Biography
Joe Ferras was a Tampa cigar worker whom the prisoners’ letter in the February 1933 Labor Defender identifies among workers actually jailed and deported amid repression of the Tampa Tobacco Worker Industrial Union. The letter reports removals to Cuba and alleges union membership was enough for immigration targeting. Its general nine-or-ten-month formulation is not an individually measured custody duration; exact arrest, departure and final outcome dates are not supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1933/v09n02-feb-1933-lab-def.pdf#page=9
Pages 5-6 identify the paid tobacco-union secretary as Jose Ferras and report completed deportation on a vagrancy accusation after a union-office raid that seized defense funds and membership lists. The same Tampa union, surname and accomplished deportation support the Joe/Jose cross-reference; no exact departure day or service total is given. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/tampa-terror.pdf
