroad platform, the stationmaster nervously paced back and forth waiting for the expected passengers, seasonal workers who commute to their jobs in the vineyards. But scarcely a soul showed up at the station, for in Sanlucar and nearby Jerez de la Frontera 3,900 workers were out on strike for a $2.50 daily wage (a 50? boost), portal-to-portal pay between the vineyard and home...
...authoritarian regime are anxiously trying to improve labor conditions. The Labor Ministry is preparing a bill to legalize "labor" strikes (as distinct from "political" strikes). Another measure of the regime's concern was the swift settlement of last week's trouble among the vineyard workers of Sanlucar and Jerez. As soon as word of the work stoppage was flashed to Madrid, a Labor Ministry official raced to Cadiz and pressured vineyard employers into bowing to most of the worker demands, including more centimes as well as the second cigar...
...Reader Gable's list is partially correct. There is a fourth granddaughter still living, Princess Beatrice, daughter of Victoria's second son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who is married to Don Alfonso, Infante of Spain and Duke of Galliera, and lives in Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain...
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