Biography
Panchito Valdez is identified as the seventy-one-year-old Black president of Tampa’s Labor Temple, controlled by the Tobacco Workers’ Industrial Union. The January 27 dispatch reports him still detained on charges described as being a Communist. No exact arrest, formal statutory charge, conviction, release or actual duration is supplied. Page 3. Source: Daily Worker, January 30, 1933, https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n025-Nat-jan-30-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
