Well in this brief piece we approach a protest where women and children played an obvious role in A Coruña in March to continue delving into the intense social problem of that Spain. That end of the month was especially conflictive in Barcelona and in a large part of the country highlighting the general strike of postmen causing a state of war to be declared in Barcelona and the suspension of constitutional guarantees. On March disorders occurred at the Linares Rivas dock in A Coruña due to the high cost of food supplies.
Apparently the Board had valued a kilo of beans at cents but the merchants refused to sell them at that price. Well a group of neighbors aware that the steamship “Cabo Nao” bound for Malaga was loading beans approached the aforementioned dock CXB Directory where they found some seven hundred bags that were going to be shipped. The neighbors tore the sacks to get the beans. The news spread like wildfire and more people came especially women and children. The police could not prevent this real assault on the bags from taking place; hunger could do everything.
Faced with the failure of the police the Civil Guard and a Cavalry Squadron showed up because a crowd of hundreds of people had already gathered in the port. During that time a child was injured when he was trampled by a horse and rumors spread that he had died. This fact plus the charge of the public force and the flight of the protesters caused riots in the streets of the city. The windows of many grocery establishments were stoned and some of them were looted. The shops closed.
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