Tom Dalton wrote:
> First, you'll need to provide more than your say-so when you assert
> that Chinese lightweights are being built by conscripts on forced
> labor. I keep hearing this thrown around like truth, but I've never
> heard of any reports from NGOs or the like shedding any light on this
> practice. It just sounds like something grumpy old guys like us use
> as a half-truth to discredit bikes we don't like, and in some cases
> fear out of ignorance. Underpaid workers perhaps, but that rests on
> all of our heads if we buy anything made in China, or virtually
> anywhere else outside of the U.S., Canada, western Europe, Japan, and
> a handfull of other places.
Rumor has it that certain Italian marques used prison labor during the bike-boom years (late 60s to late 70s).
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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA