Chapter 164 The general strike on

"Import substitution strategy means that a country takes various measures to restrict the import of certain foreign industrial products, promote the production of relevant industrial products in China, and gradually replace imports with domestic products in the Chinese market, so as to create favorable conditions for domestic industrial development and realize industrialization.

... For China, in the past ten years, many industrial development have benefited from the state's investment and support for import substitution industries. Among many import substitution industries, the spinning industry has been the industry with the most remarkable results and the largest proportion of private sector in China in the past ten years..."

Oriental Economic Weekly

From the time the ship enters the Yangtze River, you can see a factory scattered along the factory. These factories of different sizes constitute China's largest industrial belt and also China's largest private industrial belt, which is more or less related to the development of the folk industry in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even if it enters the empire. In the era, in the face of huge state investment, these private factories did not sink here, but tenaciously relied on flexible market operations and made use of some policies to support the continuous expansion of their own influence. In the past three years, with the slowdown and expansion of state-owned capital, the folk industry along the river has once again ushered in its great development. .

There is no lightning in the sky.

It's just that the thunder sounded from time to time like a heavy-duty car passing by. The sky has an endless gray curtain, and only the straight west corner of the sky seems to have a hole, revealing a small purple cloud. The hurried face of the sunset fell down behind the purple clouds, which was a thunderstorm when the sun was setting.

This summer, the thunderstorm looks so calm.

After a night of thunderstorm, there was a soft breeze, a few colorful clouds, and a blood-red sun.

Thousands of yarn machines rotating at full speed in the workshop of Yufeng Yarn Factory were suddenly closed.

Just like last night's thunder, the thunder suddenly started!

Thousands of female workers from Yufeng Yarn Factory gushed out of the workshop like a tide, swept to the disclosure place in front of the management department like a wind, scattered several employees who were looking around there, and tore the newly posted notice of deduction of work.

"Never deduct the cost of work!"

"The guarantee money will be paid! The pay is the same as usual!"

"The money is still the same! Work starts on Sunday! Overtime pay!"

The angry female workers shouted like the deafening Xia Lei. Thousands of female workers kept shouting slogans, and at the same time, they were getting closer and closer to the factory management department.

Social Insurance Law, if the biggest impact on China in the past few months is probably the passage of the Imperial Social Insurance Law. According to the requirements of this law, factory owners need to buy social insurance and medical insurance for workers, while the former factory owners need to bear 60%, and the workers themselves to bear 30%. The latter is 70% borne by the factory owner, 20% by the workers, and the balance is insufficient to be raised by the "imperial state-owned assets".

In the face of the passage of the Social Insurance Law and the requirement that factory owners purchase retirement and medical insurance for workers, the most direct reaction of factory owners is to immediately adjust the wages of workers, so as to avoid paying more social insurance premiums, which will more or less arouse dissatisfaction among workers, but although it is like Most workers can still stand it. After all, compared with the past, their wages have generally increased by more than 60% after the outbreak of the war. Although there have been cuts, they can naturally accept it considering the future "prevenation for the elderly" and "medical treatment".

However, all this has changed in Yufeng Yarn Factory. Although it is the largest local yarn factory in Wuxi, unlike other yarn factories, Yufeng's salary level has always been the lowest. As early as the Imperial Social Insurance Law was being audited, Yufeng's general manager was from others. After learning that the bill was bound to pass, it took advantage of the female workers' lack of understanding of social insurance at that time to force female workers to sign new contracts with factories, and to reduce the amount of social insurance payments by lowering cash wages and using in-kind "rewards".

This has made those women extremely dissatisfied. Now, Yufeng has announced that wages will be reduced by 20% from this month through the general weakening of wages. This series of actions has finally provoked a strike by female workers, which may be the largest strike since Wuxi has a factory.

"Down with unscrupulous!"

Sheng Wuliang is the general economy of the factory. Sheng Wuliang is not his name. In fact, his name is Sheng Wuming, but in the mouth of the workers, it has become "Sheng Wuliang", and the meaning is very simple - Sheng's conscienceless.

"Get out of here, Wang Changlin! Li Jinping, get out of here!"

The crowd shouted in a mess, slightly more irregular than the slogan of the first time. Their brigade has flocked to the corridor of the row of houses in the management department, and they have surrounded the management department. In front of them were Li Mazi and his 20 people, holding the steel bar of the water pipe, scolding and intimidating. But Li Mazi didn't receive an order to do what to do. They just watched and prepared.

Suddenly, Sheng Wuming's thin figure appeared in front of the management department! He straightened up and still smiled coldly.

When the striking female workers saw him, they were unexpectedly stunned. The tide stopped. This "unconscionable"!

How bold!

However, in a flash, the tide of the female workers used double the courage to push forward again. They and Li Mazi's group of 20 people were about to contact. The shouting voice was louder than thunder. They were now consciously going to make a frontal attack on the enemy and a hand-to-hand fight! The first Mars exploded! The female workers have flocked to the corridor at the other end of the management department.

Oh! Oh!

The glass window is broken! This is the beginning! Then the female workers attacked again, and the larger-scale chaos was in front of them!

Li Mazi can no longer wait for the order. He and his twenty people fought in a group of people, and they retreated step by step.

Sheng Wuming also took a step back. A man suddenly jumped out from behind him. It was Wang Jiepu, the nephew of the chairman. Seeing this scene in front of him, he immediately shouted in horror:

"Li Mazi! Fight it! Hit these bitches! Catch people!"

"Fly! - Call the police! Shoot!" "

Another two people's heads stretched out of the window and shouted harshly.

At this time, Li Mazi and others retreated while fighting; five or six female workers fell into Li Mazi's front in the melee and were struggling to break through. The strike team of the female workers has gone to the corridor, and the management department can't stand it. However, at this time, there was a lot of trouble in the back of the female workers. More than a dozen policemen rushed straight into the crowd, and they opened the way with batons. Li Mazi and others immediately turned to the offensive, and five or six female workers trapped in their encirclement were completely caught by them.

After the arrival of the police, the women who were originally on strike retreated a little, and the police stood in the corridor.

But the female workers did not retreat. They stopped and shouted furiously, but they were more or less afraid of the police. After all, the police represented the king.

Wang Jiepu, Ma Kuishan, Huang Guoping, all three of them jumped out together and stamped their feet and shouted:

"Fight! Kill these mons!"

Their shouts immediately aroused the answers of the female workers. The female workers were enraged. They shouted loudly there and cursed the executives of the management department in all kinds of words. Their scolding almost deafening people's ears!

Facing this scene, the police officers who had been called even picked up the pistol in horror, and a police officer shouted there.

"Gentle down, calm down. You can go on strike, but you can't damage the factory property..."

But the female workers still care about it. Just as the female workers kept pushing forward, the police officers who could not maintain the situation in front of them picked up a pistol and wanted to shoot the police in the air. Sheng Wuming stood up and shook his hands at the police, shouting with all his strength:

"Don't shoot! - Don't worry! We don't shoot, listen to me!"

"Don't listen to your bullshit! Get out of here!"

Some of the female workers on strike roared and still moved forward firmly. But most of them stopped.

Sheng Wuming smiled coldly, took another step forward, stood on the stone steps in the corridor, and shouted:

"You scold me and want to knock me down, but like you, I rely on this factory for a living. You want to smash this factory. Didn't you ruin your own job? If you have any terms, go back and negotiate with me! You go back! Now I am the only one who advocates peace! If you make trouble again, you will suffer a loss! It's not wrong to strike, but if the strike destroys the machinery and property of the factory and hurts the police officers, it will be a riot, a riot, it will be suppressed!"

At this time, Song Qingshu, who had been staying beside him, suddenly flashed out next to him, close to the standing and quieted brigade, and shouted:

"Mr. Sheng's words are good words! Let's go back! If the labor union comes to handle the negotiation, it will not make everyone suffer!"

"No need for your dog union! We want our own union!"

The trade union, whether it is the "trade union" mentioned by Song Qingshu or the female workers, is actually the "the yarn workers' association". The so-called trade union is actually only used by various yarn factories to manage workers, but in fact it is an institution that serves them.

There was a lot of scolding among the female workers. But now even that small team has stopped. At the same time, there was an inaudible noise in the brigade. This was obviously no longer the noise of the offensive, but they themselves were coaxing to discuss ways there. At this time, a person in the brigade stood up and saw the female worker shouting to the other female workers:

"Sisters! They caught five or six of us! If they don't let it back, we will fight for our lives!"

The female workers' answer was a trembling noise. However, the target of the masses has shifted! The previous female worker who stood up first immediately took a step forward to see Sheng Wuming's face and said:

"The people who let us go!"

"You can't put it!"

Wang Jiepu and others also squeezed out and shouted harshly. Li Mazi looked at Sheng Wuming's face.

Sheng Wuming still smiled coldly and resolutely gave orders to Li Mazi:

"Let them go!"

"Let the person go! Let it go! Let's go back! If you have something to say, send a representative to talk about it!"

Wang Changlin shouted as if he broke his throat. The cheers rose from among the female workers, and the tide of people was turbulent again; but he turned around and went to the factory door. At this time, another female worker walked and shouted, "Down with Sheng Wuliang!" Down with Wang Changlin!" But only more than a hundred voices shouted at her.

That response is all the female workers. However, when the tide of the female workers was about to reach the door of the factory, someone shouted "rushing to the factory", and the response of the masses shocked everywhere.

"Punch to the factory! Go to the factory! Let's go to the 'new factory' first!"

"The general strike! We want our own union!"

The striking female workers swept across the road like a gust of wind and rushed straight to the "new factory" of Wang Guoli, so the joint army of the two factories rushed to another factory after another. Their team became 2,000, 3,000 people, 4,000 to 5,000 people. In less than an hour, a strike that was originally limited to one factory. It has developed into a general strike of female workers in large and small silk factories and yarn factories in Wuxi!

The strike of tens of thousands of female workers directly led to a sudden tension in the security situation in the whole city, and the police immediately added double posts on the road!

In the workshop of Yufeng Yarn Factory, there was a dead silence. Two pairs of policemen stood at the gate of the factory. The management department of the factory is extremely nervous. Wang Jiepu and others all saved Sheng Wuming to make trouble, saying that he was too weak. Sheng Wuming was silent, but just smiled calmly.

The horn of the car called in from the gate of the factory like crazy. When Sheng Wuming calmly ran out of the management department to see it, Wang Guoli had already got out of the car, with a murderous look on his face, and his eyes were ferocious, and he didn't look at everyone.

Sheng Wuming straightened his chest, walked to Wang Guoli, and smiled calmly and frankly.

Wang Guoli shot Sheng Wuming, but did not say anything. He made a gesture and asked Sheng Wuming to follow him. He first looked at the broken glass windows of the management department, then inspected the empty yarn factory workshop, and then inspected all parts of the factory. Gradually, he looked better.

Finally, Wang Guoli sat down in his office and listened to Sheng Wuming's report.

The golden sunlight is looking at the window. The small golden fan shook his head behind the royal ceremony. Several shadows were moved out of the window, and someone was wandering outside, eavesdropping on their conversation. Sheng Wuming understood as he spoke and sneered in his heart.

Wang Guoli frowned, closed his lips tightly, and his sharp eyes were shining. He suddenly interrupted Sheng Wuming's words impatiently:

"Do you think they dare to touch the machine, set fire, and riot?"

"Those women seem to be crazy, they will do it! But madness can't last long, and if people are scattered, the fire will be gone.

"So today we only lost a few pieces of glass, which is a great good luck? That's what we won, isn't it?"

There was a thorn in Wang Guoli's words, and he shot Sheng Wuming coldly. Sheng Wuming straightened up and smiled.

"I heard that we have detained a few people - I think you have sent them to the police station, right?"

Wang Guoli asked coldly. However, Sheng Wuming immediately guessed that it was a deliberate question. He guessed that someone had already reported that the female workers of Wang Guoli had been released, and there were many provocative words. He replied in a straight tone:

"I let it go a long time ago!"

"What! Did you let it go casually? Did you let these people go to save my factory? Humph!"

"No! Not at all! It's just that five or six blind people are even more boring to catch here.

Sheng Wuming heard that Wang Guoli was very sarcastic to him for the second time, so he replied with a rubber nail. He straightened out his chest and put on the look of "the scholar can be killed but not humiliated". He knew that he could use this method to convince the royal ceremony. At the beginning, the royal ceremony hired him, not because he would flatter him, but because he really had the ability.

There is no sound on either side for the time being. Another shadow flashed outside the window. This time, even Wang Guoli saw it. He frowned. He knows what the shadow means. He has always disliked such sneaky things. He suddenly smiled ferociously and deliberately said loudly:

"Well, He Yue, I will give you everything here! But I have to start work tomorrow! Tomorrow!"

"I will try my best to do it according to the chairman's will!"

Sheng said, "The people in the union just told me that the workers had a meeting last night at a female worker's house. The female worker is called Li Jinfeng. Today, when the workers rioted and wanted to smash the account room, Li Jinfeng was also included. Tell the workers that if we don't let those six people go, they will work hard. It's also Li Jinfeng! A month ago, there was a trend in the factory, and it was also Li Jinfeng who secretly took the lead. I heard that Sheng Wuming bought her later, but the workers had a meeting at her house last night! Now she is still secretly leading!"

Wang Guoli looked at Wang Jiepu's face sharply and smiled faintly without saying anything. At the workers' meeting last night, there was Wang Jinfeng. Sheng Wuming has also reported this point; Wang Guoli can't get anything new from Wang Jiepu's words. However, Wang Jinfeng's name temporarily stopped in the thought of Wang Guoli.

"Uncle, in my opinion, this trend was condoned by Sheng Wuming; yesterday he had a lot of time to prevent it in advance, but he didn't do it! Today, he is a good person again! He colluded with the people in the union to buy people's hearts!"

Wang Guoli's face suddenly changed. He really heard something "new"! However, after a change of thought, he suddenly darkened his face and deliberately patted the table and shouted:

"Apu, what are you talking about! Now I give my full power to Sheng Wuming. You are in the factory, don't talk too much! - What you said just now can only be said in front of me, and you are not allowed to mention half a word outside! Do you understand? Go ahead!"

"Yes, second uncle, but you have to pay attention to it when you are old. Don't let the surname Sheng calculate. That boy is a secret and uneasy and kind-hearted character!"

Also reminded the second uncle that Wang Jiepu's triangular eyes flashed a little grim. For Sheng Wuming, he had long hated him to his bones. Now it's good. With this big strike, I guess he will add more oil and vinegar. This Sheng Wuming is a great ability. I guess he will be sad about this. The key... The key is still with the second uncle!

(to be continued)