Chapter 118: The idea is good

The joke of yellow paper paste glass is Chen Jianli insisted on despite public opinion. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

It's not that I can't afford the money, but I think that the yellow union has such a nice name, don't be obliterated by yourself.

Forced by the original promise and the situation at this time, Chen Jian decided to be a good person again.

Under the excited gaze of the people in the party, several workshops controlled by Chen Jian began to improve the simplest working conditions.

The twelve-hour workday was the first to be proposed, and wages were not reduced, which was warmly welcomed by the employees. And put forward the slogan that half of life belongs to oneself and half belongs to the factory, which for a time made everyone in the party seem to see new hope.

In addition to the 12-hour workday, there are various symbolic disability compensations, half-day rest in the 10th month, and an extra month's salary for unilateral layoffs due to business conditions, so that the dismissed person can have a grace period.

In addition, Chen Jian also took the lead in implementing a symbolic social security system in his workshop.

Forced by the maximum wage in the glass industry under the apprenticeship method, each employee invests a symbolic part of the money into social security every month, and if he can live to the age of 50, he can receive a little money every month to support his life, which is considered to relieve the worries of these employees.

Today's average life expectancy is about thirty-five years, which may be slightly higher. Thirty percent of the infant mortality rate and forty percent of the premature mortality rate of minors......

Diphtheria, whooping cough, colds, pneumonia, chickenpox...... And so on, all of which can easily take the life of a minor. It can be said that at this time, everyone who lives to adulthood is stronger and more tenacious than the forty percent who die.

When you become an adult, a random illness can take your life. Bitten by a dog, accidentally pierced by a wedge, flu, tuberculosis, appendicitis, gastritis, inflammation caused by tooth decay, diarrhea, typhoid, schistosomiasis, tapeworm...... Basically, they are incurable.

So the social security of the fifty-year-old is basically an ornament. Jian Chen can be sure that only one-tenth of these hired workers standing here today will live to be 50 years old at most.

In addition to these, a system was proposed in which one day off per month could be taken without deduction of wages, and a union was established in the internal workshops.

This alone has made many people in the party excitedly cry out that they have found a real way forward, and in the long-term goal of the party, they have put the struggle for a national 12-hour work day and a symbolic social security system on the grand centennial goal.

For a time, this behavior eased the contradictions within the party, gave the party a long-term, clear goal to pursue, and for the first time really focused the party's attention on the lowest level of employees who had nothing.

After the establishment of the internal trade union, nominally employees can fight for some conditions under the unity of the trade union, and at the same time can apply for some labor protection and environmental improvements.

This was a very good thing, and the hire-workers were elated, and the people in the party thought that it was the right way, and they thought that they would happily build a big house, find the most literate people to write a plaque, and buy a few firecrackers to set off in celebration.

However, he was stopped by Chen Jian, and he set a rule against public opinion.

Everyone was puzzled, and Chen Jian said: "All this is charity, and it is too cheap, so it is worthy of using the cheapest yellow paper." If the workers' unions we have organized in the rest of the factories or workshops can win some rights and interests by their own strength instead of handouts, I will pay them to give them the most beautiful glass windows. ”

The people in the party and the hired workers thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case, and that this hired workers' association was completely set up by Chen Jian, the owner of the workshop. Since I didn't get it myself, people said to let me use yellow paper, then use it, I really don't have much right to speak.

Hu Lin was extremely excited about these small changes, and he told Jian Chen that this was the best future. If these changes become laws and the social security system is extended to the whole society and improved, it proves that everything is promising, and that the more things are produced, the more people can live better.

Chen Jian felt that there was nothing wrong with Hu Lin thinking like this, so he didn't splash him with cold water, but smiled and expressed his support.

However, in fact, Chen Jian understood that he was not a qualified capitalist at all, so he could only implement these minor improvements and systems in his own workshops - not because he had a good heart, but because his workshops were monopolistic industries and there was no competition.

Even if these things are implemented, how to do it or what, some sweatshop unspoken rules are enough to deal with it all.

For example, textile mills never sign contracts for more than five years, because after five years, weavers are more likely to contract lung disease and fibrous lungs. With the promotion of the social security system, employees will definitely have their own labor files, so when hiring, they will not use employees who have worked in textile factories for five years.

The same is true for tanneries, shoe factories, cement factories, and so on. The unspoken rule of leukemia in the silicone lungs of cement factories and chemical pollution leukemia in shoe factories and tanneries is to replace people every three years, and if they are not necessary technical backbones, they should not be familiar with them, so as not to be counted as occupational diseases when they are detected.

This is just one of thousands of ways, and only by mastering the above skills can we gain a firm foothold and make a fortune in the tide of the times. Of course, if there are no rules on social security, work-related injury, labor protection, etc., these unspoken rules will not appear, but the problem is still the same - if you are sick, you can be directly dismissed, but you will save the loopholes.

These struggles have only just begun, and there is still much to learn from both sides.

But seeing the excitement of the crowd and thinking that he wanted to stand for the morality of the capitalists lest utopian and reactionary ism prevail, he did not say much, but supported the legitimate struggle within the party for these symbolic laws.

Even though they are so simple, the regulations of Chen Jian's workshops are still called by many people: the hope of China and the enlightening lamp of the Chinese people...... Chen Jian, who listened, was red-faced and a little ashamed. There is no foreign enemy who can use nationalism to divert contradictions, surrounded by mountains and Gobi and the deep sea, and internal contradictions still need some people who are good at whitewashing, and for a time even those members of the Holy Moral League who left also expressed moderate appreciation for Chen Jian's approach.

This kind of appreciation in the circle will not make those who are invited by Chen Jian to talk about things give in, and Chen Jian must first gain the support of the party before inviting those "tycoons" to talk.

Therefore, at the beginning of October, before inviting people from the cotton textile industry to talk about the matter, an internal meeting was held within the Mexican Party.

The more than 70 people attending the meeting were representatives of the party comrades in the entire Min County, and Chen Jian specially invited the craftsman who Hu Lin said last time because of the hand-cranked velvet machine and went to Mincheng.

Chen Jian felt that it was time to talk to everyone, but he couldn't talk too deeply.

The delegates of the party group saw the ginning machine earlier than the cotton tycoons outside, and the discussion that had lasted for months because of the previous pile machine had finally reached a high point - Chen Jian, who had not expressed any opinion on the matter since returning from the capital, was finally about to speak, and everyone felt that perhaps they would finally have to distinguish between right and wrong.

The representative of the opposing party made the first statement.

"Jian Chen, comrades, this ginning machine has greater consequences than the velvet machine. Because the velveters need to be apprentices for seven years, they have a good life, and they can't do a lot without them. Even with a fleece machine, some special fabrics of woolen wool cannot be replaced by machines. ”

"The ginning machine is completely different. The ginners did not need to be apprentices, they could do it to anyone, so they had no bargaining power, and they could not even twist into a ball - there was no ginner's own guild of hired workers in the cotton spinning guild, and even if they were to be twisted, they could be replaced by a few random people. ”

"So once the ginning machine appears, those cotton spinning guilds will definitely adopt it. Originally, the work of 50 people could be done by one person and one machine. There will be about 50,000 to 80,000 ginning workers in the country who are unemployed, penniless, who will live if they are employed, and die if they are unemployed. ”

"The reason we got together in the first place was to make life better for more people at the bottom. I don't know if these 80,000 people are considered human beings in your eyes. Is their life good or bad, is it a matter of concern to everyone? ”

"But the advent of machines has indeed made people's work easier, and from this point of view, this is progress."

"So, after several months of discussion, our group came up with a solution."

"Take this ginning machine as an example, we can have the ginning workers pay for the ginning, but at the same time we can't get the people of the Cotton Spinning Guild to fire the ginning workers. Anyway, they still spend that money without a ginning machine, but if they have it, the ginter is easy. Fifty people buy one, so that each person has one-fiftieth of the previous amount of labor. As long as the cotton milling guild did not fire any of the ginners, the ginners' jobs would be easier than before, and they would not be unemployed to the point of starvation. ”

"I think our first task now is to persuade the people of the Cotton Spinning Guild, and the owners of the ginning mills, to accept this opinion. There is nothing to lose to them, they can just be when this ginning machine does not exist......"

"For the workshop owners, they don't have any losses, whether they have this machine or not, they have spent so much money and done so much work."

"For the ginning workers, they are relieved from sixteen hours of labor a day. Fifty times that's two quarters of an hour's work a day. ”

"Therefore, we in the Mexican Party should not oppose machine innovation, but the first task is to persuade the workshop owners."

After saying this, it attracted some applause.

Jian Chen secretly glanced at Hu Lin, and said in his heart that the person who is speaking now is definitely a fan of your previous utopianism, and then looking at the age of the speaker, he can't help but understand.

However, Hu Lin frowned, obviously disagreeing with this idea, and was just about to raise his hand to signal that he was going to say something, but his shoulder was pressed by Chen Jian, and he quietly put down his hand.

Jian Chen didn't mean to laugh at the person just now, this kind of thinking is actually very normal and in line with the times, and it is also a kind of progress, and it is a trend of thought with the significance of the times.

Not only will it exist now, but there will be an evolved version in the future.