On March 3, after several months of strikes demanding decent working conditions, the representative commissions of workers in the struggling companies had called a day of general strike in Vitoria, a city where an assembly movement had been created that worried to the Government, fearful that it could be extended to the whole of the Spanish State.In the church of San Francisco in the working class neighborhood of Zaramaga, thousands of workers packed the temple in assembly. Outside, many more people gathered and, in the middle, a hundred agents of the armed police were stationed
