The article introduces the stabilization of the corporate arrangement, threatened by the unexpected policy effectiveness acquired by the trade union of Minas Gerais after the edition of the 19770 decree, of May 1931. With the same argument of fighting the communism, the Ministry of Labor intervened directly in the trade unions, appointing governmental joints and the local political forces, especially the Progressive Party, tried to "accrete" the work force in the municipal elections of 1936 in Belo Horizonte.
corporatism; anti-communism; union trades