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Title: Draft Resolutions on the Admission of Working Men’s Organisations to the International Working Men’s Association (1864)
Description: Two resolutions moved by Marx in the Central Council of the International: organised bodies of working men may join the Association collectively, with contributions left to their means, and elect a representative to the Council.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1864-11
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1864%20Draft%20Resolutions%20on%20the%20Admission%20of%20Working%20Men%27s%20Organisations%20to%20the%20International%20Working%20Men%27s%20Association
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*Moved by Karl Marx, seconded by Wheeler, at the meeting of the Central Council of the International Working Men’s Association of November 22, 1864; the second resolution is recorded as carried unanimously. A different version of the second resolution appeared in* The Bee-Hive Newspaper *(London). Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16); MEGA² I/20 gives them within the Minute Book of the Central Council. Text from* The General Council of the First International. Minutes*, vol. I (1864-1866), Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. [1963-68], p. 49, which prints the Minute Book. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1864%20Proyectos%20de%20resoluci%C3%B3n%20sobre%20las%20condiciones%20de%20admisi%C3%B3n%20de%20las%20organizaciones%20obreras%20en%20la%20Asociaci%C3%B3n%20Internacional%20de%20los%20Trabajadores)*

## I

That organised bodies of working men be invited to join this Association in their co-operative capacity, the amount of their contributions to be left to their means and discretion.

## II

That societies joining this Association shall have the power to elect a representative to sit on the Central Council, the Council reserving to itself the power to accept or reject such delegates.