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Eric Newman reads about his family’s history at the J.C. Newman Cigar Factory. The J.C. Newman El Reloj Cigar Factory turned 111 years old on Wednesday, March 31. When it opened in 1910, the Tampa Tribune described it as the “largest and finest cigar factory in the world.” As part of the celebration, the Newman family invited several people to be lectors and read to the workers in the hand-rolling section of the factory. The lectors of old were hired by a committee of workers to read news and literature during the work day as a form of entertainment. The lectors were as vital a part of the cigar factory as the tobacco. The lector system was a hard-won workers’ right and strikes would ensue if that right was challenged. In 1931, after a bitter strike, the lector system in Tampa was finally dismantled as manufacturers blamed them for inciting workers to strike.

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