Chapter 17: I Learn from Lincoln's Predecessors
"I really don't know how those Yankees are going to face the flood of human rights? And it's a flood of human rights backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars. ”
"These stupid human rights fighters may never know what the real working conditions are at Smith, right?"
"Hahaha, too, how can the little canaries who grew up in the castle piled up by dollars experience the blessed life of working eighteen hours a day."
"Seeing an independent women's dormitory can move you to tears, and don't you know that those grassroots women don't need a separate dormitory at all?"
Having known and approached the American Association for Equal Rights in his previous life, Tom knew what kind of caged birds these human rights fighters, especially some of the leaders of the women's liberation movement, were.
The superior upbringing and good education made them not understand that the struggle for rights was never determined by economics or the Bill of Rights.
What if women are rich? As long as men have absolute superiority in warfare, women will never be truly equal to men.
The most important thing is that for the people who eat the cake, they need the distribution system of eating the cake now, so that the men at the bottom can oppress the women so that they can forget the fact that they did not eat the cake.
After all, men are the main force of war, and those who eat cake don't want to see the "main force of war" who can't eat cake, find that they don't have cake to eat, and come to grab cake with those who eat cake, and then develop into an impact on the existing cake distribution system.
For those who eat cakes, the best way to solve the problem of other people's red eyes and eating their own cakes is never to face these red people, nor to create new cakes, let alone share cakes with these people, but to let these red eyes release their anger in other directions.
Use the method of unleashing anger on the lower level to forget the sad situation of being robbed of your cake.
Tom also draws on the core idea of this line of thinking – the transfer of contradictions.
In fact, Tom has been worried about whether rashly bringing in a large number of employees from the Yankey market will lead to a shortage of Yankee labor, stimulate the Yankee executives, and then lead to himself being suppressed by the Yankee United.
But now, Tom has shifted the conflict between the Yankees and his own labor competition.
First, he used the blood feud between the Dixies and the Yankees in the Civil War to divert the attention of the Yankees.
A large number of popular riots in the Dixie area attracted the attention of the Yankees.
At the same time, even if some of the most far-sighted Yankeos discovered Tom Smith, a "big-eyed" careerist, Tom also gave a multiple-choice question to these far-sighted and intelligent Yankee executives.
What about the riots in Dixie, a few steps away from the Yankey's stronghold of Great Lakes Industries, in the southeastern United States?
Or come to Texas, the farthest from the Great Lakes industrial region in the United States, to suppress Tom Smith?
Since they have the intelligence to spot Tom's ambitions, they know how to make a decision.
Now that Tom is also connected to the Ku Klux Klan, Tom has figured out the depth of the Ku Klux Klux Klan leader in just one night.
How could the Ku Klux Klan have such a red-necked, intellectually low, and barbaric leader leading a group of smart people?
The Ku Klux Klan is now a puppet that Tom can handle at will, and as long as Tom does not develop the strength to confront the Yankees in Texas for a day, the Ku Klux Klan will carry out large-scale riots in the south-central United States, anywhere between Texas and the Great Lakes industrial region.
The Ku Klux Klan Party, which has financial support, is not the kind of "minority" party in history that can only make small fights.
Then there is Tom's recruitment behavior under the banner of egalitarianism, which is supported within the Yankee area.
After the human rights fighter became Tom's headhunter, the original labor conflict shifted to the contradiction between men and women, and Smith's employee recruitment plan was "bound" to the cause of women's liberation.
This trick is actually the same as the "Abolition Act" promulgated by the Yankee administration during the Lincoln period in the Civil War.
Lincoln's "Abolition Act" transferred the conflict between labor and tariffs in the Civil War to the human rights contradiction between slavery and the abolitionist movement.
In the nineteenth century, when ideas and ideologies collided fiercely, standing on the side of the moral supremacy could inspire greater organization and resistance.
Tom firmly believes that these canaries, who have not experienced any life-and-death crises and survival difficulties, will be driven by the banner of egalitarianism and be motivated to help Smith recruit the right employees for all positions.
Regardless of the harsh working conditions and low wages these employees face in the future, these human rights activists will also introduce Smith's factory as a "paradise on earth."
At the same time, they will also use the "colored glasses" of egalitarianism to filter the difficulties they encounter.
They will perceive local companies as "sexism" rather than labor competition for blocking their ability to recruit employees.
They will see the gang's crackdown as "extreme masculinity" rather than a labor struggle.
They will blame all the difficulties they face on the "contradiction between men and women", rather than the competition for labor.
Just as Nike later bound itself to blacks and racial discrimination, transferred commercial disputes to racial discrimination, and then made its products politically correct commodities in the United States.
Tom also plans to learn from Nike, tying Smith to human rights.
These canaries, at the same time, have the contact information of all the "upper-class advanced women" in the whole United States, and compared with the low-level women who are firmly bound to production by men, these upper-class women will have a more complete educational experience, broader network resources and the credibility of the masses accumulated over time.
They are all "upper-class people" from a lot of backgrounds, and even if they do it, the gang has to weigh the influence of these women's fathers, brothers, and husbands in the local area.
Now in the nineteenth century, none of the Americans worth more than $10,000 were clean people.
Their male family members are their most powerful umbrella, and Tom is only responsible for shouting slogans and making money.
"There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them!"
"Loki, I'll tell you good news, our staff dormitory may be going to be expanded again, go and inform everyone, buy all the building raw materials on a large scale, and the factory will be expanded on a large scale!"
"These female fighters are simply my lucky stars!"
"Human rights doctrine! It's so easy to use! ”
"I'm going to tie arms to blacks, fertilizer to red-necked conservatives, and painkillers to Latinos!"
"Loki, go back and call everyone to a meeting and make Smith & Co. a politically correct company!"
"Big brother, all the female employees recruited like this can really work?"
"What strength does a group of women have?"
Tom's ebony conductor Loki informs his subordinates of a meeting where he is ready to announce the transformation of Smith & Co. into a "progressive and enlightened" company.
Confused, Loki did not immediately summon the high-ranking members of the Smith family to a meeting, but first raised his own questions.