Waving American flags and brandishing homemade placards reading GO HOME, FRENCHIE, a contingent of Copperweld Corp. employees marched past the French embassy in Washington recently, led by a man on stilts tricked out as Uncle Sam. That spectacle was only part of a wide-ranging fight being waged by workers and officials of Pittsburgh-based Copperweld, a specialty metal producer, to avoid being acquired by Imetal, a giant French mining concern controlled by the Rothschild family. Three weeks ago, Imetal made a tender offer to buy all of Copperweld's stock for about $111...
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