Ramón González Peña Explained

Ramón González Peña
Office:Minister of Justice
Term Start:5 April 1938
Term End:1 April 1939
Predecessor:Tomás Bilbao Hospitalet
Successor:Tomás Domínguez Arévalo
Birth Date:1888
Birth Place:Spain
Death Place:Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality:Spanish
Party:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Known For:Being a leader of the Asturian miners' strike of 1934

Ramón González Peña (1888 – 27 July 1952) was an Asturian socialist and trade union leader. González was a prominent leader in the 1934 miners revolt in Asturias, under which he led the Oviedo Revolutionary Committee. After the revolt, he was sentenced to death. One year later, however, he was reprieved. González served as the president of Unión General de Trabajadores, in which he was in conflict with Largo Caballero. He was also a Member of Parliament and was the Minister of Justice 1938–1939.[1] [2] After the Spanish Civil War González Peña went to exile in Mexico, where he died on 27 July 1952.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Goethem, Geert van. The Amsterdam International: The World of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. p. 76
  2. Kraus, Dorothy, and Henry Kraus. The Gothic Choirstalls of Spain. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. p. 37
  3. Web site: González Peña, Ramón. 7 April 2015. Fundación Pablo Iglesias. Spanish.