Spanish revolution : a bulletin published by the United Libertarian Organizations. Vol. 1, no. 2

              SPANISH REVOLUTION
A BULLETIN PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED LIBERTARIAN ORGANIZATIONS
Vol. 1, No. 2
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 5th, 1936
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REVOLUTIONARY ANTI-FASCISTS MAINTAIN ORDER
Anti-fascist Street Patrol in Madrid Insures Public Order.
The new order of things has created some problems which must be remedied immediately. Maintenance of public order is one of the problems that is being handled very efficiently in the towns and cities where the necessity has arisen.
The anti-Fascist front must construct a new economic order upon the ruins of the old. For this reason public order must be assured and attempts at reactionary sedition quelled. To this end revolutionary military patrols have been formed. The Barcelona patrol force has 700 men from the various anti-Fascist groups. Under the general direction of the anti-Fascist Patrol Committee, they are divided into eleven districts corresponding to the districts of Barcelona.
Day and night the patrols keep watch and act as auxiliaries to the Investigation Committee whose function it is to root out all Fascist nests.
The revolutionary origin and composition of this body and the important, delicate mission it has to perform makes it an especially valuable aid to the welfare of the workers of Barcelona.
A public bulletin informs us of the functions and composition of the patrols. The number of men furnished by each organization is as follows:
C.N.T.......................................... 325
Republican Left........ 185
U.G.T........................................ 145
P.O.U.M.................................. 45
Total..................„............ 700
The Catalonian Police
A significant process of development is taking place within the ranks of the Catalonian police. The Solidardad Obrera (Anarcho-Syndicalist daily newspaper) and other proletarian publications came out with the demand to purge the ranks of the Guardia de Assalto of the reactionary elements and for the setting up of a joint council of workers and guards (shock police). The appeal found response in the rank and file of this military organization. The Guardia de Assalto (shock troops formed by the republican government in 1932) and the regular police of Barcelona appealed officially to the C.N.T. and the anti-Fascist committee. The result was the setting up of workers and soldiers councils within every unit. The councils represent revolutionary workers and the police. The revolutionary workers are mainly represented by the C.N.T. The
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FACTORIES, FIELDS TAKEN BY TOILERS
Water and Gas Services Taken Over by C.N.T.
The C.N.T. has taken possession of the Water and Gas Co. in Catalonia, one of the largest in Spain. In addition to the water and gas which it supplies to Barcelona, it also supplies gas to Granada, Malaga, Valencia, St. Ferdinand and Santander.
The first measures taken by the Workers Council was to abolish high salaries and all posts which served no useful purposes. In this way 240,000 pesetas was made available for effecting long needed sanitary improvements.
Subways run by Unions
With the outbreak of the Fascist putsch the bourgeois directors of the subway lines (Metro Transversal) abandoned their posts. On July 22 the C.N.T. look over this line and discovered large quantities of arms and ammunition hidden away there by
the directors. The same day the other lines were also confiscated. More than a score of high officials, known as enemies of the working class, were dismissed. Committees from the C.N.T. subway employees' local now direct these lines. The Catalonian Generalidad has one advisory member on the committee, but he plays a purely passive role. The technical workers cooperate fully with the committee.
Within one month economies of 36,000 pesetas were made. This was done partly by eliminating the high salaries of the directors.
Although the eight-hour day still exists in this industry, one of the immediate objectives of the unions is to institute the six-hour day. Steps are being taken to eliminate useless work, sinecures and waste of any kind.
On July 24th the main subway line was taken over by the C.N.T. and the U.G.T., represented by a joint committee. The technicians put themselves at the disposal of this committee. In order to effect economies, however, the Committee reduced all high salaries of technicians. Wages of most of the workers have been raised (none lowered) to effect equality of remuneration.
Extension of the lines is being planned and fares will be reduced.
The Metal Industry is Socialized 
The metal factory "Vulcan" employing 520 workers was requisitioned July 22, and is controlled by a council consisting of representatives from the C.N.T. and the U.G.T. The factory now supplies materials for the civil war and is
This picture, taken near Seville, shows one of the cars requisitioned by the C.N.T. for use in the anti-Fascist militia. The man in the rear of the car holding a machine-gun is Comrade Ortiz, the secretary of the Seville local of the Carpenters' Union of the C.N.T.
THE C.N.T. AND THE F.A.I. APPEAL TO ALL THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD!
AN APPEAL FOR MORAL AND MATERIAL SOLIDARITY WITH SPANISH WORKERS IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM 
The Cause of the Spanish Proletariat is the Supreme Cause of Liberty for All the World 
ANTI-FASCIST INTELLECTUALS! MEN OF FREE CONSCIENCE! SUPPORT THE HEROIC SPANISH FIGHTERS!
The National Confederation of Labor (C.N.T.) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (F.A.I.) addresses this message to the workers of America, Asia, Europe and the world over, in order to solicit moral and material aid. We appeal to the active solidarity of the whole proletariate and to all men who are aware of the decisive nature of the present struggle in Spain.
We find it necessary to tell briefly, to all who, though far away, are morally supporting our cause, what the real situation in Spain is.
Despite the partisan information disseminated by the various proletarian and political organizations who present the Spanish anti-Fascist movement as exclusively directed by the popular front — in which the Communists and Socialists play the leading role — the truth is different.
The struggle against Fascism is being carried on mainly because of the heroism, the fighting spirit and the large number of Spanish workers organized around the C.N.T. and the F.A.I. In Catalonia, we have completely influenced the direction of the movement; realizing the necessity jof crushing Fascism first, we have not limited the movement to something exclusively libertarian. We wanted to maintain the unity of the anti-Fascist front above all. We used our influence in the entire network of Catalonian economic life in the creation of economic councils, work councils in the factories, mines, etc. These councils stabilizing the entire economic life of the region so as to make it the basis for the social organization of the future.
But it would be inconceivable at a time when we are struggling heroically and victoriously
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