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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Herbert Smith, drill operator, is a member of a local labor-management cooperative committee and is a job steward. He has worked nine years for TVA without a single unauthorized absence

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Negroes speed war work for Tennessee Valley Authority. Herbert Smith, drill operator, is a member of a local labor-management cooperative committee and is a job steward. He has worked nine years for TVA without a single unauthorized absence

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01/01/1942

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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rhea county

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Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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