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1 story matching dictat
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:dictatori, dictancm, dictatorship, dictum, diction, dice
- The Organizer Who Warned That Immigration Was Being Used to Break Labor
A traveling Journeymen Barbers' organizer tells the Aberdeen Central Labor Council that big employers want a surplus of foreign workers — not to fill jobs, but to dictate wages.