I envy you your work in the Dock Strike. It is the movement of 
the greatest promise we have had for years, and I am proud and 
glad to have lived to see it. If Marx had lived to witness this! If 
these poor down-trodden men, the dregs of the proletariat, these 
odds and ends of all trades, fighting every morning at the dock 
gates for an engagement, if they can combine, and terrify by their 
resolution the mighty Dock Companies, truly then we need not 
despair of any section of the working class. This is the beginning 
of real life in the East End, and if successful will transform the 
whole character of the East End. There—for want of self- 
confidence, and of organisation among the poor devils grovelling 
in stagnant misery—lasciate ogni speranza.* ... If the dockers get 
organised, all other sections will follow... It is a glorious movement 
and again I envy those that can share in the work.