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After battle for a trumpet factory, workers come back to economy gone bust
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Word News on 17/10/2009 19:13:00
 
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...