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<v Speaker 1>On This Day and Working Class History The Fifth of

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<v Speaker 1>January film. On the fifth of January nineteen seventy, a

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<v Speaker 1>group of mercenaries headed to Socio, France to begin work

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<v Speaker 1>at the Pergo factory in order to infiltrate and break

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<v Speaker 1>workers organization. Pergo initially hired a group of one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty mostly army veterans, including convicted murderers and other criminals. However,

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<v Speaker 1>the plan didn't work very well because the mercenaries started

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<v Speaker 1>carrying out robberies and even considered organizing sabotage and slow

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<v Speaker 1>downs in the factory themselves in order to make themselves

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<v Speaker 1>seem indispensable. The sources maps, and all of our anniversaries

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<v Speaker 1>Theme music quired a cardgo ad See you Tomorrow.