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Workers waving banners and handkerchiefs went on strike in southern Spain Wednesday to protest plans to shut down a Delphi car parts factory at a cost of 1,500 jobs. Unions said workers honored the one-day stoppage in 14 towns in the coastal Cadiz region over the plan to close the Delphi Corp. plant in Puerto Real. Across the region bus service halted, factories were idle and many shops closed, union officials said. About 300 people gathered outside the Interior Ministry office in Cadiz and chanted. Protesters staged similar demonstrations outside city hall buildings in other towns. The Spanish union Workers Commissions said a total of 300,000 people took part in the rallies, which were peaceful.