By Victor Thorn

With the actual U.S. unemployment
rate teetering at around 20 percent, our lopsided “free trade” treaties
with China must be seriously reexamined. Particularly interesting is a
recent photo that surfaced, which American outsourcers don’t want us to
see.

On April 18, Liz Hull and Lee Surrell of the UK Daily Mail described KYE Systems, a “Chinese sweatshop [where] workers
slumped over their desks with exhaustion.” The message from this
poignant picture is clear: Slave labor is alive and well in China, with
corporate America acting as its
enabler.

The horror stories emerging from these factories illustrate why the Communists hold such a
competitive advantage. Earning a take-home pay of 52 cents an hour,
these coolies—many of them young women—work 15-hour shifts, six days a
week, making computer parts for Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Samsung,
among others. With over 1,000 workers crammed into a 100-square-foot
room with no air conditioning, many of them never even leave the
premises.

Hull and Surrell write, “The workers also sleep on site, in factory dormitories, 14 to a room. They ‘shower’ with a sponge
and bucket.”
What makes this appalling situation even more abysmal is that Chinese leaders are seeking even cheaper labor. In a Sept. 28, 2008 article
entitled “How China Has Created a New Slave Empire in Africa,” Peter
Hitchens details the plight of Zambianminers paid three dollars a day.
The employees “wash their [cobalt and copper ore] finds in
cholera-infected streams full of human filth,” and live in “diseased
malarial slums.”

When morally devoid Communists stridently push their imperialistic aims, it results in child slavery, kidnappings,
widespread sexual harassment and thousands of injured or dead workers.

The BBC recently documented a Chinese slave ring in which police rescued
mentally disabled men who were beaten and terrorized. Some “could not
speak coherently, or clearly remember their names.”

In Guangdong province, China, hundreds of rural teenagers were stolen from peasant
farms by “employment agencies,” then forced to stamp parts for
electronic goods that will eventually be stocked in Wal-Mart stores.

To sidestep the few legitimate investigators in existence, journalist
David Barboza reports, Chinese industrialists “evade scrutiny by
providing fake wage and work schedule data.” In addition, often the
kidnapped, underage laborers have no identification cards and little or
no money to escape their captors.

Hull and Surrell interviewed one indentured servant, who lamented, “We are like prisoners. It seems
like we live only to work; we do not work to live. We do not live a
life, only work.”

In an April 19 article, representatives from the National Labor Committee (NLC) illustrated the inhumane conditions.

“There are not many people who can bear it for more than a year, and almost
never past two years,” concluded the NLC.

Once these slaves are used up and thrown away, others are forced to fill their spots. An
authentic “evil empire” exists in the Pacific Rim; one that owns our
debt, controls our manufacturing base and thrives on being the
slave-labor capital of the world.

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