(a) From a general point of view, this question embraces the 
whole activity of the International Association which aims at 
combining and generalising the till now disconnected efforts for 
emancipation by the working classes in different countries. 

(b) To counteract the intrigues of capitalists always ready, in 
cases of strikes and lockouts, to misuse the foreign workman as a 
tool against the native workman, is one of the particular functions 
which our Society has hitherto performed with success. It is one of 
the great purposes of the Association to make the workmen of 
different countries not only feel but act as brethren and comrades 
in the army of emancipation. 

(c) One great “International combination of efforts” which we 
suggest is a statistical inquiry into the situation of the working classes of 
all countries to be instituted by the working classes themselves. To act 
with any success, the materials to be acted upon must be known. 
By initiating so great a work, the workmen will prove their ability 
to take their own fate into their own hands. We _ propose 
therefore: 

That in each locality, where branches of our Association exist, 
the work be immediately commenced, and evidence collected on 
the different points specified in the subjoined scheme of inquiry. 

That the Congress invite all workmen of Europe and the United 
States of America to collaborate in gathering the elements of the 
statistics of the working class; that reports and evidence be 
forwarded to the Central Council. That the Central Council 
elaborate them into a general report, adding the evidence as an 
appendix. 

That this report together with its appendix be laid before the 
next annual Congress, and after having received its sanction, be 
printed at the expense of the Association.