Manchester, 4 November 1868 

Dear Moor, 

You must excuse me if I do not write much now. For some time 
I have had nasty rheumatism not only in my right arm, but also in 
the 3 first fingers of my right hand; as a result, after a certain 
time writing becomes very burdensome for me, and in the evening 
almost impossible. I hope the trouble disappears; I use alcohol 
against it—externally that is. 

If the Spaniards even now do not know where they stand, 
following: Wilhelmchen’s address, they are beyond hope. Unity 

a J. V. Weber 

between bourgeois and worker—the bourgeois must, however, 
realise that he has to concede this and that to the worker—anything 
to avoid a June battle, for this is followed by 2 December.””” It is 
really the crowning point of all confusion. If now the bourgeois will 
not ‘understand’, the worker will have to realise that he will have to 
make concessions to the bourgeois. This is the sole possible sense 
which the thing can have. Hence, the ridiculousness of measuring 
Spanish conditions, with the enormous beggar-proletariat, both 
clerical and lay, against the yardstick of conditions in Saxony. There 
is naturally not a single mention of the peasants. 
Many greetings. 

Your 
F. E. 

Moore tells me that nearly all factory workers in Vienna are 
Moravians and Bohemians, mainly Czechs. This explains much 
about the movement there. The real Viennese do not go into 
factories, they become coachmen, domestics or something like that. 

Berlin, 1931 : : : . 
one Published in English for the first 
time