These weren't the best of times: it was the era of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. Even so, it was then that Llorenç Bisbal, a shoemaker who would later become mayor of Palma, insisted on uniting the various workers' associations of Mallorca under a common acronym: the General Union of Workers (UGT). That was in the now-defunct Casa del Pueblo (People's House) in Palma on October 4, 1925, one hundred years ago.