Read the text and answer the following questions:

"The program of Primo de Rivera “Manifiesto” roughly coincides with the general sense of the producers, which had understood it was a duty to support the initiators of this movement, offering them their determined collaboration at this time

(...) Without prejudice to present papers before the institutions of Catalonia directed to adhere to the Manifiesto of the general captain of our region, and to immediately visit the Marques de Estella to express to him that Catalan producers are on his side of the campaign of political regeneration that has just taken benefit of national wealth"


Minute book of the National Organization of Employment (meeting September 13-14 1923)(Llibre d'actes del Foment del Treball Nacional (sessió 13-14 de setembre 1923)

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  1. Explain the historical context - national and international- in which this text  was written.(2 points)
    Restoration, second period, Alfons XIII was the king, Primo de Rivera coup d'etat .
    Problems of Morocco, Annual disaster.
    Catalonia: pistolerism,gun law days in Catalonia, worker's movement CNT- anarchist/ against employers that had the governmental support -Martínez Anido, and "llei de fugas- jailbreaks law-

  2. Read the following text of the Consell Superior del Foment del Treball Nacional a Catalunya  and explain this paragraph.(2 points):
    " ...to express to him that the Catalan producers are on his side of the campaign for political regeneration and that has been undertaken in favor of the national wealth "
    ( You should explain : what was the Foment  and why the Catalan bourgeois gave support to Primo de Rivera’s coup d’etat) .
    the most important question for them was that  Primo de Rivera banned the anarchist syndicate, the most important in Catalonia and Andalusia, and that was they were expecting from him
  3. Do you think the Primo de Rivera’s coup d'etat could have solved this social situation? .(2 points)
    (Explain and justify your answer )
    it is  true that in his early time period decreased social conflicts but it happened because of three reasons: economic prosperity of the 1920s, the lack of freedom and repression of the most radical sector of the labour movement CNT and we must think about the political exclusion, fraudulent elections and its consequences
  4. Can you briefly explain the main important facts about: Salvador Seguí, Rosa Sensat , Expedient Picasso i els fets de Prats de  (9-10 línies total)(2 points)

  5. Write a brief summary of the political, economic and social problems of Spain in the 1900-1930 period.(2 points)

King Alfonso XIII decided to support the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera 1923-1930 and that was an important political mistake, when  the dictatorship of Primo collapsed the monarchy was discredited and  the Republic was seen as a solution  

[Political: The non-democratic state (remember the Restauracion tupinades, Morocco and the facts of the  Tragic Week- Setmana Tràgica- in Barcelona ) explains his lack of interest in Education Social: and the great mass of illiterate population), the agrarian problems ( 1 million people without land , not landowners, "jornaleros") . The Republic decided they had to modify these facts.]



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  1. Explain the historical context - national and international, in which this text  was written?

  2. Explain who was the National Organization of Employment (Foment del Treball Nacional)?

  3. Read the following text of the Consell Superior del Foment del treball Nacional a Catalunya  and explain this paragraph: " ... to express to him that the catalan producers are on his side of the campaign for political regeneration and that has been undertaken in favor of the national wealth . "
    ( You should discuss : what was the Foment  and why did  the Catalan bourgeois give support to Primo de Rivera’s coup d’etat) .

  4. Do you think the Primo de Rivera’s coup d'etat could have solved this social situation? (Explain your answer )

  5. Write a brief summary of the political, economical and social problems of Spain in the 1900-1930 period.

catalan/english

El programa del manifest de Primo de Rivera coincideix amb síntesis amb el sentit general  dels productors, pel qual havia entès que constituïa un deure donar suport als iniciadors d'aquest moviment, oferir-los la seva col·laboració decidida en aquests moments,

 (...)Que sens perjudici de dur a terme gestions davant les entitats de Catalunya encaminades a fer que s'adhereixin al Manifest del capità general de la nostra regió, visitar immediatament el Marquès d'Estella per tal d'expressar-li que els productors catalans estan al seu costat en la campanya de regeneració política que acaba d'emprendre en profit de les riqueses nacionals.

 Llibre d'actes del Foment del Treball Nacional (sessió 13-14 de setembre 1923)

The program of Primo de Rivera “Manifiesto” roughly coincides with the general sense of the producers, which had understood it was a duty to support the initiators of this movement, offering them their determined collaboration at this time

(...) Without prejudice to present papers before the institutions of Catalonia directed to adhere to the Manifiesto of the general captain of our region, and to immediately visit the Marques de Estella to express to him that Catalan producers are on his side of the campaign of political regeneration that has just taken benefit of  national wealth.

Minute book of the National Organization of Employment (meeting September 13-14 1923)

Darrera modificació: diumenge, 19 d’abril 2020, 13:46