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local and foreign workers in a sentence
1. the revolt led by Joves Andorrans (a labour union group related to the Spanish CNT and FAI) called for political reforms, the universal suffrage vote of all Andorrans and acted in defense of the rights of local and foreign workers during the construction of FHASA's hydroelectric power station in Encamp.
2. After a strike started on 12 September, demanding that no more workers be brought from abroad and equal pay for local and foreign workers already in the project, the management decided to pause the construction "due to a lack of guarantees and until the conditions required for the development of this project are re-established."
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- FHASA's hydroelectric power station
- The 5 April 1933 Joves Andorrans
- Colonel René-Jules Baulard
- 50 gendarmes
- the mobilization
- 200 local militias
- 6 July
- a tax haven and foreign investments
- the sovereign
- a proclamation
- the King's constitution
- Bishop Justí Guitart
- i Vilardebó
- their authorities
- a French military detachment
- well-known Colonel René-Jules Baulard
- Francoist Spain
- the subsequent economic boom
- the entry
- the capitalist era
- Francoist troops
- the Andorran border
- the later stages
- an important smuggling route
- two fascist states
- Many Andorrans
- the passivity
- both the entry
- economic crimes
- General Council members
- the Council's political and diplomatic actions
- Andorra's survival
- its sovereignty
- the two world wars
- Nazi-occupied countries
- the British Mi6
- almost 400 fugitives
- Allied military personnel
- pro-Axis informers
- Gestapo agents