. Review of reviews and world's work. ath is preferable to a prolongation of our un-endurable sufferings. We have, therefore, laid asideour work and informed our employers that we shall notresume it again until our dejuands have been ask for very little. We desire only that withoutwhich life is not life, but drudgery and an everlastingtorture. We first requested that our employers con-sider our needs with us, but this was denied us. Wewere even denied the right to speak about our needs,finding that the law does not grant us such a petitions have been proven to be ill
. Review of reviews and world's work. ath is preferable to a prolongation of our un-endurable sufferings. We have, therefore, laid asideour work and informed our employers that we shall notresume it again until our dejuands have been ask for very little. We desire only that withoutwhich life is not life, but drudgery and an everlastingtorture. We first requested that our employers con-sider our needs with us, but this was denied us. Wewere even denied the right to speak about our needs,finding that the law does not grant us such a petitions have been proven to be illegal. We haveasked that the working day consist of only eight hours,that a uniform rate of pay for labor be agreed upon,that our misunderstandings with the lower management of each and every working establishment be lookedinto, that the daily pay of the common laborer and ofwomen be raised to one ruble, that overtime labor beabolished, that we receive competent medical attentionand without any insults, that the shops be built in such. VLADIMIR KOKOLENKO. (The Liberal, and editor of Eussknya Bonatxro.) a way that people should be aljle to work in tlieniwithout meeting there with premature death from ter-rible draughts, rain, and snow. Each and everything,according to the opinion of our employers, was againstthe law, each petition a misdemeanor, and our wish toimprove our condition was considered to be an audacity,highly insulting to our employers. Sovereign ! More than three hundred thousand of 4{)6 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. \\>^ are here. All these are recognized as hiuiiaubeings only from their outer appearances. In reality,not a single Ininian right is granted to them, not eventhe right of speech, of tlionght, of gathering, of discuss-ing our wants and of adopting measures for the im-proveinent of our conditions. Each and every one ofus, who only dares to raise his voice in the defense ofthe working class, is thrown into prison and sent intol)aiiishment. A go
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