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The Sloss Steel Foundry was built in Birmingham by North Alabama planter and investor James Withers Sloss in the years after the Second Mexican War. Work at the foundry demanded skill and was sometimes very dangerous, but Sloss workers were relatively highly paid and were given better conditions than in other workplaces, and considered themselves lucky.

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  • The Sloss Steel Foundry was built in Birmingham by North Alabama planter and investor James Withers Sloss in the years after the Second Mexican War. Work at the foundry demanded skill and was sometimes very dangerous, but Sloss workers were relatively highly paid and were given better conditions than in other workplaces, and considered themselves lucky.
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  • The Sloss Steel Foundry was built in Birmingham by North Alabama planter and investor James Withers Sloss in the years after the Second Mexican War. Work at the foundry demanded skill and was sometimes very dangerous, but Sloss workers were relatively highly paid and were given better conditions than in other workplaces, and considered themselves lucky. Early in the Great War, the foundry's management sought to prevent its workers being drafted into the Confederate military, on the grounds that its smooth functioning was vital to the war effort. When an increasing number of workers were nevertheless drafted, some being killed or crippled, Sloss started to hire black workers to take their place. Black workers were treated fairly at the foundry, with no overt discrimination, and while there were verbal complaints no serious objections were expressed from their white co-workers. Jefferson Pinkard worked in the Foundry until he was drafted during the Great War, and he returned to it at the war's end, and returned again after fighting as a Freedom Party volunteer in the Mexican Civil War. He finally lost his job as the foundry was hit by the economic crisis of the early 1930s. The Foundry was extensively rebuilt and modernized by the Freedom Party after it took control of the Confederacy in the 1930s. It greatly benefited from President Jake Featherston's effort to build up a modern army in preparation for attacking the United States.
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