ABSTRACT
Considering that our social institutions as well as the centralization of political power are a permanent cause ot war, which can only be removed by a thorough social reform;
that the people even now can diminish the number of wars by opposing those who declare and make war;
that this concerns above all the working classes, who have almost exclusively to shed their blood;
that to do this there is a practical and legal means which can be immediately acted upon; that as the body politic could not go on for any length of time without labour, it would suffice tor the working men to strike work to render war impossible;
the International Working Men’s Congress recommends to all the sections, and to the members of working men’s societies in particular and to the working classess in general, to cease war in case a war be declared in their country. The Congress counts upon the spirit of solidarity which animates the working men of all countries, and entertains a hope that means would not be wating in such an emegency to support the people against their government.
