The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

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Board of that organization No
Richard 3. Moore rendered
his resignation as general
secretary on account of ill
health. He will, however, con-
tinue his activities in the League
IS a member Of the National Ex-
ecutiys Boerd.
Ben Davis Named as Editor of
Liberator
The Board voted to release Maude
White as editor of the Liberator to
permit her to take up other work.
It decided to invite Ben Davis. Jr.,
Of Atlanta, Ga, to assume editor
ship Of the paper. Davis is also
nationally known for his activities
IN the closely related struggles for
Negro liberation and the social
emancipation Of the workingclass.
AS one Of the defense attorneys for
Angelo Herndon, Davis, together
with his client, fearlessly used the
lynch courts as forum to expose
the national oppression and plum
dering of the Negro masses, and
the policies of the white ruling class
of keeping the Negro and white
toilers apart
Building of L. s. n. r. Imperative,
Haywood Declares
Harry Haywood, who was inter-
viewed by the writer after the
Board meeting declared that the
conditions confronting the Negro
and white toilers, and their grow
ing resistance to the Roosevelt New
Deal" slavery not only provide the
basis for building the L.SNR. into
nationwide mass organization,
but made it imperative.
THE Beard took note" he de-
clared, mot only of the increas-
ing fascist attacks on the toilers,
directed with special fury against
the Negro masses, but of the ire
mendous response throughout the
country to the militant program
Of the L.S.N.R. The Negro masses
are in molten today to a greater
extent than ever before in their
history in this country. The unity
of the white and Negro toilers is
being welded in increasing num-
bers Of joint struggles for their
demands. The Board decided that
one Of the urgent questions fac
ing the organization is the erys-
talization of the growing mass
sympathy with the program of the
L.S.NR. into definite Orgsniza-
tionsl channels"
This led us into q discussion of
cropping Up. like mushroom growths
Of new reformist programs and
grouplets sponsored by middle
class Negro mislesders. dislodged by
the crisis from their usual avoca-
tons.
Warns of Reforn,ist Activities
"On the basis Of the awakening
Of the Negro masses, their growing
discomfort with their worsening
conditions, there is a feverish in
crease in the activities of reformist
elements" Haywood stated There
is widespread growth Of jim
crow nationalist movements spon-
sored by Negro middle-class vision
aries, who are advancing all sorts
of programs directed toward holding
the masses back from struggle and
to confuse them in their search for
real way out" of their intolerable
conditions. The Back to Africa"
slogan of Garvey is being revived
In new and more subtle forms.
These new editions of Gsrveyism
Haywood called neo- Garvevism. A
movement of jim-crow "49th
State has been launched in Chi
cago. These refornist programs are
ell designed to prevent the approach
Of the Negro masses to a real rev.
olutionary program, and to hold
them under the leadership Of the
middle-class misleaders. which
means, effectively to keep them
bound TO the chariot of the white
ruling class masters and to defeat
their struggle for liberation,
Must Boldly Put Forward L.S.N.R.
Program
AS against these refornlist pro-
grams, it becomes urgently neces-
sary to more boldly and determined
1y put forward the program of the
LSNR. for a real revolutionary
way out through the most relentless
struggle by the Negro people, in
alliance with the white toilers
against the rising fascist reaction
in the country. This can be done
only on the basis of modifying the
masses for their immediate de-
mands against unemployment, dis
elimination, wage cuts, lynching,
against the increasing robbery of
the share troopers and poor farm
ers OF the South, against Hunger,
Fascism and War.
Haywood will make a 3-month
organizationsl tour OF the most inn
portant industrial centers of the
North, spending 2 weeks in the chief
centers. The tour will take in De-
troit, Chicago, St Louis, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington,