Chapter 114 Establishment of a Political Participation Group (Please Subscribe!)

Arthur acted quickly. After only three days, he persuaded most officials of the New Zealand colonial government. With a "cheer", he founded a political institution with far-reaching influence on New Zealand, the Council of Representatives.

The Council of Representatives is actually a combination of the Australian House of Commons and the House of Lords, but with a different name.

The Council of Representatives in New Zealand can be elected by political parties and civilians in New Zealand, and is elected by all New Zealand citizens with legal voting rights.

In terms of rights, the Council of Representatives does not have as much power as the House of Representatives, but it can also give its own opinions based on the current situation in New Zealand and submit them to the colonial government.

In addition to these, the Council of Representatives has another more important right, which is to supervise officials of all New Zealand factions and impeach them when sufficient evidence is available.

Although it can basically not threaten officials appointed by the United Kingdom, there are actually very few officials appointed by the United Kingdom. Except for the Governor-General and the Garrison Commander, there are very few officials appointed by the United Kingdom. Most of them are appointed by the Governor-General and the Garrison Commander, or directly elected from the New Zealand people.

This means that the newly established Advisory Council has great power in the local forces of New Zealand. It can even be said that it is the most powerful institution and group in New Zealand besides the Governor, the Garrison Commander and the colonial government.

In order to prevent the newly established Advisory Council from being out of his control, Arthur also specially added a new clause under the regulations for the establishment of the Advisory Council, that is, the Governor of New Zealand can dissolve the Advisory Council if he feels that the Advisory Council is harmful to New Zealand, and he does not need to make any explanation.

This decree directly allows Arthur to grasp the lifeblood of the Advisory Council. Once the Advisory Council has a tendency to be out of Arthur's control, he can only face the fate of dissolution.

Thanks to the fact that New Zealand is not a free government, no one opposes Arthur's conditions.

Of course, because the Advisory Council was proposed by Arthur, those who are qualified to be selected for the Advisory Council will naturally not object.

The announcement of the colonial government was issued very quickly. In just a few days, most New Zealanders in Wellington have learned about the establishment of the Advisory Council.

The vast majority of New Zealanders are not interested in the establishment of a political group, which is a predictable result.

After all, New Zealand's economic decline has just ended, and many New Zealanders have just recovered from the state of hunger.

In this case, they really don't have much mood and energy to participate in politics.

Arthur has been prepared for this. After all, the political group is not for ordinary New Zealanders, but for the Coalition.

To put it bluntly, the political group is just a step for the Coalition to gain more power. Only by allowing the Coalition to gain more power can someone implement Arthur's plan to annex New Zealand.

It is indeed a good time to establish a political group at this time. As another major party in New Zealand, the New Zealand Labor Party itself has no strong desire to participate in politics.

The background of the establishment of the New Zealand Labor Party is actually for these workers to protect their rights, which is similar to the party established by Australian workers.

The nature of the New Zealand Labor Party is slightly looser than that of the Coalition. What they pursue is only to improve the welfare of workers and guarantee the basic living conditions of workers.

Coupled with the economic recession in New Zealand in the past few years, these workers were the first to bear the brunt.

Because the large amount of food produced by the factory could not be sold, the factory owners' profits were greatly reduced, so they had to deduct the workers' wages and reduce the workers' welfare benefits.

Although this led to a surge in workers' enthusiasm for participating in politics in a short period of time, they were actually unable to fight against the factory owners and capitalists who had wealth in New Zealand.

In the face of livelihood, many people also gave up fighting against the factory owners and had to accept the cruel reality of being exploited.

At the same time, the rise of Australia also attracted the attention of some New Zealanders. Under the premise that they could not fight against the internal struggle, many people also hoped to join Australia.

Because the newly established industrial zones and various factories in Australia strictly implemented the policies formulated by Arthur at the time, not only did they generally implement a ten-hour work system, but also the workers' wages and welfare policies must be paid on time.

Ten-hour work system! This is a policy that many European countries cannot enjoy.

In fact, although many European countries have formulated a ten-hour or even eight-hour work system, only a handful of them can actually implement it. Even the powerful countries are implementing a ten-hour or even longer work system.

There is no other way. In this dark era, if you want to protect your own interests, you can only exploit the interests of the lower-level people.

Although Australia's work system is just a very common ten-hour work system in Europe, at least Australia strictly implements this system. All Australians work less than ten hours, and any overtime has double pay.

This alone has attracted the yearning of many New Zealand workers.

As an autonomous colony, New Zealand's various welfare benefits and systems are not perfect. Take the work system as an example. New Zealand does not have specific requirements for workers' working hours, which gives those factory owners and capitalists room to operate.

After all, the government has no requirements for working hours. As long as it is guaranteed that these workers will not be exhausted to death in the factory, then doesn't it meet the government's requirements?

After all, every year in Europe, a large number of workers are exploited to death, starved to death, and exhausted to death.

But there is no way. This is the early twentieth century. For capitalists, what are people? Just animals that can be exploited.

In fact, this is nothing. For New Zealand workers, they may be able to accept it with gritted teeth.

After all, this is an event that workers all over the world, even in Europe, are experiencing.

But Australia, which has the same roots and is not far away from them, has changed.

Although Australian workers do not have high incomes, at least they do not have to worry about being oppressed. They are paid a full salary every month, and they can enjoy double wages on holidays and other overtime.

What does this mean for workers? Heaven!

This has caused the New Zealand Labor Party to fall into a long period of depression. Many workers choose to join the Coalition Party or compromise with capitalists in order to maintain their livelihoods.

Now that the political group is established, at least most of the seats can be guaranteed to be won by the Coalition Party. Even if the workers of the New Zealand Labor Party can get some seats, they may not really support the Labor Party.

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