Representing the Surotapers Union of Cassà de la Selva and others in Figueres, La Bisbal, Llagostera, Olot, Palamós and Salt, he attended the third confederal Congress of the CNT (Madrid, 10-16 June 1931), where he was elected to chair the first session.

[1][2] At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he acted as Minister of Defense of the Generalitat de Catalunya from December 1936 to May 1937.

[3] He later took part in the constitution of the Spanish Libertarian Movement, formed in Paris in February 1939.

[1][2][4] At the end of the war he went into exile in France, and in 1942 was interned in the concentration camps of Vernet and Djelfa.

At the end of World War II he settled in Paris and maintained some activity.