Josep Barcelo Cassado (1824-1855). Catalan workers

Josep Barcelo Cassado (Mataro, 1824-Barcelona, 1855). Catalan workers leader. Spinner and prominent member of the Barcelona cotton spinners association. He took an active part in the workers mobilisations during the summer of 1854. He was court-martialled for a crime that took place in the mas de Sant Jaume de Olessa de Montserrat, and was found guilty and sentenced to death. Execution of Josep Barcelo on 6 June 1855 in Barcelona, in the Sant Antoni gateway (now Josep Maria Folch i Torres square). Engraving

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