 There he joined the worker's movement and came under communist influence, and in 1933 he was dismissed for his political opinions, being readmitted at his colleagues pressure.In that period he also took part in the meetings of the "National Antifascist Committee", a front organization of the Communist Party of Romania, banned by the government in the 1920s.Arrested along other activists in 1936 during such an antifascist conference, he was condemned by a Military Tribunal to 6 months of jail.