Salvador Seguí

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Salvador Seguí
Secretary General of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
In office
December 1922 – 10 March 1923
Preceded byJoan Peiró
Succeeded byManuel Adame
Personal details
Born
Salvador Seguí i Rubinat

(1887-09-23)23 September 1887
Lleida, Spain
Died10 March 1923(1923-03-10) (aged 35)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Cause of deathExtrajudicial killing
Resting placeMontjuïc Cemetery
NationalityCatalan
Political partyConfederación Nacional del Trabajo
SpouseTeresa Muntaner [ca]

Salvador Seguí i Rubinat (23 September 1887, in

labor unions
.

Biography

He is mainly remembered for playing a major role in building and organizing the

workers' movement in Catalonia
. He became Secretary General of the CNT in Catalonia in 1918.

While he was Secretary General in Catalonia, the

CNT played a major role in the ''La Canadenca'' strike, which lasted for 44 days, which paralyzed the 70% of the Catalan economy, and which led to Spain being the first country in the world to establish the 8-hour working day by law.[1] During the strike, Seguí was imprisoned, but was liberated on the last day of the strike, just in time to attend the general assembly attended by 20.000 workers which ended the strike.[2] He was the person who communicated all the achievements.[3]

Together with

Cemetery of Montjuïc
, Barcelona.

He has received many tributes since his death, and a foundation has been launched in his memory, the

Solidaridad Obrera, and the Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo.[12] A square in El Raval neighborhood of Barcelona is named after him.[13]

Bibliography

  • Seguí, Salvador «Noi del Sucre». Escuela de Rebeldía (Historia de un sindicalista), Ilustraciones de M. Ramos, Madrid, La Novela de Hoy (Sucesores de Rivadeneyra), 1923.
  • Seguí, Salvador. Narraciones. anarco-sindicalistas de los años veinte / Salvador Seguí...[et al.], Barcelona, Icaria, 1978.
  • Martí Font, Jordi (2021). ''Salvador Seguí. El colós de l'anarquisme''. Lo Diable Gros.

See also

References

  1. ^ Balcells, Alberto (1968). El sindicalismo en Barcelona (1916-1923). Barcelona: Nova Terra. pp. 77–78.
  2. ^ NacióDigital. "Cent anys del míting de les Arenes". www.naciodigital.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  3. ^ "SALVADOR SEGUÍ. EL COLÓS DE L'ANARQUISME. SEGUÍ I RUBINAT, SALVADOR. Libro en papel. 9788412204339 La Tribu Llibreria". www.latribullibreria.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
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  6. ^ Història de la cultura catalana [History of the Culture of Catalonia] (in Spanish). Edicions 62 (in Catalan). 1999.
  7. ^ "Fundación Salvador SeguÍ". www.fundacionssegui.org (in Spanish). 16 November 2007. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  8. ^ Redacció (28 April 2023). "VÍDEO | Una exposició repassa la vida de Salvador Seguí, el Noi del Sucre, en el centenari del seu assassinat". La República (in Catalan). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  9. ^ Abacus, Comunicacio (3 May 2023). "Abacus Idea produeix l'exposició 'Salvador Seguí, el noi del sucre' a partir d'una investigació de Sàpiens". Abacus Cooperativa (in Catalan). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Inauguració de l'exposició "Salvador Seguí, el Noi del Sucre"". Govern.cat. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  11. ^ Barcelona, UAB-Universitat Autònoma de. "Exposición "A las barricadas. Anarquismo en Cataluña"". UAB Barcelona (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  12. ^ "CGT conmemora el centenario de asesinato de Salvador Seguí en el cementerio de Montjuic junto con otras organizaciones anarcosindicalistas - CGT - Confederal". cgt.org.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  13. ^ "Plaça Salvador Seguí". (barcelona-metropolitan.com). 1 October 2023. Retrieved 25 September 2023.

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