Karl Marx 
To the Editor of the "Evening Standard" 
September 4, 1871 

To the Editor. 

Sir, —In your number of the 2d September, your Berlin correspondent 
publishes "the translation of an interesting article on the International, 
which has appeared in the Cologne Gazette," which article charges me with 
living at the expense of the working classes. Up to the 30th August, the 
date of your correspondent's letter, no such article appeared in the Cologne 
Gazette, from which paper, therefore, your correspondent could not trans- 
late it. On the contrary, the article in question appeared, more than a fort- 
night ago, in the Berlin National Zeitung; and an English translation of it, 
literally identical with the one given by your correspondent, figured in the 
London weekly paper, Public Opinion, as far back as the 19th August. The 
next number of Public Opinion contained my reply to these slanders, and 
I hereby summon you to insert that reply, of which I enclose a copy, in the 
next number of your paper. The Prussian government have reasons of their 
own why they push, by every means in their power, the spreading of such 
infamous calumnies through the English press. These articles are but the 
harbingers of impending government prosecutions against the "Inter- 
national."—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
KARL MARX. 

Haverstock-hill, Sept. 4,, 1871. 

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels 
Propositions to the General Council concerning 

preparations for the London Conference 

I Rechnungsablage. 

1) To find a room for the meetings of the Conference 

2) To find an hotel where the members of the Conference can stay—pro- 
pose the same as last, Leicester Square. 

3) A Committee to be appointed to arrange these two points, 

4) That the entire Council assist at the meetings of the Conference, with 
the right of taking part in the debate, butthat a certain number ofthe Council 
only be delegated with the right of voting— such number to be fixed by the 
Council when the number of delegates to the Conference shall be known. 

5) That the Frenchmen now resident in London who are acknowledged 
members of the International, provide for the representation of France at 
the Conference by three delegates, 

6) That if the members of any Country should not be represented at the 
Conference, the Corresponding Secretary for that Country be appointed to 
represent them. 

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels 
Propositions to be submitted to the 

Conference by the General Council 

I Propositions to be submitted to the 
Conference by the General Council 

That after the close of the Conference, no branch be acknowledged as 
belonging to the Association by the General Council and by the Cen- 
tral Councils of the various countries until its annual contribution of 
I per head for the current year shall have been remitted to the General 
Council. 

a) For those countries in which the regular organization of the 
Association may for the moment become impossible by Government 
interference, the delegates of each Country are invited to propose 
such plans of organization as may be compatible with the peculiar 
circumstances of the Case, ß) The Association may be re-formed 
underother names, y) but all secret organizations are formally ex- 
cluded. 

The General Council will submit to the Conference a report of its 
administration of the affairs of the International since the last 
Congress. 

5) The General Council will propose to the Conference to discuss the 

propriety of issuing a reply, to the various governments which have 
prosecuted and are now prosecuting the International; the Conference 
to name a Committee to be charged with drawing up this reply after 
its close. 

Resolution of Congress of Basle to be inforced: 

That to avoid confusion the Central Councils of the various coun- 
tries be instructed to designate themselves henceforth as Federal 
Councils with the name attached of the country they represent; and 
that the local branches or their Committees designate themselves as 
branches or Committees of their respective localities. 

7) That all delegates of the General Council appointed to distinct missions 
shall have the right to attend, and be heard at, all meetings of federal 
councils and local committees or branches, without however being 

thereby entitled to vote thereat, 
8) That the General Council be instructed to issue a fresh edition of the 
Statutes including the resolutions of the Congresses having relation 
thereto; and inasmuch as a mutilated French translation has hitherto 
been in circulation in France, and re-translated into Spanish and 
Italian, that it provide an authentic French translation which is to be 
forwarded to Spain and Italy also. German-Holland. 
3 languages printed side by side. 

Friedrich Engels 
Meeting of the Subcommittee of the 
General Council September 9, 1871 

Minutes 

I Meeting of Sub Committee 9th September, 
8 o'clock. 

Longuet in the Chair. 

Marx proposes that as to Landeck the General Council has nothing to do 
with the question [whether] he still belongs to the International or not, and 
that he be referred to the french Internationals in London to settle this—L. 
has, on the trial of the Internationals in Paris, eaten humble pie and pro- 
mised not to belay to the International in future; but such questions cannot 
be settled by the Council. 

Mottershead seconds. 

Carried unanimously. 

The Conference. Marx: a Conference is not composed of delegates of 
branches but of delegates of countries which come to confer with the 
Council under extraordinary circumstances and therefore very different 
from a Congress and has quite different powers. This has not to be for- 
gotten. The first question will be the 

1) the money questions, the contributions have not come in as they 
ought to do. The Conference has no power to change the Statutes but it can 
enforce them. Therefore proposal No.1. branches to pay before admit- 
tance. 

Jung seconds. Adopted unanimously. 

Marx: 2) (Countries where the International is suppressed to propose 
their own plans, and to be allowed other names but not secret.) 

Eccarius seconds. Adopted unanimously. 

Marx: 3) That some member be appointed to draw up the Report of 
Council to be submitted to Conference for last 2 years. Adopted as a matter 
of course. 

Jung proposes, Eccarius seconds Marx to draw up the Report. 

Marx: 4) To enforce the resolution of Congress of Basel, that the Cen- 
tral Council to be called Federal Council, etc., etc. 

Serraillier seconds. Adopted unanimously. 

Marx 5) Reply to be issued to different governments to be drawn up 
afterwards. 

Engels seconds. Adopted unanimously. 

6) In regularly organized countries regular reports of local and district 
taxation to be sent in. 

This is withdrawn by Marx himself. 

Marx: 7) All delegates of General Council to have the right to attend and 
be heard at meetings of district councils and local branches. 

Serraillier seconds. Adopted unanimously. 

Marx: 8) General Council to issue fresh edition of Statutes and authentic 
French and German version, printed side by side; and all other countries to 

have their translations approved by General Council before publishing. 

Jung seconds. Adopted unanimously. 

Mottershead: That the Conference be asked to charge the General Council 
with enforcing Art. V. of the Statutes relative to a general statistics of the 
Working Classes and the resolution of the Congress of Geneva on the same 

subject. To carry this out it might be resolved that trades unions etc who 
refuse to give the information required, shall not be supported by the 
General Council in case of strike. 

McDonnell seconds. Adopted unanimously! 

Marx: That the Sub Committee meets at 8 at Marx's on Monday evening. 
Adopted. 

Friedrich Engels 
Meeting of the Subcommittee of the 
General Council September 11, 1871 

Minutes 

I Meeting of Sub Committee 
Monday 11" September 1871 
at 1 Maitland Park 

Serraillier in the Chair. Engels appointed Secretary. 

Proposed by Engels, seconded by Hales that the Bill of Mr Truelove 
£25 11.6 be passed, reserving the question of the price of the handbills and 
the 5th Thousand copies. Adopted unanimously. 

Proposed by Engels, seconded by Eccarius: that Mr Truelove be paid 
£ 10.—on account and the payment of the rest be delayed until he shall have 
handed in an account of copies sold. Adopted unanimously. 

Proposed by Marx, seconded by Longuet: that the General Council be 
requested, to avoid all misunderstandings, to declare at the opening of the 
Conference: that a Conference is nothing but a meeting of delegates from 
various countries called to consult and decide together with the General 
Council, on administrative measures rendered necessary by extraordinary 
circumstances. 

Hales proposed, Longuet seconded: That the General Council recommend 
the formation of an English Federal Council. Withdrawn to be submitted 
to General Council tomorrow. 

Marx proposes, Jung seconds: That the formation of working women's 
sections be recommended. 

Friedrich Engels 
Proposal on the meeting-places 
and the opening of the sessions of the 

London Conference 

That the Conference meet Monday at 10 at the Blue Post and that on the 
following days the Committee Meetings be held in the morning and 
Evening Meetings at 8 of the full Conference Tuesday at High Holborn and 
Wednesday and Thursday at the Blue Post.