The acting President, Citizen Roser, stated that Dr. Marx had 
acceded to the request of the deputation sent to him from the 
Association that he should put himself at the head of our 
Association, and he therefore asked him to take his seat. 

Dr. Marx: His position in Cologne was precarious. The reply he 
had received from ex-Minister Kuihlwetter to his request for 
renaturalisation* was tantamount to a concealed order for his 
expulsion. He would, of course, lodge a protest against it in the 
National Assembly. On the other hand, he was to be tried at the 
Assize Court for an alleged press offence. Moreover, owing to the 
temporary dispersion of the editorial board of the Neue Rheinische 
Zeitung he was overburdened with work. Nevertheless, he was ready, 
provisionally until Dr. Gottschalk was set free, to accede to the desire 
of the workers. The Government and the bourgeoisie ought to 
realise that, despite their acts of persecution, there were always 
persons to be found who would be ready to put themselves at the 
disposal of the workers. 

Dr. Marx then spoke in some detail about the revolutionary 
activities of the German workers abroad, and in conclusion stressed 
their outstanding role in the recent Vienna revolution. He therefore 
proposed an address to the Vienna Workers’ Association. (Adopted 
with acclamation.)... 

The President’s proposal (concerning the rules of procedure) was 
that the first hour should be devoted to the interests of the 
Association (i.e. to its internal and external affairs), that during the 


* See this volume, p. 581.— Ed. 


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second hour social and political questions should be discussed, and 
that the meeting should begin at 8.30. (Adopted.)...