Beiyang reactionaries

"There is no problem supporting this. Mayor Yan will personally talk to those banks. But what we need to know is, if we take it down, can we resume production quickly and whether the materials produced can be sold. If the products cannot be sold, we will Then we are passive."

"Mayor Wu, there will be no problem. Recently, the demand in Sichuan and Hubei has been growing rapidly, and the supply is already in short supply. We have long been prepared to expand the scale. But compared to buying new machines and building new factories, The cost of taking down the Japanese factories will be greatly reduced, and the time will be greatly shortened. And these factories already have many skilled workers, as long as they take the factories, they can start working immediately.”

"it is good."

Wu Dingchang nodded.

Then said: "Mr. Liu, help me tell Mr. Sian, I hope to be ready."

"Yes."

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"Everyone, let's talk about it. How do you solve the current problem."

Shanghai Municipal Government.

As the deputy mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Government, Wu Dingchang convened a meeting of the owners of Japanese spinning mills in Shanghai in the name of a representative of the Shanghai Municipal Government.Because on October 1924, 10, a huge wage demand movement suddenly broke out in Shanghai, with more than 19 people participating.

The main force is the workers of Japanese cotton mills.

They stopped the factory directly and asked the management to pay wages.

why?

Because the exploitation of Chinese workers by Japanese factories is the most serious.

Especially those cotton mills in Japan.At present, the wages of Chinese workers in Japanese cotton mills are 5.00 cents a day and [-] yuan and [-] cents a month.Moreover, [-]% of the savings fund will be deducted, which will be returned only after working in the factory for ten years.If you resign halfway or are fired, you cannot take the money.And the rest of the money won't all go to the workers.Because there are some subcontractors in the middle who deduct money, the salary they get every month is more than three yuan.

With this salary, I have to work [-] hours a day, or even more.

Of course, this is only the wages of adults.

In order to save money, Japanese cotton mills also employ large numbers of women and children.The wages of women and children are even lower, about half of that of adults, and they get less than two yuan a month.Such wages are already very low.

This is the situation of Chinese workers today.

low salary.

Even in the most developed place like Shanghai, the wages of workers are so low.

Over the past year, the business of Japanese cotton mills has been bad.

Mainly due to political influence.First, a vigorous "anti-imperialist wave" broke out across the country. At that time, the main targets were Britain and Japan.Japan has been hit the hardest.During the Sino-Japanese War, young Chinese students smashed Japanese products, which made many bosses afraid to buy Japanese products.Moreover, many cotton mills in Japan were taken over by the Chinese government during the war.After the war, it was returned to the Japanese merchants.

After such a series of tossing, the Japanese businessmen were also seriously injured and suffered heavy losses.

After entering 1924, this situation has not changed in the slightest.The Chinese government levies the same tax on Japanese spinning mills, and vigorously supports private industries in government orders.

This has made Japanese spinning mills more and more difficult to operate.

Therefore, in the past five months, these cotton mills in Japan have continued to deduct wages on the grounds that the factory efficiency is not good.In the past three months, I have not paid much salary.Because there is no salary this month, the workers in the Japanese spinning mill finally couldn't bear it.

Under the organization of "some people", a mighty "salary demand movement" was launched.

23 spinning mills.

At present, there are 36 spinning mills in Shanghai, of which 23 are Japanese.It can be seen that Japanese businessmen have a strong position in China's textile industry.

"Mayor Wu, the Chinese government must solve this problem. The current situation is not that we don't want to pay wages, but that the factory has no money. But the workers occupy the factory and don't start work, so we have no money. It can only be that we can't continue to pay wages. salary."

Inamoto Matsusuke stood up and spoke as a representative of these Japanese factories.

They really didn't think of it.

The sudden attack of so many workers left the Japanese businessmen dumbfounded.If it was before, they would have sent people to suppress these workers.But times have changed now, and the Chinese government is getting stronger.

The Shanghai police, in particular, entered the concession to arrest people at every turn.Moreover, the Japanese concessions across the country have been cancelled, and Britain will soon cancel its own concessions.

How dare Japanese businessmen suppress casually.

"Mr. Inamoto, what do you want our government to do?"

"Suppression, suppression."

A Japanese businessman sitting below shouted "repression".

Inamoto Matsusuke turned his head and gave the man a hard look.When is it now, when the relationship between China and Japan is very bad, you dare to shout "repression", it is really stupid.Wu Dingchang looked at the person below with more interest, and turned his head to Matsusuke Inamoto after a while and said, "Mr. Inamoto, I am meeting you on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Government, and I hope you will come up with a practical plan." Solve the problem. If you can't solve this problem, wait until our government comes forward, and then everyone will have a bad face."

"Mayor Wu, what do you mean?"

Inamoto Matsusuke was taken aback.

He looked up and stared at Wu Dingchang.Wu Dingchang said: "Mr. Inamoto, there has been such a saying in China since ancient times. It is called repaying debts and killing people. The problem now is that you owe money, you owe workers' wages, not that workers owe you money. .Since you owe the money, you should pay it back quickly. After paying the money, everything is easy to do. The workers should end the demonstration when they should end the demonstration, and the factory should start work. But if you don’t pay back the money, the conflict will continue to intensify, and things will be delayed. If it cannot be resolved, then our government will come forward.”

"What is the government going to do?"

"Mr. Inamoto, haven't you read the 'Bankruptcy Law' announced by the government at the beginning of the year? Haven't you seen how the banks and banks in Shanghai were dealt with at the beginning of the year?"

"Mayor Wu, you..."

Inamoto Matsusuke immediately stood up and stared at Wu Dingchang.

Because he already understood what Wu Dingchang meant.At the beginning of the year, those banks and money houses, including those banks, were all in jeopardy due to the storm of the banking crisis.Among them, the government has injected very little capital.Most banks, banks, and money houses were declared bankrupt by the government.

How do you do it?

It is to directly seal the company's property.Then calculate the company's property, and finally a lot of property is directly auctioned.The proceeds from the auction will be repaid.

It's actually an auction.

Most of the banks, banks, and money houses were annexed by those big banks, in fact, they were annexed by banks controlled by the government.

Is the government going to adopt the same attitude towards these spinning mills?

"Mr. Inamoto, this is the attitude of the city government. And the city government has already made a decision to give everyone three days. If these workers' problems cannot be resolved within three days, and the current workers' demonstrations cannot be quelled, then the government will Step in and liquidate these spinning mills in accordance with the 'Bankruptcy Code'."

"Mayor Wu, you can't do this."

Inamoto Matsusuke was in a hurry.

The business of the Japanese cotton mills is very bad now, but why they have been holding on and don't want to leave.That's because there are huge interests in China that they really can't give up.Food, clothing, housing and transportation, "clothes" are at the top of the list.China is a big country with a population of more than 4 million, and even a big country with a population of [-] million. The demand for clothes is very large.Therefore, China's textile industry has great potential.

China is so poor now, but the bosses of the textile industry are very rich because of the huge market in China.

And China has advantages over Japan.

Japan is a resource-poor country.To develop the textile industry in Japan, it is necessary to import raw materials from abroad, mainly from China.Just like many spinning mills in Shanghai are cotton mills now, they need to import cotton.