José Vecchio: a trajetória de um militante em ascendência ao longo do Estado Novo (1930-1950).

Abstract

This work aims to develop the trajectory of José Vecchio, an important worker activist, who will stand out in the midst of various political and social changes. The turn of the 19th to the 20th century brought with it agitations in the working class environment. Based on Vecchio's experiences, the aim is to visualize these changes, focusing on the daily lives of workers who will form organizations, while they will suffer great repression from the State, as well as from businessmen. José Vecchio's leadership emerges throughout the 1930s. A worker who performed the functions of a motorman in the Porto Alegre tram company, he, throughout this period, will present himself as a figure that contributes not only to structuring the union of Porto Alegre. its category, but helping other categories to form. This period of great movement contributed to the workers being able to think of strategies to expand the possibilities of rights, even with the restrictions imposed. The possibilities were emerging throughout the 1930s and, from the government crisis in the mid-1940s, and especially in the 45s with the departure of Getúlio Vargas from power, political parties were structured in the country, thus giving rise to the PSD (Partido Social Democrat) and PTB (Brazilian Labor Party).