526 Ward Group
"Mr. Chen, call the police?"
If you choose this block to start, the killer must have premeditated it.
This street is relatively secluded and there are no passers-by. When the incident happened, there was only a homeless man lying on the dark corner of the street.
The rapid and intense snatch naturally woke up the homeless man's dream, but he did not scream, but just sat up and looked here. As a result, the snatch ended too quickly. When the car left, he seemed to have nothing happened. He lay down and turned over, and continued to sleep.
He is worthy of being a wandering figure in Manhattan. He may have been a giant who has learned the most powerful people before. He has seen the world and is not surprised to have such determination.
"Need not."
Chen Liang shook his head.
The other party is so unscrupulous, I believe he is full of confidence.
Calling the police is mostly useless, but on the contrary it may cause them trouble themselves.
And he doesn't like trouble.
Chen Liang took back the gun and tightened his windbreaker.
“Go back to the hotel.”
Dan Xin nodded, put away his gun, glanced at the homeless man who was sleeping on the road, and quickly left the block with Chen Liang.
"Don't tell Miss Jiang about what happened tonight."
When he returned to the hotel, Chen Liang reminded that Jiang Xin was frightened when she found out.
"Don't worry, Mr. Chen."
"Okay, let's have a rest."
Chen Liang entered the house and did not take a shower. Instead, he turned on the laptop equipped in the hotel and first checked the address he had just been to.
——48 Tennany Avenue.
After browsing for a while, I found no relevant information.
Then, he deleted the record and then re-entered another word.
——Ward Holdings Group.
This time, a lot of information emerged.
According to the introduction, Ward Holdings is a large company based in the United States with a long history and was established in the last century. The company has a wide range of businesses, spanning multiple industries such as steel, automobile, energy, and even arms!
soon.
A name came into Chen Liang's sight.
Founder of Ward Holdings.
Nathan Ward.
Compared with domestic, foreign countries are indeed leading in many aspects, such as people's speech is very free.
There are all kinds of gossips online.
This made Chen Liang easily understand Nathan Ward's deeds and the development history of Ward Holdings.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Nathan Ward, who was born in poverty, established the Ward Group based on his outstanding business talent, mainly engaged in coal mine development.
In the third year, as his career flourished, he gradually became the title of the King of Coal Mine. In order to effectively maintain his private rule, he presided over the establishment of the infamous "Ward Service Office".
This is a violent institution composed of spies and private armed forces.
According to the New York Times at the time, "This is the largest private military institution in existence."
The New York Times commented: Even the belligerent 15th-century Italian princes possessed less powerful mercenaries than the lineup of the Ward Service, which was a machine that cruelly suppressed workers!
According to historical records, in 1932 and 1941, the "Ward Service" launched a bloody crackdown on unarmed workers twice, writing the darkest page in the history of American labor.
And the two anti-humanitarian behaviors were recorded in detail online.
On March 7, 1932, workers of Ward Company held a large-scale strike, demanding the reduction of labor intensity, abolishing factory spies, and ensuring that there are 15 minutes of rest time in the morning and afternoon every morning and afternoon...etc.
When more than 3,000 workers came to Ward's factory gate, Ward's company first asked the local police to investigate and the factory guards to spray ice water on the workers with high-pressure water guns and spray tear gas, while the workers fought back with fists and frozen soil blocks.
As a result, the conflict continued to escalate.
Finally, Ward's factory guards fired at workers, causing 25 workers to be injured, 4 people died on the spot, and a newspaper reporter injured a massacre caused an uproar in the American society at that time!
Subsequently, under pressure, the factory guards who committed the violence were punished, and a total of 16 people were sentenced to life imprisonment and would never see the light of day again.
And as the actual controller of Ward Company.
Nathan Ward, with his powerful force, removed himself from this case and became a notorious extrajudicial madman.
After this incident, Nathan Ward's cruel personality not only did not restrain himself, but instead expanded.
Since it was discovered to contain a large amount of coal mine resources at the end of the 19th century, Colorado has become a region for major mining companies to develop. By the early 20th century, the coal mines in Colorado had employed as many as 150,000 workers, and coal mines undoubtedly became the "employment pillar" in the state!
Among the coal mine companies in Colorado, the most powerful one is undoubtedly the Colorado Fuel and Iron Mining Company owned by the Ward Group, which controls nearly 200,000 square kilometers of coal-producing areas and can be regarded as the largest coal mine company in the western United States at that time.
While the coal mines in Colorado brought huge wealth to the Ward Group, mining workers were in extreme danger every day: mine explosions and collapses occurred, and miners had no sense of security. During that period, because mining companies were unwilling to invest money in maintaining mine safety, the mortality rate of coal miners in Colorado was more than twice that of miners in other parts of the United States!
As the industry leader at that time, Ward naturally bears unshirkable responsibility for this phenomenon.
A historian once described the role of mining companies in mining areas like this: "They are feudal rulers, and the company's rules are the 'law' in the dormitory area. Miners are strictly restricted to the dormitory area built by the company, like slaves. Around the dormitory, the company's 'private troops' - the brutal guards hired are equipped with loaded machine and step-by-step patrols all the time. They prohibit any strangers from entering, and also prohibit miners from going out. In the mining area, mining companies are like local emperors, monitoring all aspects of workers and imposing curfews. Any miner who dares to express dissatisfaction with the company will be fired immediately, and he and his family will be expelled from the dormitory immediately and put on the streets."
All this is naturally unbearable to America, which threatens that human rights are greater than anything else.
The purgatory situation of Colorado miners quickly attracted the attention of the Miners Federation. In order to safeguard miners' rights and improve their treatment, they decided to hold a strike against Colorado Fuel and Iron Mining Company.
The reason why Colorado Fuel and Iron Mining Company is chosen as the strike target is naturally because among the Colorado mining companies, companies controlled by Nathan Ward treat their employees particularly rudely.
But these association leaders and coal miners obviously underestimated Nathan Ward's madness.
Their reckless actions directly led to a shocking tragedy.
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Chapter completed!