Chapter 203: Trade Unions (Part I)

"How's it going with what I've asked you to do?"

Eder didn't explain much to the chief of the guard about the price of food, and he asked the chief of the guard directly what he should be concerned about now.

Calust, who was the chief of the guard, did not dare to be careless about what the king had requested, and he spoke at once. "Your Majesty, I have asked people to find out the bottom of these people, and this is our report. Now people are closely watching their every move, and they will immediately arrest them as soon as they make a dangerous move. ”

Taking the investigation materials handed to him by the chief of the guard, Edel looked at it. This survey was carried out by Eder in order to investigate whether there were communist organizations in Romania and, incidentally, to find out the tendencies of the country's left-wing parties.

In a few years' time a red regime will emerge to the east of itself, which will threaten the institutions of the Kingdom of Romania, with which Romania will have territorial disputes. Therefore, he took precautions to investigate the domestic political parties in advance, which can be regarded as a good work of clearing the domestic political environment in Romania.

To Eder's relief, there is no communist organization in the report of the Karuster investigation. However, there are still organizations that are a little more communist. Romania's booming economy in recent years has led to a significant increase in the number of workers today.

According to the latest statistics from the government department, there are now about 1.7 million workers in Romania. The workers are all educated (compared to the peasants) and more concerned about their own interests, so they are more enthusiastic about voting in parliamentary elections, which also makes the political parties aggressively woo these workers' voters. In addition, the Romanian political parties are still a little less standardized, so all kinds of slogans that can not be fulfilled are also casually introduced. Your campaign slogan today is to legislate for workers to work only nine hours a day, and tomorrow my slogan is for workers to get more paid for nine hours of work. And the media also added fuel to the fire, saying that the welfare of the workers here is not in place, and there is no guarantee of safety there. As a result, the working class, who were misled by these people, always thought that they had been fooled by the factory owners, and they were also very resentful in their lives.

In fact, according to the government's survey, it is the peasants who are the most difficult in Romania right now. Most of them depend on the weather for food, and they don't have their own land, so they can only live by renting, and they also have to endure the scissors difference of industrial and agricultural products every year, so they are the hardest class. Otherwise, there is no way to explain the fact that these peasants, who live well (as the newspapers say), still have a large number of people who go to the cities every year to be the hardest and most tired workers.

"There are still quite a few of them."

Edel sighed after reading the investigation report. Although there is no Communist Party, there are still many political groups that are similar to it in some way. For example, the Romanian Socialist Union, a political party formed in Galati in 1907, wanted to unite the workers through trade unions and work for the welfare of the workers, so as to make themselves bigger and make themselves bigger so that they could pass bills in parliament that would benefit the workers.

There is also the Romanian Social Democratic Party, their party founded in 1910. Their political requirement is that Romanian nationals over the age of 20 have the right to vote in secret, regardless of gender, religion or ethnicity. Moreover, their main economic demands are the eight-hour working day, collective contracts, the protection of the rights and interests of child and female workers, free education and proportional taxation.

Now it seems that these two parties belong to the scope of Engels' Second Comintern, and both still intend to pass bills in their favor on the basis of parliamentary elections. Eder has no intention of cleaning up these harmless left-wing bastard parties. As long as they don't propose a violent overthrow of the current government, and if necessary, Eder can put in a prime minister to take the blame.

"Your Majesty, how do we need to deal with these political parties?"

Chief of the Guard, Calust, asked Eder.

Edel said after some thought about the Captain's words. "First of all, it is necessary to tighten the control of the press, so that these newspapers now pay a security deposit for the communication media, each of which pays 500,000 lei. The current deposit is too small, which is not conducive to the norms of media communication. ”

Edel touched the stubble that had just grown from his jaw, trying to think about the practices of his previous government. "Then the power of workers' strikes and assemblies can be opened, but this is the scope of the government's functions."

Eder could only think of what the government needed to do, and for Calust's intelligence service, the only way to find out if there had been any change in the party's policy, which members were radical in their thinking, and who had what slogans.

Thinking of this, Edel looked at the captain of the guard who had misled his thoughts. "To treat them, of course, is to break into the interior and observe the dangerous speech elements in them. The rest depends on your thinking as the person in charge of intelligence. ”

Faced with Edel's expression that you have provoked me, Calust, as the head of the guard, had no choice but to leave first.

"Your Majesty, then I'll go back and think about it and come up with a few ways to cooperate with Your Majesty's idea."

Seeing the captain of the guard who had been frightened by himself, Eder stopped being angry for a moment, and he spoke to Calust. "This is not primarily up to your intelligence services, and the most you can do is provide investigative work on this issue. This requires the government to take this issue seriously, and you can be responsible for the safe intelligence investigation. ”

After hearing Eder's words, the head of the guard, Calust, felt a lot more relieved, blaming himself for not asking too much, and almost pitting himself.

Edel thought back to what he had said before after the chief guard left. It now seems that in order to avoid the influence of the emergence of the red regime on the working class, it is necessary to raise a little about the treatment of the workers. Then it is also an effective way to call the prime minister over to discuss this matter.

Edel made up his mind, called one of the guards and handed him a note he had written. "Give this to Prime Minister Brettianu and let him burn it in front of you after reading it."

"Okay, Your Majesty, I'll go now."

After the guards delivered the letter, Edel began his other busy work.

It didn't take long for Prime Minister Brettianu to receive a note from the king in his palace. Looking at the familiar words on the note, Bretianu burned the note in front of the guards. He knew that this was another problem that the king had given him. Because on this note, Eder had him pass the first labor law in Romania.

Despite the economic boom, Prime Minister Bretianu did not think that the factory owners were easy to talk to. If the king had supported it, he would have been able to pass the bill with great royal prestige. And the king's apparent lack of outright support was much distressing to him.

At this time, the secretary walked in and spoke. "Prime Minister, Your Excellency Karaturi is here."

Prime Minister Brettianu's eyes lit up instantly, and he hurriedly spoke. "Let the Secretary of Industry come in."