Chapter 418 Resolute Struggle
“You must pay special attention to the different demands of workers’ groups in different regions. When organizing a strike, you must set up a relief fund and a worker mutual aid plan. Both of these can be slightly reduced. The insecurity of workers' lives during the strike allows them to protect themselves during the period of unemployment," Purficott suggested to Karen, while also carefully evaluating Karen's proposal to launch a large-scale campaign. viability of the labor movement.
Based on Karen's explanation and the intelligence he collected, Purficott can be sure that the Workers' Federation now has a fairly broad mass base.
Their power has spread to most cities in the New World colonies, and branches have been established in most cities, which undoubtedly provides a fairly solid mass basis for the labor movement.
Although as Karen said, worker groups in different regions have different demands. Workers in wealthy areas have no worries about hard work, and they prefer to shorten working hours in terms of higher wages and shorter working hours.
Workers in poor areas are more worried that they will not be able to support their families. They would rather work more and hope to get more wages.
Although both have demands, and in essence they are both aiming to improve their own treatment and strive for more rights, but because of the differences in demands, differences often arise and even affect the effectiveness of the overall struggle.
For example, in the simplest case, capitalists in poor areas agree to raise wages, and local workers also agree to resume work. So, should workers in wealthy areas continue to fight? What to do with their demands?
And the most important thing is, this time one side talks alone, will the two sides still cooperate in action in the future?
For a large-scale labor movement, these are all issues that need to be considered by the organizers in advance. They cannot just launch the movement first and then consider these issues slowly.
Of course, in the history of the original world, labor movements were often spontaneous and lacked strict organization. Although many times they received a large-scale response due to the influence of some key events, making the entire labor movement appear to be huge, this kind of If a spontaneous response fails to establish a unified organization in time and is guided by scientific programs and ideas, it will be easily divided and disintegrated by the enemy, and eventually defeated one by one.
This has been fully reflected in the history of the original world.
“Your current struggle situation and organizational form are still in the primary stage. Although I have imparted a lot of knowledge to you so that you can have scientific guiding ideology as a guide at the beginning of the struggle, I I have to say that your ideological consciousness is not high enough." Purficott took out an investigation report and placed it in front of Kallen: "This is information about the workers' union collected by the intelligence organization in the north. It can be seen that the representatives of about seven branches were bribed by the colonial authorities.
And a considerable number of workers' representatives were not aware enough of the determination of the struggle and felt that they only needed to achieve things such as. You can compromise with the capitalists for immediate benefits such as salary increases and vacations.
These are all things you must face and consider in the next struggle. No one can guarantee that the entire organization will be safe. Have a highly unified idea, but at least you still need to ensure that most people are willing to follow you and let them focus their efforts in one place.”
This is also a very fatal problem in the labor movement, because the early labor representatives or leaders of the labor movement were self-taught people, and they generally put forward some very naive views on various historical, economic and social issues.
These issues cannot be clearly investigated without comprehensive and careful scientific research. This also makes the struggles of the labor movement often incomplete, and the goals of its efforts are always limited to short-term interests such as raising wages and shortening working hours, which force capitalists to make concessions and compromises.
However, the real labor movement needs to make it clear that the struggle is not just to raise wages, but to abolish the wage system itself!
“I suggest that after you go back, you further reorganize the Workers’ Federation and use the knowledge I taught you to select comrades with high enough consciousness and let them assume leadership responsibilities. At the same time, you must also strengthen The spread of revolutionary ideas among workers has improved their ideological realm." Purficott looked at Karen and gave her his advice.
Karen kept this in mind, but at the same time she also asked Purficott a key question: "So, do we still want to launch this labor movement? Now the Workers' Federation The atmosphere here is already very heated. If we continue to suppress it, I'm worried that there will be problems."
"Start it. Wait until the empire officially announces the existence of doomsday." Purficott did not stop it. Instead, after thinking carefully, he said to Karen: "This will be a struggle to open a new era. In the process, you will encounter many problems, whether they are from the outside or generated internally. < br>
These problems may be fatal, and may also make everything you have worked hard so far come to naught, but as a leader, you must understand that once you start some things, you cannot stop!
If you can’t! If you achieve the final and complete victory of the struggle, then the struggle will not be over!
The creation of a new era is accompanied by sacrifice. In this process, many people you are familiar with or unfamiliar with will sacrifice their lives for it. But you must not waver or hesitate!
Even if the person you have to face and defeat in the end is me, you must go on unswervingly! "
"But..." Karen couldn't help but feel a trace of sadness in her eyes when she heard what Purficott said. She knew that Purficott's identity determined that she would definitely be the one she wanted in the future. The biggest enemy she faced.
But she didn't want this. She wanted to convince her friends not to become her enemies so determinedly. There must be other solutions to the matter.
Perfect understood what Kallen wanted to say, she just smiled and shook her head: "Don't be stupid, with my identity, it is impossible for me to openly support the labor movement, and I also cannot express sympathy for you.
Even after you launch this massive movement, I will become your biggest enemy, and the northern army and steam knights will brutally suppress you.
Therefore, you must be prepared and have the consciousness to carry out armed struggle, because I will not show any mercy. You must be trained and grown in blood and sacrifice, and then overthrow my brutal rule. ”
(End of this chapter)