El Internacional (Tampa, Fla.) 1904-193?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
598 issues from 1904 to 1934, published in Ybor City, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
El Internacional was a labor paper from Ybor City, Tampa, Florida dedicated to supporting worker solidarity and unionization efforts in the first half of the twentieth century. It was the official local paper of the Unión Internacional de Tabaqueros (Cigar Maker’s International Union) and published in the Centro Obrero, also called the Labor Temple, in Ybor from 1904 until at least 1948 by local workers. Dedicated to the “propaganda de la organización obrera” (“labor organization propaganda”), El Internacional‘s position was clearly pro-union, pro-labor, and anti-capitalist, driven by the interests of union members and tobacco workers in Tampa.
El Internacional was the longest running labor paper in Tampa; however, the paper experienced several interruptions due to economic depressions and union reorganizations over this time. Its longest break was from 1928 to 1933. It also went on hiatus in December 1904 and September 1906. Additionally, the paper experienced a change in name from 1936 to 1937 when it published under the name Boletin de el Internacional.
For most of its run, El Internacional was a four-page weekly paper published on Fridays. It was occasionally six pages early in its history and later expanded to eight pages from 1939 to 1941 and again in 1946. It was published biweekly from late 1933 to early 1934 and in 1944. It was published monthly in 1937 and from 1945 to 1948. Over its more than 40-year run, El Internacional ranged from three to eight columns. In…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Ybor City, Florida, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress