Biography
Comas was a Tampa worker arrested alongside Young Pioneer leader Frank Guido at an anti-war meeting. Police took both men from the platform to the police station without charges and beat them. They held the men until two in the morning, then handed them over to a masked group of American Legionnaires. The arrests formed part of the campaign of police and vigilante violence against Tampa tobacco workers and their organizers.
Labor Defender, July 1932, recounts the Tampa antiwar-meeting arrests of Guido and Comas, police-station beatings without charges, and handover to masked Legionnaires at two in the morning. It describes Guido’s subsequent swamp torture and escape; Comas’s later fate is unspecified. This corroborates the already recorded incident. General references to other Tampa prisoners’ five-month detention or ten-year sentences are not assigned to either man. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1932/v08n07-jul-1932-LD.pdf#page=13
