0058. Box 1/Folder a3. Draft Resolutions for the International Labor Defense National Conference. 36 pages., 1937

Topics included: Greetings to all prisoners; the Scottsboro, Alabama case; Tom Mooney and Warren Billings; Ernest Thaelmann; the chain gang; against lynching; the Modesto, California case; status of political prisoners; the Sacramento, California case; Senator Robert M. La Follette Committee; Poland; Labor Defender; J.B. McNamara and Matthew Schmidt; criminal syndicalism and other repressive legislation; democratic rights in Puerto Rico; Paul and Gertrude Ruegg; Italy; Brazilian political prisoners; Earl King - Ernest G. Ramsey - Frank J. Connor Case; Sheppard-Hill bill; right of asylum; protection of the foreign-born; the Dies bill; Matthias Rakosi; embargo on arms to Italy and Germany; legislative program; adoption of constitution of International Labor defense; Tampa, Florida, Joseph Shoemaker case; murder of Frank Norman; the Black Legion; Alabama; Arkansas; Cuba.