DECLARATION ON NECHAYEV’S MISUSE
OF THE NAME OF THE INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL  WORKING  MEN’S ASSOCIATION
The Conference of the Delegates of the International
Working Men’s Association, assembled at London from the
17th to the 23d September 1871, has charged the General
Council to declare publicly:
that Netschajeff has never been a member or an agent
of the International Working Men’s Association;
that his assertions*  to have founded a branch at Brussels
and to have been sent by a Brussels branch on a mission to
Geneva are false;
* The German text, published in Der Volksstaat, has the following
words inserted here: “(durch den politischen Prozess zu St. Petersburg
bekannt wordenen)” (“made known through the political process in
St. Petersburg”).—Ed.
that the above-said Netschajeff has fraudulently used
the name of the International Working Men’s Association
in order to make dupes and victims in Russia.
By order of the General Council, etc.
14 October, 1871
in the original