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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (1347)	8/9/2002 5:10:39 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

Re: " how did Islam achieve such a religious thrust" By massive immigration policies created by the Jewish fifth column within France. FRANCE: Arab Workers in French Factories On the production lines and in the press-shops and paint-shops of the big car factories around Paris, 95 per cent of the workforce are immigrants -- mostly from North Africa. When asked why this should be so, the immigrant workers' leaders are, for once, in agreement. "Today's Frenchman is spoilt", says Yassir,an official of the CSL union. "He gets everything on a plate -- social security, paid leave, a library, a discothèque. He can count on education helping him up the social ladder. He won't accept exploitation. He refuses to work on the production line". For Dali Abdel-Razzak, one of the activists who broke away from the communist-led union, the CGT, "The immigrants do the worst-paid and most unpleasant work, in the press-shops and on the production lines". Born in Ghazaouet (Algeria) in 1953, Abdel-Razzak came to France in 1973. He brought his guitar and at first played music in Arab coffee-shops. "I liked it", he says. "I made friends and decided to stay". In 1976 he got married and started to work in a car factory. In excellent French, he vividly describes the harsh and repititive work to which immigrants have become accustomed. "In the press-shop you take a piece of metal which can weigh up to 13 pounds. You put it down, you press it, you take it away - sometimes 500 or 550 times an hour. If you take off your gloves to blow your nose, you can't catch up. You are allowed to go to the men's room for seven minutes every four hours. At lunchtime you have 36 minutes. If you take five minutes to wash your hands, between seven and 10 minutes waiting in the queue, you are left with 15-20 minutes for lunch". For doing the most unpleasant work, the immigrant is also the worst paid. "One of my friends who was hired 20 years ago makes 4.700 francs ($530) a month", says Abdel-Razzak. "in fact, one often makes less than that. Right now, due to technical stoppages, I earn exactly 3.000 francs ($340) a month". Why did the immigrant workers for so long accept such conditions? Their traditional passivity was one of the reasons why French companies began hiring them in the 1960s. After strikes in the coal mines of northern France in 1963, the management started to recruit Moroccan workers, who were considered submissive. At the same time, the Simca car factory in Poissy (near Paris) hired workers from the Casablanca area. "They soon had problems with these workers", says Abdallah Frayggi, a CGT delegate at Poissy, "and so later they hired Moroccan from rural areas, being careful to select illiterate workers".The recruiting agents from the Citroen car factories hired workers mostly from the Souss, in southern Morocco, where the Berber population respects the traditional values of family, religion and monarchy. The French National Immigration Office also hired workers from the Souss, the Rif ands the Figuig area. Transplanted to a factory in the suburbs of Paris, the Moroccan worker -- who had often paid the recruiting agent to get hired -- started work on a production line under the watchful eye of a foreman who told him he was on probation. "Naturally, he worked hard", says Dali Abdel-Razzak. "And since very often, at the beginning, his papers were not in order, he was quite easy to control. He accepted everything without daring to protest". [snip] chris-kutschera.com For the broader picture: let.leidenuniv.nl