United We Stand

Today's Date -- October 1998

UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL:

"Without unions, working people are corporate coolies (serfs) at the mercy of the employer"

Message to Union Members from

Col. Roy D. Vinson, Inventor and Citizen Soldier

The powers that be in this country have given away our textile industry, clothing industry, shoe industry, at least one half of our automotive industry, steel industry and made large inroads into our movie industry. It began with our aircraft industry and now a great new mag lev industry is in preparation to be given away to the Germans and other foreign interest.

In the next several years, massive building of mag lev rolling stock and massive deployment of this system will occur in the United States and through out the world. At all cost we must prevent the giveaway of this brand new giant industry.

Magnetrain is the only commercially feasible mag lev system in the world. It was invented in California by a Californian and it has been denied the right to public and private sources thus far.

As of October 23, 1998, at a very significant meeting on transportation at the Omni Hotel ins Los Angeles, Roy D. Vinson, the inventor of Magnetrain and the President and CEO of Vinson World Magnetrain Corporation has declared war. He informed representatives from the Federal Rail Association and important California officials in unmistakable and brutal terms that Magnetrain will be built regardless of the views or intent of anyone because it is a good thing for everyone involved and particularly for the people of the United States. Ultimately it will provide hundreds and thousands of jobs for every class of working people; manufacturing rail and track cars etc. for export as well as for utilization ourselves.

Roy D. Vinson has always been, from boyhood a strong believer in unions, John L. Lewis, Walter Reuter, yes, Jimmy Hoffa also! These were great men. They were fighting men. They were great Americans. Roy himself belonged to the Steel Workers organizing committee (SWOC) in the 1930's. He is proud also to state that he not only worked on fabrication of steel rail cars, but on high steel, building the world’s greatest blast furnace on Zug Island in Detroit in the middle of winter.

Roy Vinson strongly believes, he knows in fact that without unions, working people have nothing. History has shown that without unions working people are at the merciless mercy of the corporate creeps under whom they must work.

The recent victory of the General Motors Automotive workers is in the greatest tradition of union strength and determination. These men and women were in the trenches. They did their job. They won.

Roy D. Vinson often said he would like to see a resurgence of union power in the United States, a resurgence of union strength. We must all dedicate ourselves to preserving the union power of the people.

Roy feels that the full weight of the American unions can save for this country, ultimately, millions of jobs into the next century and beyond, in rail development because mag lev is here.

We must preserve the leadership in mag lev construction and deployment for this nation. He has vowed to the end of his life to save the fruits of this invention for his country and its workers. He can be expected to fight, as he has in two world wars.

Roy Vinson volunteered for World War II and fought in Germany under his beloved General George S. Patton. He volunteered again for the Korean War and fought as a Senior advisor for the South Korean Army at the front. Roy is proud of having served his country in two wars, but he is even prouder of the fact that he knew we were going to go to war before they occurred and accordingly he prepared himself for war eleven (11) years before Pearl Harbor by training in every combatant category available - infantry, calvary, field artillery, air corp; in CMTC, ROTC, National Guard and the Regular Army.

The just of this entire message is that here is a great American, a fighting man, a union man, a man who on every occasion will fight until he is dead for the rights of the people. Now he needs the strength and support of the great unions of this country to preserve the tremendous advantage that his invention, Magnetrain has given to the American people and to the world, for that matter.

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Adelle McKinney Email: vicim@aol.com