 Soon it was decided to complete the merger in Rhineland and Westphalia on a national level . The FVdG 's 12th congress , held December 27 to 30 , became the Free Workers ' Union of Germany 's ( FAUD ) founding congress . Most left communists ( including the influential veteran member Karl Roche ) had already quit or were in the process of leaving the FAU in Rhineland and Westphalia by this point . The majority of them would join the General Workers ' Union of Germany ( <unk> ) , which was founded in February 1920 . Without the left communists to oppose its adoption , Rocker 's thoroughly anarchist " <unk> des <unk> " ( " Declaration of Syndicalist Principles " ) , which the Business Commission had charged him with drafting , became the FAUD 's platform without much controversy . The FAUD also rejected the dictatorship of the proletariat and other Marxist terms and ideas . According to the Business Commission , the congress was attended by 109 delegates representing 111 @,@ 675 workers , twice as many as were claimed just four and a half months earlier . 
