Although Cuniberti's new battleship plan has not yet been approved by Admiral Yagir, it has at least been reflected in his mind, and the new battleship indicators may also be closer to this by then.
This is just a small trick that Cuniberti wouldn't normally use. If he wasn't a little obsessed with new battleships, he wouldn't do it.
As for the news that the 305mm naval gun was successfully developed, Carlo, as the king, did not know about it.
Because there were more important things that caught his attention.
“This is the workers’ medical insurance regulations enacted by your government?”
Carlo put down the thick document in his hand and asked Prime Minister Antonio.
"Yes, Your Majesty, this is a bill that we are preparing to implement based on the social security regulations of our German counterparts and based on the national conditions."
Prime Minister Antonio talked about the basic situation of the bill. The bill he talked to King Carlo was also Italy's first social security bill and workers' medical insurance regulations.
Regarding the enactment of this bill, it seems that the government has no choice but to make a choice.
You must know that although Italy's industrialization has been progressing smoothly in recent years, the large influx of people into the cities means that the jobs provided by Italian industry still cannot meet the demand. In general, there are more people and fewer jobs.
And the situation of more people and less work will lead to factory owners endlessly exploiting workers.
Although the Italian government has repeatedly demanded that factories must protect the interests of workers, overtime must be paid for overtime work, and injuries must be compensated. Although the Italian government's requirements are low enough, in the face of greed for profits, those factory owners still make moves.
Thoughts on this aspect.
Forcing employees to work overtime for free is just commonplace, and whoever doesn't agree will be fired directly. As for injuries at work, just give them some money without caring about the consequences.
As for the dismissed employees who are not convinced and report it, this is a big pit. How can a weak individual be the opponent of those factory owners? The other party can have enough time to consume the energy of the dismissed employee. So most people
If you can't stand the consumption of time and energy, you can only give up. Only a few people with perseverance can persevere.
However, this does not necessarily lead to compensation from the factory owners. The reason is very simple. You are a lower-class person and he is an upper-class person. Paying you compensation is not to show his face. He would rather spend more money than do this.
Concession, otherwise the factory workers have learned how to protect their face.
Well, this is a complete display of the arrogance and rudeness of the capitalists, and most factory owners have this mentality. This unwillingness to bow to the working class has intensified the workers' dissatisfaction with the capitalists. This has also led to
Many ideas spread among workers, some good and some bad, such as extremely dangerous anarchism being one of them.
These thoughts led to frequent worker riots and strikes. In 1899, for example, there were 241 large and small strikes, riots and other labor movements across Italy, including 3 armed uprisings. Most of these labor movements were resolved, even if
Even if it can't be solved, we still need to find a solution.
The one after another labor movement has made the government exhausted mentally and physically. They also know the reasons for this result. Therefore, in order to appease the people and let them feel the dividends of economic development, it is urgent to protect the interests of the working class.
To this end, Prime Minister Antonio not only promoted the formulation of the workers' protection bill at the government level, but also promoted the smooth passage of the bill in the parliament among the parties.
One more thing to say here: apart from the ruling party, the National Socialist Party is the most enthusiastic about the bill. It not only supports the bill, but also mobilizes its members to take to the streets to promote it. It is even more enthusiastic about the bill than the ruling party.
promotion work.
The National Socialist Party is so enthusiastic, perhaps it has a lot to do with the composition of its members. In the past few years in the south, although the National Socialist Party has developed rapidly and has become the three major political parties in the south, a large part of the members of the National Socialist Party are
From the countryside. The top leaders of the National Socialist Party were not satisfied with this. If they wanted to achieve a breakthrough in the cities, the working class would become one of their targets, and of course the petty bourgeoisie would not be spared either.
With the vigorous promotion of the government and the National Socialist Party, the first social security bill and the workers' medical insurance regulations were quickly passed in the parliament.
Although some people are unwilling to give in and say that this bill will increase the burden on factory owners, which will make Italian products less competitive abroad, etc., these remarks are not enough to attract the attention of others, although it makes capitalists very happy.
Not satisfied, but it's a pity that he is not in charge of the current government.
"Will the government take any action next?"
Carlo quickly signed the bill and asked the Prime Minister about the government's next actions.
From the perspective of future generations, Carlo's workers' medical insurance regulations are very crude and ridiculous. For example, in terms of the payment ratio of medical insurance, the factory only pays 30%, and individuals have to pay 70%. In addition, payment and other aspects are all
Several loopholes can be found.
But at least one thing is good, and that is that Italy's social security system has been confirmed. It doesn't matter if there are loopholes in the laws and regulations, we just need to find the loopholes and fill them.
"Your Majesty, the government will next set up a special labor and social security department to be responsible for supervising the implementation of this bill."
The Prime Minister’s words imply a lot of things. For example, first of all, the bill will be supervised by a special department. Of course, this also shows that the bill on workers’ medical insurance regulations is only the first step. There will definitely be other labor security-related things next.
The bill must be implemented, otherwise the affairs of this new department would be too simple, and the elderly care would be about the same.
Carlo was of course very satisfied with the Prime Minister's words, but he still had a little doubt. "Has your government considered how much money is needed to promote social security?"
"If there is any consideration, our government has joined forces with Generali Insurance Company, National Insurance Company of Italy and Banco San Paolo in Turin to jointly implement this regulation."
That's right, how can this be used just by the promotion of government departments? Professionals still need to know better about insurance, and the government is responsible for supervision.
Of course, you can just rely on insurance companies to promote it, but don’t forget that they are profit-making institutions, so government supervision is essential in this regard.
As for Carlo, he doesn’t know whether the social security system that the Prime Minister calls business-oriented and government-supervised can work. But in any case, it is better to do it than not.
Although Italy's finances are not tight, some things must be done.
