Chapter 130: A Field Visit to the Texas Smith Factory Area

But it is impossible for all of these unemployed employees to be arrested by Yang Jilao, there are always people who stay in their hometowns, do odd jobs everywhere, help workers make a living, and struggle to get up and down the food and clothing line.

The senior executive of the American Workers' Federation, who came from the old Yankee area and had not experienced the wave of mass unemployment, realized that the differences in employee demands in different regions were so huge.

Employees working in the old Yankee area want a better working conditions and working environment, while Texas employees are just eager for a job to support their families.

Not only the staff of this train station, but all the employees of Texas are basically recruiting the lowest miserable people from the most miserable places in the world.

In their hometowns and in the past, these miserable people were hungry and could starve to death at any time.

The landless serfs of the second class of the peasants and businessmen were praised by the culture of the local dynasty as the most miserable of the landless serfs, the serfs of the lowest class in Eastern Europe in terms of pure law, and the slaves of the Middle East who were oppressed by both religion and politics......

They came to Texas, to the Smith factory area, and no matter how intense the amount of labor, working in Texas was better than in their hometown, where they could starve to death at any moment.

Employees seeking a better standard of living in Texas are local Texas landed farmers.

These people, after the illegal gathering of the original employees, Tom found their true purpose - to put these people with experience in firearms into battle.

These employees, eager to go the extra mile and experienced in firearms, were sent to the front lines of the Franco-Mexican War.

Not to mention the dead and wounded, those who survived were all war veterans, and these people were given a certain high social status, which definitely outweighed the disadvantages for Tom's regime.

On the other hand, the old Yangji area has been vigorously developing industry for nearly a hundred years.

After nearly 100 years of rapid development, the living standards of the employees who worked hard in the factory area have not improved, and the employees have long been dissatisfied.

Therefore, for the senior management of the American Employee Union, who was born in the old Yankee area, it is impossible to believe that anyone is content to live in a working environment of seventeen or eighteen hours.

Even the senior executive of the American Employees' Federation heard from the train station worker that "I won't talk about the situation too early, even if I was on the verge of starvation for the past few years, I can get better, and I don't dare to think about going further." ".

Should these employees seek a better life?

God doesn't know, but Tom knows.

Tom knows that there are always people who will not resist as long as their lives are better, and will be content with the status quo.

It doesn't take into account whether their efforts are proportional to their returns.

Anyway, they are indeed better than they once were, so they can already be satisfied.

After a few more conversations with the train station employee, the top of the American Employees' Federation, who had been railroad employees, returned to Silves' side.

Not only him, but also the people brought by Silves, who had just come into contact with several employees of the train station, were surprised to find that the employees here were actually satisfied with the current working environment.

The senior management of the American Staff Federation, who felt that all this was unbelievable, looked at Carl and Silves, who were standing in the middle of the crowd, after returning.

One of them is President Silves, who once went to Europe to learn advanced ideas.

One is President Carl of the local Texas Staff Federation,

The top brass of the American Staff Federation, who knew nothing about this phenomenon, could only turn to two people for help.

The theoretical and practical foundations of Silves are derived from the old Yankee industrial area and the European industrial area.

They are all industrial zones that have been developed for hundreds of years, and the industrial zones in Europe even have a history of development for hundreds of years.

Years of development have not improved the living standards of employees, except for a small number of landless farmers in European industrial areas who have found a way to survive in factories.

The vast majority of employees are dissatisfied with this life that has not changed for a hundred years.

Employees of the European Industrial Zone and Yankee Old Industries have long lived in a different era than the employees of the Texas Industrial Zone.

One is the era of mature industrialization, and the other is the era of development.

It is these differences that have led to the fact that there has been a lot of employee gatherings in European industry and the old Yankee industrial area, and in Texas, the only employee gathering was quickly resolved.

Silves could only look at Carl helplessly, looked at his former student, and asked Carl to solve his doubts with a wordless look.

Carl didn't answer the confused glances of his former teachers and classmates, because his theoretical knowledge was not enough to support him in answering them.

"Come with me, and you'll know the answer when you get to the place."

Carl could only recall the task that Tom had left for him before leaving, and Carl took the president and executives of the American Workers' Federation to the next location, the Smith factory area.

In this way, Carl took President Silves of the American Staff Federation and the senior executives of the association who followed him to the Smith Industrial Area west of downtown Houston.

About two miles from Houston's Smith Industrial Area, several members of the American Workers' Union are still on the front lines all year round.

And Carl, because of the pampering of the past two years, after walking a mile, was already a little out of breath and sweating.

Silves also noticed the abnormality of Carl's body and looked at Carl with great concern.

Silves didn't think much about it, but was just concerned about the physical condition of the former student and the current comrade.

"Comrade Karl, what's wrong with you? It's only been a mile or so, and you're all right, right? ”

"This ......" But Karl had a lot of thoughts.

Carl had even begun to wonder if Silves was suspicious of his identity.

In a hurry, Carl didn't know how to answer Silves, he was hollowed out by the wine, it was impossible for him to tell the truth to the teacher, right?

"Comrade Silves, it's because my gunshot wound is showing signs of recurrence."

Carl, who is Tom's chosen president of the staff union, has an idea to pick up the gunshot wound he received last year while organizing employees to ask for an explanation in front of the Texas state government.

At the moment of lifting his shirt, Carl also put on a very painful expression.

Silves looked at the muzzle of Carl's abdomen, and suddenly didn't know what to say.

In Silves's eyes, Carl must have been shot for the sake of the Texas employees.