18. From the Minute Book of the General Council. Central Council Meetings ( May 1866)
May 1, 1866
Lessner reported that as a number of German tailors had been imported into Edinburgh and as it was currently reported that some of the London employers were making arrangements to bring several here, the German tailors resident in London had formed themselves into a committee and wished to co-operate with the Council of the International Working Men's Association to checkmate the designs of the employers and their agents which they had in Germany.
Marx stated that if Lessner would send him the facts, he would directly communicate with the German papers.[306]
May 15, 1866
Citizen Marx read extracts from Leipsic journals(1) cautioning German tailors against coming to England to supplant the English tailors who were on strike.
Endnotes
[3 0 6] O n May 3, 1866 Marx received from the German Tailors' Committee in London material on German journeymen tailors being used as strike-breakers by Dutch and British employers. O n May 4 he wrote the piece "A W a r n i n g " and sent it to Liebknecht on behalf of the Central Committee to be published in German papers (see this volume, pp. 162-63 and Note 119).