Your home very likely contains products created by slave labor.
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Who Uses Slave Labor?
Forced labor has become both a form a torture and a source of great
profit for China. With the enormous amount of free labor that comes
from Laogai, China has lured many overseas businesses into its profit-
through-slave-labor system. With ridiculously cheap wholesale labor
costs many cannot resist the bait and unknowingly come to support this
illegal practice.
Common everyday products ranging from artificial Christmas trees,
Christmas tree lights, bracelets, tools and foodstuffs, et cetera are
among some of the products manufactured and exported from these
facilities. According to a 1998 House Committee on International
Relations report, companies who reportedly have or had products made
in China's Laogai are Midas, Staples, Chrysler, and Nestles. A recent
report from one detainee in the Changji Labor Camp in Xinjiang states
the Tianshan Wooltex Stock Corporation Ltd., a contractor to Changji
Labor Camp, makes products for overseas companies such as Banana
Republic, Neiman Marcus, Bon Genie, Holt Renfrew, French Connection
and others. Orders from Banana Republic number between 200,000 and
280,000 pieces a year.
The products made in these facilities are produced by people who are
forced to work in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Detainees in Laogai
have said that because of malnutrition, sleep deprivation and stress
they often contract lice, scabies, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and other
ailments. Sick detainees are still forced to work. Many are not
allowed to take showers for long periods of time, allowing all manner
of bodily substances to come into contact with the items they
manufacture. These products are then shipped all over the world.
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US car makers use products made by slaves in Amazonian Brazil, Peru
Discuss Santaigo, Nov 2:
Labour inspector Benedito Silva Filho and six armed police officers
move cautiously through the grey smoke that hugs the ground in the
Carvoaria Transcameta work camp near the Tucuru city in the Brazilian
Amazon. Enveloped in the haze is a solitary man, Alexandre Pereira dos
Reis, who stops shoveling charcoal from a kiln after working for eight
hours and, wheezing, walks slowly toward the inspectors. The labourer
says malaria, a chronic cough and the 95-degree-Fahrenheit heat have
gotten the best of him.
The charcoal he and the other labourers produce by burning scraps of
hardwood will be trucked south to a blast furnace that’s six hours
away. It will be used there to make pig iron, a basic ingredient of
steel. That pig iron will be purchased by brokers, sold to steelmakers
and foundries and then purchased by some of the world’s largest
companies for use in cars, tractors, sinks and refrigerators made for
US consumers.
‘‘This is slavery,’’ Silva, 49, says. Silva has descended unannounced
in September on this charcoal-making camp—one of about 1,000 in the
Amazon—to investigate reports that it uses unpaid labour. The
policemen who flank him wield automatic weapons, ready to fend off the
deadly violence that Silva says is part of his job. They determine all
29 workers are slaves who haven’t been paid in months.
The products of Latin American slave labour end up in cars and trucks
made in the US by Ford Motors, General Motors, Nissan Motors and
Toyota Motors. Pig iron that goes into steel used by Whirlpool Corp,
the world’s largest appliance maker, and is used in foundries at
Kohler Co, which makes sinks and bathtubs, can be traced back to
slaves in Brazil. Nucor Corp, the second-largest US steel company,
buys pig iron made with charcoal produced by slaves. In Peru, slaves
mine gold that ends up at the world’s biggest banks. Other Peruvian
slaves log mahogany that’s been used in Andersen Corp windows and CF
Martin & Co guitars.
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Stan de SD
> hardwood will be trucked south to a blast furnace that’s six hours
> away. It will be used there to make pig iron, a basic ingredient of
> steel. That pig iron will be purchased by brokers, sold to steelmakers
> and foundries and then purchased by some of the world’s largest
> companies for use in cars, tractors, sinks and refrigerators made for
> US consumers.
I don't suppose you have ever seen the inside of a modern steel mill,
or any other type of large-scale industry. Steelmaking is a tightly
controlled process, necessary to ensure proper chemical composition,
hardness, ductility, etc. I seriously doubt that charcoal is being
used for the coking process, as carbon content is super-critical. Most
steel is made in electric arc furnaces nowadays, so the charcoal isn't
being used as a heat source. Methinks you're being fed a line of BS by
someone...
Elesee
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> Who Uses Slave Labor?
> Forced labor has become both a form a torture and a source of great
Tell it to China. Tell it Brazil. Maybe you can petition these
countries to flag these products with, "Made by slaves."
George
What they described is accurate and is totally different than what you
described (which is also quite accurate).
Patriot Games
>Re: Your home very likely contains products created by slave labor.
No. Not "very likely."
I absolutely GUARANTEE my home contains products made by slaves
because I ALWAYS look for products made by slaves FIRST.
I love having products made by slaves!
I love having slaves make products for me!
Stan de SD
So the question remains: is this being used to produce commercial
steel vs. cheap low-grade cast iron for stuff like frying pans and the
like?
SilentOtto
That's why the article referenced "pig iron" rather than "steel".
Removing unwanted trace elements and controlling the carbon content
takes place at a later stage in the refinement process.
Heh heh...
Rightards...
SilentOtto
It's being used to produce pig iron, which is later refined into
commercial steel.
Heh heh...
Rightards...