To the General Council of the International Working Men's Association, June 14, 1873

Author(s) First International
Frederick Engels
Written 14 June 1873


First published in: Marx and Engels,Works, First Russian Edition, Vol. XXVI, Moscow, 1935
Reproduced from the manuscript
Source : Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 23

122 Regents Park Road N.W.

London, June 14th, 1873

Citoyens,

I have to reply to your two letters of the 11th April and 14th May. As communicated before,[1] the whole of the money for Lodi (fr. 200) was forwarded by me on April 10th to Bignami, new persecutions having arisen. The money was acknowledged by Bignami whose receipt I hold.— About 10 days ago, the Plebe has re-appeared and brought your address to the Spaniards and also, in a very prominent place, your declaration about the selfexclusion, from our Association, of the Secessionists.[2]

The documents in question have been sent to the Spanish Federal Council.

My copy of the alterations of rules as prepared for the late General Council[3] has disappeared, I have however been promised another which shall be forwarded as soon as received.

As the Plebe is alive again I shall report about Italian Emigration and Gas strike etc. in my first correspondence to that paper. I could not act before, my only correspondent Bignami being out of the way and not having given me another address.

Le Moussu has been reminded of the stamps.[4]

The £4.-3 are to hand and shall be used and directed as soon as a safe address in Paris can be found.

Fraternally yours,

F. Engels

  1. ↑ See this volume, p. 437.— Ed
  2. ↑ A reference to the General Council decision of January 26, 1873, published in La Plebe, No. 14, June 1, 1873. The address of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association to Spanish workers of February 23, 1873 was occasioned by the proclamation of a republic in Spain. It was published in La Plebe, No. 13, May 26, 1873. After a temporary suspension from March 23, 1873, caused by police persecution, La Plebe resumed publication after May 15, 1873
  3. ↑ Engels is referring to the draft General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International, revised by the General Council in the summer of 1872 for the Hague Congress (see Note 150).
  4. ↑ Ibid.— Ed.