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Chapter 525 - Ward Group

"Young Chen, call the police?"

Choosing this section of the block to strike, the killer must have been premeditated.

This street is relatively secluded, there are not many passersby, and when the incident happened, there was only a homeless man lying on the shady street corner.

The sharp and intense sound of the robbery naturally woke up the homeless man's beauty sleep, but he did not shout, just sit up and look this way.

As a result, the robbery was over too quickly, and when the car left, he may have mistakenly thought he was just dreaming, as if nothing had happened, lay down and rolled over, and went back to sleep.

But can wander in Manhattan characters, may be the previous is which comprehend the reigning giant, have seen the world, have this determination does not seem to be worthy of surprise.

"No need."

Chen Liang shook his head.

The other side is so reckless, must be full of courage.

The police are most likely to be of little use, but on the contrary, they may bring trouble to themselves.

And he does not like trouble.

Chen Liang took his gun back and tightened his trench coat.

"Go back to the hotel."

Shan Xin nodded, similarly put away his gun, swept his eyes at the homeless man sleeping on the curb, and followed Chen Liang quickly out of the neighborhood.

"Don't tell Miss Jiang about what happened tonight."

Back at the hotel, Chen Liang admonished, not wanting Jiang Xin to be frightened if she knew.

"Don't worry, Young Chen."

"Okay, rest."

Chen Liang went inside, and instead of being busy taking a shower, he opened the laptop equipped with the hotel and first looked up the address he had just been to.

--Tennerny Street 48.

After browsing for a while, he didn't find any information about it.

Then, he deleted the record, followed by re-entering a word.

--Ward Holdings Group.

This time, a lot of information popped up.

From the introduction, Ward Holdings is a large company based in the United States of America, with a long history, founded in the last century, the company has a wide range of businesses, across a number of industries, including steel, automotive, energy, and even arms!

Soon.

A name entered Chen Liang's sight.

The founder of Ward Holdings.

Nathan Ward.

Compared to the country, foreign countries are indeed more advanced in many aspects, such as people's speech is very free.

There are all kinds of gossips on the Internet.

This made it easy for Chen Liang to learn about Nathan Ward's deeds and the development history of Ward Holdings.

In the early twentieth century, Nathan Ward, who came from a poor background, relied on his outstanding business talent and established the Ward Group, which was mainly engaged in coal mine development.

In his third year, as his business flourished, he gradually became known as the king of coal mining, and in order to effectively maintain his private rule, he presided over the establishment of the infamous "Ward Service".

This was a violent agency of secret agents and private armies.

According to the New York Times of the time, "It is the largest private military institution in existence."

Even the mercenaries of the warlike fifteenth-century Italian princes were not as powerful as the "Ward Service," a machine for the brutal suppression of workers, according to the New York Times!

According to historical records, in 1932 and 1941, the "Ward Service" twice opened robberies and bloodily suppressed unarmed workers, writing the darkest page in the history of American labor.

The two acts of inhumanity are well documented online.

On March 7, 1932, Ward's workers held a massive strike, demanding a reduction in labor intensity, abolition of factory secrecy, guaranteeing a 15-minute work break each morning and afternoon ...... and so on.

When more than 3,000 workers arrived at Ward's factory gates, Ward first asked local police and factory guards to spray ice water and tear gas on the workers with high-pressure water cannons, and the workers fought back with their fists and frozen clods.

The conflict then escalated.

Finally, Ward's factory guards opened fire on the workers, resulting in a massacre in which 25 workers were injured, four died on the spot, and one newspaper reporter was wounded, causing an uproar in American society at the time!

Subsequently, under pressure, the violent factory guards were punished, and a total of 16 people were sentenced to life imprisonment for the rest of their lives.

And as the de facto controller of Ward's company.

Nathan Ward, with his great power, removed himself from this case and became a notorious extrajudicial fanatic.

After this incident, Nathan Ward's ferocious personality not only did not restrain, but also became more and more inflated.

Since the discovery of coal resources in the late 19th century, Colorado has become a major mining company to develop the area, by the early 20th century, Colorado's coal mining industry employed up to 15,000 workers, coal mining has undoubtedly become the state's "pillar of employment"!

Among the various coal companies in Colorado, the Ward Group did not join early, but with its fierce style of action, its Colorado Fuel and Iron Company soon took control of nearly 200,000 square kilometers of coal-producing areas, leaping to become almost the largest coal mining companies in the western United States at that time.

While Colorado's coal mines brought great wealth to the Ward Group, the miners were in extreme danger every day: mine explosions and collapses occurred from time to time, and miners had no sense of security. During that period, the death rate of Colorado's coal miners was more than twice that of miners in the rest of the United States because mining companies were unwilling to invest in maintaining mine safety!

As the industry leader at the time, Ward's was naturally responsible for this phenomenon.

One historian once described the role of mining companies in the mines as follows: "They were feudal rulers, and the company's rules were the 'laws' within the dormitory area. Miners were strictly confined to the company-built dormitories as if they were slaves. Around the dormitories, the company's 'private forces' - hired brutal guards equipped with loaded machine and foot robbers - patrolled around all the time. They forbade any strangers to enter, and also forbade the miners to go outside. In the mines, the mining company acted like an emperor, monitoring all aspects of the workers and imposing a curfew. Any miner who dared to express his dissatisfaction with the company was immediately dismissed and he and his family were immediately evicted from the dormitory and put on the streets."

All this is naturally intolerable to the United States of America, which preaches that human rights are more important than anything else.

The purgatory situation of the Colorado miners soon drew the attention of the United Mine Workers, who decided to hold a strike against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Ore Company in order to defend the rights of the miners and improve their treatment.

The reason why the Colorado Fuel and Iron Mining Company was chosen as the target of the strike was naturally because among the various mining companies in Colorado, the one controlled by Nathan Ward treated its employees particularly rudely.

But these association leaders and coal miners obviously underestimated Nathan Ward's madness.

Their reckless actions led directly to a horrific tragedy.