Biography
Felix Morrero was one of the Tampa Fourteen Tobacco Workers Industrial Union defendants. A May 24, 1933 dispatch reported that the Florida Supreme Court reversed the convictions, while McDonald, Bonilla, Morrero and Lopez remained imprisoned. The imposed term reported for Felix Morrero was 3 years. The precise charge, individual custody endpoints and physical discharge are not established by this article. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n125-NY-may-25-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Luis Ortiz’s December 16, 1932 Tampa account gives a January 19 sentencing list and describes the tobacco-workers prosecution on assault-with-intent-to-murder, unlawful-assembly and rioting accusations. It prints Jim Nine, J. E. McDonald, E. Bonilla, F. Marrero, Carolina Vazques, Francis Romero, Mario Lopes, Ysmal Cruz and Jose Campos among fourteen printed names, while claiming fifteen sentenced. These are retained as source variants in the established cohort, without inventing the missing person. E. Bonilla’s initial versus Henry remains unresolved; Marrero’s ten-year figure differs from the later three-year Morrero report, and the magazine’s one-year Romero wording differs from the recorded year-and-day term. Neither conflicting nominal terms nor the article’s eight unnamed deportees are assigned as completed individual service or removal. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n300-NY-dec-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
The December 16, 1932 account says the prisoner printed Marrero had been transferred from Raiford to the state asylum at Chattahoochee and remained there with Carlos Lezama. It attributes mental illness to imprisonment and alleged torture. The matching Tampa cohort and F. initial support the Morrero/Marrero cross-reference, while conflicting nominal sentence figures remain explicit. No transfer day, independent medical diagnosis, physical release or completed term is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n300-NY-dec-16-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
Page 4’s Tampa letter lists Jim Nino, Marie Lopez and Felix Marrero as then at Raiford state penitentiary. The established Tampa tobacco-worker cohort supports the Nino, Lopez and Morrero/Marrero cross-references; Marie is the printed given-name variant, not a basis to create another person or infer gender. The account differs from other reports of Marrero’s asylum transfer; the undated letter is preserved as a custody-location report without forcing a new dated transfer or overwriting the conflicting sequence. No physical discharge or duration is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n049-NY-feb-26-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
Labor Defender, August 1933, PDF page 22: The district-news report explicitly states that J. E. McDonald, Mario Lopez, Enrique Bonillia and Felix Morrerro were all physically free from jail. The established Tampa cohort supports these printed name variants. It says McDonald was held twenty-four hours longer than the others and received and protected by workers when he emerged; the report alleges jail officials had tried to arrange mob violence. This establishes accomplished release by this issue, unlike the earlier judicial reversal, but supplies no exact discharge day or complete duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n08-aug-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=22
Hy Kravif's page 6 account places the Tampa anniversary-meeting prisoners at Raiford. Its one-year list prints Frances Romero, Carolina Vasquez, Felix Morero, Felix Rodriguez, Mario Lopez, Jose Hevia and Jose Campo; it separately prints ten years for J. E. McDonald and three for Cesario Alvarez. These are the article's imposed-term assertions, not completed service. Its February 1 trial date differs from the later January 19 sentencing list and does not override existing dates. Morero is retained as a source spelling in the established cohort; conflicting term figures are preserved without changing verified later outcomes. The account alleges police, Klan and Legionnaires attacked the November 7, 1931 gathering and that seven defendants were not individually mentioned at trial. 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 4 and 8-9 print Felix Marrero, report he was bloodied during arrest, later required to wear chains when unable to finish assigned labor, and transferred to the state hospital. It does not individually establish his deportation or override the later report of physical release. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/tampa-terror.pdf
Page 7 prints Felix Marero/Marera and describes his protesting the policeman's seizure of ten-year-old Vladimir during the 1931 Tampa meeting. It says the officer hit him, he struck back, police entered firing and the prosecution followed. Freeman reports a two-year imposed term for him and Caesario Alvaro, differing from the three- and ten-year figures preserved in other contemporary reports for the established Marrero/Morrero cohort. These conflicting nominal terms remain attributed; no new case, completed service or release is inferred. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf
