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Government and judicial authorities do not fail to contem-
plate such things when framing laws or interpreting statutes, as
they try to take every situation into account. But the interests of
the class they serve, namely the monopolies, prevent any such laws.

This is also why bosses in our country feel no worry or inhibition
about using their debt to their own employees as capital. The only
recourse workers have in this situation is to press charges. If they
can find a lawyer’s fees and pay court expenses! In reality the road
to justice for a worker is a closed road.

In contrast government prosecutors, judges and the police
work with great diligence to protect bosses. Most of the time it is

not even necessary for the bosses to press charges. All the forces
listed do what is necessary. So everything the worker does is a
crime. For him or her to seek rights is a crime, it is a crime to say
“the boss stole our labour”. Such that if they were to attempt to
seize the machines that the employer had removed, it would really
be necessary for them to be in love with death. For the police who
are not there when the boss removes something will begin to pur-
sue them with great zeal, shouting “It’s the law!”

This is the general situation which we have presented in a
small summary. We saw it again in the two separate court hearings.

The first was the court hearing of the Kazova textile workers!

At the end of January, the Somuncu family confiscated four
months of wages, seniority and notice and at the end of February
the Kazova Textile workers began resistance. There was no bank-
ruptcy. The company’s machines, raw materials and produced

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