Ramón Rubial

He was a main leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in the Basque Country and in Spain.

[1] He joined the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) in 1920 and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1922.

[1] In 1934, he was arrested for revolutionary activities during the Asturian miners' strike of 1934, for which he was detained for seven months on a prisoner ship.

[1] He was then sentenced to seven years in prison for sedition, but pardoned after the Popular Front victory in the 1936 Spanish general election.

[1] Rubial was released in August 1956, and started to reorganize the PSOE and UGT in the Basque Country and in Spain working underground.