Alan Wilson, who was fighting for a bright future for his family of civil servants, was a little surprised when Oldfield, the head of MI6, came to his door. Then he motioned to sit down and said, "What's the matter?"
"A machine tool export transaction in foreign trade may have violated the ban of the Paris Coordination Committee in order to avoid trouble."
Before Oldfield could finish speaking, Alan Wilson had already reached out and swung, "Oldfield, to be honest, given the environment that British machine tools are facing today, you can't do this to break your own legs and watch others rush towards you.
Do you understand the final move?"
The glory days of British machine tools have gone too far. The peak period was almost a hundred years ago, but it is undeniable that there are still machine tool companies in the UK.
Machine tools are a big concept. After all, there are quite a lot of classifications in industrial categories, so each country has its own strengths in machine tools. The UK has not yet de-industrialized, and of course it has its own machine tool companies.
Of course, it is true that he is not outstanding in this world. He can only be regarded as one of the common people. The UK itself imports many German machine tools for use, but it is by no means non-existent.
Fifteen years ago, the American Bendix Company realized optimal adaptive control on a CNC milling machine for the first time. Ten years ago, the American Fox Company first proposed the concept of mechanism optimization. The British Molins Company based on the basic concept of a flexible manufacturing system proposed by Williamson
developed a “system
twenty four".
It's not very competitive to begin with. Not to mention Germany, it's a headache even when it comes to countries like France. Finally, someone is interested. MI6 should not come out to cause trouble. I don't know that Whitehall is now worried about salary increases.
Are you busy with plans?
Oldfield remained silent, and Alan Wilson said as if there was a traitor among us, "Actually, as an intelligence director, you know quite well how many items on the embargo list of the Paris Coordinating Committee secretly exported by European countries to the Soviet Union? Now the pressure from all countries is on
It’s not small. If you can export a little, it’s good. Nothing will happen. Will the United States really cause trouble because of this?”
Except for Japan! There is no need for Oldfield to know this mental supplement. Japan’s situation is quite special, and it was essentially manipulated by the United States using the topic as an excuse.
First of all, there is a premise: the Soviet machine tools are not backward, and they are also very strong in machine tools in some specific fields. Most of the Soviet machine tools are for their own use, but they are also exported to the world.
European countries exported a large number of machine tools to the Soviet Union, and also imported electrolytic machining machine tools and electrochemical polishing machine tools from the Soviet Union. No one was punished for this.
Japan's machine tools are not advanced enough to be more powerful than Europe's. You must know that Germany and Switzerland are industry benchmarks in this regard. Japan has never impacted Europe in the high-end industrial field.
The general environment when the Toshiba incident broke out was that Japan and the United States were engaged in one of the most intense trade wars in history, the automobile trade war. How important the automobile industry is can be seen from the fact that people put houses and cars side by side. The automobile industry can
It is said to be real estate for the whole world.
In the trade war between Japan and the United States, the previous trade wars on textiles, steel, electronics and automobiles are not intense compared to the previous trade wars on textiles, steel, electronics and automobiles. Japan does not want to surrender to real estate facing the world, but the United States cannot stand being invaded by Nissan cars for a long time. The orders issued
The determination is also unprecedented. This is the most intense trade war between the two countries.
The Toshiba incident not only had Japan's role, but also Norway's. Norway had long provided automatic artillery aiming computers to the Soviet Union, and this type of computer was strictly prohibited from being exported to the Soviet Union by the Paris Coordination Committee.
It can be seen that a secret channel for delivering special goods has long been established between the Soviet Union and Norway.
Norway has nothing to do, and Japan has been severely affected by the Toshiba incident, so there is no need to worry about the ban. The ban is only effective for specific countries, such as Japan, which has a high status in the free world.
This was just a small episode. Alan Wilson turned around and was busy negotiating wage increases for the Hopewell Union. Of course, he would do his best to prevent the union from achieving its goal. This was his duty. There is no free lunch in the world. Although after years of hard work,
The pound is in a much better situation than it was in history, but we must admit that the mainstream international settlement currency is the US dollar.
Now it is no longer like before World War II, when the UK could freely use pounds to buy the goods it needs from all over the world. The threat of inflation caused by printing money also exists in the UK.
Once the pound comes under pressure and depreciates, the effect of wage increases will be diluted. The Ministry of Finance has issued warnings on this point many times, hoping that the unions will understand the dangers involved.
Whitehall hopes to add a framework, which is to increase the 5% limit on weekly wage increases in each stage of the three-year period, making it clear that unions cannot continue to threaten the government with strikes.
“I didn’t expect the secretary-general to think that the union’s pursuit of legitimate rights and interests is blackmailing the government.” Union leader Goodman was almost furious.
"Don't be angry, Mr. Goodman, it's just a different perspective." Alan Wilson waved his hand and said, "It's good to have ideals, but reality often doesn't tolerate too many ideals."
At this time, he suddenly remembered a movie line, you are still young, it is right to have ideals, but when you are like me, your family needs money, and I know nothing and have nothing, you will know how important money is.
When I was negotiating with the union representatives, I thought of such a sentence. It may be a little inappropriate, but it is true from the bottom of my heart. If the union does not ask for a salary increase, the civil servants' demand for a salary increase can be suppressed. If the union does not compromise, no matter how much the increase is,
In the end, civil servants will all get a higher raise.
But Goodman obviously had no such considerations. He showed the fearless attitude of the working class and told the Whitehall bureaucrats that death does not belong to the working class.
"Sometimes, I have to admire people's blindness. They don't know what the problem is." Walking out of the negotiation place, Alan Wilson said to Frank, "No matter what kind of demands they make, the ultimate beneficiaries must have
Our share, that's how important it is to establish rules."
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monitoring in response.
"Oh, woman!" Alan Wilson, holding the photo taken in the Cabinet Secretary's Office, looked disgusted, "Frank, what will you feel when you see this photo?"
"There are so many women and minorities." Frank took the photo and saw the clues at a glance, "But according to our understanding, immigrants and women are extremely enthusiastic about union affairs, more so than native-born citizens.
."
"Of course I'm not hiding anything. The average weekly salary of these ethnic minorities and women is 28 pounds, which is only a fraction of the average weekly salary of 72 pounds, and it is not even close to the average weekly salary of women."
"The average weekly wage for women is forty-eight pounds, which is indeed less when you look at it. No wonder they are so keen on participating in union affairs. Goodman also has attempts to use immigrants to put pressure on us." Alan Wilson sighed.
, to be honest, if Mrs. Thatcher was in power now, he would definitely give advice to the army to take to the streets.
An idea flashed through his mind just now, and he wanted to leave the other party to Grace to deal with, but after much deliberation, the decision still rested with Callahan.
Within the unions, decentralization also continued. As the post-war generation came of age in the late 1960s and brought industrial democracy to the fore, union members felt they should be involved in decisions about when, where and whether to strike.
These decisions are usually made by union leaders.
"Can we start with public employees?" Frank put forward his own suggestion. It's not like the union doesn't have people working for the government. The simplest example is firefighters.
"We cannot hurt our own people." Alan Wilson shook his head slowly but firmly. He is the Secretary-General of the Cabinet and must safeguard the overall interests of civil servants. He cannot sacrifice government employees within the union to compete with the union. This will not be effective.
It will only make this group feel resentful.
"Everything that needs to be done has been done. We have done what we should do. The decision-making power still lies with the cabinet, to be precise, with the prime minister. The prime minister can make his own decisions."
Alan Wilson has been blocking it for three months and has played the role that Whitehall should have. Naturally, the remaining matters must be resolved by the Prime Minister himself. He is not willing to care about such nonsense.
After more than half a year of appeals, and the white armed forces in Southern Rhodesia increasingly breaking through the lower limit and beginning to suppress them with heavy hands, the two sides in the confrontation in Southern Rhodesia finally paid attention to London's appeal and had the slightest idea of talking. Wick
Informed the news to Alan Wilson, who had just been freed from negotiations with the union.
After Ian Smith returned to Southern Rhodesia for the last time, he took seriously the suggestions given by Alan Wilson to reduce the worries of the black armed forces serving the current government. He indeed started a series of work to unite people and provide support for black soldiers.
They provided material security to their families and promised that even if they failed, they could be arranged to live in British Kenya to avoid future retaliation.
The war situation in Southern Rhodesia suddenly became bloody. Although the white armed forces were elite enough, their population base was so small that they did not have the strength to fight guerrilla warfare. The war situation depended on the combat effectiveness of the black armed forces.
However, although Ian Smith united people's hearts, after the independence of Angola and Mozambique, the pressure on Southern Rhodesia has become unprecedentedly huge, and Ian Smith does not have the ability to successfully suppress it.
On the one hand, Ian Smith did not dare to relax the repression, and on the other hand, he began to openly threaten to completely destroy the modern traces of Southern Rhodesia and force a temporary ceasefire of resistance.
"What kind of French behavior?" Alan Wilson sighed. "Let the two sides come to London and open the door to the round table conference to all peace-loving people. By the way, you can ask President Carter whether he should play a leadership role."