workers grouped in the official trade union centre for the fuel industry, at a meeting held on 5th February 1965 in Madrid. These workers criticised the “vertical” system of trade unions in Spain, which groups workers, employers and technicians, and through which the whole trade union movement is under the entire control of the Falange, Spain’s only legal political party. The meeting rejected the “paternalism” of both state and em-
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ployers, and called for the re-estab-
lishment of free trade unions. It
also demanded a wage increase and