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-----Original Message----- From: Peter Koskinen <prkbikes@bellsouth.net> To: CLassicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sun, 4 May 2008 4:20 pm Subject: [CR]PRISON LABOUR
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Tom Dalton wrote:?
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> 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 handful of other places.?
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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? ?
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WOULD THAT BE TORPADO"S?? ?
PETER REID KOSKINEN?
CHAPEL HILL, NC, 27516, USA?
prkbikes@bellsouth.net? ?
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