History of Myanmar's labour movement (285/505)

This post presents page 285 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary

လှုံ့ဆော် ။ stimulate; exhort; egg sb on
မြှောက်ပင့် ။ flatter
မျှတ ။ to be fair, just
ထမ်းပိုး ။ to carry
ရာဇဝတ် ။ criminal
နှိပ်ကွပ် ။ to suppress
အကြောင်းတရား ။ cause
ရပိုင်ခွင့် ။ right, entitlement
မလှုပပ်မရှက် ။ [မလှုပ်မရှား?] inactivity
အကြောင်းကြောင်း ။ various reasons
ခုခံ ။ to resist, defend
အမှတ်ထင်ထင် ။ mindfully,
သံပတ်ကုန် ။ to lose all strength, to become unwound
ရေချိန် ။ level, standard
ဓမ္မတာ ။ law of nature
မျိုးစေ့ ။ seed
ဖုံးကွယ် ။ withhold, conceal
လဲလှယ် ။ exchange, change
လင့်ကစား ။ however
ထိုက်တန် ။ to be worth, deserve
ကျင့်ဝတ် ။ rules of conduct
ပြုမူ ။ to act, behave, conduct
ဝိသမလောဘ ။ avarice
ကျူးလွန် ။ to violate, commit (a crime)
ယေဘုယျ ။ generally

Translation

[...as though inconsolably wanting to bestow benefit upon workers​​​, employers,] in order to divert the path of the conflict, make accusations such as that political demagogues calling themselves socialist or communist incite and flatter simple workpeople in order to violently snatch political power, and that a group that wants to wreck fair compromise and mutual satisfaction between employers and workers has promoted enmity. In that way, whether from among the working masses, or from outside [the working class], [it is possible] to suppress and criminalise anyone acting in any way for the benefit of the working class.

In reality, according to the nature of people, as much as there is oppression, harassment and obstruction that opposes freedom or rights in accordance with the cause of the emergence of class conflict, workers will neither be satisfied nor remain quiet and inactive. Due to various reasons, after appearing to be a time when [workers] are still unable, are lacking the ability to resist, are enduring without energy, are still be able to close [their eyes], taking no heed and staying at peace, when they really reach the end-point where all strength is lost beyond the limit, [workers] cannot avoid the natural tendency to explode and resist the capitalist oppressors and exploiters in various ways. Class conflict, which is the opposition of the respective interests of capital and labour, or of the relations of the employer (capitalist) and the workers within the social structure should not be concealed in any way as the basic seed of conflict.

In reality, the expansion of the working class is an indicator of the capitalist system's basic nature. Being humans, workers are people who must exchange their labour power with wages for the sake of their life and livelihood. However, anytime capitalists do not provide workers with a deserving wage, a sympathetic work time, and work rules that are fair rules of human conduct, and [instead] compete with extreme greed, [they] are violating the tradition of human norms and rules of conduct with selfish profiteering and the utmost exploitation. Generally, workers strikes are due just to economic reasons.