The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-27
For a Mass Circulation Of the
'Liberator" in the Fight for
Negro Rights

OUR from OF struggle for Negro rights widens.
" The drive for 10000 new readers and the cir
culation increase of the Liberator goes hand in
hand with our daily struggles for Negro rights.
The lynch masters, the profit-greedy bosses,
ale increasing and sharpening their bloody
weapons of struggle. The workers, both white
and Negro, must increase and improve their
weapons of struggle. The Liberator is an indis-
penible weapon in organizing the Negro and
white workers for joint struggles for the defense
of Negro rights, for the National Liberation
movement of the Negro people
The growing terror against the Negro masses
is being fought by the white and Negro work.
ers The massacre of the Chicago and Cleveland
unemployed did not go by unchallenged. The
sacrifice of these workers was not in vain. The
heroic fight of the share choppers in the South
demonstrated TO the Southern white Landlords
that the Southern Negroes will defend them
selves against the attacks of their masters. The
fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys has
thrown panic into the ranks of the white ruling
class and their tools-the Negro bourgeosie
Why? Because for the first time on a nation
wide basis-in fact on an international basis,
the white workers, under Communist leadership,
fight for the rights of the Negro masses, an OPP
pressed people.
These struggles open Up new pages in the his
tory of the Negro peop J. In these struggles the
white workers, for the first time, have demon
strated ON mass scale that they are beginning
to part with race prejudice the pride of Amer
lean civilization" which stinks of the old slave
market. But these struggles the mere be-
ginnings. Lynchings are on the increase. Jim
Crowism is being extended and widened. Pow
erty, misery. disease, are increasing daily. The
lot Of the Negro share-cropperS in the South Is
getting worse than that under slavery conditions
The bosses, bankers and landlords are increasing
their lynch terror in order to silence the Negro
masses They increase their poisonous propa-
ganda of antagonism against the Negro race,
thus hoping to prevent the white workers from
defending their Negro brothers from the mur-
derous attacks of their common enemy. We are
weak in tight because we lack mass organ
which VOICES the grievances of an oppressed
Negro nation--an organ which clcanses the white
workers minds of the tccrcs' rotten idea, that
his Negro brother is inferior to him. We must
build paper which will unite the Negro and
white workers in the daily fight against lynch
ings and discrimination on the job, in the neigh
borhood, etc. Above all, need paper which
will become an ORGANIZER in our struggle for
Negro rights. Can we with clear conscience
say that the Liberator, with its present circula-
ton, can fulfill the task and duty of an AGI-
TATOR and ORGANIZER in the National Lib
Grafton movement in the fight against race pre-
JUDGE? BY no means.
The drive for 10000 new readers Of the Lib
orator must therefore, be considered as a major
campaign in our struggle for Negro rights, and
every worker, Negro and white, should dis
tribute tire Liberator, sell the Liberator, build
the Liberator in the shops. the trade unions and
in the homes