"Regarding the differing demands of worker groups from different regions, you must pay special attention. When organizing a strike, it is essential to establish relief funds and worker mutual aid plans, which can alleviate so of the insecurity in workers’ lives during the strike, enabling them to protect themselves when unemployed," Perfikot suggested to Kallen, while also seriously evaluating the feasibility of launching a large-scale workers’ movent as proposed by Kallen.
Based on Kallen’s explanation and the intelligence she gathered, Perfikot could be sure that the Workers’ Federation now had a fairly wide popular base.
Their influence had already spread to most cities in the New Continent colonies, and they had established branches in most cities, which undoubtedly provided a solid foundation for the workers’ movent.
As Kallen ntioned, workers in different regions had different demands. Workers in affluent areas didn’t worry about jobs. They more hoped for shorter working hours rather than increased wages.
In contrast, workers in impoverished regions were more concerned about not being able to support their families. They preferred to work more to earn more wages.
Although both groups had demands, and essentially they both aid to improve their own treatnt and fight for more rights, the differing demands often led to divisions, even affecting the overall effectiveness of the struggle.
For example, if capitalists in impoverished areas agreed to raise wages and local workers agreed to resu work, would workers in affluent areas continue their struggle? What about their demands?
Moreover, the key question is, if one side negotiates individually this ti, will both sides cooperate in future actions?
These are all issues that organizers must consider in advance for a large-scale workers’ movent. You can’t just launch the movent first and then slowly consider these questions.
Of course, in the history of the original world, workers’ movents were often spontaneous, lacking strict organization. Although sotis they gained broad responses due to the impact of key events, making the whole workers’ movent appear powerful, this spontaneous response, if it couldn’t quickly establish a unified organization with scientific programs and ideological guidance, would be easily divided, disassembled by enemies, and eventually defeated one by one.
This point had been fully demonstrated in the history of the original world.
"The current struggle situation and organizational form are still in the primary stage, although I have imparted a lot of knowledge, giving you scientific guiding ideas at the beginning of the struggle, I have to comnt that your ideological consciousness is not high enough," Perfikot pulled out an investigation report and placed it in front of Kallen: "This is intelligence collected by the Northern Territory about the Workers’ Federation. You can take a look; it lists about seven branch representatives who have been bribed by the colonial authorities.
Also, quite a number of worker representatives do not demonstrate enough determination in the struggle, thinking that achieving imdiate benefits like raising wages and taking holidays is enough to compromise with capitalists.
These are what you must face and consider in the upcoming struggle. No one can guarantee that the entire organization has a highly unified thought, but at least you need to ensure that the majority are willing to follow you and work towards the sa goal.
This is also a fatal issue in the workers’ movent, because the early worker representatives or leaders of the workers’ movent were self-educated people. They generally had naive views on various issues related to history, economy, and society.
And these issues couldn’t be thoroughly examined without comprehensive and prudent scientific research.
This also made the struggle of the workers’ movent often incomplete, with efforts limited to short-term benefits like raising wages and reducing working hours to compel capitalists to compromise.
However, a true workers’ movent needs to be clear that the struggle is not only to increase wages, but to abolish the wage system itself!
"I suggest that after you go back, you further reorganize the Workers’ Federation using the knowledge I taught you to select comrades with sufficient consciousness to undertake leadership roles, while also strengthening the spread of revolutionary ideas among the workers, enhancing their ideological level," Perfikot said to Kallen, looking at her with her suggestion.
Kallen noted this firmly, but at the sa ti, she posed a crucial question to Perfikot: "So should we still launch this workers’ movent? The atmosphere in the Workers’ Federation is already intense. If we continue to suppress it, I’m worried it might lead to problems."
"Launch it. Wait until the Empire officially announces the existence of doomsday, and then you can launch it," Perfikot did not stop her but said seriously after thinking, "This will be a struggle that opens a new era, during which you’ll encounter many problems, whether from external forces or internally generated ones.
These issues may be deadly, possibly turning all your efforts into nothing, but as a leader, you must understand that once sothing begins, it cannot stop!
If you cannot achieve the final and complete victory in the struggle, then the struggle is not over!
The pioneering of a new era is accompanied by sacrifice. In this process, many people you know or are unfamiliar with will give their lives for this cause, but you absolutely cannot have any wavering or hesitation!
Even if the person you have to face and defeat in the end is , you must unswervingly proceed!"
"But..." Kallen heard Perfikot say this, and a trace of sorrow flashed through her eyes. She knew that Perfikot’s identity ant she would inevitably beco the biggest enemy she would face in the future.
But she didn’t wish for this. She wanted to persuade her friend not to beco her enemy so resolutely. Surely, there must be other solutions.
Perfikot understood what Kallen wanted to say, and she just smiled and shook her head, "Don’t be foolish. With my identity, it is impossible for to openly support the workers’ movent, nor can I express sympathy towards you.
Even after you launch this grand movent, I will beco your biggest enemy, and the Northern Territory’s army and Steam Knights will brutally suppress you.
So you must be prepared and have the resolve for ard struggle, because I will show no rcy. You must be tempered and grow through blood and sacrifice, and then co overthrow my tyrannical rule."
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