Chapter 610 Strike Movement

Immigrating 10 million sounds scary, but in fact, after five years, it will be 2 million immigrants every year.

Based on Austria's current population base, calculated at a growth rate of 2%, the local population will increase by more than 1.7 million every year, and in fact there will be more.

In the era of no entertainment, the people were still keen to make people. Combined with the Vienna government's maternity subsidies, Austria's population growth rate has been among the highest in the world.

The total native population has not decreased much, but the impact will still not be small. We are now at the juncture 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 number is decreasing. The supply and demand relationship in the labor market has changed, and labor costs have risen.

Compared with traditional industries, the biggest feature of emerging industries is their 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, it is imperative to carry out technological innovation.

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

This is not a guess by Franz, but evidence. There are also capitalists who complained in the newspapers:

Nowadays, the mechanical equipment is replaced so frequently. If you replace it with a new one today, it may fall behind in a few years. Anyway, the current equipment can still be used.

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

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

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

Anyway, you can use gas lamps all the time, and you can still make money if you keep going, so why bother?

The poor people in Austria are not in the vast countryside, but are concentrated 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, but the wages of workers have only increased by 56%, and even the wages of a considerable number of factories have not changed.

The economy is developing, but incomes have not kept up, and it is not surprising that people have become poor.

Now Franz has made a big move to immigrate, which is actually a last resort. If this situation does not change, something will happen sooner or later.

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Milan, the capital of the Lombard kingdom, has always been the most prosperous city in Italy. No, it should now be said to be the most prosperous area in Germany.

Regions have always been artificially divided. Now that Austria is powerful, Franz directly divided the Lombard region into the German region.

Whether you are used to it or not, on all official documents, Milan is part of the German region. The theoretical basis is: the Lombards are a branch of the German nation.

Although there are more local Italians, it doesn't matter. History can be changed, cultural traditions can be changed, and ethnic groups can be changed.

The international community has recognized that the Kingdom of Lombardy is part of the German region. There are many others that were first included in the German region with the Lombards, such as: Venice next door, Hungary, the Austrian Balkans further afield...

Even the Kingdom of Jerusalem is about to become part of the German region. Looking at the current map of the German region can directly make historians feel ashamed.

What natural conditions and historical factors are all nonsense. The real division is very characteristic of the times. Within the range of Austrian cannons, all are German areas, or Austrian areas.

It's just a name, you can call it whatever you want without affecting everyone's interests, and you will get used to it after listening to it a few times.

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

It includes more than a dozen factories, including silk reeling factories, wool spinning factories, cotton spinning factories, printing and dyeing factories, and garment factories, with more than 130,000 employees.

There is an independent industrial park in the Milan area. At this time in the past, the factory was already busy, but now it is eerily dead.

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

Austria is universalizing compulsory education, and the Kingdom of Lombardy is no exception. Thanks to the sense of discipline cultivated since childhood, the current strike movement is much more harmonious.

Everyone has clearly realized that mechanical equipment is the guy who eats, and smashing, smashing, looting and burning is smashing your own rice bowl.

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

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

Of course, this was not the main factor behind the strike at the Dakker textile mill. Like most traditional enterprises, the once-prosperous Dakeer Textile Factory has gradually declined.

After the outbreak of the second industrial revolution, Dakor Textile Factory failed to seize the opportunity and stood on the side of the conservatives. It failed to update equipment in time, and became tired in the market competition.

Affected by the decline in profits, from 1870 to the present, companies have not increased their wages once, but prices have not stopped waiting for them, and strikes have naturally occurred.

Like most enterprises, Dakor Textile Factory is also a family business, and the contemporary head Dakor-Lano is an old man in his seventies.

In his youth, he was also a man of the hour. He made a decisive bet on Austria in the Ossa War. After the war, the competitor took the lunch box because he was on the wrong team. Dakoel-Lano took the opportunity to annex their factory, and then started a life of lying and winning.

Taking advantage of the gap in the market, Dakor Textile Factory developed rapidly. At its peak, the number of workers once exceeded 180,000, and the annual output value of the company 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 "change wheat to mulberry" strategy, the Kingdom of Lombardy quickly became the most important raw silk producing area in Austria.

Near the water tower, the first month, the Dakeer Textile Factory enjoyed the first wave of dividends, and the on-site production undoubtedly greatly reduced the cost.

Even now, the Dakol mills account for more than half of the raw silk processing in Lombardy. With a complete industrial chain, it stands to reason that the Dakeer Textile Factory should live very well.

However, with the advent of the Second Industrial Revolution, things began to change. All kinds of machinery and equipment are constantly being updated. In order to pursue greater profits, the old and conservative Dakoll-Lano did not keep up with the pace of the times for the first time.

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

New technologies bring not only increased productivity, but also improved product quality. When the price is almost the same, good quality goods are definitely more popular.

In just a few years, the market share of Dakoer Textiles has been eroded by one third of its competitors, and the company's profits have plummeted.

After receiving the news of the strike, Dacor-Lano suddenly slapped the table: "It's on strike again, these unscrupulous people don't even think about who is raising them!

If we go down, they won't even have a job. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. There are many people who want to work in Dakor.

I ordered to go down and follow the old rules, fire 10% of the strikers, and order them to resume work immediately. Those who are the slowest to resume work, get out of here! "

This is the experience that Dakker-Lano summed up in dealing with the strike. Among the workers, he also bought spies. Whenever this happens, as long as someone takes the lead in resuming work, the strike will not go on.

Usually the last ones left are the stubborn ones, and naturally they have to be fired. As for whether it is really necessary to lay off 10% of the workforce, that doesn't matter, as long as the diehards, or those who are the leaders, are fired, and that's enough to set an example.

In this rotten era, Dacor-Lano thinks he has done a good job, at least he obeys the law, which is much better than the underground black factory.

Of course, this is limited to him personally, in the eyes of the workers he is a vampire. Abide by the "Labor Protection Law", sorry, no big company in Austria dares to break the law, and it is small companies who take risks.

There is no way, the Vienna government is closely watching, and the law enforcement is very strong. In addition, the Labor Protection Law is not excessive, and it is also protecting the interests of both parties.

It's not that no one threatened the Vienna government with closing the factory, but it was useless. Franz did a very thorough job of upholding the dignity of the law.

Regardless of the consequences, it is time to go to jail or go to jail. Before threatening the government, it is best to expect that there will be no black history, otherwise, you will not even have the qualification to close the factory, and all your assets will be confiscated by the government.

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

With the lessons learned, the people behind have kept a low profile a lot. It's enough to take advantage of the law, and to fight the government directly, let's forget it!

It seems that the bourgeoisie is powerful, but in fact their strength is very limited, and they all rely on spending money to blow up their momentum.

If nothing else, who can integrate the bourgeoisie with serious conflicts of interest, believe it or not, someone will be a traitor every minute?

This was most evident in Austria, where the capitalists were much less vocal after the law stipulated that news must be guaranteed to be truthful.

Blowing cannons and making promises is also legally responsible. If you dare to brag about it, other newspapers will not dare to publish it.

Xiao Lanuo objected: "Father, this is not good! In the past year, we have fired 20,000 old workers, and now many of the new recruits are not skilled enough, and the defective product rate is two percentage points higher.

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

This is equivalent to a vicious circle. It is better to send people to talk to the workers' representatives first, and then get rid of the thorns. "

As a qualified capitalist, he always puts his interests first.

After weighing the pros and cons, Dacor-Lano shook his head: "You can't compromise, people's desires are endless. Once this precedent is set, we will never have peace.

Do you still remember the cannery next door, a shrewd person like McDowell, in order to catch a batch of orders, compromised with the workers, and then was directly dragged down by the high labor cost.

Remember, even if we want to increase the salary, it must be increased by us. Giving in under their coercion will not reap any gratitude. "

This case, Xiao Lanuo has heard many times. It's just the opposite of his opinion. After the cannery was closed, McDowell still lived a good life. Obviously, he couldn't afford the labor cost to close the door.

There is no large-scale canning factory in the Lombard kingdom, which has been able to explain a lot of problems. Most of the food factories in Austria are concentrated in Hungary and the Balkans. There is no other reason for the proximity of raw materials.

In the production of canned food in Milan, do you use mulberry as the raw material? Stop kidding, who is this stuff sold to.

Now the best canned food on the market is meat, and canned fruits and vegetables are only purchased by the crew. Unfortunately, Milan really have no advantage in this regard.

But the last sentence, Xiao Lanuo still approves. Making concessions at this time really cannot buy people's hearts.

As for the aftermath, work has already resumed, so why increase labor costs?