ybor city bread famine
TBHC105 years ago…
July 12, 1901 – A bakery strike sets off a bread “famine” in Ybor City and West Tampa, with loaves of bread selling at sky high prices. Bakery proprietors, whose employees had been clamoring that they were overworked, decided not to make any more of the small loaves of bread called “el pan chiquito.” With no loaves to bake, employees decided to cause a strike in one shop a week until the rolls were restored or all the bakeries closed. Word soon spread between Spanish bread proprietors and this resulted in a mass bakery shutdown. High prices and a refusal among the foreign-born population to eat American bread contributed to the “famine.”
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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