Letter to Mrs Lynn

Summary

This 6 August 1959 letter from R. C. Cooper, Honorary Treasurer of the Swatantra Party, asks Mrs. D. Lynn to correct the draft minutes of a committee meeting. Cooper objects to wording that presents an approximate 50 percent allocation of Bombay-collected donations to the Party Centre as an official committee decision, arguing that no definite decision had been taken and that the matter should be discussed when M. R. Masani, A. D. Shroff, and Sir H. P. Mody are present.

The letter also proposes a reorganization of the approximately 24-member committee into four specialized sub-committees covering membership enrollment, lectures and propaganda, fundraising and programs, and newspaper publicity. It recommends quarterly targets and written reports, weekly coordination meetings, the use of volunteers, a monthly news letter funded partly through business-house advertising, and the appointment of a full-time paid party organizer.

Key points

• Cooper asks that draft minutes be amended so that an unconfirmed donation-allocation statement is not treated as a committee decision.
• He recommends dividing the approximately 24-member committee into four sub-committees.
• The proposed sub-committees would handle membership enrollment, public meetings and propaganda, fundraising and programs, and newspaper publicity.
• Each sub-committee should have defined quarterly targets, while convenors should submit written reports to the main committee.
• Weekly informal meetings are proposed to coordinate the work of the sub-committees.
• A monthly news letter of no more than four printed pages is proposed as both a communications tool and a means of collecting advertising revenue.
• Cooper recommends placing the party office under a full-time paid organizer with substantial experience in party organization.