Holy Roman Empire

610 Strike Movement

Ten million immigrants sounds terrible. In fact, after five years of sharing, two million immigrants a year.

Based on Austria's current population base and calculated at a growth rate of 2%, there are more than 1.7 million new people in the country every year, and actually there will be more.

In an era without any entertainment, the people are still keen to create people.Together with the Vienna government's maternity subsidies, Austria's population growth rate has always been among the highest in the world.

The total local population has not decreased much, but the impact is still not small.At the moment of the second industrial revolution, the scale of emerging industries is constantly expanding, and the demand for labor is also increasing.

The demand for labor is increasing, but the quantity is decreasing, the supply and demand relationship in the labor market has changed, and the increase in labor costs is imperative.

Compared with traditional industries, the biggest feature of emerging industries is vitality.During the period of rapid development, enterprises have higher profits and can naturally pay higher wages.

In this context, if traditional enterprises do not want to be eliminated by the market, technological innovation is imperative.

In fact, many new production equipment have already appeared, but some capitalists are too lazy to replace them in order to save costs.

This is not Franz speculation out of thin air, but evidence.Other capitalists have complained in the newspaper:

Nowadays, mechanical equipments are updated so frequently. New ones are replaced today, and they may fall behind in a few years.Anyway, the current equipment can still be used, it is better to wait for a better appearance, and then in one step.

The comfortable business environment for a long time has made capitalists conservative.Many people even oppose technological advancement because it increases uncertainty.

The most typical is the age of electricity. In order to save costs, many factories insist on using gas lamps.

It's not that capitalists don't know the advantages of electric lights, but they just don't want to pay for laying electrical equipment.

Anyway, you can always use a gas lamp. If you continue to make money, why bother asking for trouble?

The poor in Austria are not concentrated in the countryside, but in the cities.The main reason for this is that everything is rising, but wages are not rising.

From 1848 to the present, Austria ’s per capita income has increased by 2.3 times. However, workers ’wages have only increased by 56%, and even a considerable portion of the factory ’s wages have not changed.

It is not surprising that the economy is developing and income has not kept up, and it has become a poor population.

Now that Franz has made a big move for immigration, it is actually forced.If this situation does not change, sooner or later there will be an accident.

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Milan, as the capital of the Kingdom of Lombardy, has always been the most prosperous city in Italy.No, it should be said that it is the most prosperous area in the German region.

The region has always been artificially divided, and now Austria has a great potential. Franz directly divided the Lombardy region into the German region.

Regardless of whether you are used to it or not, Milan is part of the German region in all official documents.The theoretical basis is: The Lombards are part of the German nation.

Although there are more local Italians, it does not matter.History can be changed, cultural traditions can be changed, and nationalities can be changed.

The international community has recognized that the Kingdom of Lombardy is part of the German region.There were many others that were classified into the German region with Lombard for the first time. For example: Venice next door, Hungary and the Austrian Balkans further away ...

Even the Kingdom of Jerusalem will soon become part of the German region. Looking at the map of the German region now can directly embarrass historians.

All natural conditions and historical factors are all nonsense. The real division is based on the characteristics of the times. Within the range of the Austrian artillery, it is the German area, or the Austrian area.

It ’s just the name. It does n’t affect everyone ’s interests. Just getting used to it a few times will get used to it.

Dacron Textile Mill is a well-known large enterprise in the Milan area. It can also be ranked in the top three among many textile mills in Austria.

Its subsidiaries include: silk reeling factory, wool spinning factory, cotton spinning factory, printing and dyeing factory, garment factory, etc., with more than 130,000 employees.

There is an independent industrial industrial park in the Milan area. At this time in the past, the factory has been busy already, but now it is a strange silence.

Anyone who knows the situation knows that there is another strike here.

Austria is popularizing compulsory education, and the Kingdom of Lombardy is no exception.Thanks to the training of discipline awareness from an early age, the strike movement now needs to be much more harmonious.

Everyone has clearly realized that the mechanical equipment is the guy who eats, and smashing and roasting is smashing his own rice bowl.

This does not affect everyone ’s legal strike. As long as it does not affect social public order, strikes are still everyone ’s basic right and can be carried out without anyone ’s approval.

Milan is heavily influenced by Italian marine culture and is the birthplace of the Renaissance. Compared with other regions in Austria, new ideas are more active here and strike movements are more frequent.

Of course, this is not the main factor in the strike of the Dakal textile mill.Like the vast majority of traditional companies, the booming Dacquel Textile Mill gradually declined.

After the outbreak of the second industrial revolution, Dacquel Textile Mill did not seize the opportunity, stood on the side of the conservatives, failed to update the equipment in time, and appeared fatigued in the market competition.

Affected by the decline in profits, from 1870 to the present, companies have not increased their salaries once, but prices have not stopped to wait for them, and the strike movement naturally occurred.

Like most companies, Dacron Textile Mill is also a family-owned company. Dakol-Lanno, the current head, is already an old man in his seventies.

In his younger age, he was also a great figure.After betting on Austria decisively in the Osage War, after the war, the competitors led the box lunch because of the wrong team. Dakol-Lanno took the opportunity to merge their factories, and then started a life of lying win.

Taking advantage of the market gap period, Dacquel Textile Mill developed rapidly. At its peak, the number of workers once exceeded 180,000, and the company's annual output value entered the top 100 in Austria.

However, this industry without core technology has a common problem, that is, there are many competitors.

After the Vienna government's strategy of "changing wheat into mulberry" was promoted, the Kingdom of Lombardy soon became the most important raw silk production place in Austria.

The near-water tower first wins the moon, and Dakal Textile Mill enjoys the first wave of dividends. Producing on-site will undoubtedly greatly reduce costs.

Even now, the Dakal textile mill occupies most of the raw silk processing in the Kingdom of Lombardy.With a complete industrial chain, it is reasonable to say that Dacron Textile Mill should have a very nourishing life.

However, with the advent of the second industrial revolution, the situation began to change.All kinds of machinery and equipment are constantly being updated. In order to pursue greater profits, the elderly and conservative Dacron-Lanno did not immediately keep pace with the times.

Step by step, step by step, capital competition is omnipotent, and competitors will not leave them opportunities.

The new technology brings not only increased productivity, but also improved product quality.In the case of similar prices, good quality products are definitely more popular.

In just a few years, the market share of Dacron Textile has been eaten up by a third of its competitors, and corporate profits have plummeted.

After receiving the news of the strike, Dacron-Lanno suddenly flicked the table: "A strike again, this group of unconscionable things, do not want to think who is keeping them!

If we fall down, they will not even have a job.Don't do it if you don't want to do it. There are many people who want to enter the work.

Instructed to continue to dismiss 10% of the strikers according to the old rules and order them to resume work immediately. The slowest group of workers to resume work will leave me!"

This is the experience Dakol-Lanno summed up to deal with the strike.Among the workers, he also bought the spy. At this time, as long as someone took the lead to resume work, the strike could not go on.

Usually those who stay at the end are diehards, and naturally they must be expelled.It doesn't matter if you really want to lay off 10% of the staff, as long as you remove the diehards, or the leaders, and kill the chickens and monkeys.

In this era of bad competition, Dacron-Lanno thinks he has done a good job. At least he complies with the law, which is much better than the underground black factory.

Of course, this is limited to him personally, but in the eyes of the workers he is a vampire.Comply with the "Labor Protection Law", sorry, there is no big company in Austria that dares to break the law, and it is all small businesses that risk.

There is no way. The Vienna government is paying close attention, and the law enforcement is very strong. In addition, the "Labor Protection Law" is not excessive, and it is actually protecting the interests of both parties.

It is not that no one threatened the Vienna government with the closure of the factory, but there was no use of any eggs. Franz did very thoroughly in safeguarding the dignity of the law.

Regardless of the consequences, you should still go to prison.Before threatening the government, it is best to expect that there is no black history. Otherwise, even if you do not have the qualification to close the factory, all assets will be confiscated by the government.

A large part of Austria's state-owned enterprises are confiscated. Almost every three to five years, the Vienna government auctions a batch of state-owned enterprises, most of which are small factories.

With the lesson in front of the car, the people behind are a lot of low-key.Let ’s just go into the loopholes of the law and work directly with the government. Forget it!

It seems that the bourgeoisie is powerful, but in fact their strength is very limited, and they are all blown out by smashing money.

Not to mention, who can integrate the bourgeoisie with serious conflicts of interest, believe it or not, everybody acts as a traitor?

This situation is most obvious in Austria. After the law stipulates that news must guarantee authenticity, the capitalists are much less powerful.

It is also legally responsible to empty the gun and promise.You dared to brag, and others dared not publish it.

Xiao Lan Nuo objected: "Father, this is not good! In the past year, we have expelled 20,000 old workers. Now, many new recruits are out of skill, and the defective rate of products is two percentage points higher.

The increase in the defective rate will affect the reputation of our products. Now that the competition is so fierce, if we cannot guarantee the quality of our products, our market will be snatched away by our competitors.

This is equivalent to a vicious circle, it is better to send people to talk with the workers' representatives first, and expel these stings afterwards."

As a qualified capitalist, we always put the interests first.

After Dakron-Lanno weighed the pros and cons, he shook his head: "There is no compromise, people's desires are endless. As soon as this precedent is set, we will never have peace.

Remember the canning factory next door, McDowell, so shrewd, in order to catch a batch of orders, compromised with the workers, and then directly dragged down by high labor costs.

Remember, even if you want to raise your salary, it must be increased by us.Under their perseverance, you will not reap any gratitude."

In this case, Xiao Lan Nuo has heard many times.However, his view is exactly the opposite. McDonnell was still very moist after the cannery was closed. Obviously, he could not afford to close the labor cost.

There is no large-scale cannery in the Kingdom of Lombardy, which has been able to explain many problems.The vast majority of food factories in Austria are concentrated in Hungary and the Balkans. There is no other reason for the proximity of raw materials.

Is it possible to use mulberry as raw material when making canned food in Milan?Don't be funny, to whom this thing is sold.

The best canned food on the market today is meat. Canned fruits and vegetables can only be purchased by the crew.Unfortunately, Milan really has no advantage in this regard.

But in the last sentence, Xiaolanuo still approved.Concessions were made at this time, and it was indeed impossible to buy people's hearts.

As for the resumption of work afterwards, why increase the labor cost?