As Rutherford said, the strike did not last long.
Originally, because coal miners suffered unfair treatment, workers from other professions across the UK, under the guidance of the Trade Union Federation, organized a sympathy strike in order to support the coal miners.
Regardless of whether the final result of the strike is success or failure, and whether the coal miners achieve their goals, this sympathy strike will not last long.
Although we are all workers at the lowest level who have been exploited by the capitalists, and they all go on strike under the guidance of the trade union, in fact, their personal rights have not been greatly infringed upon like those of coal miners, they are just being eroded silently.
What's more, these workers are the breadwinners of their families. Most of them are members of the family. Only Dirac-Kapitsa Chenmuwu Dirac relies on his salary to live.
Therefore, as the strike lasts longer, more and more workers can no longer hold on and return to the companies or factories where they worked before.
The British government is happy to see this situation, so it will fully protect these workers who have returned to work, and will never allow capitalist factory owners to retaliate against them.
There is also the British Trade Union Confederation, which organizes the strike and is linked to it. They are also influenced by the Labor Party and are afraid that a few active revolutionary elements will really appear in this strike.
So the British Trade Union Confederation held its last negotiation with the British government on May 12. Although it failed to achieve the goal of the strike, it still announced the end of the UK-wide general strike that broke out on May 4.
As a large number of workers resumed work and production, various industries in the UK, especially transportation and heavy industry, quickly returned to the situation before the strike.
Only the coal miners, whose own interests have been harmed, are still fighting unyieldingly against the capitalist coal mine owners.
Their strike lasted until November of that winter, before the strike was completely declared a failure.
The policies formulated by the British government before the strike were finally implemented. The miners' wages should be reduced and their working hours should be extended.
From May to November, half a year was wasted, and this strike achieved nothing.
It cannot be said that all was lost. Anyway, as soon as the strike ended, the British government began to amend the law.
By next year, it will be clear in legislation that such sympathy strikes are illegal.
It was not until after World War II, when the Labor Party came back to power, that the bill prohibiting sympathy strikes was repealed.
During the Thatcher era in the 1980s and 1990s, sympathy strikes were finally banned.
After the First World War, Britain was left in dire straits.
Although Ireland was lost, the whole of Britain was dreaming of a kingdom in heaven.
If sympathy strikes were not banned, coal miners would go on strike today and the whole of Britain would be shut down;
Railway workers go on strike tomorrow as Britain shuts down again;
Acquired Steel Plant Worker;
Dai Houtian Power Plant worker;
…
Damn it, how did the country become like this!
In addition to legislating against sympathy strikes, the British government and news media also took the opportunity to promote the newly emerging red country on the European continent as a hidden danger to Britain's national security.
You have to find a reason and an excuse for the strike, right?
The fact that capitalist coal mine owners squeezed workers and led to strikes cannot be made explicit, so the blame can only be passed on to the Soviet Union people.
After all, they started off by relying on the labor movement, and strikes are their main specialty.
They must have led the patriotic and law-abiding British astray!
The rift between Britain and the Soviet Union, which was afraid of being overthrown, became more and more serious because of this general strike.
By the next year, 1927, the Northern Expeditionary Army supported by the Soviet Union defeated the old warlords supported by Europe and the United States on the battlefields of the Central Plains and retreated steadily, infringing on their interests.
Therefore, in the same year that the Prohibition of Strikes Act was promulgated, the Conservative government announced that Britain and the Soviet Union were severing diplomatic relations. Anyway, when diplomatic relations were established two years ago, it was MacDonald and his British government who did it.
Chen Muwu's signed article supporting the coal miners published in the British Worker actually did not have much impact during the strike.
Because the editor-in-chief of The Worker was in London, the strike paralyzed the transportation system across the UK.
In addition, Churchill used the power of the government to divert most of the newsprint.
The combination of several reasons resulted in the "Worker's Daily" not only having a small circulation, but also most newspapers only circulating in London and a few nearby satellite cities.
But the "British Gazette" edited by Churchill was different. The publication and printing of this newspaper was backed by the British government.
Not only that, the British government also requisitioned or purchased a number of cars and trucks, and even used several novelty aircraft, just to be able to send newspapers with government views opposing the strike from London to all parts of the country.
The largest circulation day of "Worker Daily" was only 700,000 copies, while the maximum circulation of "Gazette" in a single day reached as many as 2 million copies.
But when the strike ended, the article became more popular again.
During the strike, the Times and the Daily Mail had to rely on cutting pages to operate miserably because printing workers also participated in the strike and newsprint was requisitioned by the government.
After society gradually returned to normal operation, newspapers large and small in the UK also began to work hard. They have accumulated too much news in these days.
Chen Muwu’s article is certainly something that cannot be avoided.
The well-informed people in the Cambridge Apostolic Society learned that their brother Chen had made a big news during the strike.
Some people think he is unreasonable. They kept hiding it when asked before, but secretly submitted articles without everyone's back.
More people believe that although the strike failed, he deserves praise for speaking out for the coal miners.
They also learned about the suppression of strikes in China and felt ashamed to lead the British in their motherland.
However, except for the members of the Apostolic Society, most people at Cambridge University learned about Dr. Chen's role in the strike by reading this article in major London newspapers, quoting the full text, or excerpting the central points. done.
Anyway, the strike has passed, and most people have no feelings about it.
After all, Dr. Chen is still a young man. He may have seen the strike and was moved by the scene, thinking of the situation in his hometown, so he was inspired to speak.
It can also be seen from the length of this article that he only used a few lines to express his support for the striking workers.
Most of the remaining content tells readers about the strike behavior of the working class in China.
Those capitalists are more hateful than those in the UK!
Of course, the role played by the British in the concession authority in this strike was also disgraceful. It was really not a gentleman's behavior.
Some people were not so calm after reading the news reports.
After reading the report in The Times, Rutherford, the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, felt that the tobacco in the pipe he held in his mouth suddenly became tasteless.
He has repeatedly emphasized over the years that the laboratory is a sacred place where experiments and academic research can only be conducted, and useless politics cannot be chatted, let alone radical red ideas.
Despite all precautions, some young people were abused in the laboratory. Fortunately, they did not affect their studies and experiments. Rutherford, who was so talkative and protective of others, had no choice but to turn a blind eye. .
In contrast, Rutherford liked Chen Muwu more.
Dr. Chen never participates in those messy things. He is humble, has made great achievements in experiments and theory, and can also make money for the laboratory.
If everyone was as worry-free as Dr. Chen, he wouldn't smoke so many cigarettes every day.
In the end, Dr. Chen, who made people worry the most, became the one who worried him the most during this strike.
Rutherford finally understood why he was in such a hurry to send the paper to the Royal Society in London, and asked Kapitsa to drive him there by name.
He has such a good relationship with Kapitsa, so he must have been brainwashed by this restless Sulian!
Rutherford was so angry this time that he even wanted to call Chen Muwu into his office immediately and scold him.
He was angry, but reason defeated his anger.
Train traffic has resumed since the strike ended.
The parts that had been withheld before finally arrived in Cambridge, and the generator assembly work was on track again.
The generator, as well as the particle accelerator built on the basis of the generator, is a powerful tool for future experimental research in the Cavendish Laboratory, and there must be no mistakes.
Chen Muwu is the final person in charge of this project.
Although I don’t understand why he insisted on getting involved in the strike, if anyone dares to use this matter to challenge Chen Muwu, whether at Cambridge University or in the UK, Rutherford will definitely be the first to refuse.
To put it mildly, without Chen Muwu, something might go wrong in the manufacturing process of the generator.
Speaking more broadly, without Chen Muwu, it is still unknown whether the Cavendish Laboratory can continue its glory in the future.
No matter how big something happens, he must save this good student to death.
Rutherford's concerns are not unfounded.
Not to mention those in the UK who read the newspapers and thought Chen Muwu was ungrateful and smeared the British middle class, capitalists and stakeholders.
Just narrowing the scope to Cambridgeshire, there are also people who want to make a fuss about this matter.
For more than a year, Thomson Sr., the dean of Trinity College, had been seeking a professorship at Cambridge University for Chen Muwu, who had graduated with a doctorate two years ago.
It's just that no matter what reason he applied to the school's review committee every time, he got the same result of being rejected.
The one who hindered this was naturally the school chancellor, Lord Balfour, who was refuted by Chen Muwu when he accompanied astronomers to visit the Cambridge University Observatory last year.
The old English mentality of Zhengmi Ziqi made him look down on the Chinese from beginning to end.
And everyone will respect me as a former Prime Minister, Earl and Chancellor of Cambridge University. Why do you, a little Chen Muwu, dare to speak rudely to me?
Although Belfort, the mascot school superintendent, has no real power, he can only sign the proposals that have been reviewed and approved by the members of the review committee, but cannot veto them.
But if he wants to fail a proposal that does not affect the school's policies, the committee members will still give him face more or less.
Just being passively defensive like now and rejecting every professor application submitted by Old Thomson is not an option.
Belfort felt that he had to take the initiative and drive the ungrateful Chinese out of Cambridge University in order to end his anger once and for all.
The peculiar hypocrisy of a British gentleman makes him always want to find a justifiable reason.
Then Chen Muwu’s article during the strike gave Belfort a big gift.
He must bring this matter up at the next council meeting!
The impact of this strike is not limited to the UK.
Travelers entering and leaving the UK from other countries have also been affected.
Von Neumann, who was sent to Cambridge University by Hilbert to ask questions, had already left the University of Göttingen.
But on his westward journey, he stayed in France for a long time.
The strike resulted in a widespread suspension of English Channel ferries, with only minimal navigation between Britain and France maintained.
Anyway, the domestic traffic in the UK is also in a state of paralysis. Even if he queues up to board a ship to cross the channel, what is waiting for him is just to change places and continue to wait for the train that will not resume at any time.
Von Neumann simply gave himself a holiday on the seaside of Calais and waited until the strike was over before crossing the sea to England.
Chen Muwu, who didn't know that a visitor was about to visit, just as Rutherford thought, once again devoted himself to the development of generators.
No one would turn their attention to his recently published paper in Proceedings of the Natural Sciences. The attention of the whole of Cambridge and even the whole of the UK was focused on the article he published at the same time.
As the protagonist, Chen Muwu behaved calmly and calmly, as if he had never participated in the strike movement that just ended.
It wasn't until he arrived at the assembly site in person that he finally knew why Cockcroft said the construction schedule might be significantly delayed.
It is true that I used a piece of silk as a conveyor belt in the model, but the reason for doing so was just because silk was easy to obtain.
But when it is used on a real generator, why do we need to enlarge it exactly according to the model?
In order to get a suitable silk conveyor belt, it actually takes several months to order it from China, without looking for silk substitutes.
Then why not just start by growing mulberry and raising silkworms?
How could this Cockcroft be so stubborn, as if he were a German!
Speaking of Germans, there is a German, a German who is not brilliant but smart, came to Cambridge from London.
(End of chapter)
