Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trusted Cabinet aide, burly Sindicatos Boss Jose Solis Ruiz, to the region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse for two weeks in speeches and conferences with worker councils-and only after promising to grant many of the wage demands. For Franco Spain, this was extraordinary; Spanish workers, breaking the regime's sternest decree, had not only conducted a two-month strike-they...
...usual, the government blamed "foreign influence," "liberals" and "Communists" for the whole affair. Solis called attention to "the enormous pressure of Communist propaganda." In fact, the Communists, who number perhaps 5,000 in all of Spain, are well organized, but have little appeal among the workers...
...have been crushed. Now the government has to negotiate with workers' leaders who are not members of the official syndicates." Protesting Priests. Perhaps the most important development revealed by the strikes is the growing support of the workers by the Roman Catholic Church, often a reactionary force in Spain...
...Workers' Brotherhoods of Catholic Action-had urged miners to fight for their rights. H.O.A.C. firmly denies it had any part in the strikes, but frankly admits that "We have worked with thousands of men. and it is they who took the lead." Constantly pointing up the contrasts between Spain's poverty and its wealth. H.O.A.C. has a network of offices in all major cities. It represents the church's hedge against the chance of Franco's downfall...
...several years important churchmen have been edging away from Franco's philosophies. Bishop Angel Herrera of Malaga has been exposing Spain's social inequities from the pulpit for more than a decade. In 1960, a letter was signed by 352 Basque priests condemning the regime's stifling of basic freedoms; last year several Catholic archbishops urged El Caudillo to drop press censorship...