The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
Conference
Plans Nationwide
Fight on Lynching
Historic Meet Adopts
New Program, Issues
Manifesto

NEW YORK.-Declaring that "the
renewed murderous onslaught by the
ruling class upon the Negro People
calls for immediate and decisive ac-
ton if a whole patton Of 100000
is not to be trampled into the dust"
the Emergency Conference of the
National Committee of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, held in
Harlem Sunday afternoon, mapped
out plan of action against the grow
ing persecution of the Negro masses
under the MIRA New Deal"
The Conference decided to launch
Immediately nationwide campaign,
centering for the immediate period
around the exposure of the Maryland
officials and other leaders of the
Eastern Shore mob which lynched
George Armwood, the economic con-
ditions behind the lynching, and for
the mobilization Of the white and
Negro masses against the approach
ing Scottsboro trials, set by the State
of Alabama for Nov. n before the
'Ku Klux Khan Judge Callahan in
the lynch-infested town of Decatur.
The Conference adopted new pro-
gram for the L.S.N.R., based on the
st. Louis, 1881, program, but concret-
lied to present conditions of the
sharpening terror against the Negro
People. 1t also officially adopted the
Bill of Rights proposed by the L. s.
N. r. and taken to Washington by
the Scottsboro Marchers. These
documents will be released to the
press within few days
The Conference was opened by
Harry Haywood for the National
Committee of the LS.NR., with a
statement of the purpose of the
emergency conference and a brief
history of the militant organization.
DR.. Arnold B. Donawa of Harlem
was elected chairman.
William L. Patterson reported for
the National Committee on the gen.
eral situation of the Negro People,
and on the proposed program of the
L.S.N In a historical analysis of
the Negro question, Patterson char
acterized the contemporary Negro
question as that of an oppressed ma
ton fighting for freedom against
American imperialism. He declared
that the unity of the Negro masses
and white toilers in the fight against
the common enenv was the very es-
sence CT the L.S.NR. program.
Haywood reported for the Naeional
Committee on the immediate tasks
Of the Ism Rim the building of
a mass organization as the spearhead
in the fight against national oppres-
sion, lynch terror and job discrim-
ination. He proposed that the cam
paign of exposure and demand for
the punishment of the lynchers of
George Armwood be carried out I'M
der the joint auspices Of the L.S.NR.
and the International Labor Defense.
He declared that the Liberator, the
national organ of the L.SNR., must
be improved and broadened out into
lively popular mass paper.
The Conference decided to call a
Regional Conference in Baltimore for
Nov. 10 and 10, to be combined with
a mass public trial of the mob leaders
and Maryland officials responsible for
the murder of Armwoou.
The Conference unanimously ac-
copied the proposals of the National
Committee for the broadening and
strengthening of the National Com
mittee, by the addition Of new mem
bers, the setting up of a resident ex-
ecutive beard and the election of new
national officers. The following off,
GERS and Executive Board were
elected:
President, Langston Hughes (unan-
imous but awaiting acceptance), vice
presidents: James w. Ford, Mrs. Jes-
sica Henderson awaiting accept
ANGEL, William Patterson, Robert
Minor, Ben Davis, and Rose Hart;
General Secretary, Richard B. Moore;
Assistant General Secretary, Herman
McKawain; Recording Secretary,
Bernice DaCosta; Treasurer, DR.. D.
Reuben Young; Director Of Educa-
ton, Charles Alexander; Director of
Cultural Activities, Louise Thompson;
Director of Young Peoples Activities,
Leonard Patterson: Director Of Acti-
vities Among Women, Williana Bur-
roughs; Director OF Research, Tom
cruesdale. Other members OF the
board include: Maude White and Eu-
gene Gordon of the Liberator staff,
Steve Kingston, Henry Shepard,
Harry Haywood, DR.. Donawa, James
Moore, Rabbi Ben Goldstein, Mrs.
Grail Speed, Bonita Williams, Hanou
Chan, Jim Allen, Cyril Briggs and
William Fitzgerald.