1855 United States Tycoon

The workers of MacDonald Steel France will get a "power pill" at the same time every day when eating lunch. Generally speaking, in the first half of the day, the energy and physical strength of the workers are enough to support high-intensity work, so at this time, there is no need to give them "power pills." Although "Daliwan" is cheaper, any cost that can be saved should be saved.

After a busy morning, it was time for lunch, and the workers took turns to the cafeteria, ready to eat. Each worker received his own share of food at the window with his work permit. After eating, he went to another window and exchanged his own badge for a pill, and then swallowed it with the water in the drinking bucket next to him, and then went to work. What? You said that working immediately after eating is bad for your health? This is true, but what does the harm to the workers’ health have to do with the factory? Anyway, in this era, there is no labor protection law and other things that specifically block the big bosses. When workers are sick or something, the boss just kicks them out of the factory with a direct kick, and then recruits a probationary salary. The guy came in to replace him.

Porter Paul picked up the plate and poured all the crumbs scattered in it into his mouth. Porter is a type of work with little technology content, basically it is hard work. It takes a lot of energy to do this job, and you have to eat enough. However, no factory will specifically provide these workers with more free food for this reason, so these workers have to pay for some other food. But the threshold for this kind of work is too low, and it's almost an individual who can come over to do it, just like later generations writing online articles, as long as they can recognize Chinese characters, they can use pinyin. So although this type of work is very tiring, the income is actually quite limited. So any food can't be wasted.

Paul put the plate in the designated place, and then walked towards the window where the "power pills" were distributed. A guy who does Paul's hard work is almost inseparable from the "power pill." Without it, it is almost impossible to sustain such a high-intensity work. There are already some workers who work as porters like Paul are lining up here, and Paul is waiting behind them. The distribution of "Dali Pills" is fast. In a blink of an eye it was Paul's turn. Paul handed in the badge with the own job type and job number. The factory doctor sitting inside did not look up, but turned his eyes up and glanced at Paul from the gap between the glasses hanging on the bridge of his nose and his forehead. , And then looked down at his badge, then ticked a certain position on the registration sheet next to him, and then took out a small white pill from the drawer and handed it to Paul.

Paul took the pill, picked up a water glass from the side, poured some water, and swallowed the small pill.

...

"Today, four more workers were fired, without exception, all because of dozing off." In Pat's house, several union members gathered together again."Glasses, what do we do?" Pat asked.

Kony pushed his glasses and said, "Every time he takes the medicine, Perkins always takes the pills out of the drawer. So I can't see how he takes the medicine. But I heard Riley said that he Seeing that when Perkins was taking medicine for Paul, it seemed that the time to take out the pills after reaching in his hand seemed to be slower. Today, Paul was fired because he was sleepy and made a mistake. So, I’m sure, in Pa In the drawer of Kings, there will be two boxes, one containing the normal'power pills', and the other containing the kind of drugs that make people sleepy when eaten."

"Would you like this? We contacted a group of workers, and while eating lunch, we suddenly acted to control Perkins and others, opened his drawer, and it became clear. What do you think? "Doyle asked.

"Is this not so good?" Royce said, "In case, if we think wrong, what will happen? All the workers who participated will be expelled, even..."

"I also oppose this." "Glasses" also stood up and opposed, "I'm not worried that we might make a mistake. It's just that even if we get the evidence this way, what will happen?" He looked around everyone. Seeing everyone's expressions of thinking, he smiled very satisfied and said: "If I were Louis, when I heard about such a thing, I would definitely immediately use the nursery team to surround our canteen. Then we use force to solve the problem. We don’t have weapons, even if we have one, it’s impossible to actually bring a large number of weapons into the factory. The guys in the factory protection team have weapons. If Louis is decisive, he will let the factory guard team If we rush in directly, we cannot stop it. When the time comes, the so-called evidence we get will not return to the hands of those guys. And he can also fire all the workers who participated or even throw them into prison. Go inside. The Thiers government, whose hands are stained with workers’ blood, won’t be soft. And what about the media? If our activities seem to them to be just for this factory and the United States boss makes a little mess, they might do it. Pretending to be fair to say two words without pain, but once the words "worker" and "force" are in the matter, they will not hesitate to turn their heads and accuse us of Thug. I can see through these bastards."

"Then what do you say we should do?" Royce had been persuaded rationally, but he was still a little uncomfortable emotionally.

"We only need to tell everyone the own conjecture, do you say that the workers believe in us or the capitalists? Then we can encourage everyone to not eat the'power pills' together. Or let the workers pretend to eat them, but they don’t actually eat them. Then let's see if there will be people being fired every day for dozing off. If not, isn't everything clear?" Glasses replied.

"A good way!" Dowding said, "Let's take action... Do you have any other opinions? No? That's good! I'll go and..."

"Wait, Dowding." "Glasses" said, "There is still something else. Once the facts are clear, what should we do?"

"That's just to say, by then..." Dao Ding opened his mouth and suddenly realized that he didn't seem to have thought about what to do next.

But obviously, everyone is accustomed to Dowding's characteristic of acting faster than thinking, so no one is surprised or said anything.

"Then we launched a strike, demanding that the employers no longer fire employees on the grounds that workers doze off exhaustedly and reduce labor intensity. In the current situation, we can only do this for the time being." "Glasses" replied, "These We also have to prepare..."

...

"Tingling, jingle, jingle," the phone ringing suddenly remembered. A maid picked up the receiver, listened for a while, and said to the phone: "Director Louis is already asleep... It's very important. You must call Mr. Louis... OK, are you sure... OK, I'll go right away ..." The maid put the phone aside and walked upstairs...

After a while, Louis, wearing his pajamas and his dim eyes, came down from the stairs, and he muttered as he walked: "Damn it, I dare say that the telephone must have been invented by the devil. It made it impossible for anyone Be clean all at once!"

The telephone, a new thing that came from the United States, has been popular in France for a short time. It was not until recently that the Macdonald consortium began to invest in electricity and various electrical appliances in France, and the telephone gradually entered the upper class of France. Life. The Macdonald family invested and built a telephone company in Paris to promote this "devil's invention" to the upper class. It has to be said that with this thing, many things have become convenient, for example, the ladies make appointments to see them together. What kind of drama, for example, in idle time, there is a game of cards or something, and there is an emergency, and it is very convenient to send messages. So this kind of thing quickly became popular among wealthy people in France and various companies.

Louis walked to the phone and picked up the receiver: "I'm Louis, what can I do?"

"Mr. Louis, we understand that the union is going to do something. They plan to tomorrow..." This voice came on the phone.

Louis frowned, and he asked, "Are these news real?"

"Yes, it is very tangible. It was our important person in charge in the trade union who told us."

"Very well," Louis was fully awake, and he said, "Have you notified the others? Well, call them all to me. Go right away! Hurry up!"

Louis registered the phone and walked upstairs into the own room. By this time his wife Margaret was already wearing her pajamas.

"My dear, what's the matter?" Margaret asked.

"It's nothing, those poor people are dishonest and want to make trouble!" Louis explained to the young wife, "You don't need to get up, go to sleep, I change my clothes and go down to have a meeting. It's in our small living room. Here. It may be late, so you don’t have to wait for me, just go to sleep."

"Yeah." Marguerite nodded and said, "I'll change your clothes for you."

...

After getting dressed, Louis sat alone in the small living room waiting for others. He remembered the instructions given to him above: "Find a way to infiltrate the union and find an opportunity to replace the original leadership of the union with ours. "There are also contradictions among workers, such as those with old qualifications and newcomers, technology and ordinary workers. We must find ways to take advantage of these contradictions and expand these contradictions. Let the workers split from the inside." "Especially, we must find a way. Let technology workers stand against ordinary workers, let them think that they are different from ordinary workers, and let them feel that they are on our side."

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