The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. 167 I am a member of the International ; but it is not a secret society. The circumstances under which I joined it are as follows :—At the time of the strike of the ironfounders, one of our friends said to us at a meeting, ‘ We have formed a society of resistance, but we have something more to do, and that is, to join the International.’ He then read the statutes to us, and we recognized that they were good, and that there would be no harm in joining. The matter was put to the vote, and to the number of 1200 we joined the International.” Another prisoner, Duval, the future general of the Commune, repeated a similar case : “ Thirty-six of our masters, out of forty-seven, refused our claims. Several of them replied, ‘ We shall wait until you are starving.’ In the face of this contemptuous treatment, the next meeting voted and signed a strike à outrance. We swore on our honour not to take work until our claims had been admitted. A motion was made with regard to the International. The eight or nine hundred members present joined in a body, signed their adhesion during the sitting, and straightway appointed four delegates to represent them at the federal council of Paris.” In the month of July, 1869, the silk-winders of Lyons went out on strike. Their committee wrote to the general council of London, to signify their adhesion to the International in their own name, and in that of the 8000 members of their body. They added, “ that in order to keep within the French law, the new adherents would not constitute any organization in France. They would simply send their annual subscription as a lump sum to the general council.” In Belgium the woollen operatives of Verviers, the cotton-hands of Ghent, the miners of Hainault, and the workers in a large number of the trades of Brussels joined in the mass. A Flemish journal, the Werker, was started. Holland was invaded in its turn. The German associations assembled at Nuremberg were affiliated. In Italy, as in France, prosecutions only drew the attention of working men to the International. It gained a footing in Vienna, where the Wiener Arbeiter-Zeihing was established, also at Pesth, and in the principal towns of Spain, while it extended Its ramifications in America as far as California. The reports

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