Chapter 112: The American West's Wage Bargaining Style
"Stop! What do you do? ”
The foreman ran to the construction site while holding the stack of money in his arms.
A group of men followed a few Chinese who were silent and consciously began to move sleepers, rails and leveling the site, and the rest of the people jointly moved the materials on the rail car down.
There was no one to take care of the foreman, so he could only stand by in amazement, watching a group of people busy there.
It didn't take more than an hour, and after more than an hour, the last section of the track was put on the sleepers.
The track repair work was completed.
The people involved in the maintenance, except for the few Chinese who were still packing up the site and tools, all gathered next to the foreman.
"Pay your wages, sir, we're done." A strong man said to him.
The foreman was stupid: "What are you talking about?" When did I hire you? ”
People looked at each other, and the man who took the lead said eagerly, "Didn't you say that as long as you come and help, you can get a dollar per person?" ”
The foreman's eyes were about to fall out, and he looked at the dozen or so people in front of him.
One dollar per person? Do you want to eat fart? Isn't that my life?
He crossed his hands on his hips and asked angrily, "Who do you all listen to?" ”
The leader pointed to a whitebeard next to him: "He said it." ”
Whitebeard was stunned for a moment, he looked around the back and found a yellow vest, he pointed to the yellow vest: "He said it." ”
The yellow vest also looked around and pointed to the next person.
Tracing the origins of the operation began to go back and forth in a dozen people, but communication is a very complex thing, even in a dozen people.
As a result, the source of the news became a mess, and everyone began to talk about it.
"I saw him take the money from the butler of the luxury car and put it in his arms!" Suddenly, a man in the crowd shouted, and everyone looked at the source of the sound, and a tall, muscular middle-aged man pointed to the foreman.
Danny is an honest man, not very suitable for arch fire, but when he says this, he is not the slightest bit false, and he is full of confidence.
Because he is telling the truth.
The foreman couldn't refute it for a while, and the stack of banknotes was still lying in his arms, and he subconsciously touched it.
This touch was a bad thing, because there were already sharp-eyed people in the crowd who saw the green.
"Again, I don't have a contract with you before, no employment relationship! I am not obligated to pay you commissions. Whoever promises you, to whom you go. ”
The foreman's voice was a little flat, but he still tried to make a final struggle.
Most of these people were miners from the south of Colorado or white rednecks from the east, they had little education, and they were more pragmatic.
When they do their work, they have to give money, and if they don't give money, they are prostituting for nothing, and they are prostituting for nothing, but they can't do it.
And the money for the construction of the railway is in the arms of the foreman, this is a fact, so the money should be asked for by him.
This logic is extremely reasonable in their eyes, so they surround it.
"Give money! Give the money quickly! ”
Seeing that the situation was not good, the foreman quietly began to move backwards, and he glanced at the horses next to the railcar, ready to run at any moment.
But someone shouted again:
"This guy wants to run, don't let him go!"
Without saying a word, the foreman turned around, turned around and ran.
But where would everyone let him run away, after the voice just now, someone who moved fast had already chased after him.
Before the foreman could take a few steps, he was thrown to the ground by the whitebeard who had just stood in front of him.
"Beat him, beat him!" Sean stood on the edge of the crowd, craned his neck to look into the crowd, arching the fire as he even wanted to get in and keep up.
The voice just now was also shouted by him, and he and Danny were arranged by Chen Jianqiu to mix in the crowd.
The foreman was beaten violently while covering his head, and everyone tore his clothes, and a pile of money was immediately scattered on the ground.
"One dollar per person! One dollar per person! Don't grab it, everyone! Danny shouted from the side.
But the people who saw the dollars didn't care about this, the people who could come to New Mexico to pioneer were not good men and women in the first place, they grabbed the dollars on the ground, and some even beat them together.
They pulled each other's beards and hair, rode on each other's bodies and threw old fists, and some rolled directly on the ground, scrambling for the bills in each other's hands.
The scene was a mess and full of ugliness.
"Bang."
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and the people who were still fighting in hand-to-hand froze as they raised their heads to find the source of the gunshots.
A man in a cowboy hat leans back on a rail car with his hands clasped to his chest.
He had a gun in his hand, and the muzzle of it was still smoking.
"What, why don't you get the money out of now? Do you want to wait for me to open your heads one by one? ”
As soon as Chen Jianqiu's words fell, he fired another shot in the open space next to him.
The gun was so effective that one man led the way toward the train, and the others followed. The scene dispersed, and many people held green dollar bills in their hands.
When the gang returned to the car, they would inevitably fight each other again.
The foreman's head was broken, his face was swollen, and he was lying on the ground moaning.
The blood flowed into his eyes, clotting into scabs on his eyelashes, and he tried to open his eyes, and then he saw a yellow-skinned face.
"Sir, it's time for you to pay them." Chen Jianqiu pointed to a few Chinese workers standing on the side.
They were standing on the edge of the railcar at this time, and when the white laborers were grabbing money on the ground just now, they were far away, standing aside, dumbfounded, at a loss.
"They always have a contractual relationship with you, right?" Chen Jianqiu squatted down and stared at the foreman.
"Their work has been done by the gang just now, how can they be paid?" The foreman struggled, maintaining his last stubbornness, "Moreover, my money was robbed by those people just now!" ”
"But they did work, and you shouldn't favor one over the other. Moreover, you need to pay them for the rush to work. Chen Jianqiu patted his face with the barrel of the gun and said coldly.
The foreman had to take out a stack of money from the pocket of his underwear and hand it to Chen Jianqiu.
Chen Jianqiu counted and stuffed the rest back into the foreman's pocket.
He walked over to a few Chinese people and handed the stack of money to the older Chinese worker.
"Take your wages."
The old Chinese worker hesitated, but still did not dare to reach out to take the money, he shook his head, and timidly pointed to the foreman lying on the ground:
"We still have to take over the work under that master, can we ......?"
Before he finished his words, he saw a flower in front of him.
The money in Chen Jianqiu's hand had been thrown to the ground
"You don't want this money."
The voice was as cold as iron and as deep as an abyss.
These unscrupulous people, you have been oppressed and humiliated, but you are low-key, silent, and you are living on this continent like animals!
When will you be able to lift up your heads! Straighten your backs! Worthy of the hot blood flowing from your body!
Without saying a word, he turned and walked towards the train.
The elderly Chinese worker finally mustered up the courage, bent down to pick up the money on the ground, and shouted at Chen Jianqiu's back:
"Benefactor! Benefactor! Can you tell me your name? ”
"You will know, and when you figure it out, you will know my name, and the people on this continent will also know my name."
There were no more words to answer him, and all that was left in his ears was the howling wind of the New Mexico moors.
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