Eu estava tentando um Problema Produtor / Consumidor, mas não sei por que estoujava.lang.NullPointerException dentro do consumidor.

package com ;

import java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue;

public class Producer extends CommonClass implements Runnable {

    private int producerNum;

    Producer(PriorityBlockingQueue<Character> queue) {
        queue = queue;
    }

    public void run() {

        char ch;

        for (ch = 'a'; ch <= 'z'; ch++) {
            queue.add(ch);
            System.out.println("Producer" + producerNum + "produced :" + ch);
            try {
                Thread.sleep((int) (Math.random() * 300));

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                System.out.println("Error");
            }

        }

    }

}

Esta é minha classe de consumidor

package com ;

import java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue;

public class Consumer extends CommonClass implements Runnable {

    private int consumerNum;

    Consumer(PriorityBlockingQueue<Character> queue )
    {
        queue = queue;  
    }

    public void run() {
        char c;

        for (int i = 0; i < 27; i++) {
            c = queue.poll();
            System.out.println("Consumer" + consumerNum + "consumed:" + c);
            try {
                Thread.sleep((int) (Math.random() * 300));
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                System.out.println("Error");
            }
        }

    }
}

package com ;

import java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue;

public class CommonClass {

     PriorityBlockingQueue<Character> queue = new PriorityBlockingQueue<Character>();

}

package com ;

import java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue;

public class SyncTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {



         PriorityBlockingQueue<Character> queue = new PriorityBlockingQueue<Character>();

        Producer p1 = new Producer(queue);
        Thread t1 = new Thread(p1);
        t1.start();

        Consumer c1 = new Consumer(queue);
        Thread ct1 = new Thread(c1);
        ct1.start();

    }
}

Esta é a exceção que recebo:

Exception in thread "Thread-1" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.Consumer.run(Consumer.java:18)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)