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[Handwriting: Sharon Amos]]
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3:00 pm meeting 7/4/78
(from Sharon Amos)
regarding Party work (PNC)
-Robert Williams called us this afternoon and invited one of our representatives to a meeting atthe Ministry of National Development to plan the May Day Celebration
-instead of one going Debbie [Touchette] and I went
-they talked about the planning andeven what would they do if the PPP caused disturbances as apparantly they did last year
-they planned to infiltrate the PPP organization (or the PPP labor Union) Gaol (or it sounds like Gaol and they talked about the strategy for delayingpermission to the PPP go be in the parade and only giving the TUC (the broad based union which includes PNC as well as PPP) permission
-they mentioned PT, want to know when we will give them the number of us who can march under abanner stating PT Cooperative
-Debbie asked one man his name Cde Kenneth Denny who is with the workers Education Unit 125 carmichael Georgetown (he is organizing sect of the TUC)
-he asked about PT and said he had it on his calendar to talk to us about a cultural presentation for May Day week
-he drove us home
Oscar Duke our local PNC member was the Chairman of this meeting he works at the Ministry of National Devt and seems to count on us to “come out” to things He toldus that this evening there would be a mobilization meeting and he’d like us to be there/it would be at the same place as the WRSM
-they want us to come to this meeting every Fri at 3PM (same place) WRSM: 5:30PM meeting 7/4/78 (Evelyn Karen Joan Sharon) we participated actively making several suggestions for fund raising and there was interest in what we had to say
we can now become members as we have come 3 times in a row to WRSM, and they will leave forms for us to fill out
-PT was commended for our fine contribution to the WRSM ice cream social
-they took our names at the end and when my name came up they said we know Cde Amos’ name she’s one of us/ they said all of us were one of them but they were familiar with me (I don’t know if that is good or bad to be thought of as one of them rather than one of us but they invited me (Oscar Duke did) to participate in their district meeting after the WRSMmeeting and Debbie and I went
DISTRICT MEETING 7:30 PM 7/4/78 (Debbie T and Sharon)
they were working out the plans for mobilization for the May day parade/ going door to door for mobilization
they plan to do it Sunday 9:30 and said for Debbie and I to bring others from our group to help
-Cde Cunia of the National Devt Ministry said to the others that I was a great help mobilization for Cde Jack’s speech this District Meeting seems to be committee members or leaders
of our district
(THE WRSM INVITED ME TO ALSO COME ON SATURDAY AT 5:30 PM for another
planning meeting)
conclusion:
it seems the PNC has a dearth of active workers and would like to involve us very heavily/ Cde Duke asked us if we could cut cane 1/2 a day on Sundays (Mike Prokes worried that the PPP would identify us doing it and we’d be a target for attack which sounds like a real possibility tho on the other hand that kind of self-help would make a very good impression on the govt????????? (of course they just want to use us but is that useful or not?????) Over
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Mobilization is essential to the party right now because there is so much crisis/ we are active and willing and Guyanese people are not so active or willing/ even Mingo is thinking of using us for mobilization for elections and he is our defender (or claims he is)
We need guidelines on how much to get involved in this kind of thing
[The following paragraph in the original is all is caps] Our cultural presentation is the subject of conversation where ever we go/ it seems like you could more easily reach Guyanese people by this manner than just about any – today Cde Trotman of the Ministry of Information (he handles the slider projectors etc), said it was the best show he’s seen
-this Cde Denny of TUC said Minister Green recommended he contact us for the cultural presentation so Minister Green is willing to be identified with us on some level (even tho his wife is a real bitch)