The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-24
Fnncttondrtes'C Class of the
Detroit League of Struggle
for Negro Rights
BY RENELDA GUMBs

TOR long time the work of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights here in Detroit had
been entirely dead. Efforts made for it's revival
were very difficult. Upon analyzng the reason
the discovery was that the workers who were
members of the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights had almost no idea of the full aims and
policies of the L.S.N.R. They had no theoretical
understanding whatever of the Negro question
SO as to be able to answer the arguments of the
enemies of the LS.NR. and in general were
Ignorant how to carry on the L.S.N.R. work
In order to remedy this a functionaries class
for the functionaries of the various L, S Mr.
groups was formed The classes, which are be-
ing held every Thursday night in the LSNR
District Headquarters, between the hours of
pm and 10 pm. started on November 10, 1881,
and was the first effort of Detroit to develop
the functionaries of the LS.NR.
All of the L.S.NR. groups except Pontiac are
represented in these classes which consist Of 20
students women and 16 men, white and is
Negro and only one-third of them Party men,
bers, but all are the most active elements in the
L.SN.R. groups of the Michigan District
The following are the schedule of subjects that
are being taken up within the scheduled six
weeks of the class:
Glass 1.-Policies and organzational structure
of the LS.NR.
Glass 2.-How the hSNR. membership meet
ings are to be conducted, the duties of the vari-
GUS functionaries, duties of a chairman, conduct
ing of mass meetings, making of motions min
utes, etc.
Glass 3-Fundamentals of the Negro Cues
ton. beginning with the colonization of the
U. S. with white slavery, the introduction of Ne
gro slavery up to the present status of the Ne
gro workers in the United States
Glass 4-The Negro Question as a. National
Question and Sef-D Determination
Glass 5.-The role of the LS.NR. in the pre-
sent day struggles of the Negro and white work.
ers; the history of the Liberator and its role
as chief organ of the L,SN.R.
Glass 6.-The Negro and Imperialism and the
relation of the Negro Liberation movement to
the revolutionary movement of the world pro-
letariat.
Also the struggle against the Negro bourge-
olsle reformlsts is taken up at great length in
this class
There are many shortcomings in this class,
such as lack Of sufficient reading material, not
enough white workers attending, the classes be-
ing taught SO far only by Comrade Gumbs, the
District L.SN.R. Organizer, etc. (This latter
shortcoming is being remedied by other leading
comrades OF the District taking the future clas-
ses). But on the whole they can be said to be
a grand success, as they are proving very inter-
esting to the students and very beneficial
Due to the shortness of the classes and the
intensity of the subjects being taken up, the
method used is through short lectures and ques-
tons and answer periods Reading material
which is for the most part out of the reach of
the students is mineographed and given them
for further reference
Because of the distance of Pontiac from De-
troit, the functionaries of the Pontiac group
have not been able to attend the classes but
material and instructions will be sent to them
to enable them to hold classes there as we'll
The ultimate aim of these classes is not alone
to train the functionaries how to carry on and
lead the activities OF the L. S. N. r. groups but
also that these functionaries can organize and
lead the study groups or classes for the rank and
file members of their groups so that each and
and every member OF the L. S. N. r. may become
developed, theoretically and practically and
actively be the organizers OF the masses OF Negro
and white workers in the struggle for the rights
OF the oppressed Negro toiers and the freedom OF
the entire working class,
With the ever rising tide OF prosecutions of the
Negro masses OF the United States, the increase
OF boss lynchings in the south The growing in
tensity OF discrimination and jiill-crowism OF
Negroes it is vitality necessary that we increase
our development OF workers to take their places
az leaders p the s1ssgse Tor Negro xsstts ard