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New Bedford Carries On
Blanshard, Paul | June 20, 1928 issue

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After an eight-weeks' strike the 30,000 workers of New Bedford's cotton mills show no signs of weakening. Most of the mills are closed and the number of strike-breakers is negligible. The strike, however, is gradually changing character. It began as a quiet demonstration of the workers against a 10 per cent wage-cut, and in the first weeks of the walkout New Bedford, Massachusetts was remarkably calm. Newspapers, preachers, and merchants supported the strikers, and the police were friendly. Today all signs point to the old type of finish fight with bitterness constantly increasing. The police are no longer friendly to the left-wing contingent and several arrests have been made for disturbing the peace.

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COTTON manufacture; STRIKES & lockouts -- Cotton manufacture; LABOR disputes; INDUSTRIAL relations; NEW Bedford (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States
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