[1] He studied at the Escuela de Huérfanos Ferroviarios in Valladolid, and began working as an apprentice turner at the age of 15 in the railway workshops in Pisuerga.
[1] In 1909 Gómez joined the General Union of Workers (UGT) and the Socialist Association in Valladolid.
[1] From 1915 he worked as the secretary of the Northern Railway Union which organized a general strike of August 1917.
[1] He was also a member of the Institute of Social Reforms and during the rule of Miguel Primo de Rivera was a substitute socialist representative in its joint committees.
[1] When the civil war broke out, he was in charge of the department of supplies of the Madrid City Council and in 1937 he was appointed its general director.