36. K. Marx. Resolution of the General Council on The Bee-Hive
Considering,
1) that the different International sections of the Continent and the United States have been advised by the General Council of the International Working Men's Association to subscribe to the Bee-Hive newspaper as the official organ of the General Council and the representative in the English press of the Working-Class movement[3];
2) that the Bee-Hive has not only erased from the official reports of the General Council such resolutions as might displease its patrons, but, by way of suppression, has systematically misrepresented the tenor of consecutive sittings of the General Council;
3) that mainly since its recent change of proprietorship,[165] while still pretending to be the exclusive organ of the working class, the Bee-Hive has, in reality, become the organ of a capitalist fraction who want to keep the proletarian movement in their leading strings and use it as a means for the furtherance of their own class and party purposes;
The General Council of the International Working Men's Association, in its sitting of the 26th of April 1870, has unanimously resolved to sever its connection with the Bee-Hive, and to publicly announce this resolution to its different sections in England, on the Continent, and in the United States.
Drawn up in early May 1870 Reproduced from Marx's manuscript pasted into the Minute Book Adopted by the General Council o f t h e G e n e r a l Council on May 17, 1870
Endnotes
[3] Marx wrote this item on the basis of a letter from Johann Baptist Schweitzer dated April 29, 1868. The item was included in the report of the General Council meeting of May 12, 1868 published in The Bee-Hive Newspaper, No. 344, May 16, 1868, but is not to be found in the Minute Book. Informing Engels of Schweitzer's letter, Marx wrote to him on May 4, 1868 that he intended "to use this question in the interests of the Party", and insisted on an inquiry into the condition of the workers employed in the iron trade of the Rhine Province (see this letter and Marx's letter to Engels of May 7 and the latter's reply of May 6-7, 1868, present edition, Vol. 43).
[165] 1,5 Samuel Morley and other bourgeois liberals headed by Daniel Pratt built up a fund in 1869 for publishing The Bee-Hive and became its managers. At the beginning of 1870, H. Solley, a clergyman who championed an alliance between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, virtually became its editor-in-chief.