The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-20

mana Ior negro ST We IN America.
The question faces us squarely,
who win lead the Ne yro Liberation
Movement" VIII the Japanese I'M
perialists and the petty bourgeois re-
formists lead" it into anti-Soviet
channels, into support OF \the robber
Japanese Cand world i'm Neriansmsl
aim of attacking the Sow ct Union?
Will it be led into the harm 'ess chan
nels Of lly-craWling for a mesquite
site Somewhere in Texas" to "be used
as a buffer state between Mexico and
the United States" Or will we de-
ve,op this struggle for self determine
ton along revolutionary lines for driv-
ing out the white imperialist landlords
and Slavewhippers from the rich
Black Belt soil as a fight against
the capitalist system in America, as
a part of the world revolutionary
movement?
The time is ripe. But how shall
we develop this movement? This
movement must necessarily be loose.
1t must embrace large numbers of
Negroes. 1t must have central
apparatus: dues books. applications,
field organizers, an executive conf
mittee. The leadership must be COM
posed of Negro comrades, mainly. The
center should knit together those
branches in the south with those in
the north and should publish a paper.
How should we begin? By the pres
ent narrow LSNR arranging a tour
of two or three comrades for the
purpose of explaining the program OF
the LdSNR and setting up branches,
utilizing, especially, the Scottsboro
case Git would be well, also, if we
could have one of the tenant farmers
from the terror region in Alabama {.
After a three month period there
could be another national conven-
ton of the LSNR, at which the pro-
gram would be revised so that the
reorganization could be effected on
a large scale, reaching deep into the
masses of Negroes in the large urban
centerS. AT present, there is only the
connection, through the Party, OF the
struggles of the Negro tenants and
sharecroppers in the south with the
struggles of the Negro masses of the
North. A nationally knitted Negro
liberation movement would connect
the two and strengthen both.
Time Is More Than Ripe
Another advantage of such a step
would be the moral and financial
support from the masses of Negroes
which would be given the entire
struggle. Such movement would be
supported by the Negro masses and
the ass-conscious white workers.
Yes, comrades, it is time for the
developing of the Negro liberation
movement. We must answer the cry
of the Negro masses for a country
and liberation and begin the struggle
for the soul Of these masses in the
fight against imperialism. The writer
for a long time thought, just as many
of the Negro comrades thought, that
the L.S.N.R. did not fit into the pic
ture, that it offered certain organiza-
tional complications. But, comrades,
it is precisely because we thought
this and acted this way that the
misleaders are now partially success
full in winning q large portion of the
Negro masses for imperialist schemes.
Let us now come forward with
clear cut national program and or
ganization Of this tremendous anti
imperialiSt force.
1t would be well that this topic be
discussed in the Party press. I am
certain that comrades in other places
have had experiences that would
serve TO help solve this pressing
problem.