Cesario Alvarez

Cesario Alvarez was imprisoned on a Florida chain gang in connection with the 1931 Tampa tobacco workers’ strike, under a three-year sentence. The January 27 dispatch says he developed mental illness while held, was moved to the state asylum at Chattahoochee, and was secretly taken via New York and deported to Spain without notification to relatives or the ILD. It reports completed deportation, discovered three days afterward, but gives neither an exact departure day nor a measured imprisonment interval. The nominal three-year sentence is not treated as actual service. 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

Page 2, in Al McBride's signed letter, prints his name as Cesario Alverez and reports confinement in a cell block with murderers followed by transfer to an asylum, printed Catahoocky. This corroborates the existing later Chattahoochee asylum account; it predates the separately documented subsequent deportation and supplies no exact transfer date. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n189-NY-aug-09-1932-DW-LOC.pdf

Hy Kravif's page 6 account explicitly places Cesario Alvarez at Raiford under a three-year term along with the Tampa anniversary-meeting defendants. This is a nominal sentence and contemporaneous prison-location report, not proof of three years actually served. The article's general chain-gang and sweatbox descriptions are not treated as individually verified punishments for Alvarez; his independently documented later asylum transfer and deportation are preserved. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n169-NY-jul-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf

The pamphlet's pages 4-7 describe the November 7, 1931 Labor Temple arrests and January prosecution on assault-with-intent-to-murder Officer Byrd and simple assault on Officer Wilson. It alleges guilt was presumed from presence and anti-Communist and anti-integration questioning replaced individual proof. The page 7 sentence groups are ten years for Jim Nine, Lezama, Bonilla and McDonald, three for Alvarez and Marrero, and one for the other defendants. These are imposed-term assertions; the fifteen-person/fifty-three-year account and prior fourteen-person/fifty-seven-year reports remain source discrepancies. Pages 6, 9 and 12 print Cesareo Alvarez, describe immigration at eighteen, lost bank savings, family destitution, confinement at Chattahoochee and actual removal to Spain without notice to his American-born wife and children. These attributed illness and family details supply no new exact endpoints. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/tampa-terror.pdf

Page 7 prints Caesario Alvaro in the established Tampa cohort and reports a two-year term alongside Felix Marera. This conflicts with other reports' three-year nominal sentence. It is retained as a source discrepancy, without changing the already documented asylum transfer and later deportation to Spain or treating two years as served. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf

The January 16, 1932 report individually names the sixteen workers actually arrested November 7, 1931 at the Tampa anniversary meeting after a police and American Legion attack. It reports criminal-syndicalism, inciting-to-riot and unlawful-assembly proceedings and a federal injunction. The January trial was ongoing; no exact physical discharge, individual final sentence or completed duration is established. Daily Worker, January 16, 1932, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n014-NY-jan-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3