"The import substitution strategy refers to the adoption of various measures by a country to restrict the import of certain foreign industrial products, promote the production of relevant industrial products in China, and gradually replace imports with domestic products in the Chinese market, so as to create favorable conditions for the development of its own industry and achieve industrialization. k update

…… For China, in the past ten years, many industrial development has benefited from the state's investment and support for import substitution industries, and among the many import substitution industries, the yarn spinning industry is China's most significant effect in the past ten years, and the largest proportion of private industries......"

Oriental Economic Weekly

From the beginning of the ship entering the Yangtze River, you can see the factories scattered along the factory, these factories of different sizes constitute China's largest industrial belt, and it is also China's largest private industrial belt, which is more or less related to the development of private industries in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. In the past three years, with the slowdown of state-owned capital expansion, the private industry along the Yangtze River has once again ushered in its great development.

There is no lightning in the sky yet.

It's just that the rumbling thunder like a truck passing by resounded from time to time, and the sky was open with an endless gray curtain, only the corner of the sky in the west seemed to have broken a hole, revealing a small piece of purple cloud. The hasty face of the setting sun fell behind this purple cloud, a thunderstorm as the sun set.

In this summer, this thunderstorm seems so calm.

After the night of thunderstorms, there was a soft breeze, a few patches of colorful glow, and a blood-red sun that had just risen.

The thousands of yarn machines in the workshop of Yufeng Yarn Mill that were rotating at full speed suddenly shut down.

Just like last night's thunder, this thunder suddenly started!

Thousands of female workers of the Yufeng Yarn Factory poured out of the workshop like a tidal wave, swept like a wind to the revelation in front of the management department, scattered the few employees who were looking around, and tore to shreds the notice of deduction of wages that had just been posted.

"No deduction of wages!"

"The guarantee is paid! The wages are still the same! ”

"The wages are still the same! Start on Sunday! Pay overtime! ”

Angry women workers shouted like the deafening summer thunder, and thousands of women workers chanted slogans incessantly. At the same time, it is getting closer and closer to the factory management department.

Social security law, if we say, in the last few months. Perhaps the biggest blow to China was the passage of the Imperial Social Insurance Law, which required factory owners to take out social insurance and medical insurance for their workers, while factory owners had to pay 60 percent of the former. The workers themselves bear 30 percent, while the latter is 70 percent by the factory owners, and the workers are 20 percent, and the balance is not enough to be raised by "the state-owned assets of the empire".

Faced with the passage of the Social Insurance Law and the requirement for factory owners to purchase retirement and medical insurance for their workers, the factory owners reacted most directly. It is the immediate adjustment of the wages of individual workers to avoid paying more social security contributions, which will always stir up discontent among workers to a greater or lesser extent, but nevertheless, most workers can still tolerate it, after all, compared to the past. After the outbreak of this war. Their wages have generally increased by more than 60 percent, and although they have been reduced, they are naturally able to accept it in view of the fact that they will be able to "provide for the elderly" and "receive medical treatment for the sick" in the future.

However, all this has changed in Yufeng Yarn Factory, although it is the largest local yarn factory in Wuxi. Unlike other mills, Yufeng's wages are always the lowest. As early as the Imperial Social Insurance Law was being audited, the general manager of Yufeng was informed by others that the bill would definitely be passed. Taking advantage of the lack of understanding of social insurance among female workers at the time, they forced them to sign new contracts with factories to reduce the amount of social insurance payments by reducing cash wages and using in-kind "incentives". …,

This made the women extremely unhappy, and now, Yufeng has announced a two-percent reduction in wages from this month in a sweeping effort to reduce wages, a series of moves that have finally provoked a strike by women workers, perhaps the largest since the establishment of factories in Wuxi.

"Down with Sheng Wuliang!"

Sheng Wuliang is the general economy of the factory, Sheng Wuliang is not his name, in fact, his name is Sheng Wuming, but in the mouths of the workers, it has become "Sheng Wuliang", and the meaning is very simple - the surname Sheng has no conscience.

"Wang Changlin, get out! Li Jinping get out! ”

The crowd shouted in a haphazard manner, slightly more untidy than the first slogan. Their brigade poured into the verandah of the row of houses in the Administration, and they surrounded it. In front of them were Li Mazi and his twenty people, holding steel rods from water pipes, shouting and scolding, threatening. But Li Mazi didn't receive an order what to do, they just watched and prepared.

Suddenly, Sheng Wuming's thin figure appeared in front of the management department! He straightened up, still smiling coldly.

When the striking women saw him, they were unexpectedly stunned. The tide stopped. This "no conscience"!

How bold!

However, in just a moment, the tide of the female workers used double their courage to push forward again, they and Li Mazi and a group of twenty people were about to come into contact, the sound of the noise was louder than thunder, and they were furious now consciously to make a frontal attack on the enemy, a hand-to-hand combat! The first Mars has erupted! The women workers poured into the hallway at the other end of the management department.

Boom!

The glass window is broken! This is the beginning! Then the women went on the attack, and even more chaos was just around the corner!

Li Mazi could no longer wait for orders. He and his twenty men were caught in a crowd and fought indiscriminately, and they retreated step by step.

Sheng Wuming also took a step back. A person suddenly jumped out from behind him, it was Wang Jiepu, he was the nephew of the chairman, and when he saw this scene in front of him, he immediately shouted in horror:

"Li Mazi! Hit! Hit these sluts! Arrest someone! ”

"Hit! - Call the police! Shoot! ”

Two more heads stuck out of the window and screamed.

At this time, Li Mazi and the others were retreating and parrying at the same time; Five or six female workers fell into Li Mazi's line in the scuffle, and they were fighting hard to break through. The strike ranks of the women workers went up the corridor, and the management department saw that it was "unable to hold on". However, at this time, the back road of the female workers was disturbed. A team of more than a dozen policemen rushed straight into the ranks of the crowd, and they cleared the way with batons. Li Mazi and the others immediately turned to the offensive, and the five or six female workers who were trapped in their encirclement were completely captured by them.

After the police arrived, the women's squad, which had been on strike, stepped back a bit, and the officers stood in the hallway.

But the women did not retreat. They stopped, they shouted furiously, but for the police. They always have some fear, after all, the police represent the king's law.

Wang Jiepu, Ma Kuishan, Huang Guoping. The three of them, all jumping out at once, stamped their feet and shouted:

"Shoot! Kill these mobs! ”

Their shouts immediately elicited an answer from the women workers, who were enraged and shouted loudly. Cursing these management executives with all kinds of words, their scolding almost deafened people's ears!

The police officers who had been alerted to this scene even picked it up in some horror, while an officer shouted loudly.

"Everyone, calm down, you can strike, but you can't damage the factory......"

But the women workers still took care of that, even as the women workers continued to push forward. A police officer who can't sustain the situation in front of him. When he picked up the police who wanted to shoot in the air, Sheng Wuming stepped forward, waved his hand at the policemen, and shouted with all his strength: ...,

"Don't shoot! - Don't worry! We don't shoot, listen to me! ”

"Don't listen to your bullshit! I don't care about you! ”

Some of the striking women roared, still moving forward with determination. But most of them stood still.

Sheng Wuming smiled coldly. One more step forward, standing on the stone steps of the hallway. Shouted:

"You will reproach me, and you will bring me down. But I, like you, rely on this factory for food, and if you want to destroy this factory, don't you smash your own job? What terms do you have, go back and raise a representative to negotiate with me!" Go back! Now I'm alone in advocating peace! If you make trouble again, you will suffer a loss in front of you! It's not impossible to go on strike, but if the strike damages the machinery and property of the factory and hurts the police officers, then it is a riot, a riot, and it is to be suppressed! ”

At this time, Song Qingshu, who had been staying by the side, suddenly flashed out next to him, and approached the crowd who stood still and quieted down, and shouted:

"Mr. Sheng's words are good words! Let's go back, everybody! When the trade union comes to handle the negotiations, it must not make everyone suffer! ”

"Don't want your dog union! We want our own union! ”

The trade unions, as Song Qingshu and the women workers call the "trade unions", are actually the "yarn workers' associations", and the so-called trade unions are actually just the institutions used by the yarn mills to manage the workers, but in fact they are just institutions that serve them.

The female workers shouted and cursed. But now even that small team is standing. At the same time, there was an inaudible commotion in the brigade. This was obviously no longer the clamor of the offensive, but they themselves were there to discuss solutions. At this time, a man in the group stood up, and saw this female worker shouting loudly to the other female workers:

"Sisters! They caught five or six of us! They won't let it go, and we're desperate! ”

The response of the women workers was a shuddering cry. However, the goal of the masses has shifted! The female worker who stood up first immediately stepped forward and looked at Sheng Wuming's face and said:

"Let our people go!"

"Can't put it!"

Wang Jiepu and the others also squeezed out and shouted loudly. Li Mazi looked at Sheng Wuming's face.

Sheng Wuming still smiled coldly, and resolutely ordered Li Mazi:

"Let them go!"

"Let the people go! People let go! Let's go back, everyone! If you have something to say, send a representative to speak again! ”

Wang Changlin shouted as if his throat had burst, and the sound of cheers rose from among the female workers, and the tide of people was turbulent again; But he turned around and went towards the factory gate. At this time, another female worker shouted "Down with Sheng Wuliang!" while walking! Down with Wang Changlin! But only a hundred voices shouted at her.

That echo was all the female workers. However, when the tide of female workers was about to reach the factory gate, some people shouted "rush the factory", and the response of the masses shook all directions.

"Rush the factory! Rush to the factory! Rush to the 'new factory' first! ”

"General strike! We want our own union! ”

The striking women swept across the road like a gust of wind and rushed straight to Wang Guoli's "new factory", so the combined forces of the two factories broke through one factory after another, and their ranks became two thousand, three thousand, four or five thousand, in less than an hour. A strike that was originally confined to one factory has developed into a general strike of female workers in silk factories and yarn factories in Wuxi!

The strike of tens of thousands of female workers directly led to a sudden tense situation in the entire city, and the police station immediately added double posts on the road!

Yufeng Yarn Mill Factory. There was a deathly silence. Two pairs of policemen stood at the gate of the factory. The management department of the factory is extremely nervous. Wang Jiepu and the others all held Sheng Wuming and made a fuss, saying that he was too weak. Sheng Wuming didn't say anything, just smiled calmly. …,

The horn of the car came in from the factory gate like a frenzied sound. When Sheng Wuming calmly ran out of the management department to look, Wang Guoli got out of the car. His face was iron-green and murderous, his eyes were scolded, and he didn't even look at everyone.

Sheng Wuming straightened his chest, walked up to Wang Guoli, and smiled very calmly and frankly.

Wang Guoli glanced at Sheng Wuming. didn't speak, made a gesture, and asked Sheng Wuming to follow him. He first went to see the pair of broken glass windows in the management department, then inspected the empty yarn factory workshop, and then inspected all parts of the factory, and gradually looked better.

Finally, Wang Guoli went to his office and sat down to listen to Sheng Wuming's report.

Golden sunlight peeks through the window. The little golden fan shook his head behind Wang Guoli's back. A few dark shadows moved outside the window. Someone was wandering outside. Eavesdrop on their conversations. Sheng Wuming understood everything as he spoke, and sneered in his heart.

Wang Guoli frowned, his lips closed tightly, and his sharp eyes were shining. He suddenly cut off Sheng Wuming's words impatiently:

"You think they dare to touch the machine, dare to set it on fire. Dare to riot? ”

"Those women are going crazy, they're going to do it! But madness doesn't last long. And when the people dispersed, the fire passed. ”

"So the fact that we've only lost a few pieces of glass today is a great piece of good luck? We are victorious. Isn't? ”

There was a thorn in Wang Guoli's words, and he shot Sheng Wuming coldly. Sheng Wuming straightened up and smiled.

"I've heard we've detained a couple of people - I guess you sent them to the police station, right?"

Wang Guoli asked coldly again. Sheng Wuming immediately guessed that it was a deliberate question, and he guessed that someone had already reported that Wang Guoli's female workers had let them go, and there were many provocative words. He replied:

"I've long since let it go!"

"What! Did you just put it away? In the future, you let these people go in order to protect my factory? Hum! ”

"It's not! Not at all! It's just that five or six blind followers are even more meaningless to catch here. ”

Sheng Wuming heard that Wang Guoli was sarcastic about him for the second time, so he returned a rubber nail. He stood out his chest and put on the aura of "a soldier can be killed but not humiliated". He knew that he could use this method to subdue the kingdom, and the kingdom hired him not because he could make sycophants, but because he did have the ability.

There was no sound on either side for the time being. Another dark shadow flashed outside the window. This time, even the Kingdom Rite saw it. He frowned. He knew what the shadow meant. He had never liked such sneaky things. He suddenly laughed evilly, and deliberately said loudly:

"Then, Heyue, I have full authority over everything here! But I'm going to start work tomorrow! Tomorrow! ”

"I'll do my best as the chairman wants!"

Said Sheng

"Just now someone in the union told me that the workers had a meeting last night at the home of a female worker. The female worker's name was Li Jinfeng. Today, when the workers rioted and wanted to break the room, this Li Jinfeng was also included. told the workers that if we didn't let go of those six people, they would have to work hard, and it was also this Li Jinfeng! A month ago, there was a trend in the factory, and the one who was secretly leading the way was also this Li Jinfeng. I heard that Sheng Wuming bought her later, but the workers' meeting was at her house last night! Now she's still secretly leading! ”

Wang Guoli looked at Wang Jiepu's face sharply, only smiled faintly, and didn't say anything. Last night, the workers held a meeting, there was Wang Jinfeng, and Sheng Wuming also reported this little thing; Wang Guoli didn't get anything new from Wang Jiepu's words. But Wang Jinfeng's name temporarily stayed in Wang Guoli's thoughts.

"Second uncle, in my opinion, this trend was connived at by Sheng Wuming; Yesterday he tried a lot to prevent it, but he didn't do it! Today he is a good man again! He colluded with the people in the union to buy people's hearts! ”

Wang Guoli's face changed suddenly. He's heard something "new"! However, after a change of thought, he suddenly turned his face again, deliberately slapped the table and shouted:

"Apu, what are you talking about! Now I give it all to Sheng Wuming, you are in the factory, don't talk too much! -- You can only say those words in front of me, and you are not allowed to mention half a word outside! Got it? Go ahead! ”

"Yes, second uncle, but you have to pay attention to it, don't let the surnamed Sheng calculate, that kid, but he is a tight-mouthed, uneasy and kind-hearted character!"

reminded the second uncle again, Wang Jiepu's triangular eyes flashed a little ruthless, for Sheng Wuming's person, he had long hated it to the bones, now it's good, with the current strike, it is estimated that he will add more oil and vinegar, this Sheng Wuming is a great ability, it is estimated that he will be sad to pass this level, the key is ...... The key is still in the second uncle! (To be continued......)