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Page Two THE DAILY WORKER January 23, 1924 SOVIET POWER PROTECTION OF WORKERS’ RULE NICOLAI LENIN PLAN FUNERAL FOR SATURDAY; MEETINGS. HERE Zinoviev Sends News to Workers Everywhere (Continued from page 1) Soviet Congress, who are about to assemble will take steps to insure the continuation of government mat- ters. “The death of Lenin is the great- est blow since the workman and peasants gained power. It will move not only our peasants apd workers, but the whole world. “The masses of the working world mourn his death, He is no more amongst us, but his work remains. The Soviet Government will con- tinue on the route established by Lenin. Soviet power stands for pro- tection of the revolution of the pro- letariat.” Minister Zinoviev cabled to repre- sentatives in all parts of the world as follows: “At 6:50 Lenin suddenly died of paralysis of the respiratory organs, “The funeral will be Saturday. “The Communist International has lost its best leader and teacher and the international proletariat has suf- fered the heaviest loss since the death of Karl Marx. “Let us bow before the fresh grave of the great taacher of the working class. The workers of the world know whom they lost with Lenin. “The Communist International asks close ranks and the continuation of its work in the spirit of Lenin’s in- heritance.” In 1897 the Czar banished Lenin to Siberia, where he spent the next three years in study and preaching, thru his facile pen, the gospel of Revolution. Released in 1900, he spent the most of his time—until 1917—outside of Russia, carrying on revolutionary propaganda. Lenin was in Switzerland in April 1917, when the Russian people threw off the yoke of Czarism. The Ger- man government permitted Lenin and 100 other revolutionists to pass thru the country to Russia. This led to charges that Lenin was a paid agent of Germany. Lenin’s coup which brought him into power, came on Nov. 7, 1917, ~" an the \government of Alexander Kerensky, president-Minister of the provisional government, which had been growing weaker and weaker, finally died. on their “Day” Communists jammed the great hall of the Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg. As the meeting started, a little bald-headed man, with a wrinkled and bearded face, unkempt hair and dressed in a plain black suit, pushed his way for- ward. Light On His Character “Comrade Lenin will now address the congress,” the chairman an- nounced. Lenin immediately got down to the business of the day. “Comrades,” he said, “we shall now take up formation of the Social- ist state.” Thus started the greatest experi- ment in Communism the world had ever known. It is said, Lenin believed anything justified which would bring about success of the revolution. Attempt On Life In 1917, an unsuccessful attempt was made to shoot him while he was driving thru the streets in an auto- moble. In August 1918, Dora Kaplan, a left social-revolutionary, fired sev- eral shots into his body. These al- most proved fatal and are believed to have caused his death. The success of the Communist Gov- ernment in remaining in power for such a long time surprised even Lenin. “The revolution may fail even in Russia,” he had been quoted as say- ing. “But we will keep alive the flame Even during his early youth, Nicolai Lenin showed an active interest in the revolutionary movement in Russia. While attending the University of Ka- zan, he became very active in organ- izing a revolutionary movement among the students. This was during the bit- terest days of czarist oppression, but the tear of persecution did not deter Lenin from carrying on a working- class activity. For this activity he was expelled from the university at an »rly age. Lenin at the By MAX SCHACHTMAN, Editor, Young Worker. DEATH OF LENIN STIRS CAPITOL'S OFFICIAL CIRCLES Great Loss to Russia, Say Liberals (Special to The Oaily Worker) WASHINGTON.—News of Lenin’s death stirred Woshinyton’s official and diplomatic circles deeply. The! immediate reaction was speculation | on what his removal would mean} to Russia, i Senator Borah, Idaho, Chairman of the Sonate Committee holding hear- ings on Russian recognition and the | chief Senate advocate of American recognition of the Soviet Regime, said: “I do not know enough about the situation there to say what the| effect of his death will be, but I feel sure that if he had lived, Russia within the next two or three years would have been back on a sound economic footing and would have been restored to complete relation- ship with all countries. “Lenin was undoubtedly a man of great ability and while he made great mistakes, he also made great prog- ress.” No one who will control Russia following the death of Lenin can pre- vent the drift of the country towards capitalism, said Col. Wm. N. Has- kell, who was the head of the Amer- ican relief administration in Russia. Colonel Haskell, who was head of the American relief administration in Russia, said: “It is only a question of time in my opinion before all the govern- ments will be dealing with Russia. Lenin was leading his country in this direction as fast as he could.” Stalin, the Minister of National- ities in Russia, will succeed Lenin as the controlling power of Russia, Haskell predicted. Stalin is a quiet, unassuming man, but a power in Russia, and, according to Haskell, “was very close to Lenin.” Coolidge Bankers Promise Aid to New Victims WASHINGTON.—The Federal Government will ‘furnish ai be credit facilities to tide the banks of North and South Dakota over their crisis, it was annouxced on behalf of President Coolidge today. Comptroller of the Currency Henry Dawes and Director of the War Fi nance Corporation Meyer are in Chi- cago today on their way west to organize the banks of the section to carry help to those in North and South Dakota. It was pointed out at the White House that the Government can do nothing to replace losses already incurred, Franklin Falils, N. H., mill of Inter- national Paper Oo.. employing 150 men, closed for indefinite period. The Greatest Leader the World’s Oppressed Have Yet Known, 'Who Died on Monday. of revolution until the world is alight.” Said Revolution Would Conquer Even tho the powers of all the earth combined to crush Russia, Lenin said, the idea of the revolution would persist. No one has charged that Lenin used his high office for personal gain. There are few who question his sin- cerity. His salary as Chief of the Soviet State was $50 a week. Forbid Public Entertainments Stalin, minister of nationalities, is most prominent among the possible successors of the premiership. A bulletin issued by the physicians who attended Lenin during his last illness, said that an examination of the dead premier’s brain at noon today showed evidence of important changes in blood vessels. Hemorrhage probably was the im- mediate cause of death, it said. The Moscow Soviet, upon being in- formed of Lenin’s death, prohibited all public entertainments until Jan. 27. ’Gene Debs Pays Glowing Tribute to Nicolai Lenin we TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—The death of Nicolai Lenin is a calamity to the Russian Soviet, Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, said here today. “I regard Lenin as the greatest thinker that emerged from the world war,” Debs said. “He towered head and shoulders above every other statesman in Europe. “Lenin has passed thru an ordeal in the past five years such as never before faced any human being. He has carried two bullets, fired into his body by an assassin, and at the same time been forced to bear a burden of official responsibility and care greater than any other man’s in the world, “Hig place in history is certain. fre will go down in history as ond of the greatest statesmen, a tower- ing personality, a heroic soul, and in the loftiest sense a champion of the rights and liberties of the com- mon people,” Men and Women that hereafter January 21 should mourning, The Congress stood silent for Moscoy Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, Shaking Down Oil Magnates Is Game Of de la | Huerta (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—Adolfo de la Huer- ta, Mexican fascist chief, wants $400 rhe) of bripicigien ern strom co. 's ccording 5 @. Ws vit ent of the com- pany. ican military rebel wants the money to put him in a Amalgamation means strength! Age of 16 ny’s property at Tampico. Othe: de la Huerta threatens to wreck the property, Mr, Wylie says. But no good will be paid out. Wylie informs the et unless de la Huerta actually gains control of the rt of Tampico, and signalizes intention of carrying out the threat immediately. The money is demanded as an ad- vance on export oil taxes, which de la Huerta contends, should be paid to himself, on the theory that he is the de facto government for this part of Mexico, ‘ Coal Miner Killed, JUOIN, IlL—Herschel Camp- , motorman in a coal mine here, was killed y when his train hit a prop in the mine, rat eg A ad of slate and coal to on bell, All-Russian Congress Gets News; MOSCOW.—The All-Russian Congress was advised of Lenin's death by President Kalinin, who read an official bulletin and proposed their dead leader, men and women weeping without restraint. floscow already had taken on a funeral aspect, black bunting. ot@raping the houses thruout the city. This had been put up to com- memorate the 1905 Petrograd massacres. peaceful mood towards the compe hi the Then later, the question of the é - history New Y Central will lay off Won dba aeouee Tanuazy | italists BURNS OUTFIT TRIES TO DISOWN TWO STICK-UPS Detective Agency Real Lily-White Gang ot a single smudge on the mor- ity of the William J. Burns Inter- national Detective Agency, Inc., no matter how many stick-ups and ‘women-chokings the individual dicks may confess to. “Yes, sir, we trepudiate them— with a big R,” said Mr. V. A. Thompson, present assistant man- ager of the local branch, to a rep- resentative of the DAILY WORK- ER, who asked what he thought of the sensational confessions of Hugh Engel, former assistant manager, and J. Gleason Walker, a rank and file shadower. “We have no sympathy with any- one who goes wrong,” Mr. Thomp- son pleasantly emphasized. He declared that the agency would positively not defend the arrested men, ‘hompson assured his inter- rogator that Engel was no longer connected with’ the - organization. Asked when the severance took place he hesitated a moment, then said it was several months ago. Walker, he insisted, had never worked for Burns. This information is somewhat at variance with that furnished by the Chicago police, but if readers of the DAILY WORKER think that some- one is departing from the good old truth telling morality of George Washington cherry tree days they will have to think so on their own initiative, for Mr. Thompson sought to be very impressive. Engel and Walker are still in the custody of the detective bureau of the Chicago police. Someone is pay- ing for their defense, but the readex is again reminded that the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc., has no sympathy with anyone who goes wrong. Lenin’s Death Statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party. * Lenin is dead. For the Communists the wor over these words tell the-los~ ~* leader of the world proletaria: lution. It was Lenin’s great mind which directed the struggle of the workers and pi nts of Russia against the Kerensky government so that victory came for the workers. It was Lenin who during the five years of bitter ‘and bloody struggle against counter revolution and world imperialism, laid down the policies and tactics which carried the proletarian revolu- Lenin By JOHN PEPPER The world revolution marches on. Lenin discovered the inner laws of the world crisis, and the world revolution. He gave to the working class the revolutionary strategy and mapped out for the working class the revolutionary tactics in the final, the imperialist period of capitalism. Marxism, applied to our recent epoch, became Leninism. Marx transformed a world: he developed Socialism from utopia to science. Lenin again reshaped a world: he developed Socialism from science to action. . Our greatest leader is dead. But the international work- ing class has learned Leninism. The vanguard of the working class, the world party of the Communists, has learned from Lenin that its historic mission is to make the revolution, and h. learned from Lenin the methods, the startegy and tactics of the revolution. Marx said once: “The philosophers have inter- pretee! the world but the question is to reshape the world.” Lenin has carried out completely this Marxist program. We can say that since Napoleon, the sword and will of the great French bourgeois revolution, no other single man has so thor- oroly transformed the world as Lenin, the brains and will of the great Russian proletarian revolution. Marx discovered in historical materialism the laws of de- velopment of human history. In the surplus value theory Marx discovered the special laws of development of capitalism. Marx saw clearly for the first time that the revolution, the dic- tatorship of the proletariat, follows as an iron inevitability from the inner contradictions of capitalist society itself. But Lenin was the first who forged the steel weapon of the revolution: the centralized Communist Party, the conscious minority which seizes the initiative, but never loses eontact with the masses. Lenin coined the historical parallel: a Bolsevik is nothing else than a Jacobin who unites with the working class. Lenin formulated for the first time the conception that the leaders of the working class must be professional revolution- aries. Lenin for the first time discovered the central role of state power. The Marxian decadents of the Second International simply have forgotten the state power for decades. Lenin for the first time saw clearly the revolutionary signi- ficance of the general strike. The reformist of the Second In- ternational declared: “(General strike is general idiocy.” Lenin was the first. who recognized the necessity of turn- ing the general strike into an armed uprising. After the defeat of the first Russian revolution in 1905, Plechanov declared: “It was a mistake to take up arms.” But Lenin drew a different, and a great‘lesson from the defeat: “The revolution must be thoroly organized.” i Lenin was the first who discovered how fundamentally op- portunistic the Second International was, and he founded the Third International. Lenin replaced international phrase by international action. Lenin once said that every leader - 4 but a good leader] at an end. International Menshevism mistake and quickly! @@ain accused the Bolsheviki of be- corrects his little mistakes. Every ‘taying the workers in favor of the one who knows the history of the Peasants. And the party of the Bol- Russian revolution must recognize Sheviki itself waveréd once more, A that Lenin did not make a single ™4 hty opposition lifted its head big mistake. He was not only a: Within the Party. But Lenin did not reliable adviser, but a Lag agg Fe dea lib ge tea ~ i tl wor! n e een adviser of the working darn Wh “SNL, teave the wie a of the working class, and they must The secret which enabled Lenin to| avoid making too great mistakes was: ahi Seocen rl Hye ae ae not in his being too catitious. On " i the contrary, Lenin made no big mie-| pend peep pecan pernge at: ok ape he, suas eo He saved the Russian revolution and| ton on from victory to victory. revolutionary courage to act with au- thereby the world revolution. Out of the policies and tactics dacity in the decisive moment. Dan- _ Leninism is Marxism applied to the; Which guided the workers and ton, the leader of the French revolu- Present, the final, period of capital-|Peasants of Russia,in their fight tion, said that three things are neces- '8", Lenin’s most basic and most {against their oppressors and ex- in a revolution, “Audacity, more profound thought was his under- ploiters have come the guiding prin- sary . ‘ standing and analyzing the revolu-|ciples which are followed by every tion as a uniform process. Lenin was{ Communist party in the world. the first who saw clearly that the| His name will go down in history revolution cannot be the achieve-|as the founder of the modern Com- ment of a single class, but that it can|munist movement. To the working succeed only if on the one hand, not|class of the world his services were only the working class, but all other|those of giving the working class non-capitalist strata are revolution-|leadership in the form of the Com- ized, and if on the other hand, the capitalist class itself is no lon, in a position which represented only the narrow class interests of the indus-|tee of the Workers (Communist) trial workers within capitalist socie-' Party calls upon the workers of this ty, Lenin emphasized the general in- country to honor the memory of [speie tel the eles bese 2 the | Lenin. class of the revolution. nin rec-! Aj) units of the party are in: ognized that to reject the idea of an ‘ea to arrange bel ih sesuneeed alliance with the farmers is not re- Sunday, February 8rd to the mem- volutionary, uncompromise, but an opportunism which is afraid of vic- Ba Oe gates Me Comrades Weep munist parties. It is in the spirit of these services that the Central Executive Commit- be observed as an official day of several minutes out of respect to world proletarian revolution. The beat reg 4) es fas only is pra theme of the speeches in memory of at an isola’ ommunis' Y Lenin must be that of the audacity, always audacity!” Marx|without the laboring masses cannot in must be that of the role of the Communist Party in the proletarian revolution. It will be thus that we can honor Lenin most. From his mind sprang the theories, principles, policies and tactics which today guide the Com- ‘munists the world over. For thet contribution to our cause we honor called Danton the greatest strategist of revolutionary tactics. Lenin is the greatest realist, the coolest analyzer of facts; but the basis of his strate; at the same time always the slogan of Danton: “Audacity, more ‘audacity, always audacity!” Lenin always had the mental cour- age and determination to advance or to retreat in a given moment, On November 7, 1917, Lenin had the audacity to seize power for the working class. A capitalist universe lnuphed at the Bolsheviki, and even 8 own party wavered; the best and oldest revolutionaries, Zinoviev and Kamenief recoiled from the terrible responsibility. But Lenin stood like a rock of iron and led the Russian workers to power and to lastigg vic- be victorious, but he also swears that the working class alone, the farmers as allies, can victorious, nor retain permanent vic- tory. bay Lenin recognized that the rahe jr revolution in the highly leveloped capitalist countries must form an alliance with the oppressed smal] nations and with the enormous masses of the exploited colonies|principles he gave us and the world against ruling imperialism. Lenin © founded upon those knew that only the working class ciples—the Communist Interna- can bring about its own salvation, |tional—lives and will carry forward But he also knew what the Second |the Li = ean Fotis International did not know, that the | trium: the triumph of the world Central Executive Committee, ‘orkers Party of Lenin, our leader, is dead. But’ the ph working class cannot bring atout its|proletarian revolution. tion + it does not become S C. E. Ruthe: zoe. Sec, the oppressed and Special Ieene of Daily Worker for the Lenin Memorial Meetings For the week ending Feb. 2, the Magazine Section of THE peace of Brest-Litovsk. The whole of international Menshevism accused the Bolsheviki of betraying the revo- lution in oi eters pat with Ger- iserdom. — And man imperialist even the party of the Bolsheviki spate wavered. Such keen-minded ‘arxists as Radek and Bucharin could not understand the necessity of the retreat. But Lenin did not waver for a moment. He led his party with an iron hand to Brest-Litovsk, in order to gain a breathing spell for the revolution. And Lenin was again German Kaiserdom collapsed migeraly a lyear later, Th third t turn in the ry_of the Ruslan revolution: the Policy. ‘he cap- rine with ¢ eat joy: t the rWe of Communiem ta, Russia ts New