 He, alongside other members of Parliament and a great number of other local officials, attempted to prevent Nationalist supporters being lynched.Some of those in positions of power intervened personally to stop the killings.In the anarchist-controlled areas, Aragon and Catalonia, in addition to the temporary military success, there was a vast social revolution in which the workers and peasants collectivised land and industry and set up councils parallel to the paralyzed Republican government.