RESOLUTIONS
OF THE
FIRST AND THIRD CONGRESSES
OF THE
International Working Men's Association.
I.
Resolutions of First Congress Assembled at
Geneva, September, 1866.
As some of the resolutions passed at the first Congress may be considered as part of the platform of principles of the International Working Men's Association, and the reports of that congress have had but a limited circulation, the General Council deems it advisable to republish them with the issue of the resolutions passed at the last Congress.
Amongst the various subjects that came under the consideration of the first—the Geneva Congress—the following are the most important:—
1. International combination of efforts, by the agency of the Association, in the struggle between labour and capital.
a. From a general point of view, this question embraces the whole activity of the International Association, which aims at combining and generalising the till now disconnected efforts for emancipation by the working classes in different countries.
b. To counteract the intrigues of capitalists always ready, in cases of strikes and lockouts, to misuse the workman of one country as a tool against the workman of another, is one of the particular functions which our society has hith-rto performed with success. It is one of the great purposes of the Association to make the workmen of different countries not only feel but act as brethren and comrades in the army of emancipation.
