Word: morgnano
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...Morgnano, whose second-largest employer, a cotton mill, had just laid off 400 of its 800 employees, most of them women...
With both its menfolks' and its womenfolks' jobs in the balance, Morgnano's Communist mayor appealed to Rome for relief to both mine and mill. The mill was obsolete and the mine uneconomic, but the pressure worked. The mill agreed to reduce the layoffs to 255 and spread these ottt-ever eleven months. The mine (run by a government-owned corporation) promised to avoid any actual firings, transfer men to other jobs as available...
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