From Chief to Ball

But even so, some timid people started to leave the crowd and walked to the mouth of the mine.

The picket team guarding the mine mouth quickly organized and recognized the leader as a relative of the mine owner. After a fierce confrontation, an honest miner stood out among those who wanted to resume work, a person who had nothing to do with the mine owner. .

He looked at the pickets guarding the entrance of the cave, and shouted: "Brothers, give way, I have nothing to do with the mine owner, you know it."

The picket team also comforted: "Brother, everyone is on strike, what are you doing here? Don't be afraid, the mine owners dare not fire you, and even if they fire you, they can't find you, so they should fire you first." We are."

This usually honest person shook his head and said: "I don't understand the big truth, but buddy, I have a wife and children at home, and they all depend on me to support them. I'm not afraid of [-], just in case. I even take the risk of the event. Sorry."

"Brother, your child is sick, isn't it because the trade union helped raise the money? Why did you forget it in a blink of an eye? Besides, who is our strike for? Isn't it for ourselves?"

The man sighed and said, "How can I forget? But you don't care, I'll dig mine. Anyway, I alone can't affect anything."

"You can't say that, if you think like you, everyone's hearts will be broken."

"Your trade union always says that it is for the sake of the hired workers. Am I not a hired worker? You stop your work, and I dig my coal. Why can't it work?"

"Brother, why is it our union? It's our union!"

The man shook his head and said, "You can't win. It's been like this for many years. In the end, it's you who suffer the most? Especially you leaders, what will your wives and children do? Anyway, I'm going down the well, can you let me go?" Let it go?"

At this time, a few hired workers in the distance couldn't help cursing: "Traitor!"

"Don't you want the rights we won? Selfish dog! Coward!"

The person in charge of the Employment Association heard what happened here, hurried over, pointed to the hole and said: "Let's work together, let you go in. But I also tell you clearly, if you can get in, you can't get out!"

The man thought to himself: "This is just to scare me. Your trade union is a good person, not a mine owner. You dare not kill people or do bad things. I am not afraid. The child was sick a few days ago, and the labor union paid for it. People like that don’t do bad things.”

Since he thought so, the man agreed, and got in under the scolding of the angry traitor behind him.

The person in charge stood at the entrance of the cave and asked, "Who else wants to go down? I repeat, this is the last chance. You can go down, but the entrance to the cave is sealed and you are not allowed to go up! Who else?"

Another seven or eight felt that these people were good people and would not be as serious as the mine owner, so they got in one after another. After they got in, the person in charge asked three times, but finally no one answered.

Before the people in the mine had gone far, they heard the person in charge shouting: "Pickets! Throw two buckets of water in and seal the entrance of the cave! Take it apart after eight days, and you will not die of hunger! No entry or exit!"

When the few people in the mine heard this, they couldn't believe that these good people were going to be serious, and hurried to the entrance of the cave, but the last ray of light at the entrance of the cave was blocked by the wooden plank, and the thick iron curium was firmly stuck on it.

The people inside panicked and yelled and cursed, but they heard the person in charge outside say: "We are a party, don't judge us by good people and bad people. We don't bother trying to be good people who are praised by everyone."

In the end, the person in charge leaned against the wooden board and told the people inside loudly: "We are the Mexican Party, not the Good People Party."

Chapter 151

Good people have their times, and a slightly normal modern political party cannot be defined simply by good or bad.

Good or bad is a broad and generally applicable criterion for all people. From this perspective, at the intersection of the old and the new, only conservatives are closer to "good people."

For example, those who rebelled against slave owners in slavery and did not work hard were definitely not good people at that time; in the feudal era, those who resisted the royal power and said that everyone was equal were definitely not good people at that time, but rebels.

If the whole world is "good people", then the times will not have the slightest progress, morality will always be mixed with the morality that the ruler wants you to abide by, and use this to divide the standard of good and bad.

If you can't get it out, you can only fall into the cycle of eternal fall.Those who "die for the country" when cutting their braids must be good people, and those who object to beating their daughters to death when they are not allowed to bind their feet must also be good people.

The words that we are a political party and not a good person shouted in the mining area have actually declared a break with the old era, but it is too deep to hide, and it is not straightforward to say it out.

It is impossible for the pickets to be all kind and harmless people, and the methods they use will never be so righteous.

During the four-day ultimatum, the mine owners tried their best to break up the strike miners, and the head of the labor union also tried their best to fight back.

The mine owner found some acquaintances of the miners, and these acquaintances persuaded the strike miners, hoping that they would not go astray and give each other face for the sake of acquaintances.

The pickets, while continuing to publicize, surrounded these people and asked them if their face was worth everyone's life, forcing these people to leave with red faces.

The mine owners shouted that as long as they go down the mine, as long as some miners leave the union, take apart the planks, and go down into the well, there is no need to work, and as long as they go on strike for one day, they will get a hundred coppers a day.

The pickets guarded the entrance of the mine, mobilized the miners to insult those who took the money as traitors, opened a small crack in the door of the mine, and smashed those who wanted to climb out inside, and then sent those who were determined to get out after persuasion to no avail. Those who climbed in to make money stuffed in and resealed the boards.

The mine owner hired a gunman and declared that he would kill the head of the labor association. Even if he couldn't kill him today, he would find a chance to kill him later.Anyone who dances happily with the Employers' Association will definitely retaliate in the future.

The picket team also issued a statement that everyone should be expelled, because there are still hidden members of the Mexican Party among the miners.In the future, if something happens to the person in charge of the Employment Association, there will also be retaliation here, and the whole family will be killed.

The mine owner hired rogues, disguised as strikers, to loot and set fire to the town, causing panic.

The picket team quickly sent someone to catch the rogue, hung him upside down from a tree with a rope, and was on display for a day before being sent to the sheriff.

The two sides are tit for tat, see each other's tricks, and refuse to give in to each other.The mine owner is really helpless, the picket team has weapons in their hands, and the thugs hired may not necessarily be organized opponents if they really want to fight.

In addition, the thugs used to face only one or two troublesome hired workers. They have never dealt with organized miners. Let me tell you whether they can fight or not. If the union cannot be dissolved, I am afraid that I will not do it Have a good time, I really can't afford it.

On the day of the ultimatum, the mine owners still rejected the request of the labor union and refused to sign it.

Some mine owners in Nan'an County had other ideas, while mine owners elsewhere who had no connection with Chen Jian were worried about the coal mine industry alliance.They are still convinced that they will win, and once they are the only ones who sign, they will definitely be squeezed out by the rest of the people.

The ideas of the employees are much simpler, the trade union is the backbone, they can do what they say, and they can eat at the right time every day without being stuck in the neck.

Under this stalemate, by noon on December [-], all the employees in the mining area embarked on the road to Mincheng to strike and petition.

This time it was far more powerful than before. They no longer came together spontaneously out of anger, but organized and unified command behind the scenes.

How to march, when to rest, which way to go, what time to eat, how to count the number of people, how to break through or bypass obstacles...

As early as a month ago, it had been rehearsed countless times on paper. This is not a war, so there is no need to worry about being defeated by the enemy one by one, because they will gather together outside Mincheng.

It's not like I didn't run into some sheriff's patrols or a small group of soldiers on the road, and none of these people stopped me after negotiating without accident.

This was a situation that Chen Jian had already foreseen. He knew it from the first time he opened his eyes in this life that his father was accepting bribes, and after listening to his father talk about the current mentality of the military and the officialdom.

These sheriffs or small military officers will not take the initiative to do such things without orders, and ask whether they are causing trouble in their own towns, villages or areas under their jurisdiction. They hope that these people will leave quickly, so that they will not let their subordinates People block.

Furthermore, the Mob Party is very powerful, and there are some dangerous radicals in it. They are provoked for the sake of others, and they are the victims. Anyway, there is basically no hope of promotion.

The members of the leading employee association also produced various legal provisions to prove that the behavior of these people does not constitute a rebellion. This statement has enough reasons, and if it is really pursued in the future, it will be a joke.

In this way, on December 24, the day after the new year, nearly 2000 miners, coal mine transporters, trackers, pulverized coal workers, coal washers, etc., gathered outside Mincheng.

After counting the number of people, it was confirmed that all the people who followed the departure had arrived. All the members of the Mexican Party in the city also joined the petition team. At the same time, some dock workers and full-time full-time pickets were mobilized.

Thousands of people, with enough picket teams assigned to maintain order, fought banners reading "Be human! Not beast!", shouted slogans, and marched towards the meeting in Mincheng.

……

Mincheng, the city has been in chaos for many days.

People didn't know what was going on at first, but suddenly the price of coal soared ten days ago, and there was no more coal available.

It's winter, even though Mincheng is not cold, many industries still need coal as fuel, including some family workshops.