Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.805.1
Object Name
Poster
Title
EL MINISTERIO DE INSTRUCCION PUBLICA ACABA DE CREAR EN MADRID. EL INSTITUTIS PARA OBREROS. ARITMETICA (The Ministry of Public Education has just created in Madrid the Institute for Workers)
Place
Valencia; Spain
People
Ministerio de instruccion; Institutos para obreros
Events
War & Spanish Civil War
Date
around 1939
Creator(s)
Amster, Mr Mauricio
Description
'El Instituto Para Obreros' poster, by Mauricio Amster, around 1936-1939
This poster shows an image of a man's arm raised, holding a selection of books with an arithmatic book on top, with factories and chimneys in the background to represent workers. The poster reads "EL MINISTERIO DE INSTRUCCION PUBLICA ACABA DE CREAR EN MADRID. EL INSTITUTOS PARA OBREROS" which translates to "The Ministry of Public Education has just created in Madrid the Institute for Workers".
The poster was designed by Maruicio Amster, and printed by the Unión General de Trabajadores (âWorker´s General Unionâ) (U.G.T) and the Confederación General de Trabajadores (âWorkersâ National Confederationâ) (C.N.T). The U.G.T is a Socialist Trade Union, which still exists as a trade union. It used to be linked to P.S.O.E (Partido Socialista Obrero Español âSpanish Socialist Worker Partyâ) until 1980. It was one of the biggest Trade Union during the Spanish Civil War, even his General Secretary Largo Caballero, who was named â The Spanish Leninâ was Prime minister during the war. The C.N.T was an anarcho-syndicalist labour union, one of the biggest during Spanish Civil War and the most powerful one in Catalonia and was involved, like George Orwell, in the fight during May Days of Barcelona in 1937.
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