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Includes an article on reported connections between Winston Salem's
Local 22, a worker's union of tobacco workers at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco plant, and
the Communist Party. Includes commentary from anti-Communist union members, union
board members, and others, "exposing" the presence of the Communist party in their
organization "like a jellyfish in the noonday sun" so that "its influence may be
expected to shrivel with a corresponding improvement in local labor relations." This
article was published during the 1947 strike at the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
-- a strike which was predominantly African American, as was most of the plant's
workforce, and most of the union's members.