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  • Former shirt-makers blame open trade for Hathaway's demise- Maine

    10/21/2002 4:00:12 PM PDT · by SheLion · 25 replies · 423+ views
    Boston.com ^ | 20 October 2002
    <p>WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) Free-trade agreements and corporate greed were blamed for the closing of the C.F. Hathaway Co. shirt factory during a rally held at the central Maine plant.</p> <p>The AFL-CIO organized Saturday's rally as part of a tour of dying manufacturing sites in Maine. Production had ceased a day earlier at Hathaway, the nation's last major shirt manufacturing plant.</p>