Chapter 141 [Which Is More Important, the Law or Survival]
The clothes these children were wearing had been torn by rocks of all sizes, and they wore a very large safety helmet crookedly on their heads. It looks very funny. Although these children work in these dangerous mines, they are also responsible for carrying rocks and placing them on transport trucks.
But unlike other factories, even from a distance, each of these children looks very strong and has a rosy face. The muscles on the body are also very developed, unlike those child laborers in poor areas who are so thin that they can be blown away by a gust of wind.
It seems that the nutritional status of these child workers working in our factory is still good, and there are no unscrupulous substitute contractors who deduct the wages of these children. Belsinger knew that there was never a shortage of child labor in his mines, cement factories or asbestos tile factories. This was caused by the general social environment.
More than 98% of the residents of Sinjar Town are illiterate, and their family life is relatively difficult. It is very difficult to maintain normal survival needs. Someone is sick or has a calamity, which directly drags the family into the abyss. The parents and grandparents are illiterate, and they have no money to support the children to study and read in school.
Therefore, when these children are five or six years old, they play naked in the streets. By the time they are seven years old, more than 80% of them are working with their parents. Do whatever you can to help your parents increase their income and reduce expenses. Children over the age of ten will 100% participate in labor. Although the Indian Congress has clearly stipulated that no factory is allowed to recruit child labor in any form.
If you are caught and investigated, your boss will be prosecuted, but if you abide by these express provisions, it means that if you don't abide by them, it will be a piece of paper to wipe your ass. No matter what kind of work a child laborer of about ten years old does, his workload can reach 60% or 80% of that of an adult, but the salary he receives is 50% or even less than that of an adult.
Therefore, not only the town of Sinjar, but also every factory in the entire Indian continent can basically maintain the number of 30% of workers as child laborers. Of course, my own cement factory and asbestos tile factory are no exception. When I came to the cement factory for inspection before, I had never seen so many child laborers working in the mines. It seems that there are a lot of tricks inside. Not only did he check it himself, but even the town staff checked that these child laborers would be hidden, so as to minimize the trouble for Mr. Belsinger.
Because the noise at the breach site was too great, coupled with people shouting and neighing, the sound of knocking stones was endless. Everyone is working hard, and few people are wandering around except for the supervisors and team leaders. More than 60% of these supervisors or team leaders are Lagar villagers.
Having grown up watching Bel Singer, when they saw the fat figure from a distance and the human mule Brook following behind him, these supervisory team leaders started to get hairy inside and wailed at the same time. "Lord Shiva, why did Mr. Singh appear in the mine? Those damn people didn't even notify him. What's better if I let Mr. Singh see so many child laborers working here? It's over. It's over. He will definitely be punished this time."
He also cleverly sneaked around the mine, ran to the cement factory's working office building, and found Marbury, the manager of the cement factory. He led the senior staff of the cement plant to the limestone mine and saw Belsinger sitting on a big rock, surrounded by a dozen children of all sizes. Everyone was chatting and laughing, and Brooke, the human mule standing behind Belsinger, saw the senior executives of the cement factory running over in a hurry. Especially the director of the cement factory, Marbury, sneered, making everyone feel creepy when they looked at me.
Stretching out one's head is also a knife, and shrinking one's head is also a knife. If you are afraid, won't you solve the problem? Mr. Singh is not a man-eating tiger. At worst, he'd be slapped across the head and face with a crocodile leather belt, and that's all a few skin injuries. What else could he do? For these people you look at me and I look at you. Then he pushed Marbury, the general manager who was already stupid in front of him, and everyone came to Mr. Belsinger little by little, just like the elementary school students who made mistakes when they saw the teacher, they lowered their heads and lined up to wait for reprimand.
In fact, Belsinger has known about the existence of child labor for a long time, and he also knows that his factory will never be free of child labor. It's just that we don't know the number of child laborers. When we saw that the number of child laborers actually reached 40% of adult workers, I was really shocked. Who will Bell's new song not hold too accountable? This is the current social environment.
Whoever has money will let their children work as child labor. Anyone who has some financial foundation to work in such a dangerous mine will send their children to school to learn cultural knowledge. People come to work out of necessity, because it is really difficult for families. The meager income earned by children can also alleviate some of the difficulties of poor families.
If you are the reincarnation of Maria, you will definitely feel crazy when you see these young children wearing big safety hats and rags working in the mines to move rocks. He will punish the professional manager Marbury severely, and then send these children home, and ask their parents to send their children to school. They will even provide some assistance when they see these families in need, but you can help. Can't they help them for a lifetime?
What parent doesn't want their children to live a happy life and become great people? If there are difficulties at home, they will only let them work if they have no other choice. If these child laborers are dismissed, their families will even have difficulties in their lives, and they may even starve to death. Social moral and legal constraints are more important than survival and death.
Completing your moral character and satisfying your hypocritical moral bottom line will put the families of these child laborers into endless difficulties. It will put these children's families into a further life-and-death situation, and even cause these child laborers to become orphans, begging on the streets. They may even be sold by human traffickers. In this comparison, you say it is better to fire them or keep them.
Sometimes acting according to your moral standards will indirectly kill others, and good intentions can also do bad things. Because you fired these child laborers, they have no food to eat, and their families are in trouble. These children leave your mine and go to other factories to work. How will these child laborers be treated by those bosses? These are still unknown.
If you really want to help these children and fulfill your so-called moral bottom line, then you should be nicer to this child laborer. Give them more wages, lunch, and give them some meat to supplement their bodies, which is better than firing them.
So it is clear whether Belsinger is a hypocritical saint or a considerate boss in reality. Because when Belsinger sat on the stone and asked these children, the topics were all about whether they were tired from work, how long they worked, what they had for lunch, whether they had any holidays, and whether they had any labor protection, such as helmets, gloves, and work clothes.