how can you not work for reforms such as the eight-hour day,

你怎能不支持八小时工作制这样的改革呢
which was a classic kind of demand of organized labor,

这可是组织化劳动力的典型需求
how can you not participate in marches on May Day,

你怎能不参加劳动节游行
the first of which was in 1890, in France,

首次法国劳动节游行是1890年
in order to put forth demands for reforms?

来示威要求改革呢
They also were sort of caught in a conundrum

而且他们也提出
because they're arguing that, following Marx's ideology,

由于坚持马克思主义指导思想
that the situation of workers was decreasing,

法国工人阶级的处境日益恶化
was getting worse in France.

这也让他们陷入难题
But, in fact, despite the long depression,

但事实上尽管出现了长萧条期
conditions are getting better for most workers,

工人们的境况却是越来越好了
even though the gap between the wealthy and the poor was,

即使贫富差距