Ramón Chíes
Ramón Chíes y Gómez de Riofranco (13 October 1845 – 1893)eight-hour working day.
Biography
Chíes was born in the municipality of
Santander and Madrid before selecting journalism as his professional focus. Following the success of the Glorious Revolution in 1868, Chíes took part in the formation of the Federal Republican Party the same year.[2]
Chíes was the editor of El voto nacional (The National Vote) and founded the weekly Las dominicales del Libre Pensamiento (The Sundays of Freethought) with Fernando Lozano in 1882. As editor of the Dominicales, Chíes was prosecuted for blasphemy and condemned to six months' imprisonment and a heavy fine, but was acquitted on appeal after a significant effort to reverse the ruling.[3]
Shortly before his death in 1893, Chíes was elected a member of the council of the municipality of Madrid; in this capacity he proceeded to advocate that the Spanish workers be granted the eight-hour day.
References
- ^ Date of birth is given as 13 Oct 1845 here in the Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists but the entry does not give a date of death even though the book was published in 1920.
- ISBN 978-84-8121-853-4. (in Spanish)
- ^ Malbran, F. (1890). "The Rise and Progress of Freethought in Spain". The Freethinker Vol. 10, No. 15, pp. 177-179.
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