Because today[C], as I write these lines, the European and American proletariat is reviewing its fighting forces, mobilized for the first time, mobilized as one army, under one flag, for one immediate aim: the standard eight-hour working day to be established by legal enactment, as proclaimed by the Geneva Congress of the International in 1866, and again by the Paris Workers’ Congress of 1889.
Kwani leo, niandikapo maneno haya, wafanya kazi wa Ulaya na Amerika wanazipima nguvu zao za kupigana, zilizounganishwa kwa Tara ya mwanzo, kama jeshi moja, chini y a bendera moja, kwa ajili ya lengo lao moja la sasa hivi: kiwango cha kufanya kazi saa nane kutwa, kianzishwe kwa kufanywa sheria, kama ilivyotangazwa na Mkutano Mkuu wa International uliofanywa Geneva katika mwaka 1866, na pia na Mkutano Mkuu wa wafanya kazi wa Paris katika mwaka 1889.