History of Myanmar's labour movement (286/505)

This post presents page 286 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

အဆမတန် ။ excessively
လျစ်လျူရှု ။ look on unconcernedly; ignore; regard with indifference; turn a blind eye
တင်းကျပ် ။ to be tight, strict or rigid (of rules)
နယ်ပယ် ။ administrative unit in a state; field (as in နိုင်ငံရေး)
စွက်ဖက် ။ to meddle, interfere
ဖျန်ဖြေ ။ to mediate, conciliate
ငြား ။ particle suffixed to a verb as an emphasis
ခက်ထန် ။ harsh, stern
အကြပ် ။ forcibly

Translation:

Sometimes, unavoidably there are political protests concerning all peoples, and the whole working class. However, due to workers strikes employers are still able to have a kind of lawsuit that closes a workplace like a workplace closure.

In whatever way, as for the main issue in the natural order of employer-worker relations, expressing dissatisfaction about wages, work time, workplace conditions and fair rights is just the initial emergence of an employer-worker conflict. In that, in order to increase their profit employers (capitalists) do things like [requiring] excessive work time, being indifferent to wages, unjust firing from work, office or factory closures, fines, punishment, workplace reduction, wage reduction, discrimination between workers and between groups, slave-like relations, rigidly imposing rules, and interfering in the external society. In order to redress those injustices workers sequentially carry out 1) the legal presentation of demands, 2) negotiation, and 3) conciliation by the relevant government authorities. With the employers tending to be indifferent, harsh, rejecting negotiation, forcibly threatening and oppressing [workers], at that time workers finally engage in a strike to be able to claim their rights.

In 1900, due to a workers strike and employers' factory closures there were a total of 560,000 workers in America, 135,000 in England, 223,000 in France, and 132,000 in Germany. Between 1946 and 1964, following the end of the Second World War, there were 260,000 instances of worker strikes which increased in capitalist countries. The increase of workers in those big countries was from 50 to 100 per cent. In that, considering the approximately 300 per cent increase of worker strikes, the large scale of the employer-worker conflict can be seen.