Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939

Rade

In Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd to beg. Wer afrade to steel. We can't starve. So plees let Cocke and Cosby rest 10 days til we get started again."

C. I. O.

In Manhattan, to inform the public that they wanted a closed shop, C. I. O. cleaners & dyers released 500 placarded balloons from Times Square hotel windows.

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