Romanian Eagle

Chapter 203 Trade Union (1)

"How about what I asked you to do?"

Edel did not explain too much to the captain of the guard on the issue of food prices. He directly asked what the captain of the guard should be concerned about now.

Of course, Carust, the captain of the bodyguard, did not dare to be careless about what the king asked for, he said it immediately. "Your Majesty, I have asked people to find out the bottom of these people. This is our report. Now people are paying close attention to their every move, and as soon as they have a dangerous move, they will be arrested immediately."

After taking the investigation materials handed to him by the captain of the guard, Edel looked at it. This survey material is a survey conducted by Eder to investigate whether there are communist organizations in Romania, and by the way, to find out the tendency of left-wing political parties in the country.

In a few years, a red regime will appear in the east of the country, which will threaten the system of the Kingdom of Romania, and Romania will also have a territorial dispute with it. Therefore, he took precautions to check the domestic political parties in advance, which was considered to be the first to clear the domestic political environment in Romania.

Much to Edel's relief, there is no communist organization in the report of the Calust investigation. However, there are still organizations that are a little biased towards the communist situation. Romania's economy has boomed in recent years, and the number of workers has grown significantly.

According to the latest government statistics, there are now around 1.7 million workers in Romania. Workers are all educated (compared to farmers) and are more concerned about their own interests, so they are more eager to vote in parliamentary elections, which also makes political parties want to win over these workers and voters. In addition, the Romanian political parties are still a little less standardized, so all kinds of slogans that can be fulfilled are also random. Your campaign slogan today is to legislate to allow workers to work only 9 hours a day. Tomorrow my slogan is to allow workers to earn more wages for 9 hours of work. The public opinion media also added fuel to the flames, saying that the workers' welfare here is not in place, and there is no guarantee of safety there. As a result, the working class who were misled by these people always thought that they had been fooled by the factory owners, which made them feel a lot of resentment in their own life.

In fact, according to the government's survey data, the most difficult thing in Romania now is the farmers. Most of them depend on the sky for food, and they do not have their own land, so they can only make a living by renting crops, and they have to endure the scissors difference of industrial and agricultural products every year, so they are the hardest class. Otherwise, there is no way to explain these peasants who live a good life (as mentioned in the newspaper), and still a large number of people go to the cities every year to be the hardest and most tiring workers.

"There are still quite a few of these organizations."

Edel sighed after reading the investigation report. Although there is no Communist Party, there can still be many political groups similar to it in some way. For example, the Romanian Socialist Union, a political party formed in Galati in 1907, wanted to unite workers through trade unions for the benefit of workers as a means of making themselves bigger in order to pass bills beneficial to workers in parliament.

And the Romanian Social Democratic Party,

The party they formed in 1910. Their political requirement is that Romanian nationals over the age of 20, regardless of gender, religion, or ethnicity, have the right to secretly vote. And their main economic requirements are the eight-hour workday, collective contracts, protection of the rights and interests of child labor and women workers, free education and proportional tax payments.

From the current point of view, these two political parties belong to the scope of the Second Comintern of Engels. Eder has no intention of cleaning up these innocuous left-wing baby boy parties. As long as they do not propose violent overthrow of the current government, and Edel can also push the prime minister to take the blame if necessary.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with these political parties?"

The captain of the guard, Carust, asked about Edel.

Edel said after thinking about the captain's words. "First of all, it is necessary to strengthen news control, so that these newspapers now pay a deposit of 500,000 lei for the communication media. The current deposit is too small, which is not conducive to the regulation of media communication."

Edel touched the stubble that had only grown on his chin, trying to think about what the previous government did. "Then the power of workers to strike and rallies can be opened up, it's just that this is the scope of the government's function."

Edel can only think of what the government needs to do. For the intelligence department in Carrust's hands, it can only go in and see if the party's policy has changed. What's the slogan?

Thinking of this, Edel looked at the captain of the guard who had skewed his thoughts. "To treat them, of course, is to break into the interior and observe the dangerous speech elements. The rest depends on the thinking of you, the intelligence chief."

Facing Edel's expression that you've provoked me, Carust, the captain of the guard, had no choice but to leave first when he couldn't figure it out.

"Your Majesty, then I will go back and think about it, and come up with a few ways to cooperate with Your Majesty's idea."

Seeing the captain of the guard who was frightened by him, Edel was not angry at once, and he spoke to Calust. "This issue is not mainly depended on by your intelligence department. You can at most provide investigation work on this issue. This requires government departments to pay attention to this issue, and you are responsible for peace of mind intelligence investigation."

After hearing Edel's words, the captain of the bodyguard, Carust, felt a lot more at ease. He blamed himself for not asking too much, and he almost pitted himself.

After the captain of the guard left, Edel thought about what he had said before. Now it seems that in order to prevent the working class from being affected by the emergence of the red regime, I really need to mention the treatment of workers. So calling the Prime Minister over to discuss this matter is also an effective method.

After Edel made up his mind, he called a guard and handed him a note he had written. "Give this to Prime Minister Bretianu and let him burn it in front of you after reading it."

"Okay, Your Majesty, I'll go right now."

After the guard delivered the letter, Edel started other busy work.

It didn't take long for Prime Minister Bretianu, who was in the Prime Minister's Office, to receive a note from the king to him. Looking at the familiar words on the note, Bretianus burned the note in front of the guard. He knew that this was another problem the king had given him. Because on this note, Eder let him pass Romania's first labor law.

Although these are boom times, Prime Minister Bretianu doesn't think it's easy for factory owners to talk. If the king supports it, he will be able to pass the bill with the great prestige of the royal family. And the king's actions clearly did not intend to provide explicit support, which made him very distressed.

At this time, the secretary came in and spoke. "Prime Minister, Your Excellency Karaturi is here."

Prime Minister Bretianu's eyes lit up instantly, and he spoke quickly. "Let the Minister of Industry come in."

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