TAIPEI, Taiwan — For four years, Taiwanese social worker and activist Lee Ming-che says he spent about 13 hours a day in a Chinese prison making shoes for the Chinese military, as well as leather work gloves.
Only after his release from prison and return to Taiwan was Lee able to go online and identify the trademark he saw thousands of times a day on each pair of gloves he pieced together. He says the trademark belonged to the U.S. brand Milwaukee Tool.
In a statement, Milwaukee Tool said it “found no evidence of forced labor in the production of our gloves.”
A second former prisoner held in the same prison — Chishan Prison…
