Biography
Armando Lopez was a Tampa labor militant sentenced to twenty-six days on the chain gang, described by the January 27 dispatch as punishment for being a Communist and found in Tampa. Authorities refused a $5,000 property bond raised by workers, and ILD lawyer E. L. Bryan planned a habeas corpus application pending appeal. The sentence is not counted as twenty-six days actually served, and no exact arrest or sentencing day is supplied. Page 3. Source: Daily Worker, January 30, 1933, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n025-Nat-jan-30-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
The January 20 Tampa bulletin identifies Lopez as arrested with Eviqueta Palacios and Yorkina Romero after visiting Homer Barton in jail, on the Communist-presence accusation used against Barton. This supplies circumstances for the existing January prosecution, without a guessed individual day or extra case. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n02-feb-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=9
The annual review’s January entry corroborates the Tampa twenty-six-day chain-gang sentence for being a Communist and found in Tampa. It supplies no physical discharge or proof of the complete twenty-six days actually served.
