Tampa Box Company

Tampa Box Company plant, tall one-story masonry block building with interior court. 1927. Burgert Brothers. Courtesy, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System  

Tampa Tampa Box Company  7th Avenue and 17th Street in Ybor City The Tampa Box Company was founded in the mid-1890s to manufacture Cuban cedar cigar boxes for the rapidly expanding cigar industry in Ybor City . Located at the corner of 7th Avenue and 16th Street, the factory occupied the entire block between 16th and 17th Streets in the center of Tampa’s cigar manufacturing district. The company was highly mechanized for its time. With approximately eighty-five employees, the factory could produce nearly 6,000 cigar boxes daily, helping supply the enormous demand generated by Tampa’s cigar factories around the turn of the twentieth century. Around 1900, businessman Henry Leiman purchased the company, and in 1906 the business incorporated and relocated to a larger tract on 22nd Street. That later industrial building survives today as the Box Factory Lofts . After the company moved, the original property was redeveloped. Construction of the Gutierrez Building began in 1907, and ...

  United States Tobacco Journal - Volume 84 - Page 12

  Partial Report of the Federal Trade Commission, pp. 4-8 The Partial Report of the Federal Trade Commission, pp. 4–8: Tampa Box Company: Great Strike in 1920 and 1921 examines the labor conflict between the Tampa Box Company and its workers during the post–World War I labor unrest in the United States. The report highlights poor working conditions, low wages, long hours, and tensions between management and organized labor that eventually led to a major strike. The FTC presents the dispute as part of the broader struggle between industrial employers and increasingly organized workers during the early 1920s. One of the report’s strengths is its detailed documentation of events, including worker grievances, company responses, and the economic pressures affecting both sides. The report also reflects the Progressive Era belief that government investigations could help expose unfair labor practices and industrial abuses. It provides useful insight into the social and economic climate ...

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