Eight workers were fired from Electricity company called "la canadiense", it was called like that because the main investor was the principal shareholder of the bank of Toronto from Canada, the problem was that those workers wanted to make an independent union group.
This provoked the strike from the rest of workers of the company until their readmission. The company responded by firing a 100 more: Quickly the main anarchist union CNT put on going and the of the another electricity company from Barcelona went on strike too. The head refused to deal with the chief of CNT. The city was paralyced without electricity. Two days after, the water and gas companies joined the strike and the city and the 70 percent of industries catalans too. A lot of people start to be arrested in this situation.
The Spanish Government start to press to company to sit to deal with the union and to accept their demands, readmission whitout retaliation and to rise salaries.
The strike was stopped and the arrested people were released. the strike was spended 44 days
The Goverment overhelmed with that situation decreted eigth-hour day. Spain became the first country who promulgate the eight-hour day, an historical demand in that epoque in the world.