Marxist Democrat, Jim Jones Promised ‘Change’ to His Flock too! He Murdered 914 of Them 33 years ago!

The Rise and Fall of Jim Jones

November 16, 2002
By Rick Ross

On November 18, 1978, followers of Jim Jones shot and killed United States Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others traveling with him on a fact finding trip to Guyana. Ryan was there to investigate complaints about the community called “Jonestown,” which was largely inhabited by his former California constituents.

After murdering a United States congressman Jones knew the end of his rule was near. He ordered his entire following, some 914 people, to commit what he called “revolutionary suicide.” This included more than 200 children.

The rise

Jones began his group in San Francisco and was once a respected community leader. He started programs to help the elderly and poor. His circle of friends once included leading politicians, who once defended him against allegations of abuse.

An ongoing scandal about such abuse is what prompted Jones to isolate himself and his followers in Guyana, where the media, former members and families could not influence his faithful remnant. However, Rep. Ryan ultimately came there to investigate the continuing abuse within the compound.

Once the Rev. Jim Jones was a popular figure and something of a religious celebrity in San Francisco. He participated in fashionable charity events and perhaps most importantly could turn out the vote or do whatever else was necessary through the well-oiled machine composed largely of his church members.

Jones was not some self-proclaimed “prophet” or fringe religious leader. He was an ordained minister of the Disciples of Christ, a respected mainline denomination. At one point his congregation numbered 8,000. It was composed largely of poor African Americans.

Jones cast himself as a politically progressive and was embraced by liberal politicians such as U.S. Representatives Phillip and John Burton, Assemblyman Willie Brown and Mayor George Moscone.

After the tragedy at Jonestown these politicians found it difficult to explain how Jim Jones so easily took them in.

One of Jones’ long time followers Tim Stoen explained, “There wasn’t anything magical about Jim’s power. It was raw politics. He was able to deliver what politicians want, which is power. And how do you get power? By votes. And how do you get votes? With people. Jim Jones could produce 3,000 people at a political event.”

Agar Jaicks, Chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee seemed to agree with Stoen’s assessment when he said, “What you had here was a ready-made volunteer workforce&he was very strong&here was a guy who could provide workers for causes.”

Jones first step on his path to political influence began in the Fall of 1970. He created a fund for the families of slain police officers. This was the beginning of a viable process he used to make valuable friends through charitable contributions.

The first bad press Jones received in the Bay area was a somewhat critical story run by the San Francisco Examiner in 1972. The paper exposed that Jones had claimed to be a “prophet” and said he could raise the dead.

Perhaps to preempt any further embarrassment Jones subsequently gave out grants to 12 newspapers. He even bussed his people to demonstrate in support of reporters who had been jailed for not revealing confidential sources. Ironically, the man who would later flee from the press and oppress dissent within his group once said in 1973 that he wanted “to defend the free speech clause of the First Amendment.”

In 1973 the San Francisco Examiner briefly ran articles critical of the Temple. However, Jones’ political machine continues to garner him influence by helping to elect Mayor Moscone, District Attorney Joseph Freitas and Sheriff Richard Hongisto in 1975.

And Jones was still spreading money around to seemingly buy influence. A writer for the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in 1976, “Many a San Franciscan and many a project have received sizable checks from Peoples Temple, accompanied by only a short note from Jim Jones, saying, `We appreciate what you are doing,’ ”

Jones gave money to the NAACP, the Ecumenical Peace Institute and a senior citizens escort service. Willie Brown and then-Governor Jerry Brown could be seen at his church services, apparently paying homage to their friend.

The Fall of 1976 seems to be the time Jones achieved his peak of power. The Burtons, Willie Brown, Williams, Moscone, radical Angela Davis, lawyer Vincent Hallinan, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally and publisher Carlton Goodlett toasted him at a testimonial dinner. And later Moscone gave him a seat on the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission.

The fall

In late 1976 things began to go fall apart. Reporter Marshall Kilduff gathered information and eventually wrote a highly critical profile about Jones, which was published by New West magazine eventually in August of 1977. It detailed Jones’ faked healings and extremely coercive fund raising that pushed members to liquidate their assets and hand over the money to the church.

Ultimately it was this article that prompted Jones to leave San Francisco and take a core group of devoted followers with him to live in isolation within Guyana.

More critical articles came out. In June of 1978, Jonestown defector Deborah Layton told her story to the San Francisco Chronicle and described the harsh conditions and control within the group’s Guyana compound.

After the horrific events of November 1978 at Jonestown Willie Brown said, “If we knew then he was mad, clearly we wouldn’t have appeared with him. But it’s not fair to say what you would have done if you knew the kind of madness that would take place years later.”

Moscone was assassinated nine days after the Jonestown mass suicide-murders. Before his death the mayor said, “It’s clear that if there was a sinister plan, then we were taken in. But I’m not taking any responsibility.”

Review of key events

1953:Jim Jones opens his own independent church in Indianapolis.

1964:the Disciples of Christ ordain Jones.

1965-71:Jones supposedly believes a nuclear holocaust is coming and uses this as an excuse to move his congregation to Northern California. His church grows and becomes prominent. He is named foreman of the Mendocino County grand jury.

1971:Peoples Temple buys a building in downtown San Francisco and spins off another branch in Los Angeles. Headquarters is moved to San Francisco.

1971-73:The Temple membership grows very large and it offers social programs, jobs and health care.

1974:Peoples Temple leases land from the government of Guyana in a remote jungle area.

1975:The temple turns out its followers for rallies political campaigns and helps elect candidates in San Francisco.

1976:Mayor George Moscone appoints Jones to the city’s Housing Authority Commission. Jones gets favorable media coverage and national politicians seek him out. However, his megalomania and paranoia is becoming more visible. He never travels without bodyguards and packs public appearances with followers who applaud him.

Summer 1977:New West magazine publishes a story that exposes Jones, his fakery, abuses and questionable finances.

August 1977:Jones moves to Guyana and creates Jonestown.

1977-78: About 1,000 Temple members move to Jonestown.

June 1978: Temple defector Deborah Layton is interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle and exposes the brutality and apparent plans for mass suicide at Jonestown.

Fall 1978: Relatives of Jonestown residents push for an official investigation.

November 7, 1978:Representative Leo Ryan says he will go to Jonestown and investigate.

November 17:Ryan arrives at Jonestown.

November 18:Some residents advise Ryan they want to leave Jonestown. Ryan tried to leave Guyana with the defectors, but is shot down at the airstrip by Jonestown gunmen. Ryan, NBC News staff Robert Brown and Don Harris, San Francisco Examiner photographer Greg Robinson and defector Patricia Parks are all murdered. Others hide in the jungle.

November 18: Jones orders his people to commit suicide by taking cyanide. Those who won’t are killed. More than 200 children are murdered. 914 bodies are found at Jonestown, including Jim Jones.

Comment:    The above summary of this particular “Goddamn America” charasmatic leader, Jim Jones,  is from RealClearHistory.   Nowhere in this article is it reported that Mr. Jones was a Marxist.    This Leftis religious leader bragged  on many occasions he was proud to be a Marxist and force equality upon his flock.

American Progressives are all Marxists.  Progressives are always progressing to Marxism until their day of  arrival.   They froth for government control over the “unProgressive”.   Many  deny their ultimate dream of the utopia of Marxist dictatorship where  Progressives who govern will forever progress to define equality as needed according to those in command.

Tommy Robinson still leading the English Defence League against Islamic Fascism

Tommy Robinson on the Michael Coren Show

By Ignominius   at the English Defence League
Filed Under News     Tags: Michael Coren, Tommy Robinson     

“The people of Canada were so impressed with‭ ‬how Tommy Robinson put the key issues‭ ‬of the English Defence League‭ ‬across that they have asked for him to appear again.

Tommy was on the Michael Coren show,‭ ‬which is aired in Canada just‭ ‬days after appearing at Preston Magistrates Court,‭ ‬Tommy appeared on the show to explain to the Canadian public the uphill battle he is facing.‭ ‬Not only are the British‭ ‬authorities persecuting Tommy for his role as‭ ‬front man of the EDL,‭ ‬but also how his personal and family life has been affected over the past‭ ‬2‭ ‬years.

Tommy briefly explains‭ ‬his restrictions enforced by his constant Police persecution,‭ ‬but more importantly why something needs to be done by the same authority to put a stop to the extremist groups that threaten to burn the poppy and disrupt Remembrance Day every year.‭ ‬Offending the memories of those lives lost in conflicts both past and present.‭

At the end of the interview Michael Coren states that he would have Tommy back on his show anytime and will not be silenced by the authorities.‭

Does this mean the message is starting to get through‭?‬

Let’s hope so.”

Please view the video of the interview  by clicking below:

http://englishdefenceleague.org/tommy-on-the-michael-coren-show/

Comment:   I admit this fellow has caught my interest.    I suppose one could identify him as Britain’s version of the Occupier ararchists, druggies, loonies, sadists, and other deviates in New York, Oakland, Atlanta and the rest of Obama-loving urban and univeristy communities.   But the English Defence League has this young man, Tommy Robinson, as its leader…..a non druggy, non loony, non-anarchical, nothing but a patriot who is causing trouble only by daring to defend the English, mostly the ununiversitied who have not cozied up to and with the Islamist invaders against the home folk.  Without Tommy Robinson there would be no one representing the homefolk.

The establishment there calls Robinson and his group, ‘racists’.    Are you surprised?

If it were up to the British police and the academic Obamalings Brit style, there would be no one allowed to represent the home folk.   Power, both financial and political,  lies with the Islamist invaders and the Marxists.   Islamic fanatics, rapists, gangs are allied with the university left loonies, including the kind similar to those who gather, public piss , shoot up, scream  and otherwise  cause trouble in the American Occupy parks.

The English Defence League, contrary to the profiles created by  the usual suspects, the leftwing press, the university Left,  and government BBC, and so on, is fairly well disciplined and relentless in its persistence to fight its fight for freedom.

As you can tell from Tommy Robinson’s beautiful language and twang, he is not a college graduate nor does he possess  the nose that so often goes with it…..the nose that belongs with entitlements. 

London’s Islamists and the  Marxists whom they elect pour Arab money buying political and business favors against the middle and lower middle class workers of Britain, buying their property or foreclosing………Many of the youth dispossessed  follow this patriot, Tommy Robinson.

He is leading a fight to keep jolly old England and its traditions  from being buried under the treasure of Arab oil and the Islamofascists,  the   academia Marxists, and the crony capitalists who have always been profiteering close to Parliament.

Tommy Robinson, his adopted name, will be remembered well in English history if he continues to lead his ‘troops’ with the goals he has set forth as their leader.   So far, so good.    And I wish him and all civilized Brits well  in their struggle to survive their invasion of Islamic fanatics and their alliances with homegrown Marxists.

Are you paying attention, America?

Click below for another outstanding  interview, one by Danish TV with Tommy Robinson this past summer:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL8G4-Fv-Y

Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn Chuckle over Devious White House’s Dishonesty, Disingenuousness, and Duplicity

Mark Steyn on Barack Obama’s executive order

 to cut agency spending

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Transcript from the Hugh Hewitt show at SteynOnline:

“HH: On Thursday when we are lucky, we are joined by the Columnist To the World, Mark Steyn. You can read all of Mark’s work at www.steynonline.com. Mark, I’m tempted to go immediately to Herman Cain, but as you know, yesterday was a very important day. The President signed an executive order titled Promoting Efficient Spending that declared, “I direct agency heads to take even more aggressive steps to assure the government is a good steward of taxpayer money.” I though I’d walk through this, but aren’t you enormously relieved? 

MS: Yeah, I think that’s great. I mean, I didn’t realize that it was that easy, that in fact, this whole multi-trillion dollar debt pit that America is mired in, that if you could just get the President’s attention, get him to sit down at the desk and get him to sign an executive order, just solving the problem, we could all live happily ever after. I’m very grateful to him for that.

HH: Well, it’s very detailed. I want to start in Section 3 on travel, where the President declares, “To ensure efficient travel spending, agencies are encouraged to devise strategic alternatives to government travel, including local or technological alternatives such as teleconferencing and video conferencing. Agencies should make all appropriate efforts to conduct business and host or sponsor conferences in space controlled by the federal government.” Sad to think we’ve gone about 210 years without anyone knowing this, Mark Steyn.

MS: (laughing) No, I know. And honestly, I hate to say physician heal thyself, but given that this is a guy who takes a 40 car motorcade to visit an ice cream parlor on Martha’s Vineyard, and who has a weaponized, Canadian bus built for him to visit towns in his own country on that Iowa tour, and then in fact doesn’t even get into the weaponized, Canadian bus until five minutes before it pulls into town, so the weaponized, Canadian bus has to be flown to the relevant destinations…I think we should start with that. I would love, by the way, I would love one of these presidential candidates to say you know, there have been a lot of improvements in car security since the motorcade thing took off in the late 50s and 60s. I’m going to make do, I’m going to cut the motorcade in half, I’m not going to fly on Air Force One. If the queen of the Netherlands flies commercial, Prince William and his lovely bride flew from Heathrow, across Canada to Los Angeles and back to Heathrow in some ratty, old Royal Canadian Air Force bone-shaker, if it’s good enough for Prince William, it’s good enough for me. I would love to actually see him take action at home on that stuff.

HH: Well, it’s, as a matter of fact, in his new executive order, yesterday’s executive order, Section 6 reads, “The President’s memorandum of May 24^th on federal fleet performance directed agencies to improve the performance of the federal fleet of motor vehicles by increasing the use of vehicle technologies, optimizing fleet size, and improving agency fleet management. Building upon this effort, agencies should limit executive transportation.” So he’s on the same page with you, Mark Steyn.

MS: Yes, (laughing) I think…I hate to be cynical, Hugh, you know that, but I have the vague suspicion that that order about minimizing fleet size might be applying to the deputy assistant associate assistant deputy associate assistant deputy secretary of transportation, and not to the president of the United States. He took Air Force One to make a 100 mile trip. He took a jet that’s designed for trans-Atlantic travel to make a 100 mile trip from the White House to a Democratic Party retreat in Virginia. I would love to see the President leading by example on this issue.

HH: I could go through this line by line, but I just want to cover three more parts, because it got such press coverage. Section 4 directed agencies to assess current device inventories and uses, and establish controls to ensure they are not paying for unused or underutilized information technology. Section 5 told agencies to limit the publication and printing of hard copy documents. And then, Mark, Section 7, agencies should limit the purchase of promotional items, e.g., plaques, clothing and commemorative items, in particular when they are not cost effective.

MS: (laughing)

HH: (laughing) This is the presidency.

MS: We’re going to claw our way back to fiscal solvency by cutting down on commemorative plaques from the Department of Time-Serving Bureaucrats?

HH: That’s exactly what it means. It means that $1.5, or $4 trillion dollars in coffee cups are gone from the budget.

MS: Right, that’s a relief. You know, the unnecessary information technology systems, let me make a suggestion here. The government of the United States, every time I come into the country as a legal immigrant, they do this to legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants, it doesn’t matter. If you’re undocumented, you’re undocumented. But the rest of us are documented up to the eyeballs. And every time I come into the country, I flew from Montreal to Miami a couple of days ago, the government of the United States takes a retinal scan of me, and takes my fingerprints. And I assume they’re doing this to claw back the money for this system. And I assume they’re going to do some Andy Warhol, you know, like his pictures of Marilyn, all the Marilyn Monroe prints? I assume they’re going to have a big Eyes Of Steyn exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art to claw back all the money that they’ve wasted taking photographs of my eyeballs every couple of weeks. But at a certain point, you have to ask yourself doesn’t the government of the United States have enough retinal scans of Steyn’s eyeballs? And maybe that could be one of the information technology systems that perhaps isn’t fully justifying its cost.

HH: Mark, it is so absurd, but here we are in the middle of a, you know, Italy is breaking down, Greece is bankrupt, the currency is going to be just absolutely worth nothing in five more years if we don’t change things.

MS: Right.

HH: And the President is staging events like this, and they are covered by the media with a straight face.

MS: Yeah, and really, this is disgraceful. These are covered, these events are covered as if they are real. I mean, basically, this is worse…when King Canute called his courtiers down to the ocean’s edge, and announced he was going to command the waters not to come in and wet his loafers, he did, the people misunderstand that anecdote. King Canute was doing that to teach his courtiers a lesson in kingly power, in the limits of kingly power. Now we have King Barack, who goes to the water’s edge and says I command by my mighty majesty, I command ye debt, ye tide of debt to recede and not wet my loafers. And the groveling eunuchs of the court media cover it as if it was actually real…

HH: Yes.

MS: …And King Canute, he was doing it to demonstrate the limits of kingly power. Now, we’ve gone backwards, and the eunuch courtiers of the media are covering it to demonstrate the boundlessness of his majesty, King Barack’s mighty power. We’ve degenerated.

HH: It is. He has complete authority over tchotchke and nothing else. Now I’ve got to go from the very ridiculous to the very important. The president of the United States and the president of France were caught on an open microphone deprecating our closest ally in the Middle East, whose very regime, whose entire people, are threatened by what even the International Atomic Energy Agency has had to realize, is a nuclear ambitious Iran, and they’re busy slagging Netanyahu, Mark Steyn.

MS: Yeah, I know. The fascinating thing to me about this was actually the way Obama phrased it. When Sarkozy said, whatever it was, oh, I can’t stand Netanyu, he’s a liar, and Obama replies you think you’ve got a problem with him, I have to talk to him every day. Well, the only reason he has to talk to him every day, I don’t know whether that’s true or not, is because he’s calling him up, and he’s trying to persuade, he’s leaning on Israel to make concessions to a fiction. And if he’s got a problem with Netanyahu, in a sense, it’s because he’s chosen to have a problem with Netanyahu. Netanyahu can’t afford the Obama fictions, because as you say, we’ve condemned Israel to live at code red alert in perpetuity. When Ahmadinejad and the mullahs get their bomb, Israel is going to have to be monitoring 24/7 to decide whether that uptick in the chatter means something, and this is the night they’re going to have to send out the guys to take out the Iranian nukes, or they’re going to face existential destruction. Listening to these sort of queeny, old gossips caught on the mic like Sarkozy and Obama is the difference. Israel lives on the front line of civilization. She can’t indulge herself the way this fellow in the White House can.

HH: Last question, because we’ve got a minute left, the Herman Cain saga. It won’t be over this week, it won’t be over next week. But your just general thought on it, Mark Steyn?

MS: Well you know, let’s just assume for the moment that he is innocent. He’s being accused of things that people did not take into a courtroom fifteen years ago. And dredging up old accusations that were not, that did not go to trial fifteen years earlier is a very difficult thing, particularly for men of a certain age to defend themselves against. But assuming he’s innocent, I would like to see a little bit more righteous indignation from Herman Cain. I thought his press conference was not good. You know, I’m willing to be called a sex fiend and a predator and all the rest of it, but not by the same mainstream media that covered up for John Edwards and Bill Clinton, and all the rest of it. The comparison here is with Sarah Palin, that it’s about destroying, it’s about destroying certain identity groups that wander off the reservation. Sarah Palin was not a woman to feminist groups. Herman Cain is not a black guy to black groups. And it’s about destroying these guys and taking them out.

HH: Thank you, Mark Steyn. It’s the Hugh Hewitt Show.

Lefties Celebrate Obama Nixing Keystone Pipeline as Victory against “Climate Change”

 a view from the left…..

The Keystone Victory

Mark Hertsgaard                  at the Nation:

 

“Demonstrators march with a replica of a pipeline during a protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline outside the White House on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, in Washington.
 

Victories against climate change have been rare, so it’s vital to recognize them when they happen. The Obama administration’s decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline is one such victory—arguably the most important achievement in the climate fight in North America in years.

True, the administration’s November 10 statements did not outright kill the 1,700-mile pipeline, which the TransCanada company wants to build to transport highly polluting tar sands from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the Texas coast. Yes, President Obama or his successor could try to greenlight the project in 2013, when the State Department’s new review of the project is due. But that’s unlikely, as TransCanada’s CEO, Russ Girling, has acknowledged. The project’s contracts require the pipeline to be completed by 2013, or refineries will be free to look elsewhere for supply, which Girling expects they will.

In any case, such caveats mean only that the Keystone victory is not absolute. But when a $7 billion project involving the number-one US trading partner and oil supplier, a project that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton only a year ago said she was “inclined” to approve, is very publicly postponed—even as the inspector general of the State Department launches an investigation into cronyism involving a former top aide to Clinton—good luck putting that Humpty Dumpty together again.

The climax of the Keystone campaign came November 6, when some 12,000 activists surrounded the White House (evidently a first) to urge Obama to honor his 2008 campaign pledge to fight climate change. “We want jobs but not as gravediggers for the planet,” Roger Toussaint, head of Local 100 of the Transport Workers of America, told the crowd in one of the strongest green declarations by a US labor leader. (Unfortunately, other elements of organized labor did not play against stereotype; the Building Trades Unions went so far as to team up with the oil industry to launch a “Jobs for the 99” campaign, co-opting Occupy rhetoric for their pro-pipeline propaganda.)

The breadth of the anti-pipeline coalition—indigenous people, progressive labor unions, youth, faith, farmer, community and environmental activists—was just one way this crusade contrasted with previous environmental campaigns. Other key differences: demands were more concrete and more radical. Strategy was set more by grassroots activists than by Beltway insiders. Tactics stressed people power—putting feet on the street, going to jail—over policy papers. The message was comprehensible to ordinary people rather than off-putting. And thanks to the Occupy movement, journalists were primed to pay attention to street protests.

All these factors combined not only to deliver the immediate victory over Keystone but to reanimate a movement that had been reeling after the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009 and the defeat of climate legislation on Capitol Hill in 2010. “You need victories to build a movement, and how you win can be as important as what you win,” explained Steve Kretzmann, executive director of Oil Change International, an NGO that punctured the “energy independence” rationale for Keystone by revealing that the oil it transported to Texas would be sold on the world market, not reserved for American gas tanks. Kretzmann added, “For once a big battle coming out of the environmental community was not about an obscure policy proposal, like cap and trade. [The pipeline] was made into a moral issue about what we want the future of our country to be and what we’re willing to do about it. At the White House, I had one seasoned activist tell me, ‘I feel like I finally can crawl out of the fetal position I’ve been in since Copenhagen.’”

As with the Occupiers, establishment voices quickly registered their disapproval—and their political tone-deafness. Some, like Council on Foreign Relations fellow Michael Levi, even suggested that the delay would hurt the climate fight, because Bill McKibben and other climate organizers had muddied their message by taking advantage of the “not in my backyard” sentiments of Midwestern farmers who—oh the horror!—are Republicans. Such NIMBYism, Levi sniffed, could be used to undercut future deployment of wind farms and other clean energy sources.

The truth, as McKibben has said many times, is that he and his colleagues came to the Keystone party fairly late. “The indigenous peoples in Canada have been fighting this from the start, and then folks along the route” got active, McKibben told The Nation. “I joined in this spring, when [NASA scientist James] Hansen made clear the size of the [tar sands] carbon pool. Our role was to take a regional fight and make it national and international, which I think we managed to do.”

And not a moment too soon. One day before Obama’s announcement, the International Energy Agency released its annual report on the “World Energy Outlook.” The IEA is no den of subversives; it’s run by many of the world’s largest oil-consuming nations. Its report warns that without radical changes in the world’s energy infrastructure in the next five years, humans will make climate change irreversible. In this context the defeat of Keystone is exactly the kind of radical change, in infrastructure and activism, that’s needed.”

Note:   In case you have forgotten, dear readers, “climate change” is NOW what these lefties used to call “global warming” when political hasbeen Al Gore cried wolf early in his personal campaign to secure his millions to help pay for his jets and housing fuel.   But then the most reliable scientists trumped the crooked ones who were receiving there millions in the fraud from the United Nations, by announcing data indicate the globe is COOLING as part of its normal mini cycle of temperature gyrations.

With the disappearance of  Christianity, democratic civility, and tolerance for  the rational   from the American learning  curricula at all levels, especially at university, new gods have appeared willy-nilly; sex, greed, Marxism and its atheism, black racism, Islamism  and the  Shariah tortures and other violence that go with it, and especially feminism and its  goddesses of the hysterical.

Mr. Obama postponed the decision regarding with the hope that the Canadians will find another route to make their billions selling oil to the Far East.   In the meantime Barack Hussein is going to continue to pursue his number one priority of his administration for the moment……”to find jobs for the American workers”.