Chapter 660

Internationale is a magic song. In various major language versions, the translations of all countries in the world have chosen to transliterate. "Intena xiongnair" is intena xiongnair in any country.

At the same time, "international" is also the abbreviation of "International Workers' Association". It was born in the bloody Paris Commune. It is the voice of the people at the bottom of the society against totalitarian tyranny. Therefore, it is not only the red countries that sing it, but also the workers in the United Kingdom, the United States or France who sing the same song when they go on strike.

As the earliest industrial country, the strike of British workers is very powerful.

As early as 1912, there were millions of absenteeism strikes in Britain, and Parliament was forced to set the minimum wage standard, which continues to this day.

Not long ago, in 1979, the famous "winter of discontent" strike in British strike history was launched, and Callaghan's labor government was defeated by Thatcher's conservative government.

Even more coincidentally, now in 1984, the more famous "general strike of absenteeism from 1984 to 1985" in British strike history is in progress.

The strike started in 1984 and will last for a whole year until 1985. It has had a profound impact on the political ecology of Britain and even changed the political ecology of the whole Europe.

Wells doesn't need to pay attention to the future political changes. He just knows clearly that the strike is extremely terrible and the power of the working class is extremely powerful.

How strong is it? Two months ago, there were more than 10000 striking miners in ogreef coking plant near Rotheram, fighting with more than 10000 policemen. The media widely reported that it was called "ogreef battle". There were policemen on horseback who repeatedly attacked the miners in front of the media reporters and injured many miners seriously with batons.

Wells looked around. The only policeman on the scene was Xiao He, a clean looking boy who loved to laugh. He was the most likely character to die in novels and movies.

"Zhang, please explain to them that I am just an ordinary manager of the company. I am not a shareholder of the company, nor a senior executive of the company. If they ask for a strike, or if there are demands for a revolution, I have no right to decide these. I can only pass on their demands if I return to the UK." Wells talks to Zhang Sheng.

Yang Rui was listening and almost burst out laughing.

Zhang Sheng also felt embarrassed and whispered: "Mr. wells, there is no revolution. We are just asking for wages in arrears."

"For pay?"

"Guan Shen, after the person in charge of Xijie was expelled, the workers in the factory didn't get the salary of last month. They want to be paid. "

"That's it?"

"That's it."

Welles breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "what's the total salary? Pay them and let them go. "

"They haven't worked for half a month. Do they pay full wages?" Zhang Sheng dutifully demands himself as a translator.

Wells asked unexpectedly, "can I not pay the rest of my salary?"

"I think it's OK. After all, it's half a month out of work."

"Can the union agree?"

"There are no trade unions in China... It's not right. Trade unions in China usually just give away something and don't do trade union business."

"Then who does the trade union work?"

Zhang Sheng thought about it and said, "I don't think so..."

"Well, give them half a month's salary and you can negotiate." "They won't strike," Wells said, hesitating

"Of course not. There is no strike in China."

"No?"

"Of course, we are a country dominated by the working class. The workers are the masters of the country. How can the masters strike?" Zhang Sheng said that he also laughed.

Wells calmed down and said: "labor really should come to China. Well, you can negotiate with them and say that we are willing to pay half a month's salary, and ask them to make way for us to check the equipment and factory conditions in the factory. "

"All right." Zhang Sheng is full of ambition. It's only one year since the establishment of Jericho's China branch. This is a rare opportunity to show his face.

Yang Rui stood in the crowd, his face turned red.

"Tian Shichang, come here." Yang Rui pulled Tian Shichang to the corner and told him all about Zhang Sheng's and Wells's plans. He said, "go and tell factory director Li about the situation. In addition, send someone who can understand English."

Tian Shichang wry smile: "understand English many, can understand big nose words, I estimate not."Yang Rui thought that it was 84 years before tape recorders were popularized. To learn a fluent London accent or whatever, you have to at least have heard it. In terms of the current conditions in China, you can't find the tape recorder, or even the English textbooks. There are a lot of College English professors in some universities who speak fluent Hedong accent english.

In this environment, local factories like Xibao meat factory can't get English talents.

"At least find someone who can understand English and come to find out what's missing." Yang Rui doesn't want to be a listening translator himself. On the one hand, he is tired, and the most important thing is to avoid suspicion.

Tian Shichang was ordered to leave.

He whispered to the workers around him, and the wave spread the word.

After a while, Zhang Sheng and wells also discussed the countermeasures and went to negotiate with the workers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is Mr. wells, our British representative from jerichon. We are now in the spirit of..."

"Dead drag gram!"

"Dead drag gram!"

"Dead drag gram!"

More than 20 workers in Xijie called in unison.

"What?" Zhang Sheng didn't respond.

The cold sweat on wells' face was about to come down, and he repeated "dead drag" in English!

Zhang Sheng understood this time, dead drag gram is the transliteration of strike apparently!

A very clear signal.

"Xijie factory is on strike!" Wells's white face could not see a trace of blood: "you said there was no strike in China."

"The constitution was amended the year before last, and the right to strike was deleted." Zhang Sheng, with a yellow face, explained that he was flustered and tried his best to recall what he had learned: "but we didn't prohibit strikes either."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, in China, the freedom to strike is not a basic right of citizens like that of Britain, but it does not mean that any strike is illegal under any circumstances, because our laws do not prohibit strikes..."

"Is that allowed or not?" Wells is very anxious, and the British also have qualitative problems.

Zhang Sheng looked back at director Li and group leader Feng, and said in a low voice, "the current situation is probably allowed."

"So it seems that only half of the monthly salary can't stop the strike?" When it came to an end, wells calmed down instead. The scene he was most afraid of had happened. What else could he do.

After thinking about it, wells raised the price automatically and said, "I'll allow you to give the workers three times their monthly salary. Go and negotiate with them."

"All right." Zhang Sheng was also a little scared.

Yang Rui can't hear their conversation now. He just looks at it. The present situation is too trivial. The British simply don't know what the situation is. What Xijie factory and Xibao meat factory have to deal with is actually the investigation team of the provincial Party committee. It doesn't matter what Jielikang thinks.

We should be polite to the investigation team of the provincial Party committee and rude to Jericho.

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