Radicals, Alvear and the search for support among railroad workers
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With the exception of Paul Goodwin, historians had not noticed that first with Hipólito Yrigoyen and even more so with Marcelo T. de Alvear, the government viewed with sympathy the creation of a strong union that later became the Unión Ferroviaria (UF). In this article I want to explore how and why reciprocal interests developed between that union and the radical leaders. I will not explore the changes in the working conditions of the railwaymen in detail but, I insist, I will focus my attention on the development of the interests that made the union leaders and the radicals cooperate with each other. This type of cooperation is far from unique as it occurred also in other parts of the world, but its existence has long been ignored in Argentina because it does not fit into certain stereotypes.
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