Avelino González Mallada

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Avelino González Mallada
Portrait photograph of Avelino Gonzalez Mallada
González Mallada (c. 1937)
Mayor of Gijón
In office
15 October 1936 – 21 October 1937
PresidentBelarmino Tomás
Preceded byJaime Valdés Estrada
Succeeded byAlberto Martínez F. Setién
Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
In office
September 1925 – June 1926
Preceded byUnknown
Succeeded bySegundo Blanco
Personal details
Born(1894-08-07)7 August 1894
Anarcho-syndicalist

Avelino González Mallada (7 August 1894 in Gijón – 27 March 1938 in Woodstock) was an Asturian anarchist.

Biography

Born in

With the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, he was put in charge of directing the CNT's newspaper Solidaridad Obrera and until 1933 he was on the CNT Regional Committee in Madrid. He became a member of the FAI and the Jovellanos Masonry Lodge.[2] In 1934 he was one of the people in favor of the CNT's participation in the Workers' Alliance, and in 1935 he was commissioned to reorganize the Regional Committee of the CNT in Asturias.[1]

When the

Washington DC, he organized several rallies in New York City.[1][3]

He died in a car accident in Virginia on 27 March 1938, while he was traveling to California to take part in a series of propaganda actions in favor of republican Spain. He left a widow, Florentina Fernández and two children, Avelino and Amapola.[3]

Bibliography

  • Álvarez Palomo, Ramón (1987). "Viaje y muerte en Estados Unidos en 1938 de Avelino González Mallada, ex alcalde anarquista de Gijón.". Avelino G. Mallada, alcalde anarquista (in Spanish). Barcelona: C. G. Fernando.
    ISBN 84-404-1027-1. Archived from the original
    on 11 July 2009. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  • Pozuelo Andrés, Yvàn (2012). La masonería en Asturias (in Spanish). Oviedo: Ediciones de la Universidad de Oviedo. .

References

Preceded by
Unknown
General Secretary of the CNT
CNT-FAI

1925-1926
Succeeded by