[3] Hendrik de Man, a member of the Belgian Workers Party youth group who was studying in Germany, was put in charge of the preparatory work.
[5] By March 1907 a provisional bureau had been established with de Man as secretary and Liebknect and Ludwig Frank as assessors, with a headquarters in Leipzig.
It was decided at this conference to move the seat of the International Federation to Vienna, and to replace the provisional bureau with a permanent one: Henriette Roland Holst, Leopold Winarsky, Gustav Möller and Karl Liebknecht (Emanuele Skatula was his substitute while he was incarcerated).
This was done n spite of official disapproval of the pro-war parties, much like the Socialist Women's conference held earlier that year in the same city.
The following 16 delegates from 10 countries participated:[13] Messages were received from groups of French, Greek, Dutch, German and Austrian youth who were unable to attend and even from the Vienna Bureau.
The conference created a new provision seat for the federation, at Zurich, with Munzenberg as secretary and Olaussen, Christiansen, Notz and Cantessi as a new bureau.
They charged this new organization with publishing a regular periodical, keep in touch with the member socialist groups, direct co-ordinated propaganda and administer the "Leibknekt Fund" for victims of the war.
[19] On the initiative of the Lutaaren, it was decided to organize a "Jugendtag", a one protest against the war and militarism across national boundaries by the affiliated socialist youth leagues and co-ordinated the federation.
The Socialist gathered at Berne called on the young working masses to renew the proletarian class struggle in order to conclude peace.