The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11
ARMED CLASH
SPREADS ALL
over SPAIN
Workers and Peasants
Resist Drive for
Fascism 4

MADRID, Dec. 1o.-The armed re-
sistance OF Spanish workers and
peasants against the threat Of q fas-
cist dictatorship continued to gain
Roadway today, despite the most brIi-
tai attempts of the left-republican
government, with its three Socialist
Ministers, to drown the movement In
blood. Indignant at the fraud and
fascist violence which marked the
recent elections for the Spanish Cor
ties and gave the reactionary coalition
q huge majority in the new parlia-
nent, workers and peasants through
cut the country sprang to arms last
Friday night as the new Cortes was
convened by the government under
protection of state Of alarm" de-
creed against the toiling masses The
Spanish Communist Party received
100000 votes, according to the gov
eminent count, showing q. large in~
crease in the Communist vote.
e Killed, Hundreds Wounded.
Forty-tWo persons were killed yes
terday and hundreds wounded In
fierce battles between government
forces and workers and peasants
who took up arms to defend them
selves against the fascist reaction, for
which the Socialist Ministers and
deputies in the Cortes paved the way
by their savage assaults on the revo-
lutionary workers and their orgar1i~
cations and the Imprisonment Of
thousands of working class and peas
ant leaders.
A general revolutionary strike has
been called for tomorrow. The strike
Of transportation workers, now in it's
third week, took on additional inn
petus with many more workers COM
ing out on strike. Workers in Tar
ragonza, Reus and Manresa in north
eastern Spain are already answering
the strike call. With the masses in
q tremendous upsurge throughout
Spain, the Executive Committee Of
the Socialist Party, in an emergency
meeting yesterday, declared against
supporting the movement while at the
same time pretending neutrality" in
the struggle now raging between the
masses and the bourgeois state, de-
claring its decision to remain on the
alert" but to make no move "for the
present"
Movement Spreading,
The uprising which began IN the
northeastern provinces has spread to
practically every corner OF Spain. In
every place it quickly took on the
form Of an attack on churches and
converts as the masses expressed
their indignation against these cen
tiers of the reaction and the support
by the priests and nuns Of the reac-
tionary parties in the CorteS cleo
tons. Six churches were fired In
Granada, where workers also seized
the town hall and destroyed the off,
ciaI archives. At Albazin, g convent
was fired. At Saragossa, the st.
Nicholas Church was destroyed by the
angry workers, who engaged the
troops in sharp skirnishes through
out yesterday. A fire engine attempt
ing to save the church was burned
by the workers, who fiercely defended
themselves against army tanks which
opened machine gun fire on large
crowds of workers cheering the burn
ing Of the church.
Two civil guards were killed and
four others wounded in lighting In
Barcelona and its suburbs. Workers
in that city occupied the Catholic
Club and set up barricades of seized
automobiles in the main streets. A
general strike has been called In
Barcelona.
Sharp Fighting In Capital
Sharp fighting also occurred In
Madrid, the capital, and in scores OF
villages around the capital. Two civil
guards were shot at Alcaniz. Heavily
armed troops are patrolling the city,
but the government is alarmed OF
the growing runors Of revolt among
the rank and file Of the army, whose
sympathies are reported to be with
the workers and peasants.
Heavy fighting occurred yesterday
| in the city of Logrono, where the mil
| itancy of the workers SO demoralized
the police that they began firing on
everybody who appeared on the
streets, wounding many reactionaries
as well as workers. Workers, barri-
cading themselves in their homes, are
harassing the police forces. Thirteen
casualties were reported during the
day at Haro, near Logrono. In doz-
ems Of nearby villages, the peasants
have proclaimed local Soviets.
Two civil guards we're shot at Aha
sar. near Valencia. A total Of 16
killed is reported from the village.
Five trains we're held up during the
day by peasants who removed Sec
lions OF the tracks and cut the tele-
graph wires.
The insurrectionary m owe m NJ
spread during the day to the prov
inces of Huesca and Teruei.