The Congress rejected the S. D. F. amendment, and carried the report as it stood by a large majority. In the British section the S. D. F. proposal was rejected by 129 to 109, although several of the old unionists voted for it by way of protest. This ^ majority of twenty must have been [...]

In moving the adoption of the report Herr Malkenbuhr strongly condemned the Fabian proposal to immediately attempt a state monopoly of tobacco and spirits.
M. Guerard, of the French Railway Workers’ Union, moved on behalf of the French section the minority report, which, on being put to the Congress, was rejected by a large majority.
It was [...]

Owing to pressure of business the Congress was called for 9.30 a.m. on the last day of its sittings, but the delegates, although prepared to establish any number of proletariat armies and fight for the resolution while you wait, were not prepared to get up so early in the morning for it. It was 10 [...]

The War Commission then came forward. It was, as E. Wurm, the reporter, called it, really a peace commission. They had not accepted a resolution in favour of a general strike against war, nor one proposing to put an end to it by revolutionary means, which they considered only a meaningless phrase, Nor were they [...]

Herbert Burrows followed with a strong speech. The chairman of the Technical Education Committee of the L.C, C. had called the
idea of free maintenance for all impracticable, but that was what was always said. This was not a legislative body, and the amendment was no more impracticable [...]

Sidney Webb, L. С. С., then read the report of the Commission on Education, which advocated raising the age of total exemption to sixteen years, the prohibition of employment in dangerous trades or night work of any person under eighteen, the raising of the age of halfr time to eighteen, and a complete free system [...]

Bebel and Ferri followed at some length giving some interesting
figures as to the growth of Socialism in Germany and Italy. In the latter country they polled in 1892 27,000 votes [...]

There were renegade members of Parliament, but the blackest and
most dangerous foe they had to face was the man who told them,
when they went forth to battle, to leave their weapons at home. And the most powerful [...]

One French delegate, Tortellier, had prepared a minority report against trusting to political action at all, and claimed that they were growing out of it in France. He urged that there should be a strike against rent, in order to put an end to landlordism. The delightful idea of living rent free threw the British [...]

A minority report the Agricultural Commission had been issued by W. G. Pearson and Dr. Watt, urging certain specific reforms, such as socialisation of railways and markets and more technical education. This was not endorsed by the British section.
The majority, however, contented themselves with an abstract resolution in favour of socialising the land along with [...]