The new General Council is entrusted with the special mission 
to establish International trades unions. 

For this purpose it will, within 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. 

nell, Marx, Milke, Pihl, Ranvier, Roach, Sauva, Scheu, Serraillier, Sexton, Sorge, 
Swarm, Schumacher, Vaillant, Vichard, Walter, Wroblewski. 

“Voted against: Fluse, Gerhard, Splingard, Van der Hout. 

“Abstained: Alerini, Coenen, Dave, Eberhardt, Guillaume, Herman, Morago, 
Marselau, Farga Pellicer, Schwitzguébel, Van den Abeele. 

“Article 6—adopted by 36 votes against 6, abstentions, 16. 

“Voted for: Arnaud, Barry, J. Ph. Becker, B. Becker, Cournet, Cuno, Dereure, 
Dupont, Duval, Engels, Farkas, Frankel, Friedlander, Hepner, Heim, Johannard, 
Kugelmann, Lafargue, Lessner, Le Moussu, Longuet, Ludwig, MacDonnell, Marx, 
Milke, Pihl, Ranvier, Serraillier, Schumacher, Sexton, Sorge, Swarm, Vaillant, 
Vichard, Walter, Wrdéblewski. 

“Voted against: Brismée, Coenen, Fluse, Herman, Sauva, Splingard. 

“Abstained: Alerini, Cyrille, Dave, Dumont, Eberhardt, Guillaume, Lucain, 
Marselau, Morago, Mottershead, Farga Pellicer, Roach, Schwitzguébel, Van den 
Abeele, Van der Hout, Wilmot.” — Ed. 

a The French text has “10 centimes’” here and below.— Ed. 

b The French text of the resolutions continues as follows: 

“Voted against the contribution being altered: J. Ph. Becker, Brismée, Coenen, 
Cyrille, Dupont, Duval, Eberhardt, Eccarius, Farkas, Fluse, Gerhard, Herman, 
Hepner, Serraillier, Sorge, Swarm, Wilmot. 

“Voted for the contribution being altered: Dumont, Engels, Frankel, Heim, 
Johannard, Lafargue, Le Moussu, Longuet, Lucain, MacDonnell, Pihl, Sauva. 

“Abstained: Alerini, Dave, Dereure, Guillaume, Marselau, Morago, Farga 
Pellicer, Schwitzguébel. 

“The following delegates, obliged to leave The Hague before this question was 
discussed, handed in their vote in writing for the raising of the contribution: 
Arnaud, Cournet, Ranvier, Vaillant.” — Ed. 

¢ The French text has here “societies of resistance” instead of “trades’ 
societies” .— Ed. 

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. 

(Voted unanimously minus a few abstentions, the number of 
which has not been stated in the minutes.) 

IV 

RESOLUTIONS RELATING