From Chief to Ball

Defeated, prestige rises, unite survivors, increase cohesion.

Chen Jian can only choose to win or split, he does not want to and dare not choose to lose or cohere.

In order to prevent uncontrollable situations from happening, Chen Jian carefully checked the party's expenditures, weapons storage, etc., until the last few days of November. The gaffe expanded the decision.

After being terrified, Chen Jian also relaxed his heart, stayed in Mincheng, and agreed on the final result.

On the second day of December, tomorrow is the day when the year-end meeting will be held, and Chen Jian has also waited for all the news he wants.

The fast boats returning from the mouth of the Dahe River and the boats returning from the upper reaches of the Min River told him that food was already on the way.

The miners have also organized the Safety Supervision Committee and the Anti-Flogging Committee of the Employment Association according to the fact that the petition has been approved, and are ready to intervene in the management of the coal mine at any time.

The leader of the hooligans came to pay a visit to Chen Jian in person, and drank tea with Chen Jian for a long time.

Cotton speculators officially gave up competing with Chen Jian for the purchase of lint, uttering harsh words to make Chen Jian look good.They sent someone to burn the cotton warehouse, but the guards found that there was a conflict between the two sides, and the sheriff of Nan'an County intervened to stand on Chen Jian's side.

The completion of the canal is imminent, Nan'an county magistrate Yan Yuanshan will go to the completion ceremony five days later, and use some money from the county income to buy a small share of the canal as part of the performance investment to prove his vision. Afterwards, various mine owners in Nan'an were invited to a banquet, and a proposal was written to suggest civil road and river digging and submitted to the higher authorities.

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All preparations are ready, just waiting for tomorrow, the meeting on the third day of December to reject the petition.

1 Chapter Fifty

On the third day of December, the council rejected all Hu Lin's proposals as expected and without surprise or surprise.

The thinking of the rulers of the old era is still completely in the old era, and they have not noticed the huge public opinion that has been triggered before, let alone the dangerous trap in this petition proposal.

This proposal is no longer just a simple statement like those proposed by the previous council, but a logical explanation of the rationale for doing so.

The so-called trade union supervision of mining safety is based on the basic human right - the right to life.Because the mine owner does not need to go down the mine, the safety of the mine has little to do with the mine owner. Only those who actually go down the mine are qualified to supervise the safety of the mine, and safety is a basic human right to life.

After more than a month of overwhelming publicity, the concept that people's right to survive is in their own hands was replaced by the concept that if miners do not have the right to control their own life safety, it means that the council does not regard these miners as human beings.

These issues were issues that those people in the old era had never considered at all, so once the veto of the council came out, the tabloids controlled by the black elements quickly spread and guided public opinion.

But after all, the matter has nothing to do with them, and the people of the Mexican Party are only propagandizing and have not encouraged anyone in Fujian to take any drastic actions.

However, last year's orchid boom bubble burst, a large amount of funds were sucked away by Chen Jian, and cheap labor was gathered in Nan'an, which caused a temporary depression in Mincheng, which made the middle class who had already accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction even more angry. The city's bureaucrats are incompetent, and the council doesn't treat the lower class as human beings at all.

The bureaucrats knew that it would cause dissatisfaction at the bottom, but they did not expect that the dissatisfaction would be so intense that it was completely out of their control.

The county guard is old and doesn't want to get involved in any troubles, and the bureaucrats in the city are not willing to take the blame on themselves, or they want to clean themselves up, so they made a more naive move.

Secretly disclosed the resolution process of this meeting, which means that if you want to criticize, please don't blame us, and blame those members of the meeting.

Two tricks in succession have proved that the elites of the old era have completely lost their positions. Due to the founding oath when the country was founded, they had to treat the lower class as human beings, but it is the rich and powerful in the city who actually hold power. There is no external enemy to divert contradictions, so the problem is only pure internal contradictions.

In this state similar to schizophrenia, they have to waver.They want the stability of the city, but they don't want to take the anger of the people on themselves and sell their natural allies, but the anger and distrust at the bottom have not disappeared.

On the fifth day of December, the Central Party Headquarters of the Mincheng Mo Party held the last meeting on this matter. That night, all the people who had been assigned responsibilities were busy.

Or go to various mining areas with the agreed time, or write articles with a pen overnight to win the sympathy of others, or contact those who are ready to cooperate.

On December [-], all the commanders who participated in this petition and strike were in place. In the era of inconvenient communication, such behavior has the organizational power comparable to that of a general on the battlefield.

On the same day, in all the mines where labor unions had been established and had taken root, it was announced simultaneously at six o'clock in the afternoon that the petition had been rejected by the council.

With Mincheng as the center, extreme anger erupted in various mining areas within 120 miles almost at the same time.

A month ago, the miners thought it was a sure thing, but today they were told that it was completely rejected by the council.

The excitement that had been accumulated for a month turned into multiple times of anger, and what was even more frightening was that these mining areas that were far apart shouted a slogan at the same time: "Be a person who can control the right to his own life! Be a man! Don't be a beast!"

But this anger was only circulated among the official members of the Employers' Association. At [-] o'clock in the morning the next day, the mine owners did not know what happened, and most of the miners who were not official members of the Employers' Association did not know the bad news.

At eight o'clock in the morning the next day, it was time to change shifts. When the miners who had stayed up all night last night were about to push the coal out of the mine shaft, a sharp whistle sounded suddenly.

Some miners from the Employment Association who worked on the night shift understood that this was the whistle of a strike, dropped the mine carts, and rushed out of the mine together with people who were usually on good terms.

Outside the mine, someone had already made a loud speech, and almost at the same time, all the miners and mine owners in several mining areas near Mincheng knew the news.

Most of the miners immediately became angry, and then shouted the slogan that they should be able to control their own lives and be human instead of animals, and the crowd was excited.

The picket team that had already been trained and organized by the Employers Association immediately put on the prepared red armband with the word picket written on it, took the prepared wooden sticks and mining picks, and was responsible for maintaining order.

Four pickets took wooden boards and iron curdles to seal the entrance of the mine, leaving only a small hole for one person to pass through. A cloth strip with the words "strike" was hung on the entrance of the mine. Pickets stood at the entrance of the mine with wooden sticks, and everyone was only allowed to come out of the mine, not to enter.

People who had secretly joined the Employment Association stood out from the crowd and quickly organized together.

"Workers! The council has already rejected our petition. This is not treating us as human beings! The mine owners threatened that if the council did not reject this petition, they would paralyze all coal-related industries in Mincheng. They If we can threaten like this, can’t we stop the mine from producing any coal?”

"We have to stand together. If we don't agree to our request, we will definitely not resume work. Anyway, when we return to work, we will be burned to death and smothered to death every year. If we die today or tomorrow, even if a man is going to die, he will die." The wimps who can't die, those who die don't even have the right to choose, but give their lives to those fat guys who don't treat us as human beings at all."

"Stand up, don't be a dog to the mine owners, and follow the trade union to win this victory that should have been won a month ago! This is closely related to us. Don't we rely on our hands, but rely on the sympathy of others? "

"Don't be a beast! Be a person who can control the right to your own life! If you don't agree, we won't resume work, and let the mine owners know that they are nothing without us!"

All kinds of speeches surged in the mine one after another, and the pickets maintained order and counted the number of people.

The thugs of the mine owners remained the same in a panic, thinking that these people would disperse after some scaring, but they were surrounded by the organized picket team and disarmed all the weapons in their hands.

There is no real freedom for Wei Guangzheng. According to the list beforehand, all suspicious elements among the miners will be cleared out in advance, and the activities of these people will be temporarily restricted.

In the panic, a thug in a mining area opened fire and wounded a picket team, but the picket team still did not retaliate under organized command, and only controlled the scene to strictly prevent the situation from expanding.

Each mining area has a loyal black element in command. They have learned and practiced to deal with various possible emergencies in such a long time before, and their task is to completely paralyze the mining area. Go to Mincheng in an organized way before the army of Mincheng comes over.

Before going to Mincheng, they will stay in the mining area for four days, which is to take into account the possible time difference between various mining areas due to poor information.

Within these four days, all we have to do is try our best to get the mine owners to sign the support petition, and limit the mine owners to reply before [-]:[-] p.m. on December [-]th. This is the final bottom line and there is no room for negotiation. Agree or disagree.

Hired workers have a natural organization, especially after the establishment of pickets and trade unions, the advantages of this organization are brought into full play and become more obvious.

Various speeches were still going on at the scene, and the emotions of the employees became more angry and more agreeable.

However, people are not monolithic after all.

On the night of December [-]th, the trade union issued an order, announcing that they would go to Mincheng to petition in four days, and the food ships were ready.That night, except for the pickets who took turns to maintain order, all miners rested normally, and contact with the lobbyists of the mine owners was strictly prohibited.

That night, the scabs among the miners yelled loudly: "Your trade union talks about pursuing human freedom all day long, but don't we have the freedom to go out and walk around? You say one thing and do another, why don't you let it go?" We move around?"

After shouting, two pickets broke into the door and told him that now he was completely free to go wherever he wanted, but the pickets were also free to follow him.The person who yelled before held back for a long time, went out to the toilet and went back.

On the morning of the [-]th, the mine owners clearly told the miners that if they did not return to work, they would be fired once they resumed work in the future, and they would never use them again.Let all miners think about their wives and children, and don't do stupid things.

The organizers of various mining areas have already responded to this, preaching the truth to reassure the miners, most of the miners have great trust in the trade union, convinced that they will win if they persist to the end, if they are all fired, the loss of the mine owners will be even greater.