Jose Campos

Jose Campos was one of the Tampa tobacco-strike prisoners. The Daily Worker of January 18, 1933 reports that a few days earlier he and Ismael Cruz had been taken from Raiford jail and deported to Cuba. This is a completed removal report, but the exact departure day and later custody or freedom in Cuba are unknown. The source does not establish unreported custody endpoints or total time actually served.

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

Page 4’s Tampa letter individually lists Ismael Cruz, Jose Campos and Angel Cabrera as already deported. It says Cabrera had completed his term after several weeks in a sweatbox on hardtack and water and that guards withheld fruit and books. That punishment account is individually Cabrera’s and is not assigned to all three. The undated letter supplies no exact deportation day, destination or later custody endpoint for this individual. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n049-NY-feb-26-1933-DW-LOC.pdf

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

Page 6's individualized account, printed Jose Campos, describes him as a salesman passing the Labor Temple who protested a woman being beaten while defending her child. Officials allegedly told visitors he was absent because he was not a Communist, but later visitors saw him among the other prisoners and found he shared their solidarity greetings. This identifies his circumstances in the existing Tampa case without inventing a separate prosecution. 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 5-6 print Jose Campo and identify him as a traveling salesman passing by who intervened when a newspaper-selling boy and the boy's mother were arrested. This supplies arrest circumstances, not evidence he was a union official or personally present on the platform. The later collective January deportation account does not establish an individually dated departure. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/pamphlets/tampa-terror.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