 He worked in construction as a master rigger and completed his studies in teaching, although his early militant activity did not allow him to practice teaching.From a very young age, he became one of the most prominent militants of the Asturian CNT, in which there was a large payroll of anarchists of merit headed by Eleuterio Quintanilla.In 1926, during the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he was elected Regional General Secretary of Asturias, León and Palencia and edited the Confederation's publication, "Solidaridad".