RESOLUTION ON CHANGING THE PLACE 
OF THE INTERNATIONAL’S CONGRESS IN 1868]? 


1. Considering, that the Belgian Parliament has just prolon- 
gated for three years the law by which every foreigner may be 
expelled [from] the country by the Belgian executive govern- 
ment?; 

2. that the dignity of the I. W. Association is incompatible with 
the meeting of the Congress at a place where they would be at the 
mercy of the local police; 

3. that Article 3 of the Rules of the I.W.A.* provides that the 
General Council may, in case of need, change the place of meeting 
of the Congress; 

the General Council resolves that the Congress of the I.W.A. do 
assemble in London on the 5th of September, 1868. 


Introduced at the General Council meet-