[Jewelry making - Article 00325] - Re: [Orchid] India among lowest cost producers of jewelry

[Lee Einer]

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>     Now that you are back in the fray, I continue to find that your
>     logic and dialogue stretch the imagination 

    I thought that what we were aiming at was a civil discussion. 

>     When you suggest that manufacurers in the Los Angeles jewelry
>     district charge such miniscule prices for manufacturing procedures
>     I can't help but interprete your inference as being suggestive that
>     American manufacturers are running sweat shops designed to compete
>     with those we have inferred about third world countries. 

    Gerry reported the prices quoted him for gem setting by a factory in
    LA, he did not make any blanket statements about manufacturers in the
    Los Angeles jewelry district. I would submit that you are drawing the
    inferrences from Gerry's statements, and as such, you should own
    them. 

    The point of Gerry's statements may be that at least one factory in
    the LA area is apparently operating as a sweatshop and abusing
    minimum wage laws, possibly by hiring undocumented workers who
    because of their compromised legal status are the easiest to exploit.
    This is not fair or acceptable competition; we have laws regarding
    such things. Those who find themselves aware of and affected by such
    situations need not to compete with them so much as blow the whistle
    on them. 

    The thing is, in this country we concluded long ago that things like
    minimum wage laws, child labor laws, health and safety regulations,
    etc, are in the interest of justice and benefit our society as a
    whole. Those who seek to circumvent these laws not only do injury and
    injustice to those they employ, they negatively impact all of us. 

Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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