Now they are out of work and poorly prepared for any other type of work. Because of their lack of seniority these black workers were also among the first to go in those plants. which stayed open but were forced to cut back production. Besides putting many blacks in the work force for the first time. men in the Labor Department credit this increase in black textile workers with having helped to stem the emigration of these people from the Southwhere most of this Nations textile production is locatedto the Northern ghettos. We are not talking about just a few workers. Between January 1970 and June 1971 the number of textile workers dropped by more than 100.000.
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