The Conference invites the General Council to limit the number 
of those members whom it adds to itself, and to take care that 
such adjunctions be not made too exclusively from citizens 
belonging to the same nationality. 

II. 
DESIGNATIONS OF NATIONAL COUNCILS,? ETC.265 

1.—In conformity with a Resolution of the Congress of Basel 
(1869), the Central Councils of the various countries where the 
International is regularly organised, shall designate themselves 
henceforth as Federal Councils or Federal Committees with the 
names of their respective countries attached, the designation of 
General Council being reserved for the Central Council of the 
International Working Men’s Association. 

2.—All local branches, sections, groups and their committees are 
henceforth to designate and constitute themselves simply and 
exclusively as branches, sections, groups and committees of the 
International Working Men’s Association with the names of their 
respective localities attached. 

3.—Consequently, no branches, sections, or groups will hence- 
forth be allowed to designate themselves by sectarian names such 
as Positivists, Mutualists, Collectivists, Communists, etc., or to form 
separatist bodies under the name of sections of propaganda etc., 

pretending to accomplish special missions, distinct from the 
common purposes of the Association. 

4.—Resolutions 1 and 2 do not, however, apply to affiliated 
Trades’ Unions. 

Il. 
DELEGATES OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL 266 

All delegates appointed to distinct missions by the General 
Council shall have the right to attend, and be heard at, all 
meetings of Federal Councils, or Committees, district and local 
Committees and branches, without, however, being entitled to vote 
thereat. 

IV. 

CONTRIBUTION OF 1D.4 PER MEMBER TO THE GENERAL 
COUNCIL 267 

1.—The General Council shall cause to be printed adhesive 
stamps representing the value of one penny each, which will be 
annually supplied, in the numbers to be asked for, to the Federal 
Councils or Committees. 

2.—The Federal Councils or Committees shall provide the local 
Committees, or, in their absence, their respective sections, with the 
number of stamps corresponding to the number of their members. 

3.— These stamps are to be affixed to a special sheet of the 
livret or to the Rules which every member is held to possess. 

4.—On the Ist of March of each year, the Federal Councils or 
Committees of the different countries shall forward to the General 
Council the amount of the stamps disposed of, and return the 
unsold stamps remaining on hand. 

5.—These stamps, representing the value of the individual 
contributions, shall bear the date of the current year. 

V. 

FORMATION OF WORKING WOMEN’S BRANCHES 268 

The Conference recommends the formation of female branches 
among the working class. It is, however, understood that this 
resolution does not at all interfere with the existence or formation 
of branches composed of both sexes. 

VI. 
GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE WORKING CLASS 269 

1.—The Conference invites the General Council to enforce art. 
5 of the original Rules relating to a general statistics of the working 
class, and the resolutions of the Geneva Congress, 1866,* on the same 
subject.?”" 

2.—Every local branch is bound to appoint a special committee 
of statistics, so as to be always ready, within the limits of its means, 
to answer any questions which may be addressed to it by the 
Federal Council or Committee of its country, or by the General 
Council. It is recommended to all branches to remunerate the 
secretaries of the committees of statistics, considering the general 
benefit the working class will derive from their labour. 

3.—On the first of August of each year the Federal Councils or 
Committees will transmit the materials collected in their respective 
countries to the General Council which, in its turn, will have to 
elaborate them into a general report, to be laid before the 
Congresses or Conferences annually held in the month of 
September. 

4.— Trades’ Unions and international branches refusing to give 
the information required, shall be reported to the General Council 
which will take action thereupon. 

VIl. 

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF TRADES’ 
UNIONS 27! 

The General Council is invited to assist, as has been done 
hitherto, the growing tendency of the Trades’ Unions of the 
different countries to enter into relations with the Unions of the 
same trade in all other countries. The efficiency of its action as the 
international agent of communication between the national 
Trades’ societies will essentially depend upon the assistance given 
by these same societies to the General Labour Statistics pursued by 
the International. 

The boards of Trades’ Unions of all countries are invited to 
keep the General Council informed of the directions of their 
respective offices. 

VIII. 
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS 272 

1.—The Conference invites the General Council and the 
Federal Councils or Committees to prepare, for the next Congress, 
reports on the means of securing the adhesion of the agricultural 
producers to the movement of the industrial proletariate. 

2.— Meanwhile, the Federal Councils or Committees are invited 
to send agitators to the rural districts, there to organise public 
meetings, to propagate the principles of the International and to 
found rural branches. 

IX. 
POLITICAL ACTION OF THE WORKING CLASS 273 

Considering the following passage of the preamble to the Rules: 

“The economical emancipation of the working classes is the great 
end to which every political movement ought to be subordinate as a 
means ;”’* 

That the Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s 
Association (1864) states: “The lords of land and the lords of 
capital will always use their political privileges for the defence and 
perpetuation of their economical monopolies. So far from 
promoting, they will continue to lay every possible impediment in 
the way of the emancipation of labour... To conquer political 
power has therefore become the great duty of the working 

That the Congress of Lausanne (1867) has passed this resolu- 
tion: “The social emancipation of the workmen is inseparable 
from their political emancipation;” © 

That the declaration of the General Council relative to the 
pretended plot of the French Internationals on the eve of the 
plebiscite (1870) says: “Certainly by the tenor of our Statutes, all 
our branches in England, on the Continent, and in America have 
the special mission not only to serve as centres for the militant 
organisation of the working class, but also to support, in their 
respective countries, every political movement tending towards the 

accomplishment of our ultimate end—the economical emancipa- 
tion of the working class;” * 

That false translations of the original Statutes” have given rise to 
various‘ interpretations which were mischievous to the develop- 
ment and action of the International Working Men’s Associa- 
tion 7"; 

In presence of an unbridled reaction which violently crushes 
every effort at emancipation on the part of the working men, and 
pretends to maintain by brute force the distinction of classes and 
the political domination of the propertied classes resulting from 
it’; 

Considering, that against this collective power of the propertied 
classes the working class cannot act, as a class, except by 
constituting itself into a political party, distinct from, and opposed 
to, all old parties formed by the propertied classes; 

That this constitution of the working class into a political party 
is indispensable in order to insure the triumph of the social 
Revolution and its ultimate end—the abolition of classes; 

That the combination of forces which the working class has 
already effected by its economical struggles ought at the same time 
to serve as a lever for its struggles against the political power of 
landlords and capitalists —“‘ 

The Conference recalls to the members of the International: 

That in the militant state of the working class, its economical 
movement and its political action are indissolubly united. 

X. 

GENERAL RESOLUTION AS TO THE COUNTRIES WHERE THE REGULAR 
ORGANISATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL IS INTERFERED WITH BY 
THE GOVERNMENTS 275 

In those countries where the regular organisation of the 
International may for the moment have become impracticable in 
consequence of government interference, the Association, and its 

local groups, may be reformed under various other names, but all 
secret societies properly so called are and remain formally 
excluded. 

XI. 
RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO FRANCE 276 

1.—The Conference expresses its firm conviction that all 
persecutions will only double the energy of the adherents of the 
International, and that the branches will continue to organize 
themselves, if not by great centres, at least by workshops and 
federations of workshops corresponding with each other by their 
delegates. 

2.—Consequently, the Conference invites all branches vigorously 
to persist in the propaganda of our principles in France and to 
import into their country as many copies as possible of the 
publications and Statutes of the International. 

XII. 
RESOLUTION RELATING TO ENGLAND277 

The Conference invites the General Council to call upon the 
English branches in London to form a Federal Committee for 
London which, after its recognition by the provincial branches and 
affiliated societies,’ shall be recognised, by the General Council, as 
the Federal Council for England. 

XI. 
SPECIAL VOTES OF THE CONFERENCE 278 

1.—The Conference approves of the adjunction of the members 
of the Paris Commune whom the General Council has added to its 
number. 

2.—The Conference declares that German working men have 
done their duty during the Franco-German war. 

3.—The Conference fraternally thanks the members of the 
Spanish Federation for the memorandum presented by them on 
the organisation of the International by which they have once 
more proved their devotion to our common work. 

4.— The General Council shall immediately publish a declaration 
to the effect that the International Working Men’s Association is 
utterly foreign to the so-called conspiracy of Netschayeff?’? who 
has fraudulently usurped its name. 

XIV. 
INSTRUCTION TO CITIZEN OUTINE 280 

Citizen Outine is invited to publish in the journal L’Egalité a 
succinct report, from the Russian papers, of the Netschayeff trial. 
Before publication, his report will be submitted to the General 
Council. 

XV. 
CONVOCATION OF NEXT CONGRESS 28} 

The Conference leaves it to the discretion of the General 
Council to fix, according to events, the day and place of meeting 
of the next Congress or Conference.? 

XVI. 

ALLIANCE DE LA DEMOCRATIE SOCIALISTE. 
(THE ALLIANCE OF SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY) 282 

Considering that the “Alliance de la Démocratie socialiste” has 
declared itself dissolved (see letter to the General Council d.d. 
Geneva, 10th August 1871 signed by citizen N. Joukowsky, secretary 
to the ‘“Alliance’’), 

That in its sitting of the 18th September (see No. II of this 
circular) the Conference has decided that all existing organisations 
of the International shall, in conformity with the letter and the 
spirit of the general rules, henceforth designate and constitute 
themselves simply and exclusively as branches, sections, federa- 
tions, etc., of the International Working Men’s Association with 
the names of their respective localities attached; 

That the existing branches and societies shall therefore no longer 
be allowed to designate themselves by sectarian names such as 
Positivists, Mutualists, Collectivists, Communists, etc., or to form 
separatist bodies under the names of sections of propaganda, Alliance 

de la Démocratie socialiste, etc., pretending to accomplish special 
missions distinct from the common purposes of the Association *; 
That henceforth the General Council of the International 
Working Men’s Association will in this sense have to interpret and 
apply article 5 of the administrative resolutions of the Basel 
Congress: “The General Council has the right either to accept or 
to refuse the affiliation of any new section or group,” etc.‘ 
The Conference declares the question of the “Alliance de la 
Démocratie socialiste” to be settled. 

XVII. 

SPLIT IN THE FRENCH-SPEAKING PART 
OF SWITZERLAND 283 

1.—The different exceptions taken by the Federal Committee of 
the Mountain sections as to the competency of the Conference are 
declared inadmissible. (This is but a resumé of article 1 which will 
be printed in full in the Egalité of Geneva. *) 

2.—The Conference confirms the decision of the General 
Council of June 29th, 1870.2? 

At the same time, in view of the persecutions which the 
International is at present undergoing, the Conference appeals to 
the feelings of fraternity and union which more than ever ought 
to animate the working class; 

It invites the brave working men of the Mountain sections to 
rejoin the sections of the Romance Federation; 

In case such an amalgamation should prove impracticable it 
decides that the dissident Mountain sections shall henceforth name 
themselves the “Jurassian Federation”. 

The Conference gives warning that henceforth the General 
Council will be bound to publicly denounce and disavow all organs ° 
of the International which, following the precedents of the 
Progrés and the Solidarité, should discuss in their columns, before 

the middle-class public, questions exclusively reserved for the local 
_or Federal Committees and the General Council, or for the private 
and administrative sittings of the Federal or General Congresses. 

NOTICE 

The resolutions not intended for publicity will be communicated 
to the Federal Councils or Committees of the various countries by 
the corresponding secretaries of the General Council. 

By order and in the name of the Conference, 
The General Council: 

R. Applegarth, M. J. Boon, Fred. Bradnick, G. H. Buttery, Delahaye, 
Eugéne Dupont (on mission), W. Hales, G. Harris, Hurliman, Jules 
Johannard, Fred. Lessner, Lochner, Ch. Longuet, C. Martin, Z. Maurice, 
Henry Mayo, George Milner, Charles Murray, Pfander, John Roach, 
Rühl, Sadler, Cowell Stepney, Alf. Taylor, W. Townshend, E. Vaillant, 
John Weston 

Corresponding Secretaries: 

A. Serraillier ............4 for France. Walery Wroblewski .............. for 

Karl Marx «0.0.00 Germany and Poland. 
Russia. Hermann Jung....... for Switzer- 

FOE NGOS cs cssisisentes Italy and Spain. land. 
A. Herman .......cescco00ess Belgium.  T. Mottershead ......... Denmark. 
Jj. P. MacDonnell .......... Ireland. Ch. Rochat ................ Holland. 
Le Moussu ...........65 fortheFrench J. G. Eccarius..... United States. 
branches of Leo Frankel ............ Austria and 

the United States. Hungary. 

F. Engels, Chairman— Hermann Jung, Treasurer 
John Hales, Gen. Secretary 

256, High Holborn, W.C., 
October 17, 1871 

Karl Marx