Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 418 Resolute Struggle
"You have to 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. These two can slightly reduce the insecurity of workers' lives during the strike and allow them to protect themselves during unemployment." Perfectcot suggested to Karen, while also seriously evaluating the feasibility of launching a large-scale workers' movement proposed by Karen.

Based on Karen's explanation and the intelligence he had collected, Perfect was sure that the Workers' Union now had a very broad mass base.

Their influence has spread to most cities in the New World colonies, and branches have been established in most cities, which undoubtedly provided a fairly solid mass foundation for the workers' movement.

Although as Karen said, workers in different regions have different demands, workers in wealthy areas have no worries about work, and they prefer to shorten their working hours when it comes to increasing wages and shortening working hours.

Workers in poor areas are more worried about not being able to support their families. They would rather work more and hope to get more wages.

Although both parties have demands, and in essence they are all trying to improve their own treatment and gain more rights and interests, differences in demands often lead to disagreements, which even affect the effectiveness of the overall struggle.

For example, the simplest example is that if the capitalists in poor areas agree to increase wages and the local workers agree to return to work, should the workers in wealthy areas continue to fight? What should be done with their demands?
And the most crucial thing is, since one party is negotiating alone this time, will both parties continue to cooperate in actions in the future?
For a large-scale workers' movement, these are issues that organizers need to consider in advance. They cannot just launch the movement without thinking about it and then slowly consider these issues.

Of course, in the history of the original world, the workers' movement was often spontaneous and lacked strict organization. Although many times due to the influence of some key events, it received a wide-ranging response and made the entire workers' movement appear to be massive, this spontaneous response would be easily split and disintegrated by the enemy if it could not establish a unified organization in time and be guided by a scientific program and ideas, and eventually be 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 taught you a lot of knowledge so that you have a scientific guiding ideology to guide you at the beginning of the struggle, I have to say that your ideological awareness is not high enough." Perfect took out an investigation report and placed it in front of Karen: "This is the intelligence collected by the intelligence organization in the North about the Workers' Federation. You can take a look. It lists in detail that representatives of about seven branches have been bribed by the colonial authorities.

In addition, a considerable number of worker representatives are not aware enough of the need for resolute struggle, and feel that they can compromise with capitalists as long as they can achieve short-term benefits such as wage increases and holidays.

These are all things you must face and consider in the next struggle. No one can guarantee that the entire organization has a highly unified mindset, but at least you still need to ensure that most people are willing to follow you and let them work together. "

This is also a fatal problem in the workers' movement, because the early workers' representatives or leaders of the workers' movement were self-taught people who generally put forward some very naive views on various historical, economic and social issues.

These issues cannot be examined clearly without comprehensive and careful scientific research. This also makes the struggle of the workers' movement often incomplete, and the goal of the efforts is always limited to short-term interests such as increasing wages and shortening working hours to force capitalists to make concessions and compromises.

However, a true workers' movement needs to make it clear that the struggle is not only to increase wages, but also to abolish the wage system itself!

"I suggest that after you go back, you should further reorganize the Workers' Union. Use the knowledge I taught you to select comrades with sufficiently high consciousness and let them take up leadership positions. At the same time, you should also strengthen the dissemination of revolutionary ideas among the workers so that their ideological realm can be improved." Perfect looked at Karen and gave her his suggestions.

Kallen took this point to heart, but at the same time she asked Perfect a crucial question: "Should we still launch this labor movement? The atmosphere in the Workers' Union is already very heated. If we continue to suppress it, I'm worried that something might go wrong."

"Start it, wait until the Empire officially announces the existence of the doomsday, then you can start it." Perficot did not stop him, but after careful consideration, he said to Kallen: "This will be a struggle to open a new era. In this process, you will encounter many problems, whether they come from outside or from within.

These problems may be fatal, and may also make all your efforts so far come to naught, but as a leader, you must understand that some things cannot be stopped once they start!
If the struggle is not finally and completely won, then the struggle is not 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 never waver or hesitate!
Even if the person you have to face and defeat in the end is me, you must keep going forward unwaveringly!"

“But…” When Karen heard what Perfectcot said, a trace of sadness flashed across her eyes. She knew that Perfectcot’s identity determined that she would definitely be the biggest enemy she would face in the future.

But she didn't want this to happen. She wanted to convince her friends not to be so determined to become her enemies. There must be other solutions.

Perfect understood what Karen wanted to say, she just smiled and shook her head: "Don't be silly, with my identity, it is impossible for me to openly support the workers' movement, and I can't express sympathy for you either.

Even after you launch this massive movement, I will become your biggest enemy, and the northern army and the Steam Knights will brutally suppress you.

So you must be well prepared and have the awareness to carry out armed struggle, because I will not show any mercy, you must be trained and grow in blood and sacrifice, and then overthrow my brutal rule. "

(End of this chapter)