1872: The Hague Congress - Marxists Internet Archive

IWMA 1872: Statements and Proposals
2. The federations which we represent will establish direct and permanent relations between
themselves and all regularly constituted branches of the Association.
3. In the event of the General Council wishing to interfere in the internal affairs of a federation,
the federations represented by the undersigned undertake jointly to maintain their autonomy as
long as the federations do not engage on a path directly opposed to the General Rules of the
International approved at the Geneva Congress,
4. We call on all the federations and sections to prepare between now and the next general
congress for the triumph within the International of the principles of federative autonomy as the
basis of the organisation of labour.
5. We resolutely reject any connection whatever with the so-called London World Federalist
Council and with any similar organisation alien to the International.
P. Fluse, delegate of the Vesdre Valley Federation
Tomás Gonzales Morago, delegate of the Spanish Regional Federation
Alerini, delegate of Spain
Adhémar Schwitzguébel, delegate of the Jura Federation
James Guillaume, delegate of the Jura Federation
H. Van den Abeele, delegate of Ghent (Belgium) section
Ph. Coenen, delegate of Antwerp
N. Eberhardt, delegate of Brussels
H. Gerhard, delegate of the Federal Committee of Holland
D. Brismée, Brussels section
J. Van der Hout, delegate of Amsterdam
Victor Dave, delegate of The Hague
N. Alonso Marselau, Spanish delegate
B. Farga Pellicer, delegate of the Spanish Federation
Sauva, delegate of sections No. 22 and 42 of North America
Roch Splingard (Belgium)
A. Herman (Belgium)
[A passage was written, then scratched out: "I sign to declare that the Congress of The Hague has
been but a mystification, that social science has derived no profit from it. Victor Cyrille, French
delegate."]
The Hague,
September 7,1872
Submitted to the fifteenth sitting,
September 7, 1872
Published in La Liberté No. 37, September 15, 1872;
Bulletin de la Fédération jurarsienne, No. 17-18, September 15-October 1, 1872;
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