The explicit repulsion to the revolutionary elements manifested tensions between the anarchist and socialist currents, which focused on the Brazilian labor movement at that time.

[9] Even if not being in the majority, the anarchists - among them Edgard Leuenroth, Joaquim Mota Assunção, Luiz Magrassi and Alfredo Vasques - managed to assert their theses, influencing the congress significantly.

[8] In this way, the approved resolutions reflected the influence of revolutionary syndicalism, the trade unionist conception advocated by Brazilian anarchists in that period.

[9] The choice of the revolutionary syndicalist option was informed by its ability to unify and the comprehensiveness of its program, which provided for the possibility of diverse political and religious opinions, prioritizing the field of economic struggle as the common interest of all workers, and was considered a victory for the anarchists, insofar as the pretensions of influential reformists of the Brazilian labor movement, as was the case of Pinto Machado, leader of the Workers' Union of Ingenuity, Rio de Janeiro.

Congress also decided that a confederation and a union newspaper should be set up to provide assistance to federations and give voice to the collective associations.

[10] The objectives of this Confederation would be the promotion of the union of workers for the defense of their moral, material, economic and professional interests; straits of solidarity between the organized proletariat, giving greater strength and cohesion to their efforts; to study and propagate the means of emancipation of the proletariat and publicly defend the economic demands of the workers.

[12] During this period, it presented news from the Confederation and the federated associations, of its meetings, assemblies and strikes; denounced exploitation and working conditions in factories and other workplaces; encouraged the fight for the eight-hour day, also organizing advertising rallies for this purpose.

In its first months, the workers obtained a series of victories, as was the case with the salary increase granted to the cobblers of Rio de Janeiro.

[15] The new rise of the workers' movement brought reactions by the authorities, with the intensification of repression and an attempt to expand the terms of the Adolfo Gordo Law.

[17] Such a Congress, excluding revolutionary tendencies, aimed at creating a workers' party and a new trade union center, the Brazilian Confederation of Labor (Portuguese: Confederação Brasileira do Trabalho, CBT).

[17] The resolutions of this congress did not go far beyond the publication of a booklet, having little or no practical result in terms of national articulation, building a new central or working party.

[12] The Commission declared in January 1913, the reconstitution of the COB, whose direction included Rosendo dos Santos as General Secretary, and João Leuenroth, brother of Edgard, as treasurer.

59 associations participated in this Congress, in addition to representatives from newspapers considered defenders of the worker cause, such as Myer Feldman of A Voz do Trabalhador (Rio de Janeiro), Edgard Leuenroth of A Lanterna and Astrojildo Pereira of Germinal (São Paulo), and Antonio Certitião of O Trabalho (Bagé).

[23]The COB's rearticulation attempt also had the engagement of many young people from punk and anarcho-punk movement, which played an active role in the organization of pro-COB nuclei.

[2] Only trade unions formed exclusively by workers, wage earners, and who had the main objective of economic resistance could be part of the Confederation.