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ede bile ee BS 229B-2 the last campaign. This was 8 percent of the vote for congress in the eighth congressional district. Some of the vote is due, of course, to the tremendous signature drive both for LAURA ROSS and for GUSS HALL and ANGELA DAVIS waged in the eighth congressional district. Nearly 20,000 residents of the eighth congressional district had signed for communist candidates and many more received communist election materials. LAURA's campaign itsel{ distributed over 10,000 flyers, posted posters, and ran ads in nine communi LAURA's positions appeared in election supplement prepared by th OF WOMEN VOTERS and interviews with LAURA appeared in many newspapers Regarding other congressional districts, SEB vices: yl’ "We need to run communist candidate for congressional office in 1986. Running outside the context’ of the Presidential campaign, the congressional campaign will find it more difficult to generate a high vote than we did in this campaign, unless we can successfully couple congressional campaign with a mass political movement as we did in this campaign." "Our most recent experience in the 1984 election points out a problem we have not successfully solved regarding our style of work. We must work to develop our communist campaigns and we must work to develop our party's work with mass united front activities." IC Regarding the plans for 1985 MEE asserted: "The club plans of work are presented to club conferences which should be scheduled for January and February, 1985. The District Committee at its next meeting will approve and circulate to the clubs a draft plan of work on the work of the District. This should be useful in helping the clubs, commissions, and committees in developing their plans of work." "The upcoming municipal elections will feature strongly in our work in 1985. Boston, Somerville, Cambridge, New Bedford, Fall River, and Springfield, we must have a party approach to these elections, including a communist candidate for the city council in Boston municipal elections. We must have concrete plans in addition to support the candidates of Afro-American, Puerto Rican, women, peace, and trade union candidates.” "The defense of the trade union movement must be an important feature in our work. We must develop plans to assist contract fights in GE and for: ; work to develop the trade union left in 1985." .. . "The activity of an ongoing and outgoing peace movement must be an important feature of our 1985 plan of work. We must take the initiative for a new round of community speakouts on peace and economic justice and make certain that referendums and other activities are initiated." Moscow from y Pt Tough August J must ™be al amportant feature of work. Se