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Comrade Manuel Paredes Martínez, who was secretary general of the UGT of Cartagena, and captain of the Republican Army, died last night, December 31, 2009, at the Hospital de Nuestra Señora del Rosell de Cartagena.
He will be buried tomorrow, Jan. 2, at 10 am in the Funeral Estavesa (Paseo Alfonso XIII, Cartagena), where their remains.
Manuel Paredes Martinez was born in Alum (Cartagena), 28 April 1917.
He joined the Young Socialists in 1934, and as a volunteer in the Marine Corps in July 1935.
In July 1936, partly to Tobarra (Albacete) as part of the company Marine Expeditionary leaving Arsenal de Cartagena.
Is promoted to corporal and assigned to the front of Andalusia.
On the merits of war and after its passage by the Officers School, reached the rank of lieutenant and in March 1938, was promoted to captain.
He served on the frontlines of Andalusia, Madrid, Teruel and Catalonia.
Participated in the Battle of Teruel and the Ebro, was wounded in Belchite.
After the fall of Catalonia, goes to France, where he was interned in a concentration camp Sept. Fonts.
He returned to Spain Irun, voluntarily surrendered, arrested, tortured and prosecuted, the court-martial sentenced him to eight years in prison, plus disabled for the service of arms and expelled from the army.
After leaving prison in 1942, went to work at the Explosives Factory alum, and after the construction of the refinery tailings.
He was detained "preventively" in a couple of occasions.
Nevertheless, he was appointed manager at work and admitted after Repesa.
In 1966 he was elected by his peers as Jury Vocal Company and National Union of CNS Fuel.
And in democracy, he was secretary general of the Union of Chemical Cartagena and secretary general of the UGT of Cartagena in 1979.
Along Yecla Pascual Azorín, José Fuentes Yepes, de Murcia, and Ginés González de Mula, was one of the four-PSOE PSRM veterans who participated in the ceremony of presentation of the centenary of PSRM-PSOE, last May.
Source: PSRM-PSOE
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