General Work Confederation, first Congress

The General Confederation of Work was born at the first Congress of Milan on 29 September - 1 October 1906: five hundred delegates, representing 700 leagues for a total of 250 thousand members, proclaimed their constitution. Only one, very famous, photographic image of the Constituent Congress remains to the story, shot at the Camera del Lavoro in Milan by the photographic studio Italo Pacchioni