La Guerra Civil y represión en los ferrocarriles catalanes.

The Civil War and Repression on the Catalan Railways. The Purging Processes of Agents at the General Company of Catalan Railways (CGFC) and the Sarrià to Barcelona Railway Company (FSB).

Program 

Competitively awarded grants for activities related to the recovery of democratic memory and the victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship for the 2022 financial year. Ministry of the Presidency, Parliamentary Relations, and Democratic Memory

Period of Execution 

December 5, 2022–December 5, 2023.

Bugdet

 €12,000.

Participants: Dr. Gemma Domènech, Carles Gorini and Eduard Caballé

Descripció

Repression was an inherent fact of the Franco regime and was an act of domination, humiliation, and forced consent that affected one in four Catalan families (Arnabat, 2022). The strict application of repressive legislation (Law of Political Responsibilities, of February 9, 1939; Law of Repression of Freemasonry and Communism, of March 1, 1940; General Cause, of March 1940) fully affected the approximately two thousand agents of the Catalan railway companies Compañía General de los Ferrocarriles Catalanes (CGFC) and Ferrocarril Sarriá a Barcelona (FSB), instrumented as a sort of process to purge the Administration of people disaffected with the new regime. It is worth mentioning that private railway companies were assimilated to public companies because they provided a public service under a concession regime. In the case of Catalonia, repression and purges of positions have been extensively studied in a number of professional groups (teachers, architects, doctors, lawyers, municipal officials, etc.) and in public service companies (Barcelona Metropolitan Authority, Port Stevedores, etc.), and their effects have been widely debated and reported. But despite all these efforts to document the repression, the repression exercised against Catalan railway workers in the railway companies whose lines ran entirely through Catalan territory remained completely unknown. An exhaustive and complete analysis of the recently identified documentation in the documentary collections of the CGFC and the FSB, held by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, may definitively reverse this lack of knowledge of the repression and the mechanisms that made it possible on the Catalan railways.