I am instructed by the General Council of the International 
Working Men’s Association to state, in reply to Mr. Geo. Jacob 
Holyoake’s Letter in Tuesday’s Daily News? 

1. As to the insinuation that the address issued by the Council” 
“may become a cause of death or deportation at Versailles”, the 
Council thinks that its Paris friends are better judges than Mr. 
Holyoake. 

2. It is a rule with the Council that the names of all its members 
whether absent or present are appended to its public documents.‘ 

3. As to the statement that this address 

“cannot be an English production, though manifestly revised by some Saxon or 
Celtic pen”, 

the Council begs to observe that, as a matter of course, the 
productions of an international Society cannot have any national 
character. However, the Council need not have any secrets in this 
matter. The address, like many previous publications of the 
Council, was drawn up by the Corresponding Secretary for 
Germany, Dr. Kar] Marx, was adopted unanimously and “revised” 
by nobody. 

No. 7844, June 20, 1871.— Ed. 

4. In the course of last year Mr. George Jacob Holyoake presented 
himself as a Candidate for membership of the Council but was not 

admitted. 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

John Hales, 

Secretary to the General Council 
of the International Working Men’s Association 

256, High Holborn, W.C., 
London, June 21, 1871