When these workers, taken over many factories in their district, were told that they were to be nanded back to their former owner they set up barricades on all the roads leading to Cerrillos-Maipu and occupied the premises of the Labour Ministry as well as marching to other workers' districts asking for solidarity.
It was out of this struggle that the first cordone industrial was born. The cordone was the embryo of workers power — a soviet-type organisation _ it gave organisational form to the situation of dual power that had been VUCLICU up with the Popular Unity. The cordones put forward a programme of struggle which combined economic demands. gave government as long ment in turn supported the struggle of the workers and their mobilisations.
generalising control through the called for automatic wage increases to up with
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