The depuration of the railway workers during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco’s regime: the comparison between Tudela and Sakana

Abstract

The aim of this article, located within the research work that the Documental Fund for Historical Memory in Navarre (Fondo Documental para la Memoria Histórica de Navarra), part of the Public University of Navarre (UPNA-NUP), is to advance within the research task of the depuration of the railway workers during the Spanish Civil war and Franco’s dictatorship, which will be done by analyzing the depuration files of the Tudela and Sakana railway stations. From this documents, we will get their names, professions, known political and trade union militancies, as well as the labor punishments they suffered. After that, we will analyse those work punishments according to the proffesions, the railway stations, the known militancies and the valoration of the repressive agents. Eventually, we will conclude that the enterprise gave good valorations following a strategy, and that the workers with a known political or labor union militancy suffered proportionally more labor punishments than the workers without a known militancy.