Hmm, I wonder if one can request or litigate for the rightful wages and penalties associated with SLAVE LABOR? Well, well, well. So you got $40 pw. I got £18 which I reckon was just about the equivalent, in exactly the same set up in England. Now here's something you might find interesting, seeing as you were one of the founder members. Unlike yours,our co-op never made it into the mainstream, & that was because the non premie members, who all belonged to a hard left hippie commune, staged a coup d'etat at a certain point & took the thing in a different direction. They were just as moonstruck & naive as we were in some respects. I could tell you the story of how they invited the Irish 'Peace Campaigner' to address a seminar in the back of the crummy teashop which was part of the business, & I sussed him out immediately as being an IRA man, & he sussed me, that I'd sussed him, without a word being spoken,& I got out of there fast, & then had to serve the Special Branch spook with a bag of peanuts back in the shop, without letting on that I'd sussed him too. It wasn't funny. If you want to know why I often supported Scott's anti Marxist slant then there's part of the reason.I've seen the white's of their eyes.
Anyway,to the point.
Eventually I got kicked out, moved on, went to live abroad, & all that seemed to be in the dim past when one sunny day about 15 yrs later,a letter arrived from England. It was a high octane mindfuck type letter from the law firm handling the demise of the enterprise,& guess what,muggins was still one of the legal owners because he hadn't cancelled his £1 share. All of the anti capitalist slimeballs who'd used every trick in the book to confound the system, had cannily taken the precaution of covering their arses,but when they'd got rid of me those motherfuckers had deliberately not mentioned the neccessity of doing that. It all got sorted out in the end.........but the thought occurs that if it had happened the other way round, & the thing had been successful, then I wouldn't have realised that I still had a stake.
