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getting twice the man-per-day pro–
duction for $5 that our rivals get per
man per day working one hour longer
than our employees.
"That means," Mr. Lee continued,
"that other manufacturers in our
industry pay for two days $7.50 for
the same production we get in one
9-hour day for $5. So we pay $2.50
Iess per day for the same results as
others pay in two 10-hour days!"
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was not long, however, until all
motor car manufacturers went on the
assembly-Iine, mass-machine-pro–
duction system. Not only them, but
all Iarge manufacturers in the U.S.
America offered her manufactur–
ers a mass market for machine pro–
duction. Other nations at that time–
Britain, Europe, Russia, J apan did
not have mass markets.
Two world wars have changed all
that!
But in the meantime, beginning
World Wa r 1, U.S. manufacturers,
by this new máss machine produc–
tion, began producing much more per
dollar cost. This abnormally skyrock–
eted manufacturers' profits.
But labor union leaders were
determined not to allow capital and
management to keep all the vastly
increased profits. The labor union
movement surged, even violently, in
the U.S. Strikes everywhere sought
to transfer the huge escalating profits
into the hands of labor.
Industrial labor attracted a rap–
idly increasing flow of the rura l
population of a previously rural
majority into the cities. This con–
verted industrial labor into Ameri–
ca's primary consumer class.
Result? The American standard of
living rose to a height never known
by any nation in world history.
The labor union movement did not
materially improve consumer living
standa rds in the other industrial
countries until quite recently.
Brltaln' s Former Domlnance
Prior to World War I the British
Empire had risen to become the
greatest in material wealth, and even
in power, in a ll earth's history.
The world economic and power
dominance began in both Britain and
the U.S. in 1800- 1804. In those years
the U.S. leaped, largely through the
Louisiana Purchase, from its origina l
13-colony status to a major nation.
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But Britain leaped into material
greatness first. By 1804 London was
the financia! capital of the whole
world. The British had gobbled up
large parts of Africa and Asia,
including India. They boasted that
the sun never set on their Empire.
But the top landed barons kept
largely their vastly increasing wealth
to themselves. Their wealth was not
diffused among the lower classes.
Until after World Wa r 1, a youth
desiring a college education could not
gain admission unless his father was
university educated. The class system
in England kept the lower classes low.
The upper class built great man–
sions, from about twenty rooms up to
the Great Houses, like kings' palaces.
In 1959
T
purchased one of the smaller
ofsuch estates, with a mansion ofsorne
There is a reason
for the devaluation of the
dollar in foreign
markets, for our present
abnormal inflation.
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25 rooms, besides many horse and cow
stables, and sorne beautiful gardens
(we cleaned out the hip-high weeds
and restored their original beauty).
This became the start oftheAmbassa–
dor College campus in England. Addi–
tional buildingswereadded as wewent
a long.
Today England has lost her Em–
pire, is no longer a major power like
the United States and Russia. British
labor has made sorne gains and the
economy is more diffused . But Brit–
ain has been on the way down, in
national wealth and power, since
World War
l.
And now the United States· is
STARTING TO FOLLOW On the down–
ward path!
Our Rise and Fall Has
Ancient Roots
Tbere is a far more important CAUSE
behind the Anglo-American rise and
1
fall than mass machine production
and labor union action producing a
greater diffusion of wealth.
There is a far greater CAUSE that is
now starting in rapid descent to
BRING DOWN YOUR PRESENT STAN–
DARD OF LIVING.
It is true that even though Britain
as a former world empire has
/ost
her
national greatness, yet today there is
a modera tely la rger diffusion of what
prosperity they have left. British
labor has come to receive probably
slightly more than half of America's
present labor income. But Swiss,
German, Swedish and other Euro–
pean livi ng standards have risen
markedly.
The rea l CAUSE, however, for the
rise and fall of Britain and the U.S.
dates back to centuries before
Christ.
Our Anclent Roots
There is a far more significant rea–
son- both for American ascendancy
to the highest living standard ever
enjoyed by any nation in earth's
history, and our sudden PLUNGE we
are now entering.
Few indeed realize that hundreds
of years before Christ, God had made
certain unbreakable and irrevocable
PROMISES to the descendants of the
patriarch Abraham. This has never
been realized or proclaimed by " tra–
ditional Christianity."
Abraham, in the New Testament,
is designated as the " FATHER of the
faithful," since all of God's promises
of salvation and eterna! life through
Christ were made to Abraham- and
Jesus Christ was directly descended
from Abraham.
But what not even theologians
understand is that God made DUAL
promises to Abraham. He made the
promise of GRACE, to come through
Abraham's descendant Jes us
Christ- but also He made unbreak–
able promises of RACE-overlooked
entirely by "traditional Christianity"
and theological "scholars."
The promise God made to Abra–
ham of GRACE was spiritual and
individual (Galatians 3:16). But tbe
promise of RACE was purely nation–
al and material.
It
is vital to the
understanding of biblical prophecy
to realize that God made a lso to
Abraham promises of RACE--entire–
ly separate from the spiritual prom-
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