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Amoskeag Fiasco Reflects Community Strike on Tax and Wages
An Associated Press dispatch from Boston on December 24 1935 examines the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co of Manchester New Hampshire. The world’s largest cotton flannel mill has not operated for a year yet remains stocked and influential in Roanoke Rapids and Halifax County. The piece argues excessive taxation and wage demands helped seal the mill’s fate, praising a Manchester plan to cut taxes and labor costs while urging cooperation among employer employee and public to salvage the mill’s legacy and avert future closures.
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Roanoke Rapids
Halifax County
Associated Press Dispatch
Boston
Amoskeag Mfg. Co
Manchester
N. H
Amoskeag
Roanoke Mills Co
New Hampshire