{London,] 18 August 1869 

Dear Frep, 

Rather disappointed by your letter, since all had hoped to see 
you here this evening. The plan about Ireland is very good (Lizzie 

a This apparently refers to a series of articles: ‘Der Congress zu Eisenach’, Der 
Social-Demokrat, Nos. 93, 94 and 95, 10, 13 and 15 August 1869. - > K. Marx, The 
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 2nd edition. - ¢ Charles Roesgen 

and Tussy will be able to admire the ‘convicren’ in natura) if 
nothing new intervenes. This evening the Lafargue Famiy arrives, 
leaving Dieppe today at 10 o’clock. 

The £10 received, but can’t send recerr before Saturday,’ on 
which day there is a meeting of the sub-committee. The money is 
very welcome just before closing time.” 

Yesterday Dupont announced that the French (or Paris) Trades 
UNIONISTS (BRONZE workers) had paid back £45, i.e., sent it to him to 
pay back.*” This money was partly loaned and partly given to 
them years ago by the unions here through our mediation. (Even 
earlier, £20 was sent on our instructions from Paris to Rouen.) I 
have arranged that députés shall wait upon the unions here to 
appeal to their consciences when they pay in the money.— 
Incidentally, the Paris unionists have behaved very decently. Ditto, 
a letter arrived yesterday from Ludwig Neumayr, de dato Fisenach, 
with the following purport *”: 

‘At the congress in Eisenach, it was resolved that the workers of Germany should 
be called upon to join the International Working Men’s Association by taking out 
cards as central members. Since I have now been appointed by Joh. Ph. Becker in 
Geneva as the agent of the German-language sectional groups of the International 
Working Men’s Association for Wiener-Neustadt and surroundings, I would request 
exact instructions as to how I should now act. With social-republican fraternal 
greetings, etc. Address: Ludwig Neumayr, editor of the Wiener-Neustddter Wochenblatt 
in Wiener-Neustadt, Austria.’ 

This is a blow to ov Becker and also, in particular, to the 
‘language-group cash-box’. But the matter itself may not be 
mucked about because of private friendship. 

You will recall Werner (bookbinder) of Leipzig, to whom I wrote 
from Manchester. Since then he has worked for us diligently. 

Yesterday the adherence of an (Italian) group from Trieste 
arrived. Ditto from Barcelona; I enclose a copy of the organ‘ of this 
new group. 

In Posen—as Zabicki reported—the Polish workers (joiners, 
etc.) have victoriously ended a strike with the assistance of their 
colleagues in Berlin.*** This struggle against Monsieur le Capital— 
even in the minor form of a strike—will deal with national 
prejudice differently from the peace declamations made by 
bourgeois gentlemen. 

4 21 August 1869 - > See this volume, p. 348. - ¢ Federacion 

I HOPE TO RECEIVE SOME LINES FROM ‘T'ussy AS TO HER STATE OF HEALTH. My Best 
COMPLIMENTS TO Mrs Lizzie. 

El 
Moro 

Much to be regretted is the sudden death of Sylvis (aged 41), 
President of the American Labor Union,’ just before the meeting 
of the Lasor Union Concress, for which purpose he travelled across 
the United States agitating for nearly a whole year. Part of his 

work will thus be lost.