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"It's not a big deal..."

Lin Shangzhou looked up at Ladia, and then continued: "Didn't Ladia work in your factory for a few days?"

"She later told me that the treatment of female workers in your factory was very poor, and after the government inspected your factory at that time, I believe that Ms. Jenna also improved the treatment of female workers, and today I thought of taking the time to come and see if the treatment of female workers has been really improved."

Jenna still had a textbook smirk on her face, Lin Shangzhou's purpose was the same as she guessed, she didn't show anything special, she looked calm and easy.

Lin Shangzhou looked into Jenna's eyes and said with a smile: "Although I believe that Ms. Zhanna, you have improved the treatment of female workers, but we met a female worker in the factory..."

His tone turned serious.

"The wages of the women workers have not changed from three months ago, they are still 7 pfennigs an hour, the working hours of the women workers have not changed, they are still 12 hours a day, and the women workers have not been given any change in their leave, they are still not taking any leave.

"Ms. Jenner, can you explain why the treatment of female workers is still so poor after the government inspection?" Jenna

smiled slightly, and said unhurriedly: "The reason is very simple, the female workers have not raised any objections to me about the dissatisfaction with the treatment, so it means that they are very satisfied with their current situation, why should I change what they are satisfied with?".

After listening to Jenna's words, Lin Shangzhou's pressure increased a lot, and one of the advantages he had for the factory owners in other factories to agree to the workers' demands was that he had the support of the factory workers behind him at that time, if the factory owners did not agree to improve the salary, then they would face a strike by the factory workers.

Under the threat of the strike, they had to choose to be gentle, agreeing to the demands of the workers under their own control.

But now....

The women workers in the textile factory are very different from the workers, there is a sense of resistance, but it is almost the same as not, and if nothing else, these women workers will not unite to strike, there is no sense of resistance, there will be no strike, there is no threat to Jenna, even if she is here, it is difficult for her to agree to the treatment of female workers.

After all, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is only a department that mediates conflicts, and does not have the ability to enforce it, so he needs to ask for instructions on what he wants to do with the textile mill, and then the inspection department will implement it after obtaining the approval of the mayor.

And he also knows what the inspection department will look like after it is executed, and what it should be or what it should be, and it will not play a big role at all.

After a short period of thought, Lin Shangzhou said to Jenner: "But the female worker complained to me about her dissatisfaction with the treatment, and I hope you can listen to my suggestions and improve the treatment of female workers within the range that is acceptable to you."

Jenner made a welcome look and said, "Okay, I'll listen."

Lin

Shangzhou teased in his heart, and after sorting out some language, he said to Jenna: "First of all, I think you should improve the food of the female workers, although it is the age of machines, but the workers are still an important party, and letting the female workers have enough to eat will help reduce the occurrence of accidents and make them work better."

He didn't mention the most important place for capitalists and women workers - salary increases, and he didn't expect him to be able to persuade Jenna to ask her to give women workers a raise, but to start from the most basic level, first food and shelter, and the demand for a salary increase depends on Jenner's attitude to decide whether to put it forward or not.

After speaking, Lin Shangzhou looked at Jenna who was thinking about it, Jenna was really thinking about this matter, she had also thought about letting the female workers have enough food to make them work better and reduce the occurrence of accidents, and there were also cases of hungry and faint female workers being injured by machines in the textile factory in the past.

But those injured female workers and textile factories did not sign contracts, and they were injured when they were injured, and they were driven out without work, so why should they increase their expenditures in such a completely unnecessary place?

But today, since Lin Shangzhou made such a request, she is also willing to give Lin Shangzhou, a member of the city council, a face, no matter what, she is an ordinary person, and she is also a woman, except for money, she has no political power to rely on, and it is not cost-effective for Jenna to offend a councilor.

After a short period of thought, Jenna smiled and said to Lin Shangzhou: "What you said is also very reasonable, I have recently been thinking about whether to improve the food of some female workers, since you said so today, then I have decided that I will improve the food of female workers, so that every female worker can be fed."

In the end, it was as if she had made a great sacrifice, and this performance made Lin Shangzhou sneer in his heart.

"It would be nice if you could agree.

Lin Shangzhou made a happy look, and Jenna agreed to improve the food, which made Laetia feel a little better, but she still hated this woman.

After being happy, Lin Shangzhou continued to say to her: "I also suggest that you cancel the unnecessary working hours at night, so that the female workers can work at night against the physical work of a tiring day will increase the chance of accidents, and the same night running the machine will also increase the factory expenses, isn't it?"

"Male workers are still unable to concentrate at night, let alone these female workers?

With that, Lin Shangzhou quietly waited for Jenna's answer.

This time Jenna shook her head without hesitation, she refused without hesitation as Lin Shangzhou expected.

"I'm sorry, Congressman Hipper, but I can't agree with that.

"As I'm sure you know, the price of textiles is lower than what other factories produce, and textile mills need to guarantee output in order to make positive returns.

"So in order to earn money in the textile factory, I need to keep the women working non-stop, and running the machine at night will increase the electricity bill and pay a little more wages, but it is nothing compared to the income.

Zhan Na said righteously, in her mouth, she deserved to do this, and this kind of words also made Lin Shangzhou feel sick to his stomach, if this woman can really pay the female workers full wages, it will be said in the past, but he knows that female workers rarely pay full wages.

"If you say that, why don't you pay the women workers in full, who have complained to me that they have not been paid in full for some time.

Lin Shangzhou asked.

After hearing this, Jenna showed a very surprised look, she looked at Lin Shangzhou in shock and said, "Ah, is there such

a thing?" "I will hand over enough marks to the administrators of the female workers every week and let them pay their salaries, so that such a thing happened..."

They dare to embezzle the wages of the female workers, please rest assured, I will take care of this matter.

Lin Shangzhou was happy in his heart, Jenna pretended to be quite similar, and those who didn't know might really think that it was those female foremen who embezzled the mark and caused the female workers to not pay enough wages.

"It's certainly best that you can solve such a problem.

After a pause, Lin Shangzhou made a crucial point:

"But I hope you can increase the current salary of female workers within your acceptable range, after all, the wages of female workers are low enough, and I don't think it will incur too much expenditure if you raise it a little."

Although he didn't want to mention this before, Lin Shangzhou didn't want to spend any more time with Jenner.

But what he didn't expect was that Jenna actually nodded to him.

"Councillor Hipper, you're right, raising the wages of women workers a little bit won't cost much.

Lin

Shangzhou didn't expect this woman to agree with his statement, and he also knew that this woman only agreed with his statement, which did not mean that she agreed to increase the wages of female workers.

"However, I don't think such a request should be made by you, but by the women themselves.

Zhan Na looked at Lin Shangzhou with a smile and said.

"If they are dissatisfied, they can generously and directly give me their opinions, and if they do, I will change them, but if they don't put forward any opinions to me, doesn't it mean that the female workers have no opinion on their treatment?"

"I know that you have met a female worker who has an opinion about the factory, but that is only the female worker's personal opinion, and she cannot speak for everyone?

Jenna's words made Lin Shangzhou understand this woman's attitude, she would never raise the wages of female workers.

"How can you say that!"

Ledia said angrily to Jenna, unable to hold back the anger in her heart.

"I have experienced how bad the treatment of female workers is, if you are so tired, the daily wage is less than a mark, you must earn more money

than the female workers, you have more money than the female workers, why are you not willing to raise their wages?" "Their lives themselves are not very good, don't you treat them like this to make their lives worse? You are also a woman! Why don't you want to help them!?"

Ladia's blue eyes were full of anger towards Jenna, she didn't know why this woman said that, didn't she feel a little ashamed in her heart?

, "Little girl, you can't say that..."

Jenna chuckled and said to the angry Laetia, the girl's anger did not affect her in any way.

"You can't say I'm making them any worse.

Laetia took a deep breath and scolded angrily, "7 pfennigs an hour, 12 hours a day, how can this be praised!

"What are the women doing without this job?"

she said in a low voice, what would the women do without this job?

She thought of what she had seen in the town, she thought of her mother, who had been treated badly by her father, and she thought of herself who had almost married a man she didn't know or like.

Jenna looked at the stunned Letia, and the corners of her mouth curled, and she continued: "If it weren't for this job, this group of female workers would probably be being bullied by their husbands or brothers at home, and they would only be ordinary housewives for the rest of their lives.

"But I opened this textile factory, I gave them jobs, I gave women workers the right to earn money from their labor, I gave them the right to speak at home, how can that make them have a bad life? On the contrary, I made their lives much better.

With that, Jenna looked at Laetia quietly, wanting to see how the girl would react.

Laetia was silent, she felt that Jenna had a point, that if there was no job in the textile mill, the women would be bullied by their husbands or brothers at home, as she said, and that they would have no future as ordinary housewives all their lives.

Then she thought of the extremely poor treatment of the female workers, 12 hours a day of high-intensity work, earning less than a mark a day, this is clearly being squeezed, she raised her head and looked into Jenna's eyes and said: "What you said also has some truth, but this can't be a reason for you to oppress them like this!" Jenna

looked at Ledia in surprise, this reaction was really something she didn't expect, but she didn't care about this reaction, this is just a little girl, how can she talk about her.

She tilted her head slightly, looked at Redia suspiciously, and said, "Where did I squeeze them

?" "Doesn't it mean that they are satisfied with

their current situation if they don't give me their own opinions?" "Since they are satisfied with their current situation, how can it be called oppression?"

"Even if their treatment is really bad, it is the female workers themselves, and if they don't give me an opinion, how do I know if they have an opinion on the treatment?".

"And it's not you who pay the female workers, do you know the wages of the day?" Jenna

looked innocent, as if Rhodia really blamed her.

"You-"

Laetia glared at her speechless, her heaving chest showing how angry the girl was, and she wanted to contradict Jenna, but she didn't know where to refute.

Lin Shangzhou reached out and grabbed Ladia's wrist, pulled her to his side, and then said to Jenna: "But even so, this is not the reason why you treat the female worker like this, Ms. Jenna, right?" Zhanna

nodded lightly and said: "What you said has some truth, but if the female worker does not give me her own opinion, I will always maintain this opinion."

Since Jenna insisted on not improving the treatment of female workers, Lin Shangzhou also gave up talking to her about this matter.

"But you don't regret improving your food just now, right?"

Of course not, after all, it was something I promised to do.

Jenner smiled and nodded.

"Then that's all for today, I still have something to deal with, so I'll leave first.

Lin Shangzhou got up and said to Jenna, there is no way to convince Jenna, and he can't threaten Jenna, it is better to leave if he stays here, after all, Laetia has hated this Jenna to the point of no return.

"Well, I still have work to deal with, and you can't send it slowly.

Jenner got up and sent them to the door, and she turned and closed the door as they both walked up the stairs.