The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
Letter Shows
Spain Moving
To New Revolt

How the Spanish workers are re-
building their organizations with
greater solidity as result of the
united front which grew from their
recent effort to take over the gov
eminent, is revealed in a letter sent
from Madrid by a revolutionary
railroad worker.
The letter, characterized by buoy
ant hopefulness in spite of the fas-
cist terror Embossed by the govern
r1ent, follows in full
MADRID
Nov. IA, 1884
Dear Friends,
I write these lines certain that
you are interested in the develop
ment of the events which took place
in Spain, especially concerning the
part Of railwayt11en in these strug-
giles.
First of all, we want to tell you
that wherever q strike was carried
through, railwaymen took part in it
with the same intensity as other
workers of the locality. Further, we
can assure you that wherever our
organizations existed, our comrades
were at the head of the battle, and
in numerous cases where the work
ing masses had been abandoned by
the leaders of other organizations
(tf1is was the case, for instance, on
the Madrid-Nord line), they took
the leadership and gave the neces-
sary instructions.
The glorious behavior of our COM
rades in Asturias deserves to be I'M
derlined. Here the railwayinen
fought heroically indeed.
They were a most important help
to the revolutionaries, since it was
they who led the trains full of armed
workers and transformed the rail-
road-stations into real Notifications
AS in Oviedo-until the airplane
commandments expelled them.
The repression is extraordinarily
cruel. In Asturias it is barbarous.
The bourgeois press itself records
that the firing continued for four
days.
There we're 1900 victims in As
turias alone. In the whole country
the number of victims on our side
will be about 5000. The number Of
those arrested is tremendous. The
government is still trying to find
quarters for the greater number of
them. In the Madrid prison there
are five and more prisoners to cell.
Mny of Our comrades have been ar
rested for the first time in their
lives.
Many friends have been dismissed,
as the companies took the occasion
to clean" the shops. However, we
are in touch with all these workers,
and we shall soon restore our Or
CARNATIONS. Our chief task today
is to capitalize in an organizational
manner on the unity born out of
the common struggle. The fusion
of our organization with the Ma
tional Syndicate (refornist) will be
made in few days.
I had an opportunity to read the
foreign newspapers, and I saw that
the proletariat of the world followed
our movement with the greatest in
terest. The revolution in Spain has
not been choked. We have merely
passed an important hating place.
A great part of the influence OF
class collaboration - fundamental
Until now-has finally been liqui-
dated. Great progress is already evil
dent. I believe that our party will
gain now considerably, that OUR
struggle has been rehearsal like
that of 1905 in Russia, but it will
take only as many months as there
were years from 1905 to 1917 for us
to gain the final battle in Spain.
We have been beaten, but we are
not vanquished.
Send greetings to all and publish
this letter; it is written to all COM
rades.
A revolutionary railwaynian from
NTadriA