 CNT councilors demanded the removal of police commissioner Rodríguez Salas, but Lluís Companys refused.The POUM stood by the CNT and advised them to take control of the city, but the CNT appealed to the workers to cease fighting.With the situation deteriorating, a meeting of CNT delegates from Valencia and the Generalitat under Companys agreed on a ceasefire and a new provisional government, but despite of this, the fighting continued.