{London,] 15 March 1872 
33 Rathbone Place, W. C. 
(new address of the General Council)? 

Dear Citizen, 

I enclose the Resolutions of the General Council (in English and 
French’). The other Council *”* will receive them from Le Moussu. 

Eccarius, at the end of the sitting of 12 March, told me privately 
that he would not send the Resolutions to New York and that, at 
next sitting, he would tender his resignation as Secretary for the 
United States. As this affair cannot be settled by the General 
Council before Tuesday next, the Resolutions sent by me and Le 
Moussu, are not signed by a Secretary, the which, considering the 
form chosen, was not necessary. They will be printed in next 
week’s Eastern Post. 

During the discussion Eccarius spoke in a spirit most hostile to 
your Council. He spoke and voted against Resolution III, 2.47’ He 
was moreover offended because, in order to save time, I had not 
submitted the Resolutions to the subcommittee *” of which he 
forms part, but laid them at once before the General Council. As 
the latter fully approved this proceeding, after my statement of 

a Marx added this on the letterhead of the General Council. - > K. Marx, 
‘Resolutions on the Split in the United States’ Federation Passed by the General 
Council of the I.W.A. in Its Sittings of 5th and 12th March, 1872’. - 
¢ 19 March 

the reasons which had induced me to act as I have done, Eccarius 
ought to have dropped his personal spleen. 

For the private information of your Council I add that M. and 
Madame Huleck—he is an imbecile and she is ‘une intrigante de bas 
état’*—had for a moment slipped into the General Council at a 
time when most of us were absent, but that, soon after, this worthy 
couple was forced to withdraw consequent upon their intrigues 
with the soi-disant Branche Francaise” the which was excluded from 
the International and denounced by us, in the Marseillaise and the 
Réveil, on the eve of the plebiscite," as ‘une section policiére’.<*° 
Moreover, these two persons, after their arrival at New York, 
cooperated in the foundation of a Society hostile to the 
International and were in constant connection with les beaux restes 
de la branche frangaise’ at London. The same facts have been 
communicated by Le Moussu to the other Council. 

Section 10 (French) has written an excellent letter to the General 
Council on the American split.*” 

Yours fraternally, 
Karl Marx