Historian Dan Snow said they had wanted to choose a "run-of-the-mill day".

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All 221 mill workers were laid off that day.

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Ms. COLLINS: (Singing) As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day, a million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, are touched with all the radiance as a sudden sun discloses, for the people hear us singing: bread and roses, bread and roses.

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In October 1999, PCOM merged with the Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill and the new entity, the Plains Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill (PYCO), markets about one-third of the cotton oil produced in the United States.21 The Plains Cooperative Mill in Lubbock is the world's largest cottonseed oil mill, receiving about 1, 200 tons of seed per day from the region's gins, and churning out the makings for peanut butter, soap, and throw pillows.

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