The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-17
BUILD "THE LBERATOR"
By WILLIAM L. PATTERSON.

THE tasks of the revolutionary Negro and wl1itA
workers are becoming ever broader and more
pressing as the anger of the Negro masses
against the many forms of white ruling class
oppression and terror deepens and takes on con-
crete forms of expression in struggle. This
anger must be raised to high political level,
must not be diverted into anti working class
channels, lie, strike breaking activity, it must
not he permitted by support of impossible,
improbable Back to Africa" movements, UNI
real5abe cooperative schemes to defeat the
aims of the working class 1t must net exhaust
itself in support of Negro refomiSt racial sol
idarity race loyalty plans.
This anger Of the Negro masses must be or
ganizationally cenlented That organizational
trend must be unswervingly directed toward the
main stream of revolution, The hatred Of the
Negro masses against oppression must be merged
with the revolutionary upsurge of the starving
white workers and of the ruthlessly exploited
colonial peoples The main source of expoita-
ticn and oppression of the workers and oppre5-
sed masses Of the world are the same There is
therefore common basis of struggle against inn
perialist oppression.
Already around Scottsboro, Camp Hill bloody
Monday in Chicago the organiza tonal forms Of
struggle have been created. Into these forms
must be poured the masses of Negro and white
workers groaning under the crushing burdens of
the crisis Already the bosses, foaming at the
mouth with rage, are rallying all of the agen-
ces of reaction, the Negro refornists, the yellow
socialists the labor takers and the underworld
scum, to crush the growing solidarity of The
awakening Negro and white masses.
Every source of propaganda controlled by ths
re tic c1,,,
propaganda and those lies with which it fer
vently hopes to strengthen the distrust of mil
lions of workers for all white society. Masked
behind phrases of peace, subtle propa ganda
preparing the masses for war against the Soviet
Union the capitalist way out of the crisis, i1l-
cresses. Billions are being spent for armament.
There is no better way of building mass revo=
lutonary organization than through the avenue
of the revolutionary press. This is one of the
Surest ways of preparing the masses to find a
working class solution of the crisis. Without
this press, the establishment of revolutionary
organizations capable of uniting Negro and white
workers in joint struggle for Negro rights and of
leading the struggle for the right of the Negro
masses in the Black Belt to self-deter1nination
and toward the decisive battles facing them is
impossible. Organization for these decisive
tasks is the first step toward their practical solu
ton The plan of building the Liberator into
mass paper is an inseparable part of the plan
of the struggle for unemployment insurance re-
lief against the unbearable high rents in the
segregated Negro centers, against discrinllna-
ton, jim crowisn1, segregation and all of the
sem-slave forms of exploitation and oppression
in the south. 1t will unite the discomfort of the
black and white share-croppers 1t will stir the
Negro masses to think as never before and pre-
pare them for revolt
The Lberator must be the main line" guiding
Negro and white workers to the systematic Or
ganization of the liberation struggles of the
Negro masses. 1t will stress the day to Gay tasks
and point the way 10 the ultimate goal. The
toiling Negro masses constitute the weak link
in the chain of American imperialism. They
J potential ally for the revolutionary strug-
gle of the American workers, Negro and white.
The Liberator will guide the Negro and white
workers in their work of Systematically and tire
lessly developing mass organizations Of strug-
gle. 1t will aid in the development of any revo-
lutionary leaders 1t will interpret for the Negro
masses all aspects of their political life. 1t Will
ruthlessy tear the mask from the face of Negro
reformism
The Liberator is a collective organizer. It Will
! rally millions of workers to the struggle of the
Negro masses for social and political equality.
This struggle cannot be ssrarated from the
struggle of the entire working class against
American Imperialism.
Build the Liberator! Support 80 drive of This
Liberator for circulation of 25,CO9.