The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 14

ee ee EF a RNR AMNIN NARHA THUAN ens mee me 8 em me Death Brings United Front To Mexico By BERTRAM D. WOLFE In face of the tremendous loss of their greatest national figure, Felipe Carrillo, and their greatest inter- national leader Nicolai Lenin, the peasants and workers of the federal district here joined hands irrespective of party or faction in the most com- plete united front that Mexico has ever seen. In the auditorium of the school of engineering assembled mem- bers of the Agrarian, Communist, and Labor Parties and of the Socialist Party of the Southeast. Louis N. Mo- rones, leader of the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor, presided over the me- morial meeting. Gutierrez Cruz, presi- dent of the League of Revolutionary Writers, bitter personal enemy of Morones, stood on the same platform to recite a poem he had written in honor of Nicolai Lenin. What was perhaps more impressive was the joint presence of long-standing politic- al enemies on the same platform united in the bond of a common sor- row. Inspirational Atmosphere. The vast auditorium was decorated by the Union of Communist Painters. The center of the platform was oc- cupied by an enormous canvas of the face of Lenin painted by Mexico’s greatest artist, Diego Rivera, who had known the great Communist leader personally, and put all his love and admiration for the man in his futur- istic canvas painted in jet black upon a red background. To the side of the Lenin ‘painting was one painted by Xevier Guerrero of the dreamer’s face of Felipe Carrillo, martyr gov- ernor of Yucatan, Socialist -leader killed by the rebels in the recent up- rising. The foreground of the stage was decorated to represent the soil, symbol of the agrarian movement in this dominantly agrarian country. The soil was jet black and torn by red fur- rows, and on it stood red plows with black steel blades. Above the stage hung a silver hammer and sickle, and o’ertopping everything else, the red star of Communism, illuminated, and casting over everything a strong red glow. The side walls bore manifold le- gends such as; “The rifle in proletar- ian hands is the guarantee of liber- ty”; “The hennequen of Yucatan ties the sheaves of Russian wheat”; “Peasant, the earth yields a hundred for one and you get one for a hund- red”; and most prominent of all— “Lenin has died but his work con- tinues.” The meeting was opened by a speech of Diego Rivera on behalf of the Communist Party of Mexico. He traced the significance of Lenin in the world revolutionary movement, dec- laring that Leninism consisted above all in the judging aright of the role of the farmer and peasant in the re- volutionary struggle. He pointed out that the slogan of 1905 of “a workers’ and peasants’ government”, the slog- an, “All power to the Soviets” of 1917, the new economic policy, the so-called Trotzky shears, and the formation by the Communist International of an international peasant-farmer organiza- tion, were logical realistic applica- tions of the leninist estimate of the significance of the peasantry. “Lenin Lives—Carrillo Lives!” Turning with great emotion to the lifelike face he had painted on the stage, he declared: “Lenin lives! Car- rillo lives! In the audience and in the Mexican region there are thousands UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS of peasants, rifle in hand, avenging the death of Felipe Carrillo and carry- ing on his work to complete socializa- tion of the land. In Russia there are millions of peasants rifles in hand ready to defend the work of Lenin and carry it to its conclusion in the socialization of the entire world. His work is the man and will live for- ever.” Followed two minutes of profound silence on the part of the audience and then Manuel Carpio, private sec- retary of the Minister of Agriculture, Ramon P. De Negri, got up the speak. He read De Negri’s address to the audience for De Negri was on the Western battle front with the presi- dent. Lenin, declared the address, was a man of sober realities, He preached no creed or dogma, He created no- glistening dreams. For this he was the greatest leader the workers and peasants had ever had. The workers, the address contin- ued, demand all and will continue to demand all till they win all. Lenin understood that to win all, a dictator- ship of the proletariat was necessary. In place of the dictatorship of the Czar, he proposed neither the dic- tatorship of the bourgeoisie nor a personal dictatorship by himself, but the dictatorship of the working classes. Leninism, declared De Negri’s mes- sage, implied a new social ethics. Sooner or later humanity would put into practice this Leninism. The triumph of labor was written on the dawn by Lenin. His name will live while lives on the earth one man who toils. Of Felipe Carrillo, De Negri’s mes- sage spoke more briefly, but with equal intensity of feeling. He told how the Maya Indian and the mestizo (mixed breed) worker, had received a baptism of ideas from their great leader and how the Yucatan penin- sula had been working out the prob- lem of the emancipation of those who toil, under his able guidance, “The cowardly attack upon Felipe Carrillo is useless,” concluded the mizister of Agriculture. “His work lives on and his murder will be costly to the traitors who have perpetrated it and the rebel leaders who are morally responsible for the assassination, for he is transfused into the blood of a host of workers and peasants and they will avenge his death and complete his work.” Followed the secretary of the Agrarian Party, Lauro G. Galoca. He summed up what Leninsm meant to him with a few simple maxims such as “he who works shall eat, and he State Publishers of Russia (Gosisdat) The Representative in the United States and Canada will fill orders FOR RUSSIAN BOOKS, MAGAZINES, ETC. 12,000 Titles to Select From. Regular discount to dealers and organizations. Write for Catalogue. Subscription accepted for: ISVEStIA ....crrseereeeeoe.00 Der month Economic Life ......$2.50 per month PLAVAA sseseeroreseeeeh.00 Der Month GOSISDAT, 15 PARK. ROW, New York City who does not work shall not”; “To each what he produces”; “Where there is no economic liberty, there exists none of the liberties whatso- ever,” and the like. The justice he preached, applied to Mexico meant redistribution of the land to those who tilled it. Caloca emphasized what he called Lenin’s gift of know- ing how to be mistaken. Rifle Necessary Adjunct. Followed again two minutes of si- lence and then a poem to Lenin by the revolutionary poet, Gutierrez Cruz. A band of 75 pieces played a funeral march and then Deputy Mena of the Socialist Party of the South East, of which Carrillo had been leader, spoke of the work of Felipe Carrillo in Yucatan. “Felipe’s motto,” he declared, “was: ‘Give the toiler land, books and liberty.’ Now from his death we learn to add to land, books and liberty, a rifie to protect these dearly bought free- doms from the oppressor.” Perhaps it is this realization of the lesson of the necessity of a prole- tarian dictatorship that explains the SUBJECT BENEFICIAL THAN THE The opposing teams will be three Admission Only 25c. GRR 8890494944488 Penetrating Analysis! In this book, published in March at TOLEDO COMMUNISTS Will Debate TOLEDO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AT LABOR TEMPLE AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, APRIL 27 RESOLVED, THAT THE REFORM OF CAPITALISM OFFERS A METHOD OF HUMAN PROGRESS MORE COMMUNISM. and three students of the Toledo University. This Debate will be Educational and Entertaining. Bring this add along with you. 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