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Show SPAIN ARRESTS STRIKE SIGNS Manifesto of Workmen Clearly Clear-ly a Revolutionary Movement Move-ment Tranquility Now Reigns. WASHINGTON, March 30 A re o-lutionary o-lutionary movement, which resulted in the calling of a general strike, was directly responsible for the suspension yesterday b) Spain of constitutional guarantees, according to an official dispatch received today by Ambassador Ambassa-dor Riano from Madrid. The government has arrested the signers of the strike manifesto, is said in the dispatch now to be relying upon up-on the "common sense" of workmen and the effectiveness of the measures taken to preserve public order. The country was quiet at the time the dispatch dis-patch was sent. The text follows: "A manifesto having ben published by the representatives of the work men's union proclaiming a general strike without fixing a dale and clear-Ij clear-Ij with revolutionary purpose and with the idea of disturbinc public order, which was varv marked last night at ;i public meeting, the government has suspended constitutional guarantees, after having arrested by judicial order or-der the signers of the manifesto Absolute Ab-solute tranquility reigns over Spain! ;md the government trusts to common sense of the workmen and in the effectiveness ef-fectiveness of the measures adopted to preserve public order." |