The daily worker., 1932-12-16


E. Mcdonald (American), Carlos
Lezama (Uruguayan), E. Bonilla
(Cuban), C. Alvarez (Cuban), F.
Marrero (Cuban).
Condemned to one year were:
M. Cabrera, Carolina Vazques,
Francis Romero, Jose Hevia, Mario
Lopes, F. Rodriguez, Ysmal Cruz,
Jose Campos.
In addition, the immigration Of
ficers conducted trials Of all the
foreign born workers and decided
on their deportation to their native
countries.
REIGN OF TERROR
UNLEASHED
After the trial reign OF terror
was unleashed in Tampa. Raids
we're conducted on the Labor
Temple and union headquarters,
which netted to the police the rec
ordS of the union, a membership
list with more than 5000 names
(Which has been fully used to ter
rorize the workers. and money be-
longing to the union were "confis-
Gated" by the police. An Inter
national Labor Defense meeting in
Ruskin (near Tampa) was raided,
and fifty workers arrested, many
of them held for deportation. Al
ready eight workers have been de-
ported and in Ellis Island is Man
a III n TrTrY
who is to be deported to Spain.
He was taken off the deportation
ship by a writ of habeus corpus OBJ
tanned by the LID. This week,
another worker, Abrantes, is to be
deported to Cuba, to Butcher Ma
chado's land of terror, leaving a
wife and family Of small children
behind.
ELOGGINGS and other methods
4 have been used against militant
workers who have courageously
tried to keep on the work in Tam
pa. Some time ago, Frankly Guido,
and organizer of the Young Pio-
neers and a Porto Rican worker
we're arrested by the police at an
anti-War meeting in the Labor
Temple, and handed over by the
Secret Committee, KK.K.'s and
American Legionaires, who took
them for ride and brutally beat
them up, with the warning that
they should leave the State.
Recently Hy Gordon and Fred
Crawford (the latter was the only
defendant who was acquitted dur
ing the January triaD were arrest
ed by the police and handed over
to the fascist reactionaries, who
took them for q ride, beat them
badly, tarred and feathered them,
and poured large doses of castor oil
down their throats. Pages could
be filled with the details of all the
prosecutions, intimidations, etc.,
carried on by the police, immigra-
ton authorities and fascist gangs,
WORKERS DRIVEN INSANE
Ma1rero, one of the prisoners in
Raiford Penitentiary went insane
some months ago. Carlos Lezama,
another prisoner, has also gone in
sane from the persecution. beat
ingS and torture, in the Jail, and
tried to commit suicide. Both these
comrades have been sent to the
State Insane Asylum at Chatta-
hoochie. Comrades Ismael Cruz
and Angel Cabrera, who we're in
the chain gang camp OF Indian
Town, led a "a hour strike of the
prisoners in protest against the
punishment of four prisoners, and
have been punished by the guards,
by frequent confinement in the
sweat box" Cabrera has now been
transferred to Raiford. where the
tortures are continued and inten-
sified.
The appeal Of these cases will
come UP this month in all prob
ability and will be argued in the
Supreme Court of Florida by an
attorney of the LID. The hearing
Of the appeal must be made the oc-
caslor1 for wide mobilization of
the working class and oppressed
toilers of the United States in be-
half of our comrades in the Flor
ida dungeons.
The delay in developing a wide
campaign in this important case
already one year old--shows serl-
Gus underestimation of the case IT.
self and of one of the issues in
Volved which must be particularly
stressed.
lCONCLUDED TOMORROW