Letter to Paul Singer, December 26 to 29, 1894

Author(s) Friedrich Engels
Written 26 December 1894


Published in Vorwärts. Berliner Volksblatt, No. 1, 1 January 1895
Printed according to the newspaper
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 50


ENGELS TO PAUL SINGER[1]

IN BERLIN

[Excerpt]

[London, between 26 and 29 December 1894]

...incidentally, your conditions are very favourable. The English workers would leap as high as St. Paul's Cathedral if they got a labour exchange that could force the bourgeois either to justify his refusal to employ a worker before a court of arbitration or take him, etc....

  1. Only an excerpt from this letter to Paul Singer has come down; it was quoted in the article 'Berlin Bierboykott' published in the newspaper Vorwärts (No. 1) on 1 January 1895.