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Labor Dispute in France

Host Bob Edwards talks to Catherine Guilyardi about the actions of angry textile workers in France who poured sulfuric acid into the Meuse river near the Belgian border as part of a labor dispute. The workers were protesting the closing of a textile factory in the economically depressed region of northeastern France.

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