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Beatings and Other Abuses Cited at Samoan Apparel Plant that Supplied U.S. Retailers

Date: February 6, 2001
Author: Steven Greenhouse
QUOTE: Workers at a factory in American Samoa that made apparel for the J. C. Penney Company and other retailers were often beaten and were provided food so inadequate that some were "walking skeletons," a Labor Department investigation has found.

ABSTRACT: Workers at a Korean-owned factory in American Samoa that made apparel for the J. C. Penney Company and other retailers were often beaten and were provided food so inadequate that some were "walking skeletons," a Labor Department investigation found.

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