BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem

Subject: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: GUEST,AmericanPayBackIsSweet!
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 06:35 PM

Maul Wart is now on the forefront of neo-slave economics. Chinese sweat shops are NOT paying a wage but supplying food and shelter to workers.

Isn't it time Mudcat, a folks Folkzine, stopped giving these monsters and their hired PR ( Old Guy ) free advertising?

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 09:41 PM

It's just that China undercut all the previous Asian "stealers of US jobs"...

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: Ron Davies
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 09:52 PM

Are you kidding? Do you think Mual Wart couldn't hire a better flack than "Old"--one who could write coherent sentences had graduated from the second grade, and might be capable of reading what he himself posted? It seems a reasonable request.

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: Ron Davies
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 09:54 PM

"write coherent sentences, had graduated"

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:06 PM

"supplying food and shelter to workers."

Reminds me - Mr Henry Ford did such radical things - and was criticised for greatly improving the lot of his workers at the time...

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Oct 06 - 10:34 PM

Well, actually, though, Henry Ford was criticized for paying his workers $5.00 a day--an unheard of wage at the time. Other industrialists had a hissy-fit because they thought Ford was setting a horrible example, i.e., when the word got around, their workers would want good wages too!

But Ford was no dummy. He figured that it was just smart business to pay his workers enough so they could afford to buy the automobiles they were making.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 03:19 PM

Don't set Henry up as Mother Theresa just yet- aside from the fact that his pay rates were in his own best interest, he also had some little quirks like invading & controlling every aspect of his workers' lives e.g. those "cute" unannounced domiciliary visits, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: jeffp
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 03:35 PM

But he did us all a favor by inventing charcoal briquettes.

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: Don Firth
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:03 AM

No nomination for sainthood. Henry's generosity was strictly a matter of self-interest.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 07:53 AM

Which is what I meant...

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: GUEST,Obie
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 02:16 AM

Henry was a capitalist who understood socialism. If his workers were fairly paid and healthy they would work harder and be more productive. I suppose it was win/win . He kept the price of his cars low so they would sell to working people because he understood that they were his biggest potential market. Not rocket science but far above the limited mentality of most capitalists of his day.

Subject: RE: BS: Mual Wart's Chinese Slave Labor Problem
From: Greg F.
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 09:25 AM

The monopoly capitalists of Henry Ford's day were not of "limited mentality" by any means. They WERE, however, venal, immoral, crooked, grasping, and greedy.

Pretty much like the monopoly capitalists of today.