The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-31
The Liberator Needs
Mass Support
BY y. LOUIS ENGDAHL

ny Dc AOClS ENSOAHA
General Secretary, International Labor Defense
THOUSANDS OF workers, Negro and white, ar
rested; scores OF Negro workers lynched; the
endless agonies Of chain gangs, penal colonies,
convict camps. especially in the South; exposure
and resistance TO the vicious race discrimination
against the jim-crowed many millions OF Ne
groes-al seek greater and more challenging
voice of raging protest in our militant working
class press
The printed word must be better modified for
mighty counter offensive against the savage
persecution that labor, Negro and white has suf-
fered too long
An immediate task is the winning Of tens OF
thousands OF new readers for the Liberator the
spokesman for the League OF Struggle for Negro
Rights.
Without a rnouthpiece to thunder its demands
continually the word struggle" in the L.S.N.R.
becomes almost meaningless. This the boss men
well know in the South where our press carries
on its work in practical illegality This the Hoo
yer administration at washington knows, and
already in this period OF growing war danger uses
the war time laws to deprive press OF its Sec
ond class mailing privilege
The boss class sees to it that mailing privileges
are reserved Tor the strong, strictly orthodox
publications OF capitalism. To fight for the work
Ing class is basis for persecution. But also the
mere fact that publication Of labor is weak,
desperate FOR lack OF funds and sometimes ur-
able TO publish every issue, the mere omission OF
an issue becomes the cause OF denial OF second
class mailing privileges. This denial OF mailing
rights, forces struggling publications to carry an
additional expense burden which often forces
them to suspend publication entirely This is ex-
actly what the Hoover Morgan government IN
tends
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Of Struggle for Negro Rights has been the vic
tim in the past OF these vicious attacks Because
1t fights for labor, Negro and white, it will be
compelled to face these attacks ever sharper in
the future. In this desperate situation it relies
upon the massed support Of the working class.
With the struggle to save the lives OF the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys, the fight for the Camp
Hill share troopers, the campaign against the
mine owners efforts to send Harlan KY coal
miners, Negro and white, to the electric chair and
TO long terms in prison. resistance to the persecu
tons OF workers in Atlanta, Birmingham New
Orleans and other sections of the South, we
have only begun the attack on the boss class
terror
1t Is the task OF the Lioerator not only TO
struggle against individual prosecutions Qynch-
ings. arrests, etc. after they have taken place
but 70 carry on continuously, ceaselessly q fight
Sor the rights OF the oppressed Negro masses, Scr
social, political and economic equality, Tor the
right o. sell determination, and To MOBILIZE yos
this struggle, the masses OF Negro and white
workers and poor farmers.
This can only be achieved successfully with q
mass circulation reaching everywhere. Especially
in the South must the circle OF readers 81 The
Liberator grow and broaden
The labor Defender, the central organ OF the
International Labor Defense greets the cam
peign to build The Liberator
The effort to secure 10000 new readers for
The Liberator by January Is should be easy OF
attainment 1t will be quickly achieved IL all those
who really believe i'll and are part OF the strIg-
gle for the liberation OF the working class from
wage slavery will join hands in this Lberator
campaign This campaign takes on increased
significance with the development OF the war
danger Manchuria); new struggles among ths
colonial peoples cyprus; an ever increasing
army Of 1obless condemned to hunger and death
Build The Mberator TO help lead in the battles
against this misery and against the social order
that created It, Get subscribers for The Lib
orator, and ask your trade unions, fraternal or
sar1izaUior. branches OF the International Labor
Defense, and other mass organizations 10 order
bundle q cent Tor 10 or more, by writing TO
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