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145000 labor-management productivity councils. Isolated Senator Mondale offers_ relocation, Knowing that thefrom a class-wide perspective of expanding production traumas caused by such a violent disruption of life,through investment in new technologies, and confined provide a singular opportunity to "hook" workers on anwithin the parameters of a decaying factory, the worker infantile dependency to a capitalist "big brother,"in one of these productivity councils is expected to brain- Mondale offers to provide relocating workers with thewash himself and his comradesinto speedingthemselves following: supplemental income benefits, a relocationup. allowance, the maintenance of health and retirementThe glue which holds these 5000 councils together plans, emergency mortgage and rent payments, .foodmust be some sense of national (capitalist) goals and stamps and surplus .food commodities, and manpoweridentity. Representative Reuss in numerous speeches training programs.surfaces again calling for the establishment of a "social With these minimal necessities held out as inducecontract,"between government, industry and labor, ment, Mondale drives home the final conditions:Workers would "agree" to cut wages, increase produc- workers must agree to relocate anywhere in the country:tivity and accept layoffs, all in the national interest, and workers must agree to submit to counseling (read:Javits has provided tile mechanism to implement that brainwashing) and retraining. If workers fail to progresssocial contract with his" Economic Review Act (S.3771) satisfactorily in the counseling and retraining, they losewhich would establish an Economic Review Board. all benefits.•Made up of government and industry representatives Hitler and Mussolini would have been awed. Theirand labor lieutenants, the Board would monitor the little minds could not have imagined such a powerful tooleconomy and make "recommendations" on employ- in turning a working class into an atomized mass ofment, production and the like. brainwashed slaves.c. The Boxcar Bills: Locking workers into a narrow 2i The Mechanisms of Lootcommunity or factory-based view of themselves are twoessential components of destroying the capability for Of course turning millions of workers into zombies isworking-class wide self-organization. A third factor is not the end result of the liberal programs, as much asthe actual physical disruption of lives accompanied with Rockefeller and his liberal friends may enjoy the process.the creation of a dependency on central government for The end result is the propping up of their property titlesessential services such as food and housing, r with loot squeezed from those workers, and not unim-As British Brigadier General Frank Kitson laid out in portantly, from small and mediumsized capitalists.his book Low Intensity Operations, and as the previous The most recognizable method of extracting loot fromtwo issues of the Campaigner explain in detail, the prime the working class is the vast public service employmentelements in controlling a population are relocation and projects last seen during the last depression in Germany,tbod control. ...... ' _ _,_ Italy and the United States.At miserable wages, theseThe most overt expression of this was floated in jobs will herd workers into work camps in god-forsakenSenator Walter Mi_ndale's National Employment areas. A very prescient Lieutenant Colonel, writing inPriorities Act (S.2809). _Mondale, a Democrat from the October 1973 issue of Military Review (and probablyMinnesota who rubs shoulders with the Rockefellers at cribbing from Rockefeller) lays out the economic andtheir international strategy sessions (the Bilderberger t political ramifications of public service employment:conferences), hastily withdrew support for his own bill jafter the Labor Committees exposed its overt fascist Let us imagine that the urban crisis in the United Statesimplications. The key provisions surfaced in various continues toworsen... The ranks of theunemployed andother bills such as Reuss' Full Employment Act and underemployed grow larger as more youth join the work, force... The unemployment rate slowly climbs throughJavits' Economic Review Act. Nonetheless, Mondale_s 10.8 per cent, and urban crime is on the upswing. Thebill provides a comprehensive example, especially since it discouragement of the unemployed has developed hasit was openly endorsed by Leonard Woodcock and-the developed into hopelessness. This has increased thedanger of insurgency in the cities to a level higher thanUAW. , that of 1968.The bill would provide for a National Employment The Secretary of Defense recommended to theRelocation Administration, made up along corporativist President that an ad hoc committee be formed to studylines with psuedodabor representation. This Administra- the possibility of establishing a program similar to thetion would control, through selective allocation of aid CCC to help the counry out of its dilemma. Such aand funds, the location of plant closings and municipal committee consisting of the Secretaries of Interior,Justice, Defense, and Health, Education and Welfarebankruptcies. For the millions of workers thrown out of and Housing and Urban Development and chaired bywork or cut off from municipal services, the good the Vice President, was formed and set to work.