Biography
Mario Lopez 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 Mario Lopez was 1 year. The report states that Lopez had already served more than his one-year term, with six months in county jail before transfer to state custody; it does not establish an additive eighteen-month total. 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
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 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
Sources
Daily Worker, February 27, 1933; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, July 16, 1932; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
The visitor’s Raiford roster prints Cruz, Cabrera, Mario, Lopez and Jim Nine. The punctuation leaves Mario/Lopez ambiguous, so this is retained as cohort context alongside independently identified Tampa defendant Mario Lopez; it does not create an extra surname-only Lopez or prove a distinct additional Mario. No exact transfer or release day is supplied.
