The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
WORKERS HOLD
3 MANY CENTERS:
PEASANTS RISE
United Front of Armed
ToiIers Endangers
Fascist Regime

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battle is raging in Catalonia
and around Barcelona, chief
city of this newly proclaimed
Independent republic, with the
workers and peasants continu-
ing the armed struggles after
the capitulation of President Luis
Jompanys of Catalonia to the
Madrid forces.
Troops and warships are being
rushed to Barcelona by the LerrouX
fascist regime, in a desperate eff
fort to queN this new outbreak, af-
ter they thought they had defeated
the movement Tor an autonomous
republic of Catalonia.
The fighting throughout Spain
grows more severe and is spreading
every hour. More than $50 are re-
ported dead, and the wounded num-
Der between three and four thou
sand.
In ASturiaS, the northern indus
trial and mining district of Spain,
the workers are battling most furi-
ously and have established and are
maintaining their rule in many
towns. Thirty thousand armed min
ers were reported marching toward
Oviedo in an effort to join forces
with the workers in this city and
defeat the Fascist armed bands.
Fresh fighting has broken out in
Corona, one of the Catalan prov
inces.
Fierce Fighting in Madrid
In Sabadell, a city of 10000, 20
miles from Barcelona, the workers
have seized power, and are arming
all toilers against the Fascist forces.
In Madrid, the fighting has been
especially severe in some of the
most strategic centers of the city.
Twice, armed workers described as
a "veritable army" marched from
five directions on the Ministry of
the Interior at the Puerta del Sol,
but were reported to have been
beaten back. At the same time,
other groups of armed workers
stormed the Bank of Spain and the
Ministry of War, showing a con-
certed plan to seize these centers
held by the reactionary government.
Efforts were also made to seize
the Ministry of Communications in
order to cut off the Fascist govern
ment's contact with the rest of the
country and to silence the lying re-
ports of Minister Lerroux.
General Strike Solid
The general strike is still one
hundred per cent effective. Rail
road traffic throughout the coun-
try has been stopped, and the work.
ers are modelling their forces to
prevent the shipment of Fascist
armed groups. The Lerroux gov
eminent called a conference of the
leading merchants association with
a view to forcing the opening of
all shops. The rich merchants
promised to do all they could to
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pected they will fail for the second
time.
The growing seriousness of the
armed struggle for the fate of the
Fascist LerrouX regime was shown
by the order to recall Spanish troops
in Morocco for use against the
workers and peasants. The govern
ment has not yet used the regular
army in Spain, fearing that many
of the soldiers will go over to the
side of the workers. The Foreign
Legion and other picked troops at
Ceuta. Morocco. are being rushed to
Barcelona, in the hope that these
forces, with slighter ties with the
workers and peasants, will prove
more reliable thaE the regular army.
Catalan Troops Join Strike
The troops now garrisoned in
Catalonia, particularly those in
Lerida. aligned themselves with the
revolutionary general strike and de-
clared they would not shoot down
their brothers.
Greater masses of peasants are
entering the armed struggle on the
side of the workers and against the
Fascist government. In Andalusia
the peasants captured the town of
Jaen, provincial capital, and began
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