(4) The cessation of the war by the will of the people.

_III. Measures against oppression of labor by capital_:

(1) Protection of labor by legislation;

(2) Freedom of consumers' and producers' leagues and
trades-unions;

(3) An eight-hour workday and a regulation of overtime;

(4) Freedom of struggle against capital (freedom of labor
strikes);

(5) Participation of labor representatives in the framing of a
bill concerning state insurance of working-men;

(6) Normal wages.

Those are, Sire, the principal wants with which we have come to
you. Let your decree be known, swear that you will satisfy them,
and you will make Russia happy and glorious, and your name will be
branded in our hearts and in the hearts of our posterity for ever
and ever. If, however, you will not reply to our prayer, we shall
die here, on the place before your palace. We have no other refuge
and no other means. We have two roads before us, one to freedom
and happiness, the other to the grave. Tell us, Sire, which, and
we will follow obediently, and if it be the road of death, let our
lives be a sacrifice for suffering-wearied Russia. We do not