Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1889 — The International Labor Congress. [ARTICLE]

The International Labor Congress.

Paris, July 19. —The labor congress, which is in session here, to-day completed its organization, Alleman*) of France and Brown of America were elected joint presidents. Mr. Bowen, on behalf of the Knights of Labor of America, urged the necessity of severely punishing emigration agents guilty of dishonest .misrepresentations. The chief difficulty which the labor organizations of America encountered arose, he said, from the endless influx of immigrants. ’