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Rio Grande do Sul and others, such as didn’t have, however, what we needed:
Pará, Amazonas, etc..) In the second workshops. We appealed, therefore, to
Congress of the International the bourgeois press.
Association of Workers, and as a Everything was ready to publish our
complement of these initiatives: the newspaper in the winds of advertising,
achievement of our fourth national when a new obstacle appeared. One of
congress. the most monstrous projects of law
Everything depends on the will and against the freedom of thought had
energy of the anarchist elements that, been torn out of the archives of the
despite the indifference of the masses Senate: the law of the press. It was
and crapulism of the traitors, that hadn’t discussed and voted on quickly, we just
left their place to the "flies" of capitalism were able to publish the fifth issue - first
and opportunism. And I have the safer of the new phase - which was the last
hopes we will succeed. We'll see ... glimmer of a hope that illuminated the
I would finish this letter (?) When great effort that dissipated.
occurred the idea of sending you some I will send you also a collection of O
copies of "A Pátria", where I work as Trabalho.
editor-worker. And I will send you these Now, fortunately, our stubbornness, our
copies. intransigence, our tenacity, not to say
You will see in them, the "Seção our invincible will and activity, seem to
Trabalhista," what goes through this have created a new environment, new
brasiliensis land ... hope ...
The workers organization hasn’t, It has been in the "Seção Trabalhista"
unfortunately, been able to maintain its of A Pátria that our work has been
newspaper “A Voz do Povo”, which I performed. In it I have published, since
don’t know if you ever come to read, it sixteen months that I am here (without
was a journal that provided great leaving my profession, which is
service to the advertising and carpenter), I have made all our
revolutionary organization, but it died, publications, making all our campaigns.
fell disastrously in the hands of those A Pátria that I have - that we have the
types that later had to flee miserably to anarchists of Rio de Janeiro - made all
the ranks of Russian communism, the advertising of the IWA. So I ask you
leading to divisionism within the to send, addressed to my name of the
aforementioned Federation of Workers. Press Service of IWA circulars,
When he abandoned this organization, bulletins, etc... Etc.., I ask you with
under the conditions that I mentioned in remittances a copy.
the above lines, the Union of Workers And it is just for now.
in Civil Construction - to which I belong Believe me comrade and right friend.
- founded a weekly newspaper – O
Trabalho - which was forbidden to be Marques da Costa
published after seized by police in state
of siege (which lasted 18 long months
of terrible persecution!) - the closing of
gold of the government of Epitácio
Pessoa, against whom was the military
uprising of July 22nd. [sic]. My address:
Founded the FORJ, when everything Marques da Costa
seemed to show that the country was 31 - Rua Chile - 31
going into a period of peace, politics (Editorial staff of A Pátria)
and a less reactionary government, it Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
was the Civil Construction which
suggested the idea to publish O
Trabalho under the auspices of the
Federation and as an organ of the
Workers Federation Rio de Janeiro. We
in
Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio.
Michael M. Hall
A Classe Operária no Brasil
1889 - 1930 documents
Volume 1 – O Movimento Operário
São Paulo: Editora Alfa - Omega, 1981.