Leandro Carro
| Leandro Carro Hernáez | |
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| Born | 1890 Zarratón, La Rioja |
| Died | 1967 Dresden, Germany |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Known for | Communist leader |
Leandro Carro Hernáez (1890–1967) was a Spanish communist leader who was active in the Communist Party of the Basque Country before the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), and later was a member of the Basque government in exile.
Leandro Carro Hernáez was born in 1890 in Zarratón, La Rioja. He was the second son of a shoemaker who had thirteen children, When he was seven he found work as an errand boy for a store selling household goods. He was apprenticed to an iron molder at the age of nine. He was raised in Biscay, and was introduced to politics by Facundo Perezagua. He agitated for the Agrupación Socialista (AS, Socialist Group) in San Sebastián and Pasajes, and later in Bilbao. He was an apprentice in the Vitoria-Gasteiz ironworks when he was arrested in 1909 for distributing propaganda against the Moroccan War. In 1910 he was working in Bilbao, where he was involved in a miner's strike. In 1911 he was appointed secretary of the Molders Society of the Biscay Metalworkers' Union. He was imprisoned in 1912 for activity in the workers' struggles in Pasajes.
Leandro Carro joined the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE, Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Union of Workers). In 1913 he was one of the founders of the Sindicato Metalúrgico de Vizcaya (Metal Workers Union of Vizcaya). In 1917 he was arrested for participating in the August general strike, but managed to escape to France. He remained in exile in Paris until an amnesty was declared. He returned in 1918 and was elected president of the Sindicato Metalúrgico de Vizcaya. He represented the union of the 13th congress of the UGT in 1918, and in the 14th congress in 1920.
Leandro Carro attended the Extraordinary Congress of the PSOE in 1920 as delegate of the AS of Bilbao. He was one of the founders of the Partido Comunista de España (PCE, Communist Party of Spain). In the legislative elections of March 1923 he ran for election on the PCE platform in Barcelona. The PCE had little help from the Communist-Syndicalists led by Joaquín Maurín, and Carro received few votes. During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–30) he was arrested several times and spent much of this period in prison. Carro became a member of the PCE central committee. In 1932 he was appointed secretary for union action of the Federación Vasco-Navarra (Basque-Navarre Federation) of the PCE. In 1935 he was appointed to the central committee of the newly formed Euskadiko Partidu Komunista (EPK, Basque Communist Party). In 1935 Carro was one of the members of the Spanish delegation to the 7th Congress of the Communist International. He traveled to Moscow with Juan Astigarrabía and Santiago Carrillo. In 1936 Carro was elected to the Cortes Generales as deputy for Bilbao.
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