Immigration of 10 million sounds terrible, but in fact, after five years, only 2 million immigrates every year.

Based on Austria's current population base, based on a growth rate of two percent, Austria has an annual new population of 1.7 million, and in fact, there will be more.

In the era without any entertainment activities, the people were still keen on creating humans. With the Vienna government's fertility subsidy, Austria's population growth rate has always been among the forefront in the world.

The total local population has not decreased much, but the impact will not be small. Now it is at the moment of the Second Industrial Revolution, the scale of emerging industries is expanding, and the demand for labor is also increasing.

The demand for labor is increasing, but the quantity is decreasing. The supply and demand relationship of the labor market has changed, and it is imperative to increase labor costs.

Compared with traditional industries, the biggest feature of emerging industries is their vitality. During the period of rapid development, enterprises have higher profits and can naturally pay higher wages.

In this context, if traditional enterprises do not want to be eliminated by the market, then technological innovation is imperative.

In fact, many new production equipment have already appeared, but some capitalists are too lazy to replace it in order to save costs.

This is not Franz's guess, but evidence. Some capitalists have complained in the newspaper:

Nowadays, mechanical equipment is updated so frequently. If you change it today, you may fall behind again in a few years. Anyway, the equipment is still usable now, so it is better to wait until it appears better and get it in place.

The long-standing comfortable business environment has made capitalists conservative. Many people even oppose technological progress because it increases uncertainty.

The most typical thing is the power era. In order to save costs, many factories insist on using gas lamps.

It’s not that capitalists don’t know the advantages of electric lights, but they just don’t want to pay for the money to lay power equipment.

Anyway, you can always use gas lights, and you can still make money if you continue, so why bother yourself?

The poor people in Austria are not in the vast rural areas, but are concentrated in cities. The main reason for this situation is that everything is rising, but wages are not rising.

From 1848 to the present, the per capita income in Austria has increased by 2.3 times, but workers' wages have only increased by 56%, and even a considerable number of factories have not changed.

The economy is developing and income has not kept up, so it is not surprising that it has become a poor person.

Now that Franz uses his immigration skills, he is actually forced to do so. If this situation does not change, something will happen sooner or later.

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Milan, as the capital of the Lombardy Kingdom, has always been the most prosperous city in Italy. No, it should be said that it is the most prosperous area in Germany now.

The region has always been artificially divided. Now Austria is powerful, and Franz directly classified the Lombardy region into the German region.

Regardless of whether everyone is used to it or not, Milan is part of the German region in all official documents. The theoretical basis is: the Lombards are a branch of the German nation.

Although there are more Italians in the local area, it doesn’t matter. History can be changed, cultural traditions can be changed, and ethnic groups can be changed.

The international community has recognized that the Lombardy Kingdom is part of the German region. There are many other places that were included in the German region with Lombardy, such as Venice next door, Hungary further away, and the Austrian Balkans...

Even the Kingdom of Jerusalem is about to become a part of the German region. Looking at the map of the current German region can directly make historians ashamed.

All natural conditions and historical factors are nonsense. The real division is very distinctive. The range of Austrian cannons is all German or Austrian.

It’s just a name, and it doesn’t affect everyone’s interests by calling it casually. If you listen to it a few more times, you will get used to it.

Dakoer Textile Factory is a well-known large enterprise in the Milan region. It can also rank among the top three among the many textile factories in Austria.

It includes more than a dozen factories including: silk reeling factories, wool spinning factories, cotton spinning factories, printing and dyeing factories, garment factories, etc., with more than 130,000 employees.

There is an independent industrial park in the Milan area. At this time, the factory had already become busy, but now it is a strange silence.

Anyone who knows the situation knows that another strike has occurred here.

Austria is popularizing compulsory education, and the Lombardy Kingdom is no exception. Thanks to the cultivation of discipline awareness since childhood, the current strike movement is much more harmonious.

Everyone has clearly realized that mechanical equipment is a guy who eats, and smashing, looting, burning, is smashing, and burning.

This does not affect everyone's legal strike. As long as it does not affect social public order, strikes are still everyone's basic right and can be carried out without anyone's approval.

Milan is severely influenced by Italian marine culture and is the birthplace of the Renaissance. Compared with other parts of Austria, new ideas here are much more active and strikes are more frequent.

Of course, this is not the main factor in the strike of Dakeer Textile Factory. Like most traditional enterprises, the once-hero Dakeer Textile Factory has gradually declined.

After the outbreak of the Second Industrial Revolution, Dakeer Textile Factory failed to seize the opportunity and stood on the side of the conservatives and failed to update the equipment in time, which showed signs of fatigue in market competition.

Affected by the decline in profits, companies have not increased their salary once since 1870, but prices have not stopped waiting for them, and the strike movement naturally occurred.

Like most companies, Dakoer Textile Factory is also a family-owned enterprise, and the contemporary leader Dakoer Lano is already an old man in his 70s.

When he was young, he was also a sensible figure. He bet decisively in Austria during the Osa War. After the war, his competitors won the lunch box because they stood in the wrong team. Darker-Lano took the opportunity to merge their factory and then started a life of winning.

Taking advantage of the gap in the market, Dakoer Textile Factory developed rapidly. At its peak, the number of workers once exceeded 180,000, and the annual output value of the company entered the top 100 Austria.

However, this kind of industry without core technology has one common problem, that is, there are many competitors.

After the Vienna government's "change wheat into mulberry" strategy, the Lombardy Kingdom quickly became the most important raw silk production site in Austria.

The first thing to do is to get the water is to get the first month. Da Keer Textile Factory enjoyed the first wave of dividends, and organizing production on-site will undoubtedly greatly reduce costs.

Even now, Dakoer Textile Factory accounts for most of the raw silk processing in the Lombardy Kingdom. With the complete industrial chain, Dakoer Textile cloth should be very comfortable.

However, with the advent of the Second Industrial Revolution, the situation began to change. Various mechanical equipment continued to be updated, and in order to pursue greater profits, the elderly and conservative Darkel Lanno did not keep up with the pace of the times as soon as possible.

As you step by step, capital competition will do everything possible, and competitors will not leave them opportunities.

New technologies not only bring about improvements in productivity, but also improvements in product quality. When prices are almost the same, good-quality products will definitely be more popular.

In just a few years, Dakoer Textiles' market share was eroded by competitors, and the company's profits plummeted.

After receiving the news of the strike, Dakoer-Lano slapped the table suddenly: "It's a strike again. I don't think about who is supporting them!"

If we fall down, they don’t even have work. If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it anymore. There are so many people who want to enter Dake’s work.

I will continue to follow the old rules and fire 10% of the strikers, and order them to resume work immediately. The slowest group of people to resume work will get out of here!"

This is Dakole-Lanno's experience in dealing with the strike. Among the workers, he also bribed the spy. Whenever someone took the lead in resuming work, the strike could not continue.

Usually, the stubborn elements are left at the end, so they naturally have to be fired. As for whether or not they really need to lay off 10% of the employees, it doesn’t matter. Just fire the stubborn elements, or the leader, and kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

In this era of bad times, Dakole Lano thought he had done a good job, at least he abides by the law, which was much better than the underground black factory.

Of course, this is limited to him personally. In the eyes of workers, he is a vampire. Abide by the Labor Protection Act, sorry, no large company in Austria dares to break the law, and the ones who take risks are small companies.

There is no way, the Vienna government is keeping a close eye on it and the law enforcement is very strong. In addition, the Labor Protection Law is not too much, and it is essentially protecting the interests of both sides.

It’s not that no one threatens the Vienna government for closing factories, but that it’s useless. Franz does a very thorough job in maintaining legal dignity.

No matter what the consequences are, you still have to go to prison. It is best to expect that there is no dark history before threatening the government, otherwise you will not even be qualified to close the factory and all your assets will be confiscated by the government.

A large part of Austrian state-owned enterprises are confiscated. Almost every three or five years, the Vienna government auctions a batch of state-owned enterprises, most of which are small factories.

With the lessons learned from the past, the people behind them became much more low-key. It would be fine to take advantage of the loopholes in the law, but directly fight against the government. Let’s forget it!

It seems that the bourgeoisie is powerful, but in fact their strength is very limited, and they are all driven by spending money.

Not to mention anything else, who can integrate the bourgeoisie with serious conflicts of interest? Believe it or not, someone will be a traitor every minute?

This situation is most obvious in Austria. After the law stipulates that news must be authentic, capitalists have become much less popular.

If you make empty cannons and promises, you will be responsible for the law. If you dare to brag, you will not dare to publish newspapers.

Xiao Lannuo opposed: "Father, this is not good! In the past year, we have fired 20,000 old workers. Now many of the new people are not qualified for technology, and the product defect rate is two percentage points higher.

The increase in defective rate will affect the reputation of our products. Now that the competition is so fierce, if the product quality cannot be guaranteed, our market will be snatched away by competitors.

This is equivalent to a vicious cycle. It is better to send someone to talk to the workers' representatives first and then fire these thorns afterwards."

As a qualified capitalist, you always put interests first.

After weighing the pros and cons, Dakoer Lanno shook his head: "You can't compromise, people's desires are endless. Once this precedent is opened, we will never have peace of mind.

Do you still remember the canning factory next door? McDon is so smart. In order to catch a batch of orders, he compromised with the workers, and was directly dragged down by the high labor costs.

Remember, even if we want to increase our salary, we must take the initiative to increase it. We will not receive any gratitude when we make concessions under their pressure."

Little Lano has heard of this case many times. But his opinion is just the opposite. McDonald is still very comfortable when the cannery is closed. Obviously, it is not that he cannot afford to close the labor costs.

There is no large canning factory in the Lombardy Kingdom, which can explain many problems. Most of Austria's food factories are concentrated in Hungary and the Balkans, and there is no other reason that the raw materials are produced in a close place.

Canned food is produced in Milan, do you use mulberry fruit as raw materials? Stop teasing, who will this thing be sold to?

The best canned foods on the market now are all meat, fruits and vegetables. Only crew members can buy them. Unfortunately, Milan really has no advantage in this regard.

However, Xiao Lannuo still agreed with the last sentence. It is indeed impossible to win people's hearts by making concessions at this time.

As for the fact that work has resumed afterwards, why should we increase labor costs?
Chapter completed!