bers, with power to add to their numbers, and appoints time and place for the meeting of the next congress. The delegates assemble at the appointed time and place without any special invitation. The general council may, in case of need, change the place, but has no power to postpone the time of meeting. 4. On its annual meetings, the general congress shall receive a public account of the annual transactions of the general council. In cases of urgency it may convoke the general congress before the regular yearly term. 5. The general council shall form an international agency between the different co-operating asso ciations, so that the working. men in one country be constantly informed of the movements of their class in every other country; that an inquiry into the social state of the different countries of Europe be made shnultaneously, and under a common direction; that the questions of general interest mooted in one society be ventilated by all; and that when immediate practical steps should be needed, as, for instance, in case of international quar rels, the action of the associated societies be simultaneous and uniform. 'Whenever it seems opportune, the general council shall take the initiative of proposals to be laid before the different national or local societies. To facilitate the communications, the general council shall publish periodical reports. 6. Since the success of the working men's move ment in each country cannot be secured but by the power of union and combination, while, on the other hand, the usefulness of the international general couacil must greatly depend on the circumstance whether it has to deal with a few national centers of working men's associations, or with a. greater number of small and disconnected local societies, the mem
bers of the international association shall use their utmost efforts to combine the discon nected workingmen's societies of their respective countries into national bodies represented by central national organs. It is self-understood, however, that the application of this rule will depend upon the peculiar laws of each country, and that, apart from legal obstacles, no independent local society shall be precluded from directly corresponding with the general council. 7. The various branches and sections shall, at their places of abode and as far as their influence may extend, take the initiative not only in all matters tending to the general progre.ssive improvement Of public life, but also in the foundation of productive associations and other institutions useful to the working class. 8. Each member of the international association, on removing his domicile from one country to another, will receive the fraternal support of the associated working men. 9. Everybody who acknowledges and defends the principles of the international working men's associa tion is eligible to become a member. Every branch is responsible for the integrity of the members it admits. 10. Every section or branch has the right to appoint its own corre sponding secretary. 11. While united in a perpetual bond of fraternal co-operation, the working men's societies joining the international association will preserve their existent organizations intact. 12. Eveiything not provided for in the present rules will be sup plied by special regulations, subject to the revision of every congress."