THE DAY IS COMING.

THE VOICE OF TOIL.

ALL FOR THE CAUSE.

NO MASTER.

THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS.

THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND.

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN.

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CHANTS for SOCIALISTS

BY
WILLIAM MORRIS.

CONTENTS:

LONDON:
Socialist League Office,
13 FARRINGDON ROAD, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C.
1885.

PRICE ONE PENNY.

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.

This then is the claim:—

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.