SUNDAY, 26TH JULY, 1896. “That this International Meeting of Workers (recognising that peace between the nations of the world is an essential foundation of International Brotherhood and human progress, and believing that wars are not desired by the peoples of the earth, but are caused by the greed and selfishness of the ruling and privileged [...]

1. That this Congress declares the fundamental right of liberty of conscience, of speech, and of the Press, and the right of public meeting and combination, both locally and internationally, of ‘the workers and all other sections of the people for the attainment of political, industrial, and social change.
2. The Congress calls upon the workers to use [...]

In presenting their report to the Congress, the Commission desire to state that of the resolutions sent in they have been able to draw up those appearing on their report which embody the desires of the framers of the majority of the resolutions. We have been unable to recommend tho publication of an international paper [...]

1. That the Congress, whilst fully recognising the value in education of independent experiment, declares that it is an essential duty of the public administration in each country to provide a complete system of education, under Democratic public control, extending from the kindergarten to the university (including physical, scientific, artistic, and technical (manual work) training), the [...]

In presenting their report to the Congress, the Commission on Education and Physical Development desire to express their sense of the enormous importance of the subject to the Socialist movement and to the well-being of the working classes of the whole world. Under the present system of capitalist exploitation the children of the masses are [...]

Under capitalism the chief causes of war are not religious or national differences but economic antagonisms, into which the exploiting classes of the various countries are driven by the system of production for profit.
Just as this system sacrifices unceasingly the life and health of the working class on the battlefield of labour, so it has [...]

(1) No woman to be allowed to work for six weeks before and after confinement, and to receive maintenance from a State Maternity Department during such term of prohibition (Mrs. Hicks). (2) The minimum age of child labour to be raised to sixteen years (Mr. Quelch). (3) Wherever private employment fails, public employment should be [...]

Seeing that at several French National Congresses—Marseilles (1892), Paris (1893), Nantes (1894), and Limoges (1895)—the trade-unionists have declared in favour of a general strike in all trades as a method of emancipation ;
That in Belgium a general strike, even though imperfectly organised, had a great effect in obtaining the suffrage from [...]

Trade-unions should also admit female workers into their ranks, and secure for them equal wages for the same kind and amount of work.
In the struggle for better wages and conditions of work, the trade-unions ought to control the applications of the existing laws for the protection of labour,
The Congress considers strikes and boycotts are necessary [...]

The trade-union struggle of the workers is indispensable to resist the economic tyranny of capital, and thereby better the actual condition of the toilers. Without trade-unions no living wage and no shortening of hours of labour can be expected. By this struggle, however, the exploitation of labour will only be lessened, not abolished. The exploitation [...]