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Frustration among the laboring classes arose when the Constituent Assembly did not address the concerns of the workers.

Strikes and worker demonstrations became more common as the workers gave vent to these frustrations.

These demonstrations reached a climax when on 15 May 1848, workers from the secret societies broke out in armed uprising against the anti-labor and anti-democratic policies being pursued by the Constituent Assembly and the Provisional Government.

Fearful of a total breakdown of law and order, the Provisional Government invited General Louis Eugene Cavaignac back from Algeria, in June 1848, to put down the worker's armed revolt.

From June 1848 until December 1848 General Cavaignac became head of the executive of the Provisional Government.