To The Market Basket Workers:
For too long the American worker has
been enslaved to the wealth of others. The unbridled greed and
indifference to humanity of a microscopically small minority has
forced billions of people world wide into desperate conditions of
wage slavery, and they are doing the same thing in the United States.
The high standard of living that we as Americans once enjoyed has
been under concerted attack for the past forty years by an
unscrupulous tyranny. Without reaping the benefits of the profit
motive the worker's time and labor is ground into the dust by the
jackboot of cutting costs.
Arthur S. Demoulas and his side of the
family live a lives of pleasure paid for by the poorly compensated
blood, sweat, and tears of American Citizens, like most of their
class. With their cruel pursuit of ever larger fortunes they might as
well eat our flesh and pick their teeth with our smashed bones. Their
property is by right the property of the workers. The workers built
it. The principle of fairness is that people get to own the work of
their hands, not have it pittled away by unscrupulous business
practices.
Arthur T. Demoulas has shown himself to
be a rebel to his class. Far from secluding himself in the gated
communities of the plutocracy he recognizes that there cannot be one
nation for the rich and one nation for the poor; we must all work
together. Let him lead Market Basket into a bright new future as a
co-operative supermarket chain. ATD is an enlightened and forward
thinking man. If there is anyone who can do this, he can.
Why should the profits of your labor
enrich people who have never done real work in their lives? The
surplus of your labor should go back into your hands. It should build
your communities and provide for your children, not to give someone
else's brats the eternal right to rule over your posterity. In a
group of states founded upon direct democracy, it is repugnant to
even ask such a question. The air of New England is too rarefied for
either the master or the slave; to breath it is to need to be free.
Never give up the fight. To surrender is to accept bondage.
In Solidarity,
Gene Ogorodov
