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STATE FLORIDA RECEIVED FROM __________ (STATE OFFICE JACKSONVILLE MS GERARDO CORTINA PINERA WORDS 1,874 QUOTA __________ STATE GUIDE __________ LOCAL GUIDE __________ NON-GUIDE YES TABLE OF CONTENTS DIVISION LIFE HISTORY; READER IN CIGAR FACTORY COMPLETE FOR THIS SECTION __________ WHAT PERCENTAGE REMAINS __________ PREFINAL REVISE NO. __________ WASHINGTON CRITICISM __________ PREFINAL REVISE NO. __________ WASHINGTON CRITICISM __________ PREFINAL REVISE NO. __________ WASHINGTON CRITICISM __________ PREFINAL REVISE NO. __________ WASHINGTON CRITICISM __________ PREFINAL NEW: ____________________ VOLUNTEER CONSULTANT: Name __________ Position __________ Address __________ __________ By Carita Doggett Corse Position State Director DATE: Jan. 9, 1939
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1935 Gerardo Cortina Pinera (Cuban Ybor City Tampa, Florida (Reader in cigar factory, unemployed) (An autobiography written for the FERA Sociological Survey of Ybor City)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERSON WHO INSISTED ON WRITING ONE Translated from Spanish to English. Gerardo Cortina Pinera I wish, before anything else, to solicit of my dear readers, that they dispense me the msot cordial benevolence, since they will not have the pleasure of reading the copy sheets of an upright literary man, but those composed by a humble worker, who by force of sacrifices, has been able moderately to take a little instruction, so that in this manner be able to distinguish the world and its consequences. My name is that of Gerardo Cortina Pinera. I was born in the City of Havana, the second day of January
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and the head of the family went to render tribute to the mother earth. My father did not leave much worldly treasures in the year of 1918. Four years after the death of my father, my poor mother died, leaving in the world five children without worldly treasures.
The older of my brothers were adopted by sisters and cousins of my mother, and to them is attributed the affection and the compliance which to sons is dispensed. As I was the smallest of all my relatives placed me in the worthy "Granja Dr. Manuel Delfin," place in which I followed a course of five years' study as pupil. My teacher was Mr. Manuel Arteaga, a religious man consecrated to the Catholic order, and due to his unwearied persuasion, it is the reason why in the present days the small knowledge of knowing how to place my name. In the year 1923 I left the training school due to economical reasons and commenced learning the trade of line-maker at the printing company of "La Habanera," house situated on the street of Mercaderes No. 28, in the City of Havana.
For reasons that the second one of my brothers was the second operator of my department, I was able advantageously to learn my trade in the period of four years. It should be recorded that in order to realize this, I found myself in the necessity of presenting documents, which testified that I had 16 years in 1923, so that in this manner avoid that the Secretary of Work of the Republic of Cuba should hinder my apprenticeship. After graduating as operator in the year 1927, I worked at the house until the month of February in the year 1928, and on the 7th day of May of the same year, I took the ship CUBA, which brought me to this hospitable American land, to the City of Tampa.
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