Slavery gets headlines

[MScoleman at aol.com]

These incidents of slavery are not new.  Before I got hired into the
aristocracy of labor through eeoc, i was a waitress and a barmaid for years.
My last job was working for Howard Johnsons as a bar maid.  The owners hired
an Iranian manager and he used to bring illegal Iranians into the country, pay
them $1.00 an hour and have them sleeping in garages in New Jersey.  If any of
these guys (they were all men) got out of hand, the manager would simply call
immigration, and they'd be deported -- so the owners only ever paid a one way
fare to get these guys here.  One of the men he called immigration on got
away.  That weekend the owner came in while we were all sitting in the back
having our meals before shift (the job came with one meal per shift).  He had
on a long face and announced that the Iranian manager wouldn't be in for a
while because the escapee had slashed all the tendons in the manager's arms.
The entire staff stood as one and cheered.  The owner ran out of the
restaurant.  Oh, did I mention that this was in 1977?
maggie coleman mscoleman at aol.com