Sitting of Council June 28, 1870 

Marx proposes Brussels for next General Council etc. Resolution 
to be sent to all sections. 

Carried. 

Hales announces reconsideration. 

July 5. Continuation of debate. Debate adjourned. 

July 12. Marx: “to write to the sections to ask them to consider 
the advisability of removing the Council from London. If they 
were favourable to a removal then Brussels should be proposed” 
(with mandates should the delegates come) (instruction to dele- 
gates). Only 3 vote for Hales amendment. 

Mayence Congress Programme. 

Sitting of Aug. 2. 

Serraillier read letter from Belgium in which Amsterdam was 
proposed as the seat of the Congress. It would be near to all 
except Italy and Spain. Belgium wants the Council to remain at 
London, declines its transference to Brussels. 

Debate on Congress. 

Marx against the Brussels proposal for Amsterdam. All the 
sections ought to be written to and asked whether they would 
consent to a postponement. Instead of a Congress a Conference 
might perhaps be held as in 1865. 

Jung against Congress. Swiss called to arms (60,000 men). 

Hales (seconded by Eccarius) proposed that the sections should be 
appealed to to state whether they were in favour of postponement 
and if so to give the Council power to fix the date of convocation. 
( Carried.) 

Marx: if the sections agreed, a conference might be held here, 
but he was for an appeal. 

Aug. 9. Spaniards propose Barcelona as seat of the Congress. 

Aug. 16. Jung communicated letter from the German Swiss 

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Committee agreeing to the postponement of Congress and leaving 
it to the Council to appoint time and place; to the same effect 
letter of the German Social Democratic Party. Both against 
removal of the Council from London. 

Aug. 23. Serraillier read letter from the Belgian Council in 
which the postponement of the Congress agreed to. Ditto from 
Romance Geneva Committee, Council to remain at London. 

Postponement of Congress resolved. 

Sitting of Nov. 22 (documents found on the Bonaparte gvt). 

“On the eve of the Plebiscite Ollivier had written to all the towns of France that 
the leaders of the International must be arrested else the voting could not be 
satisfactorily proceeded with.” 

Sitting of Nov. 29. Marx communicated that our Brunswick 
friends had been brought back from Loetzen in chains, to be tried 
for high treason. To frighten the middle class the police organs 
published long articles to tell the people these men were allies of 
the International Association—subvert everything, establish Univ- 
ersal Republic. 

1871 

March 14. Robin moves to convoke conference of delegates. 
(Rejected.) 

July 25. Engels proposes convocation of conference, seconded by 
Robin. 

In this month Archbishop of Malines established a Catholic 
Workingmen’s International Association with a view to counteract 
the I.W.A. 

Feb. 20. Art. Utin.? 
12 March. Resolutions on United States.> 
16 April. Cochrane. Fawcett.