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The Connecticut Needle Trades
Bilevitz, William | November 16, 1932 issue

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While the attention of the country has been focused on the unhappy condition of Southern textile operatives, Kentucky miners and the unemployed generally, the industrial towns of Connecticut have been having labor troubles of their own. Even before the entrance of the sweatshop into Connecticut the State was not exactly a workers' paradise. The Manufacturers' Association has seen to that. For years wages have been low, unions have been suppressed and labor legislation has been discouraged. Nevertheless, the Connecticut industrial worker has remained docile. Recruited largely from the most recent immigrant classes, he is usually an Italian or Slav.

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PINS & needles; TEXTILE fabrics; MINERS; CITIES & towns; LABOR; CONNECTICUT; UNITED States
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