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Hatmakers of provincial Issoudun went about hatless. Their employers, wounded to the quick, locked them out. It finally took a deft coup de maitre to put everything right. The management agreed to buy each employe a new hat every year; workers promised to wear hats, at least when entering and leaving the factory.
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