Re: "Let's drive out the Yankee murderers" - say the Korean teenage girls

["will" <will@netpath.net>]

Rhee was backed by Unions, huh?
That's interesting Mr. Evanhoe.  From my observations and my economics class
unions are basically a monopoly in which the resource is control of people's
labor.
  People vote with their pocket and fight for bread.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: "Let's drive out the Yankee murderers" - say the Korean teenage
girls


>
> >Maury,
>
> > >>When I left Korea  there were Koreans protesting something. ED
> > remembers, They Had Wolmi-Do surrounded and loud speakers on their
> > wigglestick boats. It never stops. When rich Uncle Sam is there someone
> > want a piece of Sam's pie. And do anything to get it. On Yong-Gi-Do a
> > frame of house fell on a laborer you would have thought He was killed
> > till the Doc kicked Him in the but and told Him He was OK. So goes the
> > law suits. They have just refined them some.<<
>
> The demonstrations you are talking about happened when the Rhee government
> wanted the U.S. to pay local taxes on all wages paid Koreans working for
> the U.S.  The U.S. refused and Rhee dominated labor unions went on strike
> and set up picket lines around all U.S. bases.  Rhee also stopped all
sales
> of Won to the U.S. military so the U.S. could not pay their Korean
> workers.  U.S. broke this up by paying the workers in U.S. green
dollars --
> which played hell with money black market run by Rhee cronies -- and
trying
> to take the greenbacks away from the Korean workers after they were
> paid.  Needless to say, the latter pissed off the workers and damned near
> started an internal revolution so the SK government did a quick about face
> and withdrew all the pickets.  Seen in hindsight, this little incident was
> the beginning of the end of the Rhee government because it resulted in a
> solid organized opposition to Rhee.
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Life Member: Special Forces & Special Operations Associations
> Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> Web site:  http://www.korean-war.com
>