Biography
Paul Bland was a World War veteran and president of the Association of Unemployed Workers in Tampa. The Daily Worker, August 14, 1933, page 1, in an August 12 dispatch, individually names him among six arrested when police attacked a meeting of 1,500 unemployed workers during the cigar strike. The paper alleges instigation by cigar manufacturers and describes the meeting as including Latin, Black and white workers. The ILD called for protests over the arrests and threats of terror. No individual charge, sentence, exact arrest day or physical release is printed. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n194-aug-14-1933-DW-LOC.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 877. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.
