After battle for a trumpet factory, workers come back to economy gone bust

ELKHART, Ind. - By 10:30 a.m., the lot at Disabled American Veterans Post 19 is nearly full, and a table spread with potato salad and Port-a-Pit chicken beckons. The only thing missing is a banner, mutters one of the workers inside the rental hall to another: "Welcome to Our Last Supper." This is a gathering to mark the end of a 40-month fight over who owns the craftsmanship that gives life to a factory floor. These men and women logged decades pressing, soldering and buffing — making trombones and trumpets of such sinuous precision they are called the Stradivarius of brass. In the end, though, there is no music. "Lord God, you know what the plan is for our lives," Bertha Carpenter...

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