The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-14

borhood Committee to order bundles of Iiber-
ator and assign members to sell and distribute
"a Correspondence with the Liberator; 90 I'm
dertakng collections for the Scottsboro defense
under guidance of the LID, although these
Neighborhood Committees are part of the LSNR;
60 Giving organized participation in all DEM
onstratons, organizing their own local meet
ingS and demonstrations, and; Cd Organizing
and holding nffairs Ito be supported by the
Party and mass organizations) for benefit of
Scottsboro defense.
H. Members of functioning shop nuclei are
to be given special Instructions to be worked out
by the District Committee in the case of each
important nucleus on the basis of its own pos
sibiities and conditions at work, for activity
in the shops where they are employed and in
visiting during the evenings, fellow workers with
whom they make contacts in the shops The
District Committees will give specific directions
to each shop nucleus as the organizationa1 forms
to be accomplished by this work. The existence
or existence of a shop committee is an i'm
portant factor In some cases the beginning
of a shop committee can be accomplished for
the first time by the rising of this question
amongst the workers in the shop Where shop
committees are in existence, the shop committee
must be utilized to enroll workers in the shop
as willing to cooperate in the Scottsboro de-
Tense, as members of the LSNR, and as members
of the existing shop committee itself to COM
init itself to cooperation with the LSNR for
this defense,
10. Every comrade working in a shop, factory
or mine whether there is a shop nucleus or
not must carry on the campaign of the Scots
boro defense among the workers in the shop
where he is employed, and the District and
Section Committees must see to it that the agit-
ational work is followed up Immediately with
organizational measures appropriate to the par
ticular shop.
IA. Every meeting of the Buro of District and
Sections without exception (for the PRESENT.
must receive at least an information report on
the execution of the campaign for Scottsboro
defense. The work in all cases must be work
under direction, checking up and correction of
weaknesses and mistakes by the leading COM
mittees of the Districts and Sections.
Is. United Front conference, of which many
are occurring in the latter half of this month,
are called under auspices of LSNR and the lid
These are to be followed up by bigger confer
ences. The Neighborhood Committees as well
as factory committees must be made basis for
swelling these united front conferences in size
and representation and mass support, and in
strengthening the class composition of the con-
ferencNs, which otherwise might contain too
large proportion of artificial and opportunistic
representatives not closely enough connected with
the masses.
l6. The Neighborhood Committees must be
organized. That is, they must elect executive
committees and chairmen for the neighborhoods
Representatives of the Neighborhood Committees
must be brought together in executive meetings
under the direct auspices of the LSNR.
II. Every piece of literature issued in the Dis
trict must contain appropriate slogans on the
Scottsboro case, which can be selected from the
official slogans already published in the Daily
Worker
10. Every meeting Of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil and every meeting of the TUUL or any of it's
unions and its minority organizations should
have the scottsboro defense kept before its at
tention, with reports of progress, proposals from
the rank and file members, etc.
10. This letter deals almost exclusively with
the organizatonal forms which are to be under
the L. S. N. R. The District Committee must
reSolutely act to convince any comrades who are
reluctant to build up the LSNR through under
estimation of its Importance or misunderstand-
ing of its role (see recent resolution of the Cen
trail Committee on Negro Work published in the
Daily Worker March 23rd).
90 But this must not be permitted to cause
neglect of the role of the LID in the Scottsboro
case Inc LID mas from Cne beginning played
the most prominent role in the case, and the
LID has relatively strong organization in many
places where the LSNR hardly exists, if at all.
This strength must be utilized continuously No
one must get the idea that the LID is confined
to the legal aspects of the case. The lid also
is an organization of masses for mass support of
the defense The Neighborhood Committees are
LSNR committees. But the LID continues the
work actively in the Scottsboro case and its APP
peal for membership and collections in all meet
ngs in which the LID participates together with
the LSNR and other organizations The two Or
CARNATIONS must be made to work tremendously
for the common cause Mass meetings should
continue to be held under separate and joint
auspices of the LSNR and the LID, together
with any other appropriate organizations which
can be brought not only to participate in the
meetings but to share the auspices.
81. OF course these special directives for
work to be done through non-Party organiza-
ton QSNR) do not mean that the Party itself
in its own name does not continue and multiply
own name and organization in its own ranks
as we'll as its open leadership of the struggle
within the mass organizations The Party, as
SUCH continues and increases its activity as evil
denced in the May Day demonstrations.
Comrades We have pointed out certain OF
the more obvious right errors that would en-
danger the success of the campaign. The dan
ger of right errors is the greatest danger in this
case, involving as 1t does, mass work among new
elements not all of which are of proletarian
character This danger concretely concerns chief
ly the likelihood of falling into the error of