Congreso Obrero de Filipinas

The Congreso Obrero de Filipinas (Philippine Labor Congress, acronym COF) was a trade union federation in the Philippines, established in 1913 and dissolving into a paper organization which vanished towards the end of the 1930s. The TOF was the second labor federation in the history of Manila's labor movement.

The was established on May 1, 1913. Its first convention was attended by 155 representatives from 35 organizations. Participating in its first convention were various occupation groups such as cigar makers, government employees, typographers, lithographers, bookbinders, journalists, sailors, clerks, mechanics, and lawyers. The first COF convention lasted four days. Hermenegildo Cruz was elected president, while Primitivo Cruz was chosen as secretary.

The COF manifesto had five goals:

The official publication of the COF was the Tambuli, which lasted only a year.

On June 30, 1927 the COF formally affiliated with the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS), the Pacific regional subdivision of the Red International of Labor Unions (RILU, commonly known as the Profintern). The organization claimed 70,000 adherents at the time of affiliation with this Communist International-backed organization. This affiliation exacerbated a growing division between revolutionary left and reformist right wings of the labor organization, with the radicals headed by Philippine Communist leader Crisanto Evangelista and the moderates by one Tejada of the Philippine Tobacco Workers Union.

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