Biography of dominador gomez

DOMINADOR GOMEZ

(1868 - 1929)

Physician, Propagandist, Labor Leader and Legislator

Born in in 1868, Dominador Gomez studied medicine at the but finished the course in .

Biography of dominador gomez

While a medical student in , he joined the group of young and patriotic middle-class Filipinos of intelligence, courage, and prominence that had organized the Propaganda Movement to work in for political and social reforms in the .

The group was led by Dr.Jose Rizal and Marcelo H.del Pilar.

An essayist and a brilliant orator, he supported the movement with both his pen and his tongue. He wrote under the pseudonym, “Ramiro Franco”, for its organ, La Solidaridad.

He helped finance the publication of this periodical from 1889 to 1895.

Upon his return to the , Gomez took over from Isabelo de los Reyes the leadership of the newly reorganized Union Obrero Democratica de Filipinas, the first labor union in the , and became its president.

He agitated for the observance of Labor Day in the on May