"''Unite Proletarian Brothers''" (, UHP) is a slogan symbolized in the labor alliance signed by the Asturian Socialist Federation, the

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(UGT) and the Regional Labor Confederations of

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, León and

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of the

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(CNT), as well as the

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and the Communist Left of Spain in February 1934. There was a document signed on March 28, 1934 between the CNT-UGT of Asturias.

History

Originally the acronym "UHP" arose spontaneously among the bases of the union groups with a different meaning, "Union Horse Power", since the different machinery with which they worked at the time was almost all of English manufacture, of which the technical identification plates that dated their capacities and their legend highlighted the

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they possessed. From there, the slogan "Uníos Hermanos Proletarios" arose, devised by Amador Fernández. Under the acronym UHP, the Asturian Socialist Federation, the

(UGT) and the Regional Labor Confederations of

, León and

of the

(CNT), as well as the

and the Communist Left of Spain. In September, the

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applied for membership. However, this was not allowed until it withdrew from its request everything related to anti-Trotskyism, since both the

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and

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understood that unity of action was essential and that there would be no internal confrontations. The slogan was adopted by the revolutionaries in the Asturias Revolution in October

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, seeking to represent the unity of action of the Asturian proletariat and its various tendencies. In the newspaper '' El Siglo Futuro'' appeared this review: "They greet each other with the salute of a closed fist, and instead of the word "stop" to arrest the suspects, at the forefront they use the password "PHU", which is answered with "UHP". It seems that these initials correspond to the words Unión Proletaria Hispana". Later it was a regular proclamation of the Republican faction and its defenders in the

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. The UHP locker was also used as a "form of payment" for the militiamen who made their purchases in small shops, leaving the corresponding debt.

Post

The UHP published a newspaper in Guadalajara called '' UHP, Milicias'' ''Alcarreñas Antifascistas.'' Later it was called '' UHP Ejército Polular Comandancia de Guadalajara. '' Its first issue was published on August 12, 1936 and lasted until January 1937. A total of 24 numbers came out, oscillating their price or donation between 10 and 15 cents.

Other data

* In Puerto Real,

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, a street bears the name of "Union of Proletarian Brothers".

References

{{reflist 1934 in Spain 1934 in politics Politics of Asturias History of Asturias Confederación Nacional del Trabajo