No one knows if any of the workers' leaders went to Tom for a private chat that day, only the announcement made by Hero on the afternoon of the first day and the return of a large number of workers the next day.

"Hero Company has a large number of employees who are absent from work without leave."

"A total of 187,536 employees were absent from work."

Considering that there may be "criminals" in other states secretly instigating, Hero Company decided to deal with absent employees who did not know the truth as appropriate. ”

"After more than 180,000 employees confirm that they will return to work or resign, they will be given economic incentives to those who return to work first, and additional wages will be rewarded, and those who return to work later will be financially punished and their wages will be deducted, and those who leave will not settle the unpaid wages."

"Note that those who have not taken leave for three days and have not returned to work will leave their jobs by default."

Yesterday was the first day, and today is the second day, which means that if you don't return to work today, you will be fired from Hero Inc.

A large number of workers with wives and children at home did not dare to bet on whether Tom would actually fire him, and they ignored William's call for a "resolute strike" and entered the heroic chemical factory again under Andrew's leadership.

"Andrew, why did you betray us?"

"I didn't betray you, it's just that I'm not like a bachelor like you, I'm going to support my family, even if it's just in case, if Mr. Smith does fire me, what should I do, what should my family do?"

"Is this your excuse for betraying the workers' movement? That greedy factory owner would not dare to fire you, nor would he dare to let you skilled craftsmen flow into other factories. It is precisely because of a thief like you that the workers have long been deprived of their due rights. ”

"Worker thief, worker thief... I don't know what a thief is or not, I just know that if my salary is less this month, I will die on the road in Houston next month, get out of the way! I'm going to add reagent No. 62, and if I miss the opportunity, I'll be fined a lot of money. ”

"Don't go, did you sneak into Tom Smith yesterday, and what benefits did he give you?"

"The benefits? Given the benefits, can I still pour reagents here? I thought you were a good man, and you insulted me so much, insulting me because of the benefits of doing such a dangerous job? I'm here to support my family! You bachelors will never understand, don't get out of here. ”

William took a few union leaders to find Andrew, who was at work, Andrew was still responsible for adding reagents to the chemical plant on time and in accordance with the amount as usual, this honest middle-aged worker, when he heard William scolding himself for being a thief, he didn't react, but when William talked about the benefits, he was a little anxious.

Andrew was the most honest of the five workers' representatives, and the most prestigious among the workers' representatives.

Because he is easy to speak, he has the nickname of "good old man" Andrew in the factory, and Andrew's loud rebuke attracted many of Andrew's colleagues, who didn't care what workers' representatives didn't represent, they only knew that Andrew took them back to work, and the head of the security section promised to reward each of them with three dollars after the strike was over.

Under the vicious hostility of hundreds of workers in the surrounding area, William left Andrew's chemical plant with the remaining striking workers.

William also noticed that something was wrong, and William saw guilt and confusion in Andrew's evasive eyes.

But the tattered and patched uniforms and the unprotected addition of chemicals to the front line of the chemical plant, the most dangerous of the work, negate William's judgment.

"William is not good, the hero factory has started to recruit workers in a big way! A lot of new workers have moved into the factory area. They might really want to fire us! ”

"How is it possible, even Carnegie, who was the most hostile to the labor movement and used the most bloody and violent methods, would not completely abandon the workers, but there are still more than 100,000 old mechanics here!"

"William, it's true, I really saw the recruitment announcement of the Hero Factory."

"Let's go, take me to see it."

Nick took William and the others to the bulletin board set up by Hero Company in the factory area, a huge bulletin board, and posted a job announcement in the most conspicuous position.

"Hero company recruitment, treatment is as follows:"

"$0.55 per day for yellow East Asians"

"$0.6 a day for Indian-yellow people"

"$0.65 a day for Yankee blacks"

"Dixie Blacks $0.7 a Day"

"$0.75 a day for black Texans"

"Latinos $0.8 per day"

"Whites are divided into the following gears"

"$0.85 per day for Irish, Scottish, Turkish"

"Italians, Slavs, $0.9 per day"

"$1 per day for Iberians and Germans"

"White people who can prove that they have lived in Texas for more than three generations are our own people in Texas, $1.1 a day"

"Are there a lot of applicants?"

"A lot, because of the war and so on in Europe, a large number of people flee to Houston every year, and Hero Company made friends with several big countries some time ago, and many domestic "political prisoners" and "inferior people" were sent to Houston. ”

"Asian Chinese workers die every year on the Pacific Railroad, and many Chinese workers went to Houston a few days ago."

William did not learn much cultural knowledge for the sake of the workers' movement, but it was not a systematic study, and he did not understand why his opponent, Tom, a sinister capitalist at heart, had come up with such a detailed salary and differential treatment.

In the north, in the Yankew's territory, at most there is a distinction between whites, blacks, and yellows, and whites also have factories to subdivide them, but it is really the first black and yellow man like Tom to be subdivided.

William took people to the recruitment site, and in William's expectation, at most some of the "top workers" on this list would come to work here and apply. Will those at the bottom see that low wages will come?

There was a long queue at the recruitment office of the Hero Chemical Factory, and different people of different races stood at different recruitment entrances, waiting to become an employee of the Hero Company.

The longest teams were the two that William himself felt were the least crowded—East Asians and Irish, Scottish, and Turkish.

William walked up to these two teams and wanted to ask why they were so blatantly "unjustly treated" and entered this black-hearted factory, and workers of all races should unite to face injustice! These capitalists, factory owners, are required to be treated equally.

The workers lining up in these two ranks are betraying the workers' movement! Betrayal of the working class! Betrayal of all the workers!

"Why join the Hero Factory? The whole of Texas is recruiting workers in this one factory, what are we going to eat if we don't come here? And aren't and Squint over there paid less? ”

"White-skinned ghost, you eat bananas!" (Cantonese)

"Cylinwood." (Hokkien)

The "job-seeker" workers in the two teams did not give William any good face at all, the white man was fine, and said that because there were worse ones, he could only accept the "middle level" salary, while the East Asian yellow man directly "invited" William out in the most simple language.

William, who couldn't figure it out, could only lead the remaining workers' leaders to the Houston factory district, hoping to win over some workers who had been "treated unfairly" to strike together.

But in any case, there are already quite a few single workers on strike who are shaken and afraid that they will really lose their jobs.

What's more, these people are basically "pure Texans" in the announcement, and they have the highest salary, so why should they be dissatisfied?

Several of the workers' leaders also decided to wait and go to Tom privately to see if they could discuss the issue of a workers' strike peacefully, or at least to keep the "good" jobs of the workers in Texas.

Although everyone is still walking on the same road and walking towards the hero factory area, their inner thoughts have already parted ways.

"Oh no! Good old man Andrew fell on the roof of the chemical plant and was about to jump! ”