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| Â | Prison Factories: Slave Labor for the New World Order? |
 | | Thousands of state and federal prisoners are currently generating more than $1 billion per year in sales for private businesses, often competing directly with the private sector labor force. | | | Although prison manufacturing facilities do offer short-term benefits at a time when budgets are strained to the breaking point, the system is ripe for exploitation and abuse by government and corporate entities seeking to cut financial corners. | | | The Correctional Industries Association predicts that by the year 2000, 30 percent of America's inmate population will labor to create nearly $9 billion in sales for private business interests. |
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http://www.parascope.com/articles/0197/prison.htm
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| Â | Welcome to KeepMedia |
| | The Labor Dept.'s news that the labor markets generated 337,000 new jobs in October, along with much larger gains in August and September than were reported earlier, suggests consumers are in better shape to withstand higher oil prices and the waning warmth from tax cuts and lower interest rates. |
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| Â | Ford Motor Co. - Nazi Slave labor |
| | Ford Werke A.G., may be liable to its German Ford plant workers if it can be shown that its enormous profits were actually gained by management practices that used forced slave labor under inhuman conditions to produce their vehicles for the Nazis. | | | Ford's legal counsel, issued a statement saying that it was not responsible for the operation of the plant during wartime, when the percentage of unpaid labor allegedly reached 50%. | | | The suit, filed as a class action, seeks reasonable payment for the work performed and the disgorgement of unfair profits. |
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http://www.dailyrepublican.com/ford_slave_labor.html
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| Â | Nothing Sweet: Child Slave Labor in Ivory Coast Cocoa Fields |
| | On October 3, a clarification is made to the Tariff Act of 1930 that affirms that the U.S. Customs Service is to ban entry into the United States of products that are made by forced or indentured child labor. | | | Also in July, members of the International Cocoa Organization, the international agency that includes cocoa-producing countries, are expected to ratify a resolution to investigate “criminal labor activity,” particularly child slavery and develop a plan to eradicate the problem. | | | The U.S. Customs Service, upon a finding of forced or indentured child labor, may issue detention orders, disallowing the product or produce entry into the U.S. In 2000, this clarification is made a permanent correction by Congress. |
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http://www.stopchildlabor.org/internationalchildlabor/timeline.htm
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| Â | National Labor Committee |
| | Commerce Department records show that the sweatshirts entered the U.S. with a landed Customs value of $13.08, which is the total cost of production, including all materials, accessories, direct and indirect labor, shipping costs and profit to the factory—including the dictators’ cut and the Beimar company’s. | | | If we add a 100 percent premium on top of this direct labor cost, we can more than account for all indirect labor costs and factory overhead. | | | The NBA should agree to meet with the National Labor Committee and the No More Sweatshops Coalition to discuss ways to help guarantee that future NBA licensing is conditioned upon strict adherence to core, internationally recognized human and worker rights standards. |
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http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/nba
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| Â | Financial compensation for Nazi slave laborers |
| | Records show that slave labor accounted for as many as half the workers at the Cologne plant. | | | A final agreement has been reached in which the government and certain industries in Germany will equally finance a $7.5 billion (U.S.) fund which will be dispersed to victims of Nazi persecution. | | | Volkswagan has agreed to pay each of its ex-slaves the equivalent of about $3,500 in U.S. funds. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/fin_nazi.htm
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| Â | immaculata high school.CHILD SLAVE LABOR NEWS |
| | He has helped bring the topic of child labor and sweatshops onto the national agenda and to the eyes of the public. | | | Child slave labor has been used in more than two dozen companies in this country including Campbell Soup Co., Chi-Chi's Mexican restaurants, ConAgra, Costco, H.J. Heinz, Newman's Own, J.C. Penney, Pillsbury, Sears and Wal-Mart. | | | Charles Kernaghan has been helping to lead the crusade against child slave labor, working from the position as president of the National Labor Committee. |
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http://www.geocities.com/cslnews/
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| Â | Slave Labor Info |
| | ECA is fully committed to sustainable development in cocoa producing countries, and does not tolerate practices such as slavery and child labor. | | | General Statement by the European Cocoa Association (ECA) on the Alleged use of Slaves by Cocoa Producers in the Ivory Coast - April 19, 2001 | | | ECA remains fully committed to maintain pressure on the relevant authorities, and to pursue all avenue in order to eradicate such practices where they are proven to occur. |
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http://www.carrieschocolates.com/SlaveLaborInfo.htm
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| Â | How The Japanese Used American POWs For Slave Labor |
| | Taxpayer dollars are being used to pay one of these companies that used American prisoners for slave labor and never paid those men a dime. | | | LGH: I have an official Japanese government list of where the sites were and the companies that operated them. | | | The Japanese government was so efficient that it knew where every man was, what company he was working for, on what work site he was laboring. |
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http://www.rense.com/general8/pows.htm
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| Â | Just the Arti-FACTS - Slave Labor |
| | Slaveholders had to purchase these tags from the city for a fee of two to seven dollars. | | | A planter could contract out the slave's services and time or sell him. | | | Slaves were considered to be the Southern planter's property. |
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http://www.chicagohs.org/AOTM/nov97fact1b.html
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| Â | Brazil - Brasil - BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - Slave Labor in the Still Industry - Brazilian Social Issues - August 2004 |
| | "The food is awful, and the system of transportation from one municipality to another is extremely precarious; it is what is worst in terms of existing forms of labor," observed the director of the Social Observatory Institute, Odilon Faccio. | | | The organization did a survey of the situation of slave-like labor in the steel production chain. | | | According to Minister Nilmario Miranda, who heads the Human Rights Secretariat, all complaints received will be dealt with. |
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http://www.brazzil.com/2004/html/articles/aug04/p126aug04.htm
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| Â | HermanMathis - WWII Slave Labor POW |
| | Like HermanMathis, the California Legislature also believes that companies doing business in California today must account for their unlawful behavior during World War II, and not be allowed to continue profiting by it. | | | See latest developments on this POW slave labor case in news items. | | | So in July of 1999, California became the first state to pass a statute that allows World War II slave and forced labor victims or their heirs to bring legal actions against those who profited from the use of slave and forced labor. |
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http://www.wwiislavelabor.com/
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| Â | Forced Labor Table of Contents |
| | German Companies Participating in the Forced/Slave Labor Compensation Fund | | | Agreement Reached On Distribution of Funds for Slave Laborers | | | German Firms That Used Slave Or Forced Labor During the Nazi Era |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/labortoc.html
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| Â | Slave labor built our national monuments, by Akilah Monifa |
| | Slaves were denied their freedom by the U.S. government. | | | Slave labor was also used in the making of two significant statues in Washington, D.C., one of which, the Statue of Freedom, was hoisted atop the dome of the Capitol in 1863. | | | Slave labor built our national monuments, by Akilah Monifa |
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http://www.progressive.org/mpbvmo00.htm
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| Â | Case Watch - Slave Labor at Royal/Dutch Shell Group |
| | For their work, which was contracted from the S.S., the laborers received no pay from Shell or the German Government. | | | Following WWII, the firm's name was changed to Deutsche-Shell, which is now one of Germany's largest oil refining corporations (in addition to its interests in chemical synthesis). | | | It also runs a chain of retail gasoline stations. |
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http://www.cmht.com/casewatch/slavelabor/shell.htm
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| Â | Americans Fund Slave Labor |
| | The author cites official reports showing that China’s exports to the United States in 1985 were $3.8 billion. | | | It is against U.S. law to sell goods made by slave labor. | | | The communist regime in Beijing is using the profits from American shoppers to build the military machine to destroy the freest society on Earth — a prosperous society enjoyed by those same American consumers. |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/8/191237.shtml
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| Â | Nothing Sweet: Child Slave Labor in Ivory Coast Cocoa Fields |
| | These pages are designed to give a background on the issue including: facts about slave labor in Ivory Coast and chocolate in the U.S., information about the laws that exist, what consumers can do to help, and information on what needs to be done. | | | The articles are riveting in detailing the trickery, threats, and abuses associated with securing and keeping these young workers. | | | Nothing Sweet: Child Slave Labor in Ivory Coast Cocoa Fields |
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http://www.stopchildlabor.org/internationalchildlabor/chocolate.htm
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| Â | Sequential Tart: Working Like Slaves - A Pro-Roundtable on Slave Labor Graphics(vol VII/iss 12/December 2004) |
| | EJ: Slave Labor, as a company, is responsible for a great many achievements in the comic book industry. | | | EJ: Dan Vado and Slave Labor do more than look after their own interests, they're also always pushing the industry in new directions that most people seem to fail to notice, like getting comics into non-traditional stores, or spearheading the non-mainstream comic book convention with shows like APE and IPEX. | | | Slave Labor Graphics — the official web site |
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http://www.sequentialtart.com/art_1204_4.shtml
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| Â | #234: 04-14-04 FEDERAL JUDGE REVOKES CITIZENSHIP OF NEW JERSEY MAN WHO SERVED AS GUARD AT NAZI SLAVE LABOR CAMPS |
| | In addition, 170 individuals who sought to enter the United States in recent years have been blocked from doing so as a result of OSI's “Watch List” program, which is enforced in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security. | | | Papers filed by the government noted that Dorohucza was a particularly brutal camp where Jews were forced to work and live under horrific conditions. | | | Irenas in Camden, New Jersey, has revoked the U.S. citizenship of Andrew Kuras, 81, of Mays Landing, who admitted serving during World War II as an armed guard at three Nazi slave labor camps and further admitted to concealing that service at the time he immigrated to the United States. |
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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_234.htm
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| Â | World War II in Ukraine: Ostarbeiter Slave Labor |
| | Over 2.3 million Ukrainian women and men were taken as Ostarbeiter slave laborers to Germany during World War II. | | | Only a few were able to get released and return to Ukraine to tell their story. | | | Germany faced a crisis at the end of 1941 because after it had mobilized its massive armies, a shortage of workers developed in Germany to support the war industry. |
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http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-12.html
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