Jailbird's Jailings

A jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Senor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher pay.

With elevators running again Madrid felt better, though in that capital alone 100,000 workers of various sorts were striking. The railways were threatened with a strike likely to tie up all Spain. In a now typical instance of Madrid political carnage last week, three Fascists were mowed down by a machine-gun spitting from a presumptively Socialist car.

Next day two Socialists were killed and four wounded by machine-gun bullets from a speeding car presumptively Fascist. They were avenged by catching a young Fascist, Jose Maria Sanchez, stripping him naked, tying him to a tree, savagely demolishing his head with bullets. In Galicia a plebiscite revealed that 85% of the voters are so disgusted with the wavering bourgeois-radical Madrid Cabinet that they demand self-rule for Galicia.

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