Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble was that no sooner had Lieut. Colonel Somervell told Florida what was going to happen than northern Florida began to rejoice and southern Florida to complain. Tampa growled because it feared it would lose its pre-eminence as Florida's west coast port, but Tampa's growls were hardly heard in the louder protests of fruit and vegetable growers south of the canal route...
This rousing mandate opened a new destiny for John Lewis. Thus solidly backed by his own men, he was sure to make a desperate fight for industrial unionism on the floor of the Federation's Tampa convention this autumn. If he wins, John Lewis will be a figure to be reckoned with in U. S. Industry. If he loses, he is likely to pull his eight allied unions out of the A. F. of L., historically rend U. S. Labor...
...night last November a detail of Tampa, Fla. police raided a committee meeting of radicals who were busy promoting "the unemployed struggle." Six agitators were carted off to headquarters, questioned, released. Thereupon a masked mob promptly picked up three of them, whisked them away to a swamp outside town, beat, tarred, feathered them. Hospitalized, one of the agitators named Shoemaker subsequently died. It was widely reported in Tampa that police had been members of the masked...
Since the history of the class war is studded with such affrays, most likely the howl sent up by liberal and radical organizations would have soon died in an ineffective sob. But it just happened that the American Federation of Labor selected Tampa as its 1936 meeting place. And it just happened that at the present time, Labor's conservative William Green would like to salve his radical membership. Upshot was that he and Socialist Norman Thomas went into a huddle and the Mayor of Tampa gave Police Chief Tittsworth "indefinite leave of absence" to "investigate the case." First...
...Tampa dates the birth of its cigar industry from 1885 when Señor Gutierrez arrived in Florida to open a guava jelly, paste and preserve business but decided to back two cigar factories instead. Today by reason of its proximity to the source of tobacco supply in Cuba, Florida manufactures about 10% of all cigars smoked in the U. S. Tampa boasts 146 factories producing $20,000,000 worth of cigars, including such well-known brands as Admiration, Perfecto Garcia, Bering, Optimo, Garcia y Vega. But the biggest cigar manufacturing centre is Pennsylvania which profited most from swift dramatic...