Ramon Plarromaní Mas

Catalan textile worker and anarcho-syndicalist, born. He joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in the 1920s and during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera took part in the fighting against the pistolers of the Sindicat Lliure. In one of these incidents, he was shot in the lung and serious injured, something that has life-long health consequences. In March 1933, he was a representative of the Sindicat Únic de Treballadors (SUT) in Gironella at the plemary of the Regional de Sindicats Únics of the CNT in Catalonia. In October 1936, he was appointed by the CNT to the Consell Municipal Provisional and later took charge of the Ministry of Work. With Franco's victory, he went to France and from 1949 to 1957 lived in the Colònia de Malalts i Mutilats d'Aymare in Aquitaine, a libertarian agricultural community organised by the CNT and the Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista to welcome comrades who suffered from disabilities or old age.

Ramon Plarromaní Mas died on August 28,* 1957 in hospital in Gourdon in the Languedoc, due to problems with the poorly healed wound in his lung, and was buried the next day in the town accompanied by his comrades from the Aymare Colony.