| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The A.F. of L., having had a membership that year of about 30,000 or about 24 per cent of all industrial workers in the State, lost nearly 15,000 upon the withdrawal of the mine workers, who formed the backbone of the C.I.O. Added to the secessionists were about 5,000 workers, especially in the tobacco and textile industries, newly organized by C.I.O. forces.
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