Undoing the Reforms of 1931-33

• The new government systematically undermined and undid the previous government's reforms:

  • it attacked the laws that had entrenched workers' rights - wages of industrial and agricultural workers fell
  • it reversed land reform - wealthy landowners were able to retake the land that had been confiscated and the peasants who had taken the land were evicted
  • Lerroux refused to enforce the aspects of the constitution that separated the Catholic Church and the state
• The FNTT responded to Lerroux's agricultural policy by organising a general strike. Lerroux responded by ordering the Civil Guard to crush the strike.