110. K. Marx. Extracts from the Minutes of the General Council for June 1870-April 1872
COUNCIL SITTINGS
Sitting of Council June 28, 1870 Marx proposes Brussels for next General Council etc. Resolution to be sent to all sections.
Carried. Hales announces reconsideration. July 5. Continuation of debate. Debate adjourned. July 12. Marx: "to write to the sections to ask them to consider the advisability of removing the Council from London. If they were favourable to a removal then Brussels should be proposed" (with mandates should the delegates come) (instruction to delegates). Only 3 vote for Hales amendment.
Mayence Congress Programme. Sitting of Aug. 2. Serraillier read letter from Belgium in which Amsterdam was proposed as the seat of the Congress. It would be near to all except Italy and Spain. Belgium wants the Council to remain at London, declines its transference to Brussels.
Debate on Congress. Marx against the Brussels proposal for Amsterdam. All the sections ought to be written to and asked whether they would consent to a postponement. Instead of a Congress a Conference might perhaps be held as in 1865.
Jung against Congress. Swiss called to arms (60,000 men).
Hales {seconded by Eccarius) proposed that the sections should be appealed to to state whether they were in favour of postponement and if so to give the Council power to fix the date of convocation. (Carried.)
Marx: if the sections agreed, a conference might be held here, but he was for an appeal.
Aug. 9. Spaniards propose Barcelona as seat of the Congress. Aug. 16. Jung communicated letter from the German Swiss Committee agreeing to the postponement of Congress and leaving it to the Council to appoint time and place; to the same effect letter of the German Social Democratic Party. Both against removal of the Council from London.
Aug. 23. Serraillier read letter from the Belgian Council in which the postponement of the Congress agreed to. Ditto from Romance Geneva Committee, Council to remain at London.
Postponement of Congress resolved. Sitting of Nov. 22 (documents found on the Bonaparte gvt).
"On the eve of the Plebiscite Ollivier had written to all the towns of France that the leaders of the International must be arrested else the voting could not be satisfactorily proceeded with."
Sitting of Nov. 29. Marx communicated that our Brunswick friends had been brought back from Loetzen in chains, to be tried for high treason. To frighten the middle class the police organs published long articles to tell the people these men were allies of the International Association — subvert everything, establish Universal Republic.
1871 March 14. Robin moves to convoke conference of delegates. (Rejected.)
July 25. Engels proposes convocation of conference, seconded by Robin.
In this month Archbishop of Malines established a Catholic Workingmen's International Association with a view to counteract the I.W.A.
[1872] Feb. 20. Art. Utin.(1)
12 March. Resolutions on United States."(2)
16 April. Cochrane. Fawcett.(3)
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