He is best known as one of the leaders of the Jaca uprising of 12 December 1930, a failed attempt to abolish the monarchy that was soon followed by the declaration of the Second Spanish Republic.

[1] Sediles participated with other officers including captains Fermín Galán, Ángel García Hernández, Luís Salinas and Miguel Gallo in the Jaca uprising of 12 December 1930.

[4] At dawn on 13 December 1930 at the heights of Cillas, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Huesca, the rebels found themselves confronted by the government force.

[4] On 20 May 1931 captains Sediles, Salinas, Gallo and Arboledas filed requests with the Ministry of War to be able to withdraw from the army.

As a dissident radical republican Barriobero was an active critic of the government, and earned the enmity of its leadership until the end of the civil war.

[8] At the start of the Spanish Civil War the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) formed the Águilas de la Libertad militia based in Madrid in 1936 with 400 men under Sediles.