In 1902 he was part of the group founding the Popular Encyclopedic Cultural Association, and presided over the first Organizing Commission and drawing up the first Statutes.

The Budget was passed by the Town Council, in spite of the opposition of the rightwing parties, but would finally not be implemented as it was vetoed by the Regional Government.

In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Partit Republicà Català and in 1919 was elected deputy for Sabadell in the Cortes Generales in Madrid, in representation of this party.

Of his most noteworthy speeches in parliament is one in which he denounced the repressive situation that the Catalan proletariat were suffering after the strike of the manufacturer Canadenca in 1919 and another he gave in 1920, as a defender of peace at the presentation of the Budget of War.

He was shot as he left home to go, as a deputy, to the Civil Government to protest against the mass detention of union leaders, nationalists and republicans, including his friends Lluis Companys and Martí Barrera.