History of Myanmar's labour movement (45/505)

This post presents page 45 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

ဆော်ဩ ။ to convene
ဖြန့်ချိ ။ to distribute
ပြတ်သား ။ be distinct; be lucid; be succinct

Translation:

In Europe and in America during the period of 1899-1904, although the four kinds [of groups] among the working masses: (1) the Marxists, (2) the reformists, (3) the anarchists and syndicalists, and (4) those who pursued solely workers' issues
forcefully spit, they all still used the vocabulary of socialism. Other than those ideologies, from 1891, citing a Catholic ideology relating to worker issues based on religious faiths that had emerged, Pope Leo XIII convened and established the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions as well.

Therefore, during this confusing period of general problems among the international working masses, the German socialists held worker congresses in 1900 in Paris and in 1904 in Amsterdam and a Permanent Trade Union International was formed and [the following] decisions were noted the bases of socialism: (1) the national jurisdiction of the works of commodity production and distribution, (2) the establishment of proletarian parties with a class basis for the working class to take [state] power, (3) the drafting of general labour laws, and (4) the designation of political task according to the parliamentary system. That association accepted the leadership of the International Socialist Bureau (Second International) at the Brussels headquarters and with however much solidarity they could not sustain the association. Especially, since within the association they could not set down definite programs of action regarding national problems and colonial problems, the problem of big nationals and the problem of small nationals was increasingly advanced between big countries and small countries. While that was happening, in 1907, 886 representatives from a total of 26 countries attended the [Second International]'s Stuttgart Congress and in 1910, [896 representatives from a total of 23 countries attended] the Copenhagen Congress. [Later on, that international association was called the Berne International.]