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Report on the Convocation of the Congress of Workers' Associations
| Author(s) | Karl Marx Karl Schapper Wilhelm Wolff |
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| Written | 24 April 1849 |
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 9
Recendy, a number of its members has resigned from the district committee of the Democratic Associations of the Rhine Province, and simultaneously die Workersâ Association here has announced its wididrawal from the Union of Rhenish Democratic Associations.[1] This step is due to the conviction that, in view of the heterogeneous elements in the Associations in question, diere is litde to be expected from them diat would be advantageous for the interests of the working class or the great mass of the people.
The more urgent, dierefore, is it firmly to unite the homogeneous elements, and to bring about vigorous cooperation of all the Workersâ Associations.
As the first measure for this purpose, die Workersâ Association here considers it necessary to set up a provisional committee of all the Workersâ Associations of the Rhine Province and Westphalia, and it appoints the undersigned as members of this committee with die task of undertaking the necessary steps to achieve the above-mentioned aim.
The provisional committee herewidi invites all Workersâ Associations and all other associations which, although hidierto not bearing this name, nevertheless resolutely support the principles of social democracy, to send delegates to a provincial congress to be held on the first Sunday of next month (May 6).[2]
The subjects on the agenda will be:
1. Organisation of the Rhenish-Westphalian Workersâ Associations;
2. Election of delegates to the General Congress of All German Workersâ Associations to be held in the month of June in Leipzig;
3. Discussion and formulation of the proposals to be sent with the delegates to the Congress in Leipzig.
Delegates elected to the preliminary Congress to be held here are requested to report their arrival, furnished with their mandates, not later than 10 a.m. on May 6 here at Simonâs hotel Kranz in the Altenmarkt.
Cologne, April 24, 1849
K. Marx (absent), W. Wolff, K. Schapper,
F. Anneke, C. J. Esser, Otto
N. B. It is requested that communications by letter should be addressed to Karl Schapper, President of the Workersâ Association, Unter Hutmacher No. 17.