Gernika-Lumo, 1913. Industrialización, movimiento obrero y conflicto social: la huelga de "Esperanza y Unceta"

ETXANIZ ORTÚÑEZ, José Ángel

Publication year:

2000

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-965-7

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

Industrialisation at Gernika-Lumo was not without its set of polemics and conficts.Their beginning in 1913 aroused, within the town itself, opinions in favour and against industrialisation, motivated by the move from Eibar to Gernika of "Esperanza y Unceta", the pistol manufacturer, together with its workers and families. The associationist and socialist ideology of the workers, their union activism, their demands, all made their impact. The prompt calling for a strike, its duration and conflict, caused quite a commotion in the town´s placid local life.