Robotnikow tkackich w Crimmitschau (w Saksonii).
[Luxemburg, Rosa]. Strejk robotnikow tkackich w Crimmitschau (w Saksonii). [Warsaw, January], 1904.
12mo.; printed pamphlet; uncut; creased; evenly lightly browned.
Scarce first edition, published as the first supplement (dodatek) to the S.D.K.Pi.L.'s periodical Czerwony Sztandar, an account and analysis of one of the longest strikes in German history.
This early text, an important step in the development of Luxemburg's political thought, has not yet been recognized by historians and biographers. Żanna Kormanowa, Materiały do bibliografii druków socjalistycznych, p. 7 (without identifying the author).
Nine-thousand textile workers went of strike for the ten-hour day at Krimmitschau started on August 22, 1903. It collapsed abruptly on January 18, 1904, after revisionist trade unionists had secretly negotiated with the employers and settled the dispute. Krimmitschau is an industrial town near Zwickau, where Luxemburg was sentenced to prison on January 16, 1904. One of Luxemburg's firm beliefs was the importance of mass and industrial actions; later she would refer to the Krimmitschau strike as an example of the treacherous attitude of the working class establishment and their bureaucrats.
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