Les Billodes | Le Locle | Neuchâtel | Switzerland

GUILLAUME, James (1844–1916). [...] in 1864 he became a teacher at the Industrial School in Le Locle; he founded a section of the Socialist International in 1866 and became friends with the Russian anarchists Bakunin (q.v.) and Kropotkin (q.v.); was a leading figure of the united libertarian sections of the Jurassian Federation from 1871; [...] as an opponent of Marx (q.v.) he was expelled from the International at the Hague Congress of 1872; the crisis in the watch- und clock-making industry brought about the downfall of Jurassian anarcho-socialism and forced Guillaume to emigrate to Paris in 1878 [...].

A. Thomas Lane (ed.) “Biographical dictionary of European labor leaders” Westport CT 1995