Henry Bonilla

Henry Bonilla 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 Henry Bonilla was 10 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

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

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 9-10 describe Bonilla as still a ten-year prisoner while the authors urge defense against possible deportation. That forecast is not a completed removal and does not replace the later physical-release evidence. The surname-only reference does not resolve the Henry/Enrique/E. given-name discrepancy. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/tampa-terror.pdf

Page 7 prints Enrique Bonilla and says he was deported to Uruguay after the Tampa trial. This is an attributed accomplished-deportation claim, not merely an order, but supplies no departure day. Its chronology and destination must be read alongside existing later custody/release accounts and other reported destinations; no exact date, nationality change, judicial exile length or inferred continuous custody is imposed from this conflicting retrospective narrative. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n114-may-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf