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Title: Draft Resolution on the Limitation of the Working Day (1868)
Description: Resolution proposed by the General Council to the Brussels Congress: the Geneva demand for the legal limitation of the working day must now be agitated practically in every country.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1868-08
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1868%20Draft%20Resolution%20on%20the%20Limitation%20of%20the%20Working%20Day
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*Proposed, seconded by Dupont, at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association of August 25, 1868, on the question of the reduction of the hours of labour to be discussed at the Brussels Congress (the minutes do not name the mover). Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16). Text from* The General Council of the First International. Minutes*, vol. II (1866-1868), Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], pp. 248-249, which prints the Minute Book. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1868%20Proyecto%20de%20resoluci%C3%B3n%20sobre%20la%20limitaci%C3%B3n%20de%20la%20jornada%20de%20trabajo)*

A resolution having been passed unanimously by the Congress of Geneva 1866 to this effect: “That the legal limitation of the working day is a preliminary condition indispensable for the ulterior social improvements”, the Council is of opinion that the time is now arrived when practical effect should be given to that resolution and that it has become the duty of all the branches to agitate that question practically in the different countries where the International Working Men’s Association is established.