LABOR: Hopeless Hopewell
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This stiff edict from a 38-year-old ex-top sergeant of Marines left Hopewell feeling decidedly hopeless. Union leaders sneered "Bluff," accused the company of trying to starve its workers into submission, planned an appeal to the U. S. Labor Relations Board. But nowhere in the New Deal could they find any provision for compelling Capital, once it went on strike, to go back to work against its will.
*Allied Chemical & Dye built its Hopewell nitrate plant in 1927.
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