From the Minutes of the Committee Meeting of the Cologne Workers' Association Held on May 1, 1849

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 13 May 1849


First published in the newspaper Freiheit, Brüderlichkeit, Arbeit No. 28, May 13, 1849
Printed according to the newspaper
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 9
Collection(s): Freiheit‚ Brüderlichkeit‚ Arbeit

The representatives of the various branches of the Association reported on their situation and activities.

The former Democratic Association in Deutz too has joined the Workers' Association in Cologne, as branch club No. 10. At the present time it consists of 230 members. [...]

The president[1] announced the receipt of assenting communications from Bingen, Leipzig and Mannheim. The first two of these concern the separation of the Workers' (Social) Party420 from the democrats; the last one thanks us for sending the article "Wage Labour and Capital" published in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung and promises that it will be discussed. [...]

  1. ↑ Karl Schapper.— Ed.