On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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Tonight ar work featured us being severely understaffed with a table of 20 that was so awful they were told they weren't welcome back after paying their bill. Those fuckers ordered weird so it fucked up co-ordinating apps and mainstream with them without agreeing over other tables caue they gradually ordered apps for an hour and a half so they also took up seating and fucked up timing so the place was flooded and by the time they got to their mains everyone else was also ordering, because THEY RETURNED EVERYTHING. 20 PEOPLE WHO WERENT SATISFIED WITH APPS, SALADS, MAINS, NOTHING. I run expo and am the final say on quality control, if the chef tries to.snesk something through that doesn't pass muster and I call a remake, he remakes it, normally that would be his job but it's where I'm best used. So I can say for an absolute fact all of their food was up to snuff. We were 3 cooks, one who is new so I was calling and organizing orders, running expo, doing salads and cold side, helping with pizzas, doing about half of watching the oven (it's 650 degrees, things go fast), talking with the sever dealing with this table table's bullshit and trying to figure out how to appease them enough dontheyd eat and leave us forever and co-ordinating thst with making sure the other tables were being screwed as little as possible. Also we completely ran out of chicken and had am add chicken pizza brought to the non chicken pizza of the same types table by a new server and had to deal with that blowback. I am soooo glad our newer dude kept a steady head and rolled with thennear infinite punches and ammalsonbery glad me and the other not new guynare really really really good at this job.
There should be an industry-wide ban-list for shitty customers.
damn that sounds like hell. I hope those assholes all go off a cliff in a bus