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Vice-President of her local, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), Mary achieved the job of forelady by working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases, formerly discarded (a suggestion now in use at the plant), and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps. Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's Labor-Management drive to speed victory. She was elected from a plant personnel of 1700, 350 of them men

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Vice-President of her local, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), Mary achieved the job of forelady by working as a hand at many varied operations. She has made a suggestion to conserve bakelite lamp bases, formerly discarded (a suggestion now in use at the plant), and is also the inventor of an apparatus which prevents short-circuiting during tests of lamps. Mary Petillo, forelady of a Newark, New Jersey factory making lamp bulbs and tubes for the Signal Corps, is an active member of her plant's Labor-Management drive to speed victory. She was elected from a plant personnel of 1700, 350 of them men

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 2100.

Large WWII photograph collection made with aid of image recognition.

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01/01/1941
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essex county
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Library of Congress
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