Some of them had not even heard the news when they arrived before 7 a.m. at the factory in Mount Vernon, N.Y., 25 minutes up the train line from Manhattan, to begin assembling printing presses. When one of the employees roared up to the plant in his auto shouting "We won! We won!" some of his friends figured he was just kidding around. After all, such good fortune was hard to believe: against odds of 6 million to 1, who could believe that 21 blue-collar workers, all but two of them immigrants from such places as Poland, Paraguay, China, Czechoslovakia, Italy...
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