Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-04-24
INTERNATIONAL.

| Countries.
LONDON, March 1S96.-Dear Comrades ana
Fellow Workers:
| We are very pleased to be able to inform
Won that our first circular of inVitatlon
has met with the most friendly recep-
t;on from the workers of the whole
world.
Already the chief working class organ l.
izations of Europe, America, and Austria
La, have notified their intention 10 De
| represented at London in 1916. BE-
| sides this we have received lutlmation
| that n whole number of trades nave
decided to hold International Congresses
of their particular trade during the week
of the General International Congress.
| While we cannot, of course, undertake
the organization of these very important
| International Congresses of particular
trades. we shall be glad to be OF any serv-
| ice if we can, as a central body, in putting
| into communication the trade organizations
Of the different countries.
The International Congress OF 1876 VIII
sit ON Monday, July 81, and the hve
following DAYS, in the large hall OF st.
Martini s Town Hall, Charing Cross road,
near the Charing Cross Station, and facing
Trafalgar Square.
| There will be rooms arranged for the
delegates of each nationality to hold their
own sittings, and also special rooms 1or
each of the commissions, made up OF dele
gates from each nationality, who Will
consider the various resolutions on the
Agenda paper, grouped under certain def
mite heads. Information as to hotel and
lodging accommodation and prices will be
published at an early date. We shall be
pleased at any time to give organizations
apy information as to hotels, lodgings ana
prices that they may ask for.
The workers Of Great Britain and Ireland
are looking forward to welcoming their
comrades, and to showing to the classes
that the workers of all countries united as
to the principles which will bring about the
complete political and economic freedom Oh
the working class.
We repeat with this invitation the resolu-
tion as to the admission of delegates that
was passed at Zurich in 1893. By this reso-
luton we have of necessity been bound IN
issuing our invitations to the Congress OF
1896. 'All Trade Unions shall be admitted
To the Congress; also those Socialist Parties
and Organizations which recognize the ne
cessity of the organization OF the workers
and of political action"
''By political action is meant that the
working class organizations seek, as far as
possible, to use or conquer political rights
and the machinery Of legislation, for the
furthering of the interests of the proletarlat
and the conquest of political power"
Each organization desiring to be repre-
sented at the Congress must send to the
Organizing Committee the name OF the o.
panization and the number of their dele
gates on or before July LIST. The organic
ing committee recognize that this is not
possible in all cases, but are anxious to
know approximately, by July LIST, the num-
her of delegates for whom they will have
to find accommodation.
Each organization will be supplied with
"a many admission cards as the number of
delegates appointed by it. No delegate
will be admitted to the Congress without
showing the admission card at the hall
door.
Each nationality will examine the
credentials of its own delegates and
raw up a list Of the delegates whose
credentials have been accepted and re-
iected. This list, together with the Gre
dentials, shall be handed over to the Or
gahizing Committee in order that the list
Of dele gates may be printed.
In the event of disputed credentials the
bureau (Standing Orders Committee) shall
decide in the first instance. In the case of
an appeal against their decision the ques-
ton shall be finally decided by the Con-
sress.
1, That an open air public demonstra-
ton be held in Hyde Park, on Sunday
afternoon; July 26, at Up. M, in favor OF
international peace, at which representa-
tives of the foreign delegations will be in
ritsd to speak.
Q. That ~ reception be given by the
Organizing Committee to the delegates at
bp. M, Sunday July 20.
Delegates whose credentials are ac-
| cepted ehcll be provided with card bear