Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 275 Workers’ Federation

When discussing whether to launch a march, some people proposed turning the originally peaceful parade into a violent conflict, and even simply armed the workers.

As mentioned before, many of the factories in Pignysburg are former military factories. Although the weapons and equipment produced are old things from decades ago, this does not mean that these old things cannot kill people.

Although the Workers' Federation currently has no weapons on hand, they can always get hold of the old flintlock muskets stored in the factory's warehouses if they want.

Even if they were ready, within a month they could gather enough flintlock guns to arm a group of people.

As for why the originally negotiated peaceful march turned into an armed struggle, it was mainly because some people within the Workers' Federation felt that the factory's order for marching lunch boxes could alleviate the current situation in Pignisberg and curb the worsening unemployment rate. , thus affecting the expansion of workers' unions.

In their view, once the factory gets new orders and reopens, those workers who were originally unemployed due to the shutdown of the factory and thus joined the workers' union will be shaken and return to the factory to work instead of staying. Keep fighting.

Therefore, they want to use armed fighting to sabotage this order and even the technical upgrade of the factory, so as to continue to maintain the current situation in Pignisberg and maintain the miserable life of Pignissburg workers, so that more people can Workers join workers' unions.

But Kallen didn't want them to do this.

"The order for the marching lunch boxes this time was placed by the Earl of the North to the factory in Pignisberg. If we destroy and stop this, it is likely to attract the attention of the Earl of the North. You know what she is. A soft-hearted person." Although Kallen was unwilling to say this about Purficott, at this time, if she wanted to prevent everyone from going in the wrong direction, she could only use Purficott's intimidation.

Hearing Karen's words, the others fell silent for a moment. The tragedy in New Shake City was a nightmare for everyone.

Although some people were still unconvinced and said, "She is just a wanton woman," as if they wanted to show that they were not afraid of Perfectcott, but the idea of ​​armed struggle was obviously abandoned.

After all, even if there are flintlock guns and six-pound cannons, challenging the steam knights is purely a matter of light in the pit. It is something that even the regular army cannot do, let alone a group of workers who have not even done much training?
And in addition to the reason of not being able to win, Kallen also gave another reason: "If we have to rely on maintaining a harsh environment to force the worker brothers to join us, then what is the difference between us and those street lamp pendants?
We cannot create misery to get people to join us! This is a very selfish and shameless approach with no moral bottom line!
Why should our fellow workers join us? It’s not that the Workers’ Federation can make them get more wages, nor that it can stand up for them or protect them, but it’s that the Workers’ Federation allows them to see hope and the hope of living a better life!
Now if we force them to join us by artificially creating suffering for them, this will go against the original intention of establishing the Workers' Federation and will deviate from our principles!
Maybe we can develop and grow for a while, but when this matter becomes known to people in the future, what will those worker brothers think of our workers' federation?

The biggest factor that enables us to compete with street lamp pendants is our unity. Only when everyone is united can we fight against them. But if we use this method, how can we still unite everyone? "

Kallen's words caused all the worker representatives to fall into deep thought. After thinking about Kallen's words seriously, they all had to admit that Kallen was right, and they really should not bring up this idea.

"Kafka, you are right, we should not use this method to force our own brothers!" An old worker who is usually very prestigious took the initiative to say to Kallen, and his statement also inspired others They admitted to Karen that their previous idea was wrong.

Kafka is a pseudonym used by Karen when conducting workers' union activities, in order to distinguish it from her original identity, avoid being discovered by interested parties, and thus connect her to her original identity. There were many cases in the knowledge that Purficott imparted to her that mentioned that personal information must be hidden when engaging in such dangerous activities, so Kallen hid her identity from the beginning, even using her name. It's a pseudonym.

After unifying everyone's ideas, the old worker also raised a new question to Karen: "Since we will not use force to disrupt this matter, how should our workers' federation express our opinions on this matter? Attitude? And what attitude do we need to express?”

This is what the workers' representatives of the Workers' Federation are most concerned about at this time.

Faced with this problem, Kallen thought about it seriously for a while and said to everyone: "We will not take a position on this matter. We will neither actively undermine nor support it."

"Is this okay?" a young worker representative asked Kallen.

At a young age, he has more passion and blood, and is eager to do more.

But relatively speaking, the old worker understood Kallen's choice better. He took the initiative to explain: "We don't destroy because we cannot create suffering to force our fellow workers. After all, the factory has obtained an order for marching lunch boxes. This matter itself It is good for the workers of Pignisberg.

If the factory can operate, everyone will have a job and receive wages, which will improve the life problems caused by unemployment.

But at the same time, we cannot support this matter because it conflicts with the interests of our workers. What we want is to improve our working environment, improve workers' treatment, and strive for the interests that should belong to us.

So we cannot support something that we should oppose, even if it does objectively improve the living conditions of workers. "

"What Father Greif said is what I want to express. Even I can't say it better." Kallen happily supported the old worker with a smile on her face.

The old worker was a little embarrassed by Kallen's words. He couldn't help but blush, but he still said to Kallen: "I can't compare with you, Kafka. What I'm talking about are all things you teach us. I I just used what you taught me to analyze what happened this time.”

Hearing the old worker's words, Kallen's expression became even happier. It was obvious that her work had begun to bear fruit.

(End of this chapter)