第二次世界大战以后,英国面临着严重的經济危机,资本家为了維持高額利润,对工人采取提高劳动强度和减低工資等加重剝削的措施。最初这家工厂的工人当中,党員少,工会会員也不多,有些工人还受着工党的影响,斗爭不容易开展。因此,党把自己的优秀儿子湯姆·白瑞脫派到这个厂里來。白瑞脱坚持了党的羣众路线的工作方法,团結、教育了大多数工人弟兄,扩大了工会组织,使大家都在工会的領导下一致行动起来,白瑞脫还和其他工厂的党組織接上了头,商量好大家采取一致行动,相互支援。这样就把如火如荼的工人运动搞了起来。小說虽然只写到工人集合在工厂门口准备开大会对資本家进行抗議斗爭就結束了,但读者通过前面所有的叙述,可以預見胜利一定屬于工人。故事情节全部經过只有四天,从星期五到下星期一,但却从各方面描述了工人的生活和斗爭。这里选登的片断是通过該厂一个女工,工会的积极分子凱賽·貝逊在例假日(他們每星期五个工作日,工資也是周薪五天)的一段生活,來反映英国的劳动人民是怎样受尽资产阶級的剝削压榨,英帝国主义的侵略政策給英国人民带来了怎样的危害。这些片断从全書来說,是不连貫的,但从这段情节本身的发展来說,是连貫的。作者借一位被侵略战爭夺去了亲生儿子的老太太爱瑪的咀,提出了这样的问题:“到底那些地方的人們做了些什么,要我的儿子去杀死他們或者給他們杀死?”她又这样刻画着帝国主义者們的咀脸,“他們(指英国统治阶級)談論着和平,指的却是战爭,而他們的所谓正义,在我們看来却是罪惡。” After the Second World War, the United Kingdom was facing a serious economic crisis. In order to maintain high profits, capitalists took measures to aggravate the exploitation of workers, such as increasing labor intensity and reducing wages. Initially, the workers in this factory had fewer party members and fewer union members. Some workers were still influenced by the Labor Party and the struggle was not easy to carry out. Therefore, the party sent its best son, Tom White, to the factory. Bairdi insisted on the working methods of the party’s mass line, unite and educate the majority of workers and brethren and expanded trade union organizations so that everyone would act in unison under the leadership of the trade unions. Baird and other factories Party organizations got in the way and agreed that everyone should act in concert and support each other. In this way, the full-scale workers’ movement is promoted. Although the novel only states that the workers gather at the factory gate to prepare for the opening of a conference to protest against the capitalists, the reader concludes with all the foregoing statements that the victory must belong to the workers. The storyline, which lasted only four days from Friday to next Monday, described the workers’ lives and struggles in all aspects. The piece selected here is a passage through a life of a woman worker and union activist Cayce Besson during the holidays (five days a week, five days a week, on weekdays) to reflect that the working people in Britain are How to withstand exploitation by the bourgeoisie and squeeze the British imperialist aggression policy to bring harm to the British people. These pieces are not consistent throughout the book, but they are coherent in the development of the plot itself. The author asked Emma, ​​an old woman who had taken her own son by the war of aggression, and asked the question: “What did the people in those places do to kill or kill my son?” Dead? “She portrayed again the portrayals of the imperialists.” They (referring to the British ruling class) spoke of peace, referring to war, and their so-called justice, which in our opinion is evil . "