Chapter 16 Human rights equality, the general trend
Tom pointed to the glass tube fake cigarette in his hand.
"However, times have changed, and with the development of industrialization, the productivity of human beings has been greatly improved, and the proportion of the population who meet the needs of workers to meet the basic needs of human beings is getting lower and lower in the total population."
"A thousand years ago, it might have been necessary for almost all human beings to participate in basic production to meet human survival, but now in the nineteenth century, the level of agriculture has increased dramatically, and many people can be freed from heavy manual labor in agricultural production."
"The surplus population does not need to do heavy physical work, but can do non-heavy physical work."
"Women are not without advantages in non-heavy work, such as waiter work, which has proven that women have an advantage since thousands of years ago."
"Of course, this kind of acolyte industry is still dependent on men and on a patriarchal society."
"But it gave me an inspiration, I, we, we can let women try to participate in the production of some less physically heavy industries, so that women can also be real men on an equal footing and compete in jobs."
"I'm not going to give you a penny for free, because that's insulting the words women's liberation movement."
"I would also not openly support women's rights at any conference, which symbolizes men's right to give alms to women, and disrespects the women's liberation movement."
"I will give women equal opportunities to work, so that women can really have their own income, and they don't need men to get an income independently."
"And unlike the Yankees' discriminatory treatment of women who are not paid for equal work, I will really give women the opportunity to get the same pay as men!"
"For example, our company has recently started a comprehensive recruitment plan."
Tom found several documents from a stack of folders detailing the recruitment plan for Tom's Smith factory area.
Tom asked Loki to distribute them to the human rights activists present, who began circulating the documents among themselves.
When everyone had seen it, Tom got up again, his hands propped up on his desk.
"What blacks lack is a ridiculous decree that is dispensable? No, they need a steady income! An economic base is needed! The same goes for women. ”
"Negroes who have no income, even after the Civil War, are nominally free, but they are still bound to the farm by the farmer."
"Because if they don't grow cotton, they won't have a job to survive!"
"The same is true for women, after giving them rights, can they keep their rights without income?"
"In 1843, a German man said: The economic base determines the superstructure, and I believe that when women really have their own income, it will be much easier to carry out all activities than now."
"Why did the French Revolution succeed? Why did the United States become independent? Why did Texas secede from Mexico and join the United States? ”
"It's all because the initiators of these movements have an absolute economic base!"
"Let women also fight for their own rights!"
"Equality of human rights, the trend of the times!"
Tom raised his hands to his chest, clenched his fists tightly, and the women who were doing couldn't help but applaud Tom, applauding this advanced and great advanced idea.
Proposals that can't be refused, Tom will make such a proposal to the other party every time, and it is by virtue of this trick that Tom successfully became the richest man in the world in his previous life, and it is also the foundation for his rapid foothold in New York in this life.
Of course, there was also a small boost from trinitrotoluene (TNT) and hundreds of rifles and dozens of German veterans.
Tom also made a proposal to the human rights fighters that they simply couldn't refuse.
Compared with those "male power rich" who donate thousands of dollars but discriminate against women, Tom really gives these women hope and the hope of equality between men and women.
From the most common employees in non-heavy positions in chemical plants at the grassroots level, all the way to the position of factory floor leader, manager, and even general manager. The document contains detailed rules and regulations and career advancement plans, covering almost all light and non-manual work at the Smith Facility.
Tom's new plant in Texas was open to all occupations for women, and women with no cultural base could also work at the bottom of the chemical plant.
"The initial plan was to hire women from my first factory and give them the same salary package as their male counterparts."
"Of course, I'm not going to hire only women, I'm going to hire both blacks and women, whether it's black or women, I don't discriminate."
"This is also the limit of what I can do, after all, not all positions in our company are light physical work."
"I'm sure you also know that women have a natural disadvantage even if they are paid equally for equal work in heavy physical work."
"I'm sure you'll be able to do it well."
"The Smith Company will always have your back in Texas."
"I will always be your back."
Compared with the younger human rights fighters, the three middle-aged women understand better what these represent and how it will affect the current society if women do enter the workforce in large numbers and compete fairly with men.
"Mr. Smith, I really didn't expect you to have such a deep knowledge and understanding of the cause of women's liberation."
"We were just going to ask you to donate and support the cause of women's liberation in public at first, but we didn't expect you to be ...... You are so great and wise. ”
"It's too much, I don't deserve the word great to describe me by the three great human rights fighters, I just hope that men and women can be truly equal, and they can freely love each other, and the current world is too oppressive for women."
"You're really...... We've fought all our lives in this business, and it's the first time we've seen such a great man as you, but it's a pity that you're only sixteen, and if you had been born decades earlier, I'm sure there would have been a female president in the United States. ”
"Hahaha, you're really kidding."
"No, I didn't think I was joking."
After lunch with the human rights pioneers, we discussed details on how staff could move from the North to the South.
Tom also took the human rights fighters to the Smith factory area, which has been basically completed.
Among them, there is a special dormitory for female staff, which has surprised countless human rights fighters, and some of the emotional human rights fighters have even shed tears in front of the opposing women's dormitory.
Women in this era are so miserable, and these human rights fighters will marvel at Tom Smith's open-mindedness and advancement when they see the independent women's dormitory.
All the Europeans and Yankee factory areas, without exception, only have male shacks, and then his wife and children will go with him to work in the factory, and the place where the family lives in a shack.
In some cases, several families are even crammed into a shack, with no privacy for women.
In fact, for the toiling masses at the grassroots level, this has no effect, and it is better to give a few more breads a day.
But it's a different story for these pampered little canaries.
They have received a complete system of higher education, but they value the "right to privacy" the most.
When the human rights fighters saw that Tom did have a plan and determination to recruit female employees, the human rights fighters did not choose to stay overnight, and took a ship to Washington overnight that night.
After the departure of many human rights fighters, Tom couldn't help but laugh wildly in the office.