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Notice by the Canton Branch of the Communist Association.
To the seamen on strike.
We have struck for our existance.
All right-thinking and peaceful people,
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all who are not
capitalists or members of the official oligarchy that backs them,
sympathise with us.
We have come to a sense of our human value, and refuse to
allow our labour to be sold lika merchandise.
We demand for everyone a life with a meaning, and an interest
and will not be exploited by a minority, like alaves or cattle. | Therefore we have declared war on the capitalists and have started a class warfare.
This tremendous and heroic action of ours has brought us
honour, and will end in our victory.
Capital, under the presant systar. of production, has battened securely on the blood of the toiling, masses till it has become bloated and inert, like a mosquito gorged with human blood.
Therefore it has fenced itself round with the rampart of class distinction. But insmaibly it has been digging its own grave. Throughout the world labour is arising and recovering its rights. Nevermore will it be trampled to death by capital. Te seamen cannot fail in our just demands, but we must not grow careless. The tools of capital are many: its spies are every- where: its false propaganda are skilfully pushed, to lead us astray. The following four points must therefore be carefully horned in mind:
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Hold out to the end.
Our latest conditions put to the shipowers represent the miniram compatible with modern society's requirements for the existence of the individual. We must an no account yield an inch to pressure or inducement,
Be the mediators who they may, we must not give consent till we get what we want.