1872: The Hague Congress - Marxists Internet Archive

IWMA 1872: Resolutions
The proposition that the new Congress should meet in Switzerland, and that the new General Council
should determine in what town, was adopted. There voted for Switzerland 15, for London 5, for Chicago
1, and for Spain 1.
X. --
COMMITTEE TO DRAW UP THE MINUTES
The following were appointed, without opposition: -- Dupont, Engels, Frankel, Le Moussu, Marx and
Serraillier.
Committee:
F. Dupont
F. Engels
Leo Frankel
Le Moussu
Karl Marx,
Auguste Serraillier
London
21st October, 1872
NOTES
[1] The French text of the resolutions has here:
Voted for: Arnaud, J. Ph. Becker, B. Becker, Cournet, Dereure, Dumont, Dupont, Duval,
Eccarius, Engels, Farkas, Friedländer, Frankel, Hepner, Heim, Johannard, Kugelmann, Lafargue,
Longuet, Le Moussu, Mottershead, Pihl, Ranvier, Serraillier, Sorge, Swarm, Vaillant, Wilmot,
MacDonnell.
Voted against: Brismée, Coenen, Gerhard, Schwitzguébel, Van der Hout.
Abstained: Van den Abeele, Dave, Eberhardt, Fluse, Guillaume, Herman, Sauva, Marselau.
The Congress officially decided to recognise as valid the votes of the delegates who could not attend the
sitting because of their work in commissions.
The following delegates voted for: Cuno, Lucain, Marx, Vichard, Walter, Wróblewski; 6 in all. Not a
vote against.
In Engels' manuscript the following passage has been deleted:
"As the resolution obtained more than two-thirds of the votes, according to Article 12 of the
General Rules, it henceforth becomes part of the General Rules."
[2] The French text of the resolutions has here:
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