ACT IN THE ATENEO DE MADRID
PABLO IGLESIAS, ITS ORIGINS
Speech by President of the Association of Greater Pablo Iglesias:
On June 10, 1910, Pablo Iglesias Posse, affectionately nicknamed "The Blonde" got the first act of a Member of the PSOE in its history is centuries since.
To put my grain of sand in this important event today, in the main hall of the Ateneo, I want to bring some of the passages of their human.
The evening of that historic day 100 years ago our illustrious personage when he retired to bed could not sleep and his thoughts were trapped a woman, JUANA POSSE, his mother
A woman whose life would not have had any significance were it not for the extraordinary circumstance of being the mother of one of the most illustrious of our country, born in the bustling and unique century XIX, military revolts, struggles for power and worker strikes.
Juana, in the opinion of those who knew her, was a sweet, hardworking and suffering ... Gifted with an ability to withstand any test to face all the difficulties that beset his family.
Pedro He married the Church Expósito, son of unknown parents and natural Orense. Unskilled laborer in the city of Ferrol.
Nicholas lived in the cavalcade, in the popular district of Esteiro, with its low wages. They had three children:
Elisa, who died shortly after birth. Pauline was born on October 18, 1850 and six years later Manueline.
Juana and Pedro were illiterate, as being both born in poor families, was unusual in those days, especially women. (Spain had a chilling 80% of illiterates).
Juana Pedro fell ill and went to swell the long list of widows in 1859 instead. (35 years was the average life at the time). Pedro
disease had originated many remaining costs Juana in a very difficult situation to overcome.
Juana was a native of Santiago de Compostela, so I was alone in Ferrol, without relatives, with their two small children, no job and no future.
situation is dramatic and given the fact that Jane had in Madrid an uncle serving in the noble house of a wealthy man, took the drastic decision to give away what little he had to pay the debts accumulated reserves to move to four things Madrid to see if his uncle could lend a hand to find work and to raise her two children.
Council requested assistance Ferrol, but it's very little succor generosity.
was the summer of 1,860, so Pauline was 10
As there was no railroad, much less buses, Jane, agreed with the carriers who went to Madrid to take her in their cars had the little baggage.
For lack of enough money, had to agree that only Manueline would accommodate in the car, while she and Paul, they would walk walking behind, which was a real odyssey
In this regard, and many more years Later the protagonist himself expressed it this way:
"There were three weeks of air, sun, crossing meadows, chestnut, Pomareda, oak, pine groves, vineyards, fallow land that never concluded, for roads scrambled along bottomless ravines, and sometimes, with gardens with fig, apple and pear trees that provided the sweetest fruit.
Long pause daily walks were delightful and indispensable to bird in the inn or hostel the way, the dinner for all, based on garlic soup, and foods made in the same pan.
After the hour of rest and bags of straw, or on the clothes of some of the packages, slept three facts embraced a pineapple.
At dawn gear again, then repeat with soups garlic, asearnos a bit and the path again. "
Juana, to get to Madrid, with a raptor in each hand and three well-roasted by the sun and breezes of the road, went to the palace of the Count of Altamira, located on Calle de San Bernardo, where he served his uncle.
But here's the news that were, quite unexpectedly, that his uncle had died, he left in a state of truly stunning.
In that situation as pathetic and helpless, the good woman, she was forced to beg.
does seem that the Count of Altamira, speaking for the two children, admitted to the Hospice of San Fernando, in the Fuencarral street.
Juana, in a more sour than sweet, rented a room in Cabestreros Street, where were delivering laundry and go to bad life drawing.
Despite the hardness of the work of washing, Juana, he also began working as a maid in a house when requested.
is easy to see that Jane lived those first moments of his life in Madrid, on the verge of despair, full of hustle and hard work to pay the room rent and eat bad penalties.
This situation, already serious in itself, was greatly increased with the news that his son Paul, due to low power at the Hospice, fell into a state of weakness such as to produce faint, and at least two occasions he was in the infirmary.
Juana took great joy when Paul finished with 11, his elementary studies at the Hospice with outstanding marks which allowed him to choose between the possibilities of job: carpenter, locksmith, tailor, cobbler or printer. Elected as a printer.
In this regard, many years later his biographer Morato wrote:
"Clear, very thoughtful, observant and capable of great power of attention, learned early on the box and soon made great progress" Very
Juana recorded lifetime was a visit that would make such a Augusto Burgos, a relief official who directed the Treasury to publish a Gazette and a review of scientific content, with the intention to adopt Paulino.
Juana, took no decision to found the boy, given the importance of the matter, and he did, but Pauline refused because he did not leave her mother for anything.
At Christmas the year 1862, the application of Paul and manueline to go to spend Christmas Eve with his mother was denied. Paulino
not resigned and fled, with the sadness of not being able to take his brother. Returning to the Hospice
next day, the ruler, he even hit, and end the workday at the press picked up all their meager belongings Paulino bedroom and drawing an absence of the regent, and escaped again and never return more for the Hospice.
did not take long for the smart and well prepared Paulino find a print shop in the street of the Manzana admit you as an apprentice, according to the age of 12 years, with low wages, two reales a day, well below what they deserved for their work. Juana
won 4 reales and food for a whole day's work washing and scrubbing in the house who called.
We also did laundry in the river Manzanares, with your knees kneeling for hours on washboards or bench.
As he did occasionally had to choose discrete hours when the drawers were free, paying rent and recuelo banking. These washers were usually called by the regulars, "the swallows".
Manueline was out of the orphanage, very touched health and three years later, in 1866, undermined by tuberculosis, died. He was 10 years.
With "Glorious" in 1868, there was a cultural renewal
Pauline attended various classes at the School of Arts and Crafts. He also studied economics and French politics by winning a special prize thousand pieces in a competition on knowledge of French.
By 1870 caused great surprise to Paul and his mother, receiving the certificate of baptism from Ferrol, who had called to request the release from military service to be the son of a widow and check contained his real name : PABLO.
So why, she had always called Paul?. It's simple: Paul Galician diminutive Paulo and Paulino, and so he had been called since birth.
It is known that Juana
on several occasions and coincident with the respective dismissals that Paul was suffering, had to resort to trusting of the shopkeepers in the neighborhood so that they were giving, without pay, food for daily meals.
She spent a lot of fear when Paul suffered a pulmonary hemoptysis certain gravity and exceeded thanks to Jaime Vera medical treatment, his great friend, and fellow-sufferer as we know. The year was 1881. He was 31.
In 1887 again showed his teeth and took the misfortune of Juana with such fury that it would be definitive: A cruel pneumonia ended his life.
Life of a good woman, a fighter, who was able to overcome all kinds of hardships and sacrifices that life brings.
counted with an approximate age of 60 years.
Madrid, 10 June 2010.
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