Rise of Australia

Chapter 442 Parade

Chapter 442 Parade
Montovsky was a senior engineer at a machinery factory in St. Petersburg. He received twice the salary of ordinary workers and enjoyed various subsidies and holidays. Before the war, he was a proper upper-middle class.

But the better days were just before the war.After the war broke out, prices in Russia rose at an astonishing rate, and the salary Montovsky was proud of could only barely maintain food and clothing for himself and his family.

You know, it can only be done on the premise that Montovsky's wife also works in the machinery factory.

If only one person had an income, the living standard of the Montovsky family would drop by another level.

On a sunny morning, Montovsky arrived at the factory early and went to his own work station.

As a senior engineer of the machinery factory, Montovsky's status is higher than that of ordinary workers, but only a little higher.

Except when there was a problem with the factory machinery, or when new machinery was installed, Montovsky would have a higher status. In other cases, he was no different from an ordinary worker.

It is also necessary to work overtime continuously, and also to work on the production line, and wages will be deducted for various reasons, or even directly deducted by half.

But there is no way, Montovsky needs to live, and he cannot give up this job that is several times higher than the per capita income.

As soon as he arrived at his work station, the management personnel of the factory issued a message that the factory needs to work another two hours tonight.

Overtime work in this era is different from that in later generations. Not only is there no overtime subsidy, but even overtime work is free.

But there is no way, no one dares to refuse the overtime proposed by the factory management, unless he wants to lose his job.

What's more terrible is that these capitalists who run factories more or less have some rights and relationships with the local government.

If you offend your boss to death, not only will you not be able to find a job in the entire region, but you will even be targeted by those capitalists. At least, your family will be destroyed, your wife and children will be separated, and at worst, your whole family will die without a place to bury you. wisps of dead souls.

In this era of cannibalism, money and power are the most important things.If you have money, you have power, and if you have power, you have money.

Both capitalists and high officials and nobles have unparalleled rights in Russia.Ordinary people are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. In addition to enduring the exploitation of the government and capitalists, their lives will be in danger at any time.

In particular, some capitalists colluded with local officials, and during wartime, anyone could be charged with the crime of deliberately sabotaging the production of war materials.

This crime is a capital crime for ordinary people, and what happens depends on the mood of the capitalists.

Montovsky sighed quietly, but he was helpless in the face of the request of the factory management.

It is ironic that Russia implements an eight-hour work system on the surface, which is very different from the actual working hours of Montovsky's factory.

Montovsky's normal working hours are about 12 to 14 hours, including overtime, the working hours are at least about 14 hours.

Compared with the working hours system in Russia, this level of working hours is nearly double the gap.

This also means that, on the premise of completing the standard eight-hour working day, most Russian workers have to "voluntarily" work more than six hours of unpaid overtime.

In fact, this is not a big deal. At present, the major European countries participating in the war generally have high overtime intensity, and the average working time per capita exceeds eleven hours.

But the problem is that European countries will give at least a symbolic overtime pay for overtime work, rather than mandatory unpaid overtime work like Russia.

Even a little living supplies or food is enough to calm the hearts of restless workers.It's a pity that the Russian capitalists can't see the status quo of the workers at all, and even if they see them, they don't care at all.

"Hey! Montovsky, will you participate in the run the day after tomorrow?" The middle-aged man next to Montovsky asked Montovsky cautiously after seeing the factory management personnel walking away.

"Running? What is that?" Montovsky asked with a question mark on his face. When is this, who is in the mood to run?

"It's a general strike organized by the Workers' Union. This is news that must be kept extremely secret, buddy, you must not disclose it to others." The middle-aged man looked around cautiously again, and then whispered.

Although general strikes and demonstrations can be seen everywhere in Russia, this does not mean that doing so is legal.

As the Tsarist Russian government has severely suppressed several demonstrations before, the crowd participating in the demonstrations, especially those who organize the demonstrations, will be sentenced to death.

Even ordinary workers who participated in the demonstrations would face prison time.If the management personnel of the factory find out, not only will they lose their jobs, but their lives and those of their families will be in danger.

"Workers Union? Is this a new political party?" Montovsky asked curiously.

Although Russia is a tsarist autocratic country, there are not many parties in Russia, and they can even be called multifarious.

Of course, quite a few parties are illegal, and members of these parties will also be sieged by the government.

"It's actually the Bolshevik Party, you know that," the man explained with a smile.

Although Arthur had already ordered the Royal Security Intelligence Service to clean up the political parties in Russia to a certain extent, it was impossible to completely eliminate these revolutionaries.

These political parties thought that the tsarist government had paid them, so they chose to hide their identities and use new party names to carry out activities.

The workers' parties headed by the Bushevik Party still have a considerable place in the hearts of most workers in Russia.

Not just Montovsky, a large number of Russian workers were quietly drawn into this parade, and it has even spread to other areas outside St. Petersburg.

While the undercurrent was surging, Nicholas II was also planning his own plans in St. Petersburg.

Since Nicholas II became the commander-in-chief of Russia, the offensive of the Russian army has not achieved anything, and the situation on the Russian front and at home has become worse and worse.

The army and the people pointed their fingers at Nicholas II one after another. After all, he is the supreme leader of the army and he is also a well-deserved one.

Although Nicholas II's military talent is not high, in terms of political ability, Nicholas II is definitely a qualified monarch.

In order to reduce one's own responsibility as much as possible, it is necessary to find the blame.

On October 1916, 10, in St. Petersburg, Nicholas II convened a military conference, in the name of studying Russia's offensive plan for the next year.

The meeting attracted the participation of a large number of senior Russian military officials, including the commander-in-chief of the Russian Southwest Front and the Northwest Front.

The discussion on the next year's combat plan imagined by the top Russian military officials did not take place. Instead, at the beginning of the meeting, Nicholas II loudly questioned the two commanders-in-chief of the Russian front, questioning the fact that the Russian army has not achieved great results so far. reason.

The two commanders-in-chief immediately broke into cold sweats, and they also understood at this time that Nicholas II wanted to let them both take the blame.

Before the two commander-in-chiefs could defend themselves, Nicholas II turned his attention to other high-ranking military officers, and asked with a little deep meaning: "Everyone, are you determined to save the dead soldiers? Brothers, subordinates, and comrades-in-arms seek justice and investigate the reason for the real failure of the war?"

"Have!"

Responses from top military officials were swift, albeit uneven.

This is actually the time for high-level military officials to stand in line.The attitude of Nicholas II is obvious. He wants to let the two commanders-in-chief take the blame and shift the responsibility for the failure of the war to the former Russian commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Nicholas, and the two front-line commanders-in-chief.

Others had only two options, either to become Nicholas II's accomplices and help Nicholas II to be convicted of the two front-line commanders-in-chief.

Or, the military unites to oppose Nicholas II's behavior of dumping the pot, but it is very likely that Nicholas II will be removed.

Whether their own positions or the lives of their colleagues, these high-level Russian military officials quickly made a choice.

Soon, all kinds of reasons were thought up by these high-level military officials. Not only the two frontline commanders were charged with ineffective command, but even the logistics department that had been cleaned up before was also charged with withholding supplies. , Colluding with domestic and foreign capitalists.

In the announcement made by the Russian government the next day, it can be seen that Nicholas II and the Russian government have shirked most of the responsibility for the unfavorable war, and put all the blame on the front-line commanders and logistics departments.

Because the logistics department in the government announcement has colluded with capitalists at home and abroad, many Russian factories are also the subject of investigation. The owners of these factories are well-known capitalists in Russia, and they are also the chief culprits of colluding with the Russian logistics department.

But in this way, the workers in those factories suffered.Because the factory where they worked was investigated, they temporarily lost their jobs.

Greedy capitalists don't want to pay workers wages when they can't go to work. This has also caused about tens of thousands of workers to be affected by this and temporarily lose their source of income.

Although the government announced that the investigation of these factories and capitalists only takes a short time, it will not take long for the factories to reopen.

The temporary lack of a source of income still makes many Russian workers panic. If they do not go to work for a day, their wives and children will not be able to eat food for a day.

At such a moment, the Workers' Union took the opportunity to introduce a rule that all workers participating in the parade will be given a certain amount of food for free.

This can be said to have solved the urgent needs of those workers, and it has also attracted more workers to participate in the upcoming large-scale demonstration in a short period of time.

Attracted by the food, many workers signed up enthusiastically, and the estimated number of participants in the parade soon exceeded 10.

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