June 4. 1924. and it is entitled "Fall River: A dying industry." From that article I quote as follows: ier scores of mills gave employment to more than half a hundred thousand people. and more than double that number of individuals looked to her busy spindles and looms for their daily bread. Her mills poured millions of dollars into the pockets of families eonnected with the industry. They produced over 2.000 miles of cotton cloth every day. and they brought from Europe and Canada many thousands of immigrants seeking opportunity and treasure 6n the golden shore of the Western Hemisphere. Bunt having risen to such dizzying heights in the nineteenth century. she was. during the twentieth. to fathom depths of depression such as she bad never known. Today Fall River Is a city of misory. want. unemployment. hunger. and hopelessness.
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