Wang Dazhuang is a worker at a cement factory in the suburbs of Zhangjiakou. Although this cement factory with an annual output of 300,000 tons is at best the level of a township enterprise in the eyes of later generations, it is already capable of being produced in Chahar and even in China.
Called one of the largest cement plants.
Since the 25th year of the Republic of China, due to the rapid development of Chahar industry and the needs of railway, highway and infrastructure construction, the demand for cement has also increased. With the tight supply of cement, the work of cement plants has also increased.
When you are busy, it is common to work overtime. Workers have to go to work for more than twelve hours every day.
In the first two months, Wang Dazhuang found that he often felt chest tightness, nausea, and often felt like vomiting and coughing. At the beginning, he didn't care, thinking that it was being too tired from work that caused his physical discomfort. But when he entered this
Over the past month, this feeling has become stronger. One day in the middle of this month, this veteran worker who had worked in the cement factory for five years finally vomited blood and collapsed while at work.
The workers directly sent Wang Dazhuang to the First Hospital of Zhangjiakou Division. After examination by the hospital, it was found that he worked in the cement factory for too long and the factory production environment was too harsh. The factory owner did not provide any protective equipment to the workers on weekdays.
As a result, he suffered from advanced lung cancer and died on the third day after hospital rescue efforts failed.
After Wang Dazhuang's death, the factory boss paid no attention to the matter except to pay Wang Dazhuang's family half a month's salary. However, this amount of money was not even enough to pay for Wang Dazhuang's funeral. In the end, Wang Dazhuang's former workers had to chip in.
Wang Dazhuang was buried only after he was found guilty.
When Wang Dazhuang died, he left behind his wife and two children. Their lives suddenly fell into trouble. When her life was in trouble, she took her two children to find the factory where Wang Dazhuang lived and wanted to ask the factory owner for compensation. However,
The boss of the factory actually said that he had paid Wang Dazhuang's monthly salary of fifteen yuan to her. This was an act of kindness and righteousness. Once Wang Dazhuang died, it meant that Wang Dazhuang's family had nothing to do with the factory. Just like that, the orphan and the widow were left alone.
The mother's three mothers were sent out.
After leaving the gate of the factory, the three women, feeling that they had no hope of survival, knelt down in front of the Zhangjiakou Provincial Government Office and asked for justice, which aroused the attention of the general public. A reporter from Chahar Daily passed by and asked about the details and was filled with indignation.
He immediately revealed the matter.
This incident immediately caused an uproar when it was reported by the Chahar Daily News. Soon, even Xi Hanqian, the secretary-general of the Chahar Provincial Government, learned about it.
"It's unreasonable. It's outrageous. Who gave this boss the courage to give away fifteen dollars for a life? This money is not enough for burial expenses." After reading the newspaper, he started to take action.
Xi Hanqian was furious.
"Let the prosecutor find out the truth for me and then have someone convict him," Xi Hanqian gave the instruction in anger.
As the prosecutor's investigation progressed, they were surprised to find that with the development of the economy, there have been an increasing trend of similar cases in Chahar in recent years. On the one hand, businessmen coming to Chahar to invest are coming in like a flood.
, more and more factories are being opened, but the relevant laws and regulations have not been improved in a timely manner. Therefore, when similar cases occur, prosecutors and judges cannot find the corresponding laws and regulations to deal with them. This is also
It left officials in the judicial department scratching their heads.
After understanding the situation, Xi Hanqian had no choice but to send a telegram to Su Tong in Siberia, reporting the situation here. Originally, Xi Hanqian didn't expect his boss to pay any attention, but he didn't expect that he would receive it on the third day. His boss sent him a book by air from Siberia, the title of which is Chahar Labor Protection Law.
There was also a letter placed next to this labor protection law, instructing Xi Hanqian in his heart that it would be jointly promulgated and implemented in Chahar and other four provinces on the 1st of next month, and that it must be implemented as a top priority.
Xi Hangan, who didn't dare to slack off, spent the whole night reading this labor law protection law and didn't dare to make decisions without authorization. He called in officials and legal experts from the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs to study this first set of laws in China. protection law.
"Secretary-General Xi, look at these terms, are they too harsh?" As Han Gan expected, not long after the secretaries handed out this thick protection law, some officials raised their objections.
"Yes, Secretary-General Xi, I have never seen such a harsh law. This simply offends all businesses." An old expert with white hair couldn't help but said.
"Work five days a week, eight hours a day, and workers must not be forced to work overtime. In a highly dangerous occupation, workers must buy insurance and pay subsidies. This is too much." A young political staff member nearby also said shouted.
Hearing people's comments, Xi Hanqian also frowned. When he saw the labor protection law for the first time last night, he was also shocked. This law covers almost everything that can happen. The book was so detailed that it had hundreds of pages. It made Xihan's scalp numb. Is this really something that Chairman Su wrote in two days? He would rather believe that this was a plan that Chairman Su had planned in advance. .
Not to mention China, even Europe currently does not have such a detailed protection law and regulations that specifically protect the rights and interests of workers. No wonder even experts in the legal field were moved by this regulation as soon as it came out.
In this way, everyone clamored for a long time, but still couldn't come up with a solution. Finally, Xi Hangan made the decision to publish the entire protection law in a special issue of the newspaper, so that all the people could discuss whether to implement it or not. Ministry of Laws and Regulations.
This law and regulation adopted by Chief Su was derived from the law of the same name in later generations. Chief Su who had been a wage earner for more than ten years hated the unscrupulous factory's overtime work day and night. After twelve hours of high-intensity work a day, an iron man would tremble, but the monthly salary given by the boss was very little left after buying oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar.
The report sent by Xi Hanqian brought back the memories that Chief Su had buried in his heart, so this later-generation wage earner spent a whole night copying some of the details of the labor law that were not in line with the rules of this society and were too advanced. After deletion, the first regulation of this era to protect the rights and interests of workers was promulgated.
"Chahar's first labor law is released for selling newspapers"
"China's first workers' rights protection law is released"
"Newspaper sellers say this is protection or power."
Chahar is boiling, and many big cities in China are also boiling. But strangely, the major media outlets across the country are rarely silent collectively.
For the first time, the major newspapers felt in a dilemma. If they could speak for the workers, it was the first time that they sympathized with these businessmen and bosses when they encountered such harsh laws and regulations. If they had spoken for the bosses and businessmen, this would have been very difficult.
He is an enemy of all workers in the country. If you don’t want to be spat on on the streets in the future, you’d better not do such stupid things.
Workers from all walks of life in Chahar and employees of many companies were very happy. They took to the streets to celebrate the birth of this regulation and demanded that the government promulgate and implement it as soon as possible.
Chahar Chamber of Commerce Almost all businessmen and factory owners from all walks of life in Chahar gathered together today. Their purpose is the same, which is to prevent the promulgation and implementation of this regulation.
"Damn it, what kind of bullshit law is this? If we all follow this law, we won't survive. This is not inviting workers, this is simply inviting an uncle back." A factory employee
The boss was the first to attack.
"That's right, no one in the past dynasties has ever seen such harsh laws and regulations. They are going to drive us to death," a businessman said excitedly.
At this time, someone said: "Boss Li, I heard that your shoe factory has to work fourteen hours a day. I heard that you make a lot of money."
"I asked them to work for fourteen hours, but it was of their own free will. I didn't force them. Besides, I paid them overtime pay," Boss Li said confidently after hearing this.
"Really? But I heard that last month you often made more than a dozen workers faint due to excessive overtime work." This person was still reluctant.
Boss Li was angry, and his fat basin trembled: "Wu, don't think that I don't know about your bad things. Your garment factory also works overtime. You are no better than me."
While everyone was quarreling, Huang Rongxing, the cheap father-in-law of Chief Su, sat on the podium without saying a word.
Because of Su Tong's relationship, he was elected as the president of the Chahar Chamber of Commerce, responsible for coordinating the relationship between the chamber of commerce and the government and formulating some rules and regulations of the chamber of commerce.
Since Huang Rongxing became the chairman of the chamber of commerce, officials of all sizes in the Chahar government have done something to give him face for the sake of Chief Su's face. Therefore, Huang Rongxing's popularity and prestige in the chamber of commerce have also increased.
It increases with each passing day.
After he read the labor law in the newspaper yesterday, he knew that his son-in-law was determined to promulgate this law and regulations as he knew his son-in-law very well. After reading the regulations, he thought about it carefully and found that,
In fact, these laws and regulations are not too uncomfortable to talk about, but they, businessmen and bosses, treat their employees too harshly on weekdays.
In fact, as an industry insider, he doesn't know the thoughts of these bosses. Some people would rather throw all their money into nightclubs than pay workers even one dollar more in wages. Although Chahar had also formulated some measures to protect workers.
Some laws and regulations are in place, but they are too crude and leave too many loopholes to exploit.