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-2- MEMBERS ARE URGED TO GIVE THIS AGENDA THEIR MOST SERIOUS ATTENTION AND TO IMMEDIATELY INFORM THE SECRETARY OF ANY SUGGESTIONS WITH REGARD TO IT. MEMBERS WHO HAVE ANY MATERIAL RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THESE PAPERS ARE URGED TO FORMULATE IT AND SEND IT TO THE SECRETARY AT ONCE. MEMBERS WHO FEEL THAT SOME IMPORTANT ISSUE IN WHICH THEY ARE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED ARE URGED TO FORMULATE IT AND SEND IT TO THE SECRETARY AT ONCE. WE WANT THE SUBJECT MATTER OF DISCUSSION AT THE CONGRESS TO INCLUDE ALL THE INTERESTS OF OUR MEMBERS AND THIS IS A FINAL PLEA FOR YOUR COOPERATION IN MAKING THIS POSSIBLE. Please note carefully the following points: 1. Communicate with the Secretary at once, stating whether you expect to personally attend the Congress. It is very important for our arrangements that we have an accurate estimate of the number who will be present. 2. Members desiring to attend the Friday evening session at Town Hall must buy their tickets now. No reservations can be made. Out of town members, particularly, should send their checks or money orders at once to the Secretary for such seats as they desire. The Town Hall seats only 1600 people and we anticipate that the tickets will go very quickly. The prices are as follows: Balcony 35¢ and 55¢, Orchestra 55¢, 83¢, and $1.10 and Loges $1.65. 3. Members who have not done so are urged to send in their $1.00 for membership card at once. No one will be admitted to the sessions at the New School without such a card. Of course, if it is financially impossible for you to pay this dollar at this time, a letter to the Secretary stating this fact will be considered, but otherwise your membership fee is very important to us as the expenses in connection with the Congress are very considerable. 4. It was found that the time allowed for the previously announced poster exhibition against War and Fascism was not sufficient to get the work together. For this reason we have extended the time for the submission of posters to January 31st. We want to make this exhibition an important feature for publicity for the Congress and you are, therefore, urged to make every effort to submit a good poster by this date. Mail or bring your work to the A.C.A. Gallery, 52 West 8th Street, New York City. It will be remembered that the poster could be in any medium. The size is 20 by 30 inches. The design is to cover this entire area but a band 3 inches in width and covering the entire breadth of the poster must be left and the words AMERICAN ARTISTS CONGRESS printed therein. This band of lettering may be used in addition to the color of the surface on which the design is executed. The artist may incorporate any of the following slogans (or better ones) 1. "Unite Against War and Fascism". 2. "Fight Fascism". 3. "Against War and Fascism". 4. "Fascism Means War". 5. "Artists, Workers, Fight Fascism". 6. "Defend Culture. Fight Fascism". 7. "Stop War and Fascism". 5. Designs suitable for a letterhead or a symbol of the Congress are also wanted. They should be in black and white and should incorporate the initials AAC or the words AMERICAN ARTISTS CONGRESS. 6. We are planning to have a banner to be hung at the back of the platform in the Town Hall on the night of the meeting. This banner will be 16 feet high, 48 feet long - a proportion of three to one. Four colors may be used. Those suggested are: blue, yellow, brown, black on a white ground. The design should be very simple and should, of course, symbolize the purpose of the Congress, which is against War and Fascism and for the Defense of Culture. The words AMERICAN ARTISTS CONGRESS should appear across the top of the banner. You are urged to send in your design, no matter how rudimentary or sketchy it may be owing to the short time allowed. The slightest sketch may give a suggestion for just what we are looking for. These sketches must be in the possession of the Secretary by January 22nd. Please keep this letter as it contains all the information relative to the Congress and your participation in it, that we are able to give at this time and it answers many questions which might otherwise make it necessary for you to write to the Secretary. STUART DAVIS, Secretary AMERICAN ARTISTS CONGRESS 52 West 8th Street New York, N.Y.
