Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-06
S0CIALISTIC W0RKMEN
Will Meet in an International Con-
gress at Brussels.
ENGLISH UNIONISTS STAY OUT
They Object to the Negotiations With the
Marxist Party.
VARIOUS SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED

| BRUSSELS, Aug. 5-The Brussels Interna-
tional Labor Congress, or, as it is now called,
| the International Socialist Workmens Con-
| gress will assemble here on Sunday, the
| 18th instant. In spite of the miserable in
trigue on the part of the ruling spirits in the
| affair the meeting will be largely attended
and important Norway, Sweden, Holland,
France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
! Hungary, Spain and Italy send delegates,
while for the first time in the history of
| labor movements Poland will be represented
and a contingent from the United States is
likewise expected.
The following subjects are to be discussed
at the congress- The present condition of
laws protecting workers from the national
and international point of view; The right
OF coalition; How is it secured? The inter-
national aspect of strikes, boycotting, and
the trade union movement; What is the
position and duty of the working classes
with respect to militarism?
THE HEBREW QUESTION.
Among the subjects are the following: The
attitude which the organized workers of all
countries should assume with regard to the
Hebrew question:; how parliamentarism,
and universal suffrage can be utilized to the
advantage of the Socialist workers cause;
the alliance of workmen's socialist
parties; the suppression of piece work;
the first of May international celebration to
be concecrated to the principal of the eight
hour working day: adoption of a general
and uniform designation to indicate all the
labor parties in the world; serious
and practical organization: information
al correspondence between workmen;
universal working statistics; international
understanding between workers OF all
trades to be secured by the creation in each
nation Of syndical committee and of an
international syndicate committee; by the
regular communication of different informa-
tion and by means of an international So
cialist almanac, translated in several Ian
propaganda agitation in all countries; pro-
posal to hold the next international Con-
gress in Chicago in 1898.
THE ENGLISH GRIEVANCE.
The grievance of the English is that the
labor party or a few individuals who manage
these affairs have taken upon themselves,
without consulting those concerned to open
negotiations with the Marxist party, and
persuaded the latter to send delegates to
Brussels. To obtain this result the commit
tee had to abandon the four rules they had
Belgians appear as holding two mandates
one from the Possibilists and an
other from the Marxists. Numerous
English Trade Union Congress, representing
700 900 English trade unionists, decided to
abstain from sending delegates. Nor is it
likely that many individual English societies
will be represented, as circular issued by
the Brussels Committee appears to be
worded with the express purpose of keeping
trade unionists away. The congress is no
longer called the international Workmen's
Congress, but the International Socialist
Workmen's Society. The trade unionists
who are not Socialists may therefore feel
themselves no longer concerned, nor is there
conciliatory sentence in the circular or an
argument for reason given to induce trade
unionists to come.