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The lector reads to the rollers
1890
Ybor City, Tampa
Peter K Burian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Workers paid a reader out of their own wages to sit on a platform and read newspapers, novels and political tracts aloud all day. The factories banned the practice in 1931, correctly seeing it as the reason the rollers were so well organised and so hard to break.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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