So the Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group led by Josep Llunas i Pujals, Rafael Farga, Antoni Pellicer and Eudald Canivell i Masbernat tried to take advantage of the opportunity offered to put an end to the period of secrecy and proposed to change the policy of the Federal Commission, which "had moved away from the idea of large labor movements, in favor of secret groups, supporters of direct action.

"[1] For this purpose, he convened an Extraordinary Regional Conference that was held from February 6 to 9, 1881 in Gràcia which was attended by a "regional" delegate of the FRE and during which the Commission —composed by Anselmo Lorenzo, José García Viñas,[2] Trinidad Soriano, Nacher, and González Morago - was dismissed and replaced by a new one formed by the Catalan leaders, plus the Mallorcan bricklayer Francesc Tomàs Oliver.

"[3] Almost simultaneously the celebration of the Extraordinary Conference the liberal government of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta approved freedom of association.

[8] Its main agreement was the founding of the new Federation of Workers of the Spanish Region (FRTE), conforming to legality by suppressing the word "international", one of the reasons that had motivated the prohibition of its predecessor the FRE-AIT.

[...] The Workers' Congress declares itself collectivist in terms of property, anarchist or autonomist in terms of social organization.The anarchist newspaper Le Révolte, edited in Geneva by Peter Kropotkin, enthusiastically welcomed the emergence of the FTRE, a continuation of the FRE, even stating that the workers' movement was reborn in Europe.