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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 188, 3 November 1876, Page 15

The noiiueUes cottclies societies of M. Ganibetta (says the London correspondent of the ' Standard') are as industrious as ever. They are getting up what they call a working man's congress, which is to bo held in Paris from the 2nd to the 20th of September. The committee charged with its organisation state that the congress will take the form of private meetings ; but if necessary, and if the Government will grant the authorisation, a great public meeting will be held. The Congress will be composed of delegates from aU the working corporations in France. The chief questions to be studied are— the position of the workmen, the organisation of the syndical chamber, the direct representation of the proletariat in Parliament, co-operative association, and the necessity of founding a society to keep up relations between the agricultural laborers of the villages and the workmen of the town. You will remark that the programme is a curious mixture of the social and political. No discussion we are told, will be allowed; each speaker will state his ideas and proposals, and it will remain with the audience to judge and decide. Of course the Sepublique Francaise approves of this congress, and hopes that it will succeed in making clearly known the just demands and aspirations of the working classes — a hope in which most persons may join, but which, judging from the political . character of the organisers of the congress, is not likely to be realised in a satisfactory way.