During the times of the Republic labour and capital engaged in direct collective bargaining under the supervision of the State, and every worker carried a copy of his contract in his pocket. This contract contained the clauses which established both the wage rate and the conditions of work, and so composed the so-called bases which had been agreed between the employers' commission and the ‘workers’ commission' (comisión obrera) in the presence of the delegate of public order. These commissions sat together to negotiate on a mixed committee (jurado mixto), which had considerable power to promote agreement, but which was susceptible to political pressure. In El Marco de Jerez, for example, the working day in the vineyards had always been from sunrise to sunset, but by the end of the Popular Front government the actual working day had fallen to a mere four and a half hours. This situation was rapidly reversed with the successful insurrection of Franco, but in the years which followed, both the Falange, or the Movement which shaped the jurados within the Vertical Syndicate, and the working-class movement which spawned the workers' commissions, sought to legitimate their respective syndical practices by invoking the representative forms of the Republic.