PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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Transcribed from the 1885 Socialist League Office edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
The Voice of Toil. All for the Cause.
The Message of the March Wind. The March of the Workers. Down Among the Dead Men.
LONDON: Socialist League Office, 13 FARRINGDON ROAD, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. 1885.
I have looked at this claim by the light of history and my own conscience, and it seems to me so looked at to be a most just claim, and that resistance to it means nothing short of a denial of the hope of civilisation.
_It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing_, _and be of itself pleasant to do_; _and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious_.
Turn that claim about as I may, think of it as long as I can, I cannot find that it is an exorbitant claim; yet again I say if Society would or could admit it, the face of the world would be changed; discontent and strife and dishonesty would be ended. To feel that we were doing work useful to others and pleasant to ourselves, and that such work and its due reward _could_ not fail us! What serious harm could happen to us then? And the price to be paid for so making the world happy is Revolution.
COME hither lads, and hearken, for a tale there is to tell, Of the wonderful days a-coming when all shall be better than well.
Arthur Conan Doyle
