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1 story matching supplant
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:suppliant, suppl, suppli, supplement, supplic, supplier
- The 1886 Pact to Purge Chinese Laborers from Seattle Canneries
Newly unearthed documentation reveals a formal agreement between cannery owners and the Knights of Labor to replace all Chinese workers with white employees by September 1886.