LABOR CONGRESS

international conventions of delegates from labor unions. The first of these was held in 1847, at which were represented radical labor organizations initiated by Karl Marx and his followers, giving birth to the famous First International, which was, however, short lived. The first purely labor congre was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1860, by delegates from the labor movements in England, France, Germany and Holland. Others followed at Basle, in 1869; Dresden, 1871; the Hague, 1872; Paris, 1886; Berlin, 1891; and Zurich, Switzerland, 1897. Up to the World War the scope of these congre es and the loose international organization they represented was extremely limited, the collection of statistics and the pa ing of resolutions being their chief functions. Since the war there have been many international congre es Of workers in special industries, such as that of the agricultural workers, in Amsterdam, in 1920; the bookbinders, held in Berne, Switzerland, in 1920; the Clothing Workers, in Copenhagen, in 1920, and many others. An International Congre of Working Women was held in Washington, D. C., in October, 1919. In that year a Pan American Labor Congre was held in New York, at which were representatives of labor unions in the United States, Canada, Mexico and nearly all other