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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Anyone who gives unconditional support to the
Democrats ( ie. votes for every liar piece of shit politician with a " D " after
their name ) is merely perpetuating the current neo-conservaticve corporate
right-wing oligarchy.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>It is one thing to vote for a democrat like Dennis
Kuccinich or David Gill, but quite another to vote for a liar war criminal like
Barack Obama !</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>DON'T FORGET TWO THINGS !</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>1) Not only did Obama not fullfill a single
campaign promise he made in the 2008 election, but he also continued and
EXPANDED the Bush agenda. As well as protecting all the war criminals in
the Bush administration from the Justice dept. as well as private lawsuits,
he also protected the telecom companies from prosecution and private lawsuits.
His expansion of the Bush agenda was both in foreign policy and domestic
issues.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>2) </FONT></STRONG> <STRONG><FONT
face=Arial>Obama is going to win Illinois. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>If you REALLY want to strike a blow against the
corporate empire, as opposed to being a hang-wringing liberal appologist
for the oligarchy, then what you need to do is vote for Jill Stein of the Green
party, so that it will both send a message to the corporate controlled and
financed DNC ( Democratic National Committee ) AND keep the Green Party on
the ballot in the State of Illinois, if for no other reason, than to
act as a check and balance against corporate control of the Democratic
Party.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Don't let them manipulate you with fear
!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Obama and Romney work for the same corporate
masters. The same policies will be implemented regardless which one is
elected.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Case in point. Check out Jeffrey Sach's
investigative report from Counter Punch online magazine that shows that the
Romney-Ryan budget plan to cut Social Security and Medicare IS IDENTICAL to
the Obama budget proposal.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Are we going to be blown in the wind by the
corporate interests, the corporate media propoganda machine, and their
control of BOTH the democratic and republican parties via corporate campaign
contributions OR....</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>are we going to BE THE WIND
???</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>The choice is yours !</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Do we want more phoney democracy via a one party
corporate State with two wings ( Dem and Repub parties ) OR do we want a
REAL opposition party and a REAL democracy.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>David
Johnson</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=tanstl@aol.com href="mailto:tanstl@aol.com">David Sladky</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=usgp-media@gp-us.org
href="mailto:usgp-media@gp-us.org">usgp-media@gp-us.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? -- 16TH IN SERIES ON KEY ISSUES
IN 2012, Emergency Labor Network (No.5 of 11 transmissions)</DIV></DIV>
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From: <A
href="mailto:jpstolten@frontier.com">jpstolten@frontier.com</A><BR>Subject: Fw:
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? -- 16TH IN SERIES ON KEY ISSUES IN 2012, Emergency Labor
Network (No.5 of 11 transmissions)<BR>Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:35:16
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Hi;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV></FONT><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>Below is
the excellent Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Emergency Labor
Network article titled "WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?".</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>This article presents a very strong
argument for the labor movement dumping the Democratic Party which has
betrayed the labor movement many times in recent decades. Instead of
supporting the Democratic Party this article recommends forming a third
independent labor party. In my opinion, this would make sense if the
future of capitalism looked secure, but it doesn't look secure at
all. Therefore, in my opinion, it would make more sense for the labor
movement to support the socialist movement which is offering an alternative
to the dysfunctional and failing capitalist economic system that very
well may be close to the end of its useful life.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>I say that the capitalist economic
system may be near the end of its useful life for many reasons. Probably
the most important is catastrophic global climate change is coming at us like a
runaway freight train, and capitalism doesn't appear to be capable of coping
with the threat of catastrophic global climate change. Which raises
the question: Are hundreds millions of people going to die simply because
the capitalism cannot cope with catastrophic global climate change? I
doubt it. Before that happens I expect capitalism to junked and replaced
with an economic system that can cope with this sort of wrenching
change. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>John P. Stoltenberg, P.E.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>N8362 State Highway 67</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>P.O. Box 596</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>Elkhart Lake, WI</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>53020-0596</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>920-876-2184</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><A
href="mailto:jpstolten@frontier.com">jpstolten@frontier.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>PS: WARNING: Due to former Presidential Executive Orders, the
National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or
notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have
no recourse nor protection. </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=emergencylabor@aol.com
href="mailto:emergencylabor@aol.com">emergencylabor@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=emergencylabor@aol.com
href="mailto:emergencylabor@aol.com">emergencylabor@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:37 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? -- 16TH IN SERIES ON KEY ISSUES IN
2012</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=ecxMsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">WHICH SIDE
ARE YOU ON?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">With the four 2012 presidential and vice presidential
debates now history, what is particularly striking is that no questions were
asked or answers given with regard to labor's rights. The irony is that the
Democratic Party is heavily dependent on trade unionists to do the heavy lifting
in order to win the election: organizing millions of home calls, staffing the
phone lines, contributing a fortune, etc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">What has labor received in return?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">We got no support for the Employee Free Choice Act (card
check), nothing in relation to labor reform legislation, imposition of the
<SPAN>"Free Trade"<B> </B>agreements<B> </B></SPAN>over labor's vehement
opposition, cuts in federal workers' pensions to pay for the payroll tax
holiday, and the list goes on.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">It is indisputable that labor's relationship to the
Democratic Party is a <SPAN>one-way</SPAN> street: we give and they take. After
elections are over, things go back to normal: our needs are ignored or ─ after a
superficial effort to get some legislative remedy ─
abandoned.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">[Note: In the presidential debates, the word "union" was
never uttered, except in the last debate when Mitt Romney denounced the Teachers
Union. President Barack Obama sat silent, declining to come to the union's
defense.] </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">But what about the big battles that labor has waged over
the past couple of years? In Wisconsin, Tom Barrett, characterized by Wisconsin
trade unionists as anti-labor, won the Democratic primary and immediately
promised that if elected, he would retain the austerity takeaways that Walker
had imposed on public employees. Meanwhile, Obama took no position in support of
the workers. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">In Ohio, labor was fighting for its life after the
state's General Assembly passed legislation gutting public employees' bargaining
rights. The whole country was transfixed on the referendum to repeal the
legislation, which passed handily. But Obama was a neutral.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Then there was the action taken in Indiana when that
state's legislature enacted the misnamed "right to work" law. Again the
president declined to come to the support of the state's trade union movement in
its struggle to prevent adoption of the law.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Then there was the Chicago <SPAN>teachers'</SPAN> strike.
The president's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, led the fight to cut
teachers' pay and benefits, while attempting to undermine the union's power and
privatize public education. The president refused to take a stand in support of
the teachers.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Finally there was the Machinists' strike against
Caterpillar in Joliet, Illinois. Although the company was making record profits
of several billion dollars a year, it demanded substantial cuts in workers'
benefits. After a three-and-a-half-month strike, the company prevailed. Again
the president was only a silent spectator.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The question may be asked: Why should the president take
a stand on these "local issues"? There are three reasons why he should have done
so. The first is that when he ran for president, he promised to walk picket
<SPAN>lines</SPAN> with striking workers, a promise not
kept.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The second is that each of these battles had significant
repercussions going beyond city or state boundaries. Repressive legislation
passed on a state or city level opens the door wider for similar legislation
being adopted by other governmental entities. Cuts in pay and benefits by both
public and private employers also are likely to get replicated elsewhere.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The third is that the escalating attacks against labor in
this age of austerity are part and parcel of the strategy to put the burden on
the working class and the poor to pay for the debt and deficits, while the rich
and powerful laugh all the way to the bank. Meanwhile purchasing power plunges,
impoverishing more and more people, while making a bad economy
worse.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">This is not just a presidential problem. It cuts across
party lines, as witness the fact that Democratic Governor Jerry Brown of
California and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, like other
Democratic and Republican governors across the country, are leading the charge
to cut workers' pay, benefits, and working conditions, while attempting to
weaken the power of unions to fight back. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=ecxMsoNormal align=center><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The
Democratic Party's National Convention</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">On Labor Day, the Democratic Party convened its national
convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the 22 states where the
Taft-Hartley Act ("right to work" for less) was enacted to undermine and prevent
the national growth and consolidation of the trade union movement. While North
Carolina is one of the 11 southern states originally hamstrung by Taft-Hartley,
it is also notorious for its legislative ban on collective bargaining rights for
public-sector workers. Even so, the Democratic Party Convention steamed ahead,
despite the fact that Charlotte <SPAN>city</SPAN> workers had waged a month-long
campaign leading up to Labor Day of picketing, rallies, and protests outside of
City Hall citing problems faced by city workers and calling for the right to
collective bargaining, to meet and confer with city managers on the job, for
dues check-off, and for a "Municipal Worker's Bill of Rights." An "Open Letter"
was sent to President Obama and Democratic National <SPAN>Committee</SPAN>
leaders at the local, state, and national levels calling for the president to
take action in support of solving these problems. There was no response.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The millions of Black and Latino workers, both male and
female across the U.S., suffer the sharpest edge of the attacks on labor and
trade union rights and the brunt of the economic crisis. But even though Obama
cannot win ─ in what is shaping up to be an extremely close election ─ without
organized labor, women, Black and Latino support, he has not reached out to
these constituencies with a program that meets their needs. So it is clear that
without an independent labor movement, anchored in these most oppressed sectors
of the U.S. working class, labor will not be in the strongest position to
effectively pressure Obama for crucial progressive reforms if he should win
re-election, or to fight the devastating plans of the right wing Republican
agenda directed against us if Romney/Ryan take the election.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Rebuilding a labor movement, independent of the
Democratic and Republican <SPAN>parties</SPAN>, anchored in the most oppressed
sectors of the U.S. working class, and vigorously fighting not only to protect
trade union rights, but also to organize southern labor, and to directly
challenge the racism, sexism, and attacks against immigrants' rights suffered by
these communities, is the only way forward! </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">What
Next?</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Back in the 1930s, coal miners immortalized a song titled
"Which Side Are You On?" with one of the lines being, "There are no neutrals
there" (referring to Harlan County in Kentucky). </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">We in the Emergency Labor Network believe that same
spirit should drive labor's policies in the period ahead. We cannot continue to
be subservient to a political party that fails to represent our interests ─ a
party that takes from us but does not give. There can be no neutrals when sharp
fights break out between labor and capital. And as the old saying goes, "You
always find out who your true friends are at a time of crisis." <I>This is a
time of crisis.</I></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Here is how AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka put it:
"When it comes to politics, we're looking for real champions of working women
and men. And I have a message for some of our 'friends.' It doesn't matter if
candidates and parties are controlling the wrecking ball or simply standing
aside ─ the outcome is the same either way. If leaders aren't blocking the
wrecking ball and advancing working families' interests, working people will not
support them. This is where our focus will be ─ now, in 2012 and
beyond."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">We in the ELN are keenly aware that the Republican Party
leadership is a sworn enemy of the labor movement. We also recognize that the
Democrats have better positions than the Republicans on some issues, such as
preserving <I>Roe v.</I> <I>Wade</I>. What is needed in the absence of a
mass-based independent labor party is building a broad coalition of labor and
its communality partners to protect and preserve <I>Roe v. Wade</I>, and the
same is true with regard to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other
urgently needed social programs. But that does not negate the need for labor to
build its own independent party. For decades we relied on the Democrats to
advance our program, and that has not worked. We need to rely now on our own
power and our own organized strength.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">We also agree with Trumka's May 20, 2012, statement when
he said, "Moving forward, we are looking hard at how we work in the nation's
political arena. We have listened hard, and what workers want is an independent
labor movement that builds the power of working people ─ in the workplace and in
political life." </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The challenge now is to give life to those words and
build that independent labor movement without delay. For starters, it would be
big step forward for labor to run independent candidates for office at the local
or even the congressional level. Labor can also utilize the referendum in some
states to rescind repressive legislation, as was done so successfully in Ohio in
2011. And for states whose laws or constitutions do not permit initiatives or
referenda, how about campaigns to make the needed changes so that the people can
use these instruments of democracy and make the ultimate decisions regarding
which laws govern their lives? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black"><FONT size=3>Issued by the Emergency
Labor Network (ELN)</FONT></SPAN></B></DIV>
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