The International Working Men's Association, 1872

Statements and Proposals

Wednesday, September 4, 1872

No. 1 Preliminary and Urgent Proposal

We request that the Congress, inspired by
the principle of justice, should decide that previous to anything else
it will discuss the manner of voting, in view of the fact that during the
whole checking of tile delegates' mandates the delegation of the Spanish
Federation has been deprived of the possibility to take part in the voting.

T. Gonzales Morago

Farga Pellicer

Alerini

To the General Congress at The Hague September 4, 1872

Written by Morago

Submitted to the fifth sitting

September 4, 1872

French original

Considering the loss of time caused by the
checking of the mandates and the personal questions hindering all useful
discussion,

Considering the importance of the order of the day,

We demand that the question of the Alliance be submitted to a
commission nominated by the Congress and discussed in a closed sitting
and that the order of the day be immediately proceeded with.

Ranvier

Alfred Herman

A. Sauva

J. Van der Hout

Roch Splingard

D. Brismée

Duping

H.Gerhard

P. de Fluse

Ph. Coenen

J. Johannard

Victor Dave

I sign, protesting against investigation of a secret society by the Congress.

J. Guillaume

Farga Pellicer

Marselau

T. Gonzales Morago

N. Eberhardt

H. Van den Abeele

J. George Eccarius

Dumont

Th. Mottershead

Cuno

Submitted to the fifth sitting,

September 4, 1872

Written by Ranvier

French original

No. 3

Considering that the delegates of Germany,
Austria and Hungary have to go to a workers' congress opening on the 7th
inst. in Mayence, that the delegates of Switzerland and Denmark have to
return to their countries, and a certain number of French delegates to
go to London,

the undersigned move that after the most indispensable formalities
have been carried out the Congress should proceed immediately to discuss
the powers of the General Council, its seat and the place of assembly of
the next congress, after which the Congress will immediately go on to the
revision of the General Rules.

Ludwig Heim

Lafargue

P. Wilmot

Th. Duval

Submitted to the sixth sitting

September 4, 1872

Written by Heim

French original

No. 4

The delegates of the Spanish Regional Federation,
obeying the imperative mandate imposed on them, submit the following proposal
to the Congress:

Considering that the procedure followed up to the present at International
congresses of adopting decisions by the majority of the delegates present
is not equitable,

The delegation of the Spanish Federation proposes:

1.
That the votes be evaluated proportionally to the number of members of
the International represented by the delegates provided with an imperative
mandate, in which mandate the number of these members must be stated.

2.
That the votes of members not provided with an imperative mandate will
not count until the sections or federations represented by them have discussed
and voted on the questions debated at the Congress.

In order to make this ruling practicable and so that the resolutions of
the Congress will be the true expression of the thought of the International
Working Men's Association, the resolutions adopted will come into force
only two months after the Congress. During this time the sections which
had not provided their delegates with an imperative mandate on the questions
discussed and also those which have been unable to send delegates will
express their votes by publishing them in the newspapers of the International
and informing the Federal Council which will be designated and charged
with counting the votes and announcing the result.

[Written by Alerini, date added by Morago, followed by the respective signatures.]

The Congress of The Hague,

September 4, 1872

Alerini

Morago

Marselau

Farga Pellicer

Submitted to the sixth sitting,

September 4, 1872

French original

No. 5

We have the imperative mandate to demand
vote by national federations on administrative questions.

The Belgian delegates:

Alfred Herman

Roch Splingard

P. Fluse

N. Eberhardt

Brismée

Ph. Coenen

Submitted to the sixth sitting,

September 4, 1872

French original

Thursday, September 5, 1872

No. 6

I request the Chairman to agree to the nomination
of a commission consisting of three members to compare the manuscript text
of the Spring Street Council's letter with the text printed in the Bulletin
de la Federation jurassienne in order to ascertain whether there was on
the part of the Jura Federation the falsification mentioned by Citizen
Le Moussu.

J. Guillaume

Submitted to the seventh sitting

September 5, 1872

French original

No. 7

[The text of the message and the signatures of Schwitzguébel and Morago are in red ink, the rest is in pencil.]

The Congress of the International Working Men's Association,
assembled at The Hague, expresses in the name of the world proletariat
its admiration for the heroic fighters for the emancipation of labour who
fell victims of their devotion, and sends fraternal and sympathetic greetings
to all those who are at present persecuted by bourgeois reaction in France,
Germany, Denmark and the entire world.

Adhémar Schwitzguébel, delegate of the Jura Federation

A. Sauva, delegate of the 2 American sections

D. Brismée

N. Eberhardt, Belgian delegates

Victor Dave, delegate of The Hague

Cuno, Germany

Ph. Coenen

T. Gonzales Morago, delegado de la federacion regional español.

Submitted to the eighth sitting,

September 5, 1872

French original

No. 8

I hereby inform the bureau of the Congress
of the International Working Men's Association assembled here that urgent
circumstances demand my return. I expect and request of my party comrades
at the Congress that they will lake over my share of the work and carry
the business of the Association to a successful end.

J. Dietzgen

The Hague, September 5, 1872

Submitted to the ninth sitting,

September 5, 1872

German original

No. 9

To the General Congress of the International Working Men's Association sitting in the Hague, Holland

Citizens,

For the first time since the fall of the
Commune, the delegates of the proletariat which was massacred in Paris,
is persecuted everywhere and everywhere oppressed, have assembled at an
international congress. Therefore all eyes are turned at this moment towards
The Hague -- our enemies expecting an admission of weakness or fearing
a challenge which would provide proof of the impotence of their furious
reaction. For its part, the people expects from those in whom it sees its
representatives: a word of hope, the promise of energetic efforts in view
of imminent revenge, of early and final victory.

Therefore, in the assurance that, conscious of its duty, the Congress
will not fail in it, we, Communards, delegates to the Congress,
come in the name of the machine-gunned, deported, proscribed people, in
the name of the suffering people, to ask of you that word of hope which
you will not refuse to it, because it will be the contract which will prove
to it that you are worthy of its confidence.

In face of the repression, which is as savage as it is sense-less,
on the part of the victorious bourgeoisie against the defeated proletariat,

In face of the necessity to organise the proletarian forces disorganised
by defeat in view of more energetic action,

In face of the weakness towards the bourgeois powers shown by
certain groups of the International Association which cover up their desertion
of the people's cause with the pernicious doctrine of abstention in political
matters or betray this cause by alliance or compromise with bourgeois parties
whatever be their name,

Considering that the social revolution can no more be enclosed
in formulas than it can be resolved by petty measures and that it must
be approached as a whole and in its totality if it is to be achieved,

That the destruction of every capitalist property regime,

That the abolition of the classes, the social revolution, can
be achieved only by mustering all the energy of the revolutionary forces,

That abstention from political action is the negation of the first
duty of the working class: the conquest of political power for the purpose
of sweeping away the old society and creating the elements of the new by
the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat,

That any alliance with a bourgeois party whichever shade it belongs
to, under any pretext whatever, is desertion of the proletariat's cause
on the part of any individual or group guilty of it,

That if the formation of societies of resistance, their federation,
beginning the organisation of the working class, provides it with the weapons
to fight capitalist oppression,

That if the strike is one means of revolutionary action, the barricade
is another, and the most powerful of all,

The Congress declares:

1. The organisation of the proletariat's revolutionary forces
and of the political struggle is placed on the order of the day of the
next congress.

The General Council is instructed to submit a project for this
organisation.

2. Any individual or group claiming to belong to the International
who is proved to have by weakness, cowardice or doctrinarian stupidity
deserted the cause of the revolutionary proletariat will no longer be allowed
to remain in the International Association.

The General Council will have the power to exclude such individuals
or groups from the International pending a final decision by the Congress.

Ant. Arnaud

F. Cournet

Dereure

Le Moussu

[Here the name of Lafargue is heavily struck out]

Ranvier

Ed. Vaillant

The citizens submitting this proposal request the Congress to place
its discussion on the order of the day immediately after the revision of
the General Rules.

Submitted to the ninth sitting,

September 5, 1872

French original

No. 10

Amendment

The General Council has no power over the
sections and federations. Its functions will be those of an intermediary
between the different regional federations; its activity will be limited
to that of a correspondence and statistics centre with full freedom of
initiative to propose to the different regions or to the congress the decisions
which it finds most appropriate taking into account the data obtained by
means of correspondence and statistics.

Tomás Gonzales Morago

Submitted to the ninth sitting,

September 5, 1872

Spanish original

Friday, September 6, 1872

No. 11

We propose that the Congress should immediately proceed with the
discussion of the Rules.

2. That only two speakers speak for, and two against.

3. That each speaker should speak for no more than five minutes.

[The document is written by Duval, followed by the respective
signatures. The signatures of Lafargue, Pihl, B. Becker, and Milke are
in pencil, the others in ink. In the left-hand corner is the date: September
6. -- Ed.]

T.Duval, F. A. Sore, Adolf Hepner, S. Pihl,

Joh. Ph. Becker, P. Lafargue, Fr. Milke,

Bernhard Becker; Georg Schumacher, Ludwig

Heim, Gustav Ludwig, Le Moussu

[Then comes an amendment written in another hand and the respective
signatures. -- Ed.]

Amendment to point 2.

2. That only one speaker speaks for and one against.

F. Cournet

Ant. Arnaud

Ed. Vaillant

Ranvier

L. Kugelmann, Dr.

Submitted to the tenth sitting,

September 6, 1872

French original

No. 12

[The document was copied out in Cuno's hand together with a
statement by the Congress minority -- see Document 40.]

We request the Congress to open immediately
the discussion on the following articles:

Art. 2. -- The General Council is bound to execute the Congress Resolutions,
and to take care that in every country the principles and the General Rules
and Regulations of the International are strictly observed.

Art. 6. -- The General Council has also the right to suspend Branches,
Sections, Federal Councils or committees, and federations of the International,
till the meeting of the next Congress.

Nevertheless, in the case of sections belonging to a federation, the General
Council will exercise this right only after having consulted the respective
Federal Council.

In the case of the suspension of an entire federation, the General
Council shall immediately inform thereof the whole of the federations.
If the majority of them demand it, the General Council shall convoke an
extraordinary conference, composed of one delegate for each nationality,
which shall meet within one month and finally decide upon the question.

Nevertheless, it is well understood that the countries where the
International is prohibited shall exercise the same rights as the regular
federations.

F. A. Sorge

Joh. Ph. Becker

T. Duval

Adolf Hepner

P. Lafargue

S. Pihl

Fr. Milke

Bernhard Becker

Le Moussu

Georg Schumacher

Ludwig Heim

Gustav Ludwig

French original

Submitted to the tenth sitting,

September 6, 1872

Published in La Liberté No. 37, September 15, 1872

No. 13

Proposal

The undersigned citizens request that the
order of the day of public sittings of the Congress be regulated as follows.

As soon as the articles of the Rules and Regulations relating
to the General Council have been voted, the Congress will examine:

1. The proposal to include in the Rules the resolution of the
London Conference on political action of the working class as an article
of the General Rules.

2. The proposal of citizens Ant. Arnaud, Cournet, Dereure, Le
Moussu, Ranvier, and Ed. Vaillant on the organisation of the proletariat's
revolutionary forces.

3. The chapter of the Administrative Regulations relating to the
subscriptions to be paid to the General Council.

4. After this the Congress will proceed to discuss a~ articles
of the Rules and Regulations which have not yet been discussed, examining
them in the order in which they are included in the latest edition of the
Rules.

Ed. Vaillant

Ant. Arnaud

F. Cournet

Ranvier

Le Moussu

Submitted to the tenth sitting,

September 6, 1872

French original

No 14

[The text is written on the back of the sheet containing a
statement by A. Herman, R. Splingard and others (see Document No. 5). --
Ed.]

To the Chairman of the Congress

We, the undersigned members of the Congress,
protest against the way in which the majority of the members of the Congress
who speak other languages disregard the elementary rights of those who
only speak English. The difficulty, amounting almost to impossibility to
know what is going on or even to be heard on any question, makes our delegation
insignificant and our presence a joke.

Signed:

Barry

Mottershead

Roach

Sexton

MacDonnell

Submitted to the tenth sitting,

September 6, 1872

French original

No. 15

Immediately after the discussion of the two
proposals concerning the duty of the General Council to see to the strict
observance in all countries of the fundamental principles of the Association
and watch over the relations of the General Council with the federations,
we ask for the question of the inclusion of the resolution of the Conference
on political action of the working class in the General Rules and for the
question of the subscriptions to be paid to the General Council to put
on the order of the day.

[The document is written by Vaillant and followed by the signatures
of Arnaud and Cournet. On the back is the name of Ranvier. -- Ed.]

Ed. Vaillant

Ant. Arnaud

F. Cournet

Submitted to the tenth sitting,

September 6, 1872

French original

No. 16

We propose that for the year 1872/73 the
seat of the General Council be transferred to New York and that the Council
be composed of the following members of the Federal Council of North America:
Kavanagh, Saint-Clair, Cetti, Levièle, Laurel, F. J. Bertrand,
F. Bolte, and C. Carl. They shall have the right of co-option but the
total number of members of the General Council shall never exceed 15.

Karl Marx

F. Engels

Walery Wróblewski

Ch. Longuet

A. Serraillier

MacDonnell

Eugene Dupont

F. Lessner

Le Moussu

M. Maltman Barry

The Hague, September 6, 1872;

Submitted to the tenth sitting, September 6, 1872;

No. 17

Considering that Spain has the largest number
of socialist newspapers; that consequently the socialist organisation there
is stronger than anywhere else; that freedom of assembly exists there;
that meetings have a larger attendance there than anywhere else;

Considering that we can obtain clarity only through discussion,
that the discussion which has been taking place in London since 1869 is
almost nil;

I propose Madrid or Barcelona as the seat of the General Council.

N.B. The distance is no longer an obstacle for the telegraph.

Submitted to the tenth sitting, September 6, 1872;

French original.

No. 18

Proposal

In the name of the Spanish Regional Federation we propose:

1. That the General Council should include two representatives
from each federation, elected directly by them and subject to revoke only
by them.

That the General Council should have its seat in Belgium. That
the Belgian Federal Council be instructed to transfer its powers to the
General Council which will be elected.

B. Farga Pellicer

Alerini

Submitted to the tenth sitting,

September 6, 1872

French original

No. 19

The document is written on blue squared paper by Farga Pellicer
and signed by him and Alerini. There are notes in pencil.

We demand that before the end of this evening's
sitting the debate be closed and a vote taken on the inclusion as an article
in the General Rules of the resolution of the Conference on political action
of the working class.

F. Cournet

Ed. Vaillant

S. Dereure

Submitted to the eleventh sitting,

September 6, 1872

French original

Saturday, September 7, 1872

No. 20

[The document is written by Cournet and followed by the respective
signatures. -- Ed.]

Citizens,

Being compelled to return to London, we ask
you to kindly excuse our departure and our absence from the last sittings
of the Congress.

Greetings and Fraternity.

F. Cournet

Ranvier

Ed. Vaillant

[This addition written by Ranvier. -- Ed.]

The above-named being in no way disinterested,
despite their departure, in the questions to be debated, wish to leave
their vote on the question of politics discussed yesterday, on which they
vote for.

They also vote for an increase of the subscriptions to be paid
to the General Council.

Ranvier

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 21

To the Bureau of the International Congress

As I have to leave immediately, I am herewith
placing the names of those for whom I wish to vote in the election of the
General Council on the office table, so that I do not lose my vote through
being unable to stay on to the end of today's sitting. I vote for the citizens
indicated on the enclosed note.

[Enclosed note with the names of the
candidates to the General Council not extant.]

Bernhard Becker,

delegate for Brunswick, Chemnits and Bielefeld

The Hague, September 7, 1872.

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

German original

No. 22

I respectfully beg permission to retire from
the Congress after this sitting, having urgent professional business that
requires my presence in London.

Sexton

5.8.72

[Inadvertent error on date]

September 7, 1872

German original

No. 23

The Hague

Sept. 7th, 1872

[error -- it was the 8th]

To the President of the International Working Men's Congress

Dear Citizen,

I regret that I am compelled by necessity
to leave The Hague this morning for London. I wish you therefore to inform
the Congress that only actual necessity would make me forego the pleasure
and the duty of remaining until the termination of the proceedings.

I sincerely hope that the further action of the Congress may be
guided by wisdom -- that unanimity and good feeling may characterise its
proceedings and that its result may be a glorious triumph for the cause
of the Universal Proletariat.

I am, Citizen,

fraternally yours,

F. Lessner, delegate, German Section, London.

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

English original

No. 24

To the Chairman

As I am compelled to depart today I herewith
depose my ballot paper for the election of the members of the General Council.

[Ballot paper not found.]

Gustav Ludwig, delegate for Mainz

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

German original

No. 25

The Hague

September 7, 1872

To the Citizen Members of the Congress

Obliged as a result of news received from
London yesterday evening to leave The Hague, I request the Congress kindly
to excuse me if I do not take part in its work today, but as I could not
wait until Tuesday morning, I find myself obliged to leave today.

It is with regret that I leave you, perhaps we shall meet again
in happier circumstances.

I avail myself of this occasion to inform you that I vote for
the inclusion in the Rules of our proposition on the policy of the working
class; and for an increase of the subscription.

Greetings and equality.

Ant. Arnaud

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 26

As it was not possible for me to speak yesterday
on the political question, I hereby beg the Chairman of the Congress to
tell that although I am the only delegate from Denmark here, the membership
in Denmark is very large and that in the name of the Danish branch I adhere
to the policy of the General Council. And we shall regret very much if
it should happen that the General Council were composed of members such
as we could not adhere to.

S. Pihl

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

German original

No. 27

My mandate instructs me to defend energetically
Article IX (political action of the working class) and its inclusion
in the Rules.

I therefore demand a final decision.

Swarm

Duval

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 28

On behalf of the section of political refugees
of X, which I represent at the Congress, I adhere to the programme expounded
by Citizen Dumont for the Paris sections.

Lucain

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 29

I propose that 12 persons should be nominated
and that they should be given the right to co-opt three others; and that
the sitting be adjourned for five minutes.

P. Lafargue

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 31

I abstain -- because on this question I should
have explained my imperative mandate and have not been able to do so, the
discussion having been ended before time.

Victor Cyrille [France]

Submitted to the twelfth sitting.

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 32

[The document bears on the top the words "Danish delegate"
in black ink and "Peel" (for Pihl) in pencil, in an unknown hand. -- Ed.]

I vote for declaration IX but I protest in
the name of the legality of the vote because the opponents of the declaration
have not been allowed to speak.

Dumont, Paris sections

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 33

We propose that the subscription should remain
as fixed by the General Rules.

Dupont

A. Serraillier

J. G. Eccarius

Thomas Mottershead

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

[Written by Dupont]

No. 34

I propose that payments should be spread
out and take place every three months.

[The document bears on the back the list of candidates for the
new General Council: "Kavanagh, Saint-Clair, Laurel, Fornaccieri, David,
Levièle, Bertrand, Bolte, Cad, Ward, Dereure, Speyer."]

P. Lafargue,

Swarm, French sections,

B. Wilmot,

Th. Duval,

Dumont

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

[Written by Lafargue]

No. 35

Proposal

On behalf of the Portuguese Federation and
the New Madrid Federation I propose:

That the new General Council be charged with the special mission
of organising international trade unions.

For this purpose, the Council will, during the month following
this Congress, draw up a circular which shall be translated and published
in all languages, and forwarded to all trades' societies whose addresses
are known, whether they are affiliated to the International or not.

In this circular every Union shall be called upon to enter into
an International union of its respective trade.

Every Union shall be invited to fix itself the conditions under
which it proposes to enter the International Union of its trade.

The General Council shall, from the conditions fixed by the Unions,
adopting the idea of International union, draw up a general plan, and submit
it to the provisional acceptance of the Societies.

The next Congress will finally settle the fundamental treaty for
the International trades unions.

Paul Lafargue

seconded by F. A. Sorge, on behalf of the American Federation,

Bernhard Becker,

Fr. Milke, printer, delegate from Berlin,

S. Pihl, Copenhagen,

Swarm, France,

E. Vaillant (France),

Leo Frankel (France),

Joh. Ph. Becker,

Th. Duval, Romance Federation,

Brismée,

F. Cournet (Denmark),

Ant. Arnaud (Switzerland),

Adolf Hepner (Leipzig),

Walter,

S. Dereure (America),

Lucain, France,

Dumont, French section

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

[Written by Lafargue]

Published in La Emancipacion No. 65, September 14, 1872 and La Liberté, No. 37 September 15, 1872

No. 36

Cuno's vote:

On Article IX (on political action) -- For.

Increase of subscriptions: For.

Cuno

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 37

Vichard is for Article IX.

Against increase of subscriptions.

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 38

Sorge on behalf of the American Federation
tables:

1. a proposal relating to the questionnaire on statistics;

2. a proposal relating to representation at congresses;

3. a proposal aimed at simplifying the designation of the societies,
etc. adhering to the International Working Men's Association;

4. the resolutions of the American congress on the position of
the General Council and the accusations levelled against it, expressing
energetic support of the General Council and demanding complete centralisation
of our forces.

Submitted to the thirteenth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 39

I consider it necessary to state publicly
that my letter does not imply that the commission has acted without due
consideration and made conclusions without proof. I would point out that
I withdrew yesterday evening and that at that moment, besides my personal
conviction, I had strong presumptions, which, as a result of subsequent
evidence, would perhaps have been transformed into certainty. Fully trusting
the commission's loyalty, I would in any case have supported its conclusions
and voted for expulsion, but under the influence of a few words which escaped
Citizen Alerini I am sufficiently clear on the situation, the more so since
Citizen Guillaume defended Bakunin's honesty and integrity before the whole
Congress and in front of me, then a member of the commission, whereas authentic
and irrefutable documents prove his infamy and the swindle perpetrated
by him to the prejudice of a St. Petersburg publisher.

Walter

The Hague, September 7, 1872

Submitted to the twelfth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 40

We the undersigned, members of the minority
at the Hague Congress, supporters of the autonomy and federation of groups
of working men, faced with a vote on decisions which seem to us to be contrary
to the principles recognised by the countries we represented at the preceding
congress, but desiring to avoid any kind of split within the International
Working Men's Association, take the following decision, which we shall
submit for approval to the sections which delegated us:

1. We shall continue our administrative relations with the General
Council in the matter of payment of subscriptions, correspondence and labour
statistics.

2. The federations which we represent will establish direct and
permanent relations between themselves and all regularly constituted branches
of the Association.

3. In the event of the General Council wishing to interfere in
the internal affairs of a federation, the federations represented by the
undersigned undertake jointly to maintain their autonomy as long as the
federations do not engage on a path directly opposed to the General Rules
of the International approved at the Geneva Congress,

4. We call on all the federations and sections to prepare between
now and the next general congress for the triumph within the International
of the principles of federative autonomy as the basis of the organisation
of labour.

5. We resolutely reject any connection whatever with the so-called
London World Federalist Council and with any similar organisation alien
to the International.

P. Fluse, delegate of the Vesdre Valley Federation

Tomás Gonzales Morago, delegate of the Spanish Regional Federation

Alerini, delegate of Spain

Adhémar Schwitzguébel, delegate of the Jura Federation

James Guillaume, delegate of the Jura Federation

H. Van den Abeele, delegate of Ghent (Belgium) section

Ph. Coenen, delegate of Antwerp

N. Eberhardt, delegate of Brussels

H. Gerhard, delegate of the Federal Committee of Holland

D. Brismée, Brussels section

J. Van der Hout, delegate of Amsterdam

Victor Dave, delegate of The Hague

N. Alonso Marselau, Spanish delegate

B. Farga Pellicer, delegate of the Spanish Federation

Sauva, delegate of sections No. 22 and 42 of North America

Roch Splingard (Belgium)

A. Herman (Belgium)

[A passage was written, then scratched out: "I sign to declare that
the Congress of The Hague has been but a mystification, that social science
has derived no profit from it. Victor Cyrille, French delegate."]

The Hague,

September 7,1872

Submitted to the fifteenth sitting,

September 7, 1872

Bulletin de la Fédération jurarsienne, No. 17-18, September 15-October 1, 1872; L'Internationale No. 191, September 29, 1872; Mémoire présenté par la Fédération jurassienne. Sonvillier, 1873, pp. 277-78;

French original.

No. 41

1. I propose that the World Congress in session at The Hague should
invite the American Federation to assemble in a national congress on the
first Sunday in March 1873 for the purpose of settling the differences
dividing that federation,-the congress will be open only to delegates of
sections which are in order with the General Council as regards subscriptions.
The General Council is instructed to name the place where the congress
will be held.

2. That the World Congress should reverse the expulsion decision
which it took against Section No. 2 of New York.

3. That the Congress should take note of the memorandum of Section
No. 10 of New York.

Submitted to the fifteenth sitting,

September 7, 1872

French original

No. 42

Considering that the emancipation of the
working people can he achieved only by the working people themselves,

that all their efforts must he aimed at asserting and acquiring their
capability without any influence of political and capitalist patronage,
which by its very nature could only lend to the abortion of their attempts
at emancipation, the Congress declares that any society or individual adhering
to the Association recognises no other rule of conduct than the principles
expanded in the Rules and undertakes to conform to them.

Dupont

French original