[2] As a glazier, he joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), with which he participated as a delegate of the Barcelona Glass Industry Union at the Catalonia conference held on 31 May 1931, as well as at the extraordinary congress in Madrid in July 1931, and at the Regional Plenary Session of Single Unions held in Barcelona in March 1933.

[2] He became secretary of the CNT's Regional Committee of Catalunya when the civil war began,[2] replacing Dionís Eroles i Batlló.

[2] In April 1938 he unsuccessfully proposed the independence of Catalunya if nationalist troops reached the Mediterranean and signed a pact of unity with the UGT.

[1] In 1939 he went into exile in France,[2] where he was interned in the concentration camps at Vernet and Djelfa, which he left in 1942 after he enlisted in the British Army.

After re-entering Catalunya clandestinely in 1950 he returned to Toulouse, where he participated in the Congresses of the International Workers' Association of 1951 and 1954.