The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1925, Page 9

. A GLIMPSE OF IN MEMORIAM. You tived for the workers, in life you were one Whose love knew no stint, whom no fears could appal, And now you have died for We greet you who gave to the cause that you loved. the people your all. —Soviet Funeral Hymn. * HE had known him and observed him closely at many pre-revolution assemblies of the most eminent idealists of the new society. And ut of the wealth of her human experience, garnered thru her uncanny poetic divination, she characterized for me the person and soul of him: “He took the floor only ‘seldom, and never spoke long. In details, whether of organization or execution, he consistently yielded to the others. His intellect centered itself exclusively on discerning and tracing the threads of the indisputable universal principles involved in the basic problems: discussed. But once having discovered the entire unbroken course of the thread, his pedagogic lucidity of utterance and amazing resources of historic fact, employed in a relentless. unwavering offensive, unfailingly played havoc with the great and greater brilliancy of wit and polemics of his adversaries. Tho others swayed and appeared to domi- nate the assembled individuals, in conclusively determined the poli- cies which the assembled mass eventually adopted.” UNDREDS of representatives of workers’ parties of more than a score of lands were in session amidst the overgorgeous splendor of the former imperial hall at the Kremlin, devising methods of promoting workers’ rule thruout the world. For two days fervent, fanatical Passion had vied with tempered, seasoned reasoning in the presentation of solu- tions for the problems at issue. For two long days the assembled dele- gates had with ever fenser impatience been looking forward to partici- pation by Lenin, their undisputed international guide, to lead them thru the labyrinths; but he had been unable to suspend the incessant practical labor in which he was eternally steeped. And hardly a soul in the assembly had noticed his unobtrusive entrance, until he had already been seated below the front of the platform for several minutes, en- grossed in a mass of newspapers. Suddenly, as by some mass intuition. they realized that he was present, and spontaneously they vented themselves in an indescribably NIKOLAI LENIN workers of all lands, that the workers of the world might realize that Lenin, their leader, was with them, with his living, inspiring heart and soul and body! He alone remained unmoved, more wrapped than ever in the papers before him. All at once he arose, and standing beside his chair, waved the deafening din to silence. As unconcerned as were it not to him that the transcending tribute had been tendered, yet with an intense earnestness that engraved itself deep into the consciousness of every indi- vidual in the assembled multitude, he spoke to them in words so incis- ively characteristic of his .nature and’ the driving force of his life: “Our task is the liberation of the workers of the world and not the idolization of any one man!” ~ * * * & As we stood in the lobby of one of the Commissariats in Moscow, there entered a human being as weird as even the motley melting-pot of Moscow might only yield few. Obviously a Mongolian, he was cruelly crippled, lacking a left lower-arm and a left foot, supporting himself on a single crutch, his face frightfully scarred, only some filthy rags enveloping his body. He was unable to speak more than a few Russian words, but his distorted countenance assumed what was obviously meant to be interpreted as an appealing smile as he recognizably ejaculated: “Lenin! Lenin!” and handed us a dirty sheet of paper, signed and stamped, phat conveyed to us the message he himself could not impart: He was a Southern Siberian farm laborer. Upon the disruption of the czarist army, he had left the western front, and made his way back to his native village. But when the Koltchak counter-revolutionary forces proceeded to invade European Russia from the east, he had enlisted in the Red Guard ranks, and his appearance demonstrated eloquently, and heart-breakingly, the price he had paid for his revolutionary zeal. When counter-revolution had been finally suppressed, he had again stumbled back to his home, only to find it completely demolished in the strife. Thereupon, evidently with a stolid. unshakeable faith born of the great simplicity of his nature, he had hobbled all the way across the vast expanse of Russia, from his Siberian village to Moscow, in the supreme trust that his “tovarish’—Comrade Lenin, the providence of all the oppressed, would tender him the comfort and succor he so direly Needed. ... We guided him to the Kremlin gates, and persuaded even the. “‘un- speakable” Cheka guard to admit him to the presence of his Comrade passionate ovation, that shook the vast assembly, and thrilled the massive walls, continuing and augmenting minute after minute, and seeming to vibrate with a consuming desire to make itself heard far out and beyond the walls of the assembly hall, beyond the walls of the Kremlin, even beyond the frontiers of Russia, and to din itself into the ears of the LENIN BELONGS TO THE ENIN’S original contribution to the world proletariat. the principles and tactics of the proletarian revolution quickened the course of world revolution. Lenin left the permanent stamp of his ideas upon both the capitalist class and the work- ing class of America and of the entire world, The workers of the world have cause to rejoice at the stupendous scientific writings which clarified and made additions to Marxist thought and revolutionary tactics; at the boundless energy which Lenin poured out till the very last breath of his life to hasten the world revolution of the workers. Lenin’s enemies, the bourgeoisie of «the world, had cause to hate the man who guided Soviet Russia as the beacon light for the world’s workers. Feared by Bourgeoisie. Tho the exploiters and their prosti- tutes hated Lenin, their fanatical rav- ings against him are a tribute to his power, a sign of their fear of Lenin as the capable and formidable leader of the “historically rising “class.” It was an honor to Lenin that John Spargo, the most obvious mental pros- titute, the basest traitor that ever sprang from the working class, wrote of Lenin as “coldly cynical, crassly materialisti¢, utterly unscrupulous.” Spargo_ typified the parasites that grovel at the feet of the bourgeoisie in order to pick up the gold coins which are flung in their faces, American Workers Mourned. The workers of America felt the deep personal loss of their»comrade and leader, no less than the millions of workers and peasants thruout the width and breadth of Soviet Russia. Lenin is gone, but Leninism is im- mortal. On February 14, last year, fifteen thousand people packed the Lenin memorial meeting in Madison Square Garden. An opera house was filled to overflow, and thousands were turned away from both meetings. These scenes were repeated in every city of the world. Huge demonstra- tions in Berlin, Paris, London and Chicago showed that Lenin had reach- ed the masses with the message of Communism, Faith in the Masses. “Nobody had such faith in the cre- ative genius of the working class mass, that is to say the toiling masses of all countries besides his own, as Lenin,” Comrade Zinoviev tells us. “Nobody could make his heart heart beat in unison with those of the work- ers, whether they lived in Moscow or Berne, as did Lenin. Lenin never tried to accommodate himself to the masses, he never brought his aims down to the level of mass prejudices. Closely related to them by blood ties and affection, he saw his purpose in raising the masses to a higher level of intelligence in respect of those great aims, the herald and prophet of which he was.” Lenin stripped the bourgeoisie of the world of their complacent self-con- fidence. He struck fear into their hearts and made them realize that their oppression of the workers is soon to end. Lenin Forced German Revolt. “It was a little upstart named Lenin that defeated Germany,” said General von Hoffffman, who imposed the Brest- Litovsk treaty on Soviet Russia. “Germany did not play with Bol- shevism. Bolshevism played with Germany. Infmediately after conquer- ing the Bolsheviks we were con- quered by them.” Under Lenin’s guidance the Soviets triumphed over the German imperialists, forced the “republican” revolution on Germany, and advanced the cause of the prole- tarian dictatorship both in Germany and Russia by making a scrap of paper out of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with its tyrant’s terms, American Bourgeoisie Retreats. In America, too, the capitalists hate the name Lenin. They, too, have re- treated from the invincible onslaught of his proletarian army. Hughes spat upon Soviet Russia, but Soviet Rus- sia is stronger and more powerful than ever before, and the American bankers have been forced to thrust Hughes into the discard. “Lenin is dead—long| A convention of 1,500 college profes- live Leninism,” became the slogan ofsors met in Chicago to discuss means Lenin. * * * * Dear Comrade, farewell! you have gone to your rest. Well earned by the part that you played in the fight. PEOPLE of perfecting bourgeois control of American education. They spent an entire afternoon wrangling over the merits of the “bad effects” of the Third Commiunist International found- ed by Lenin. But there was no dis- agreement over the fact that the Com- munist International has vitally and | —Soviet Funeral Hymn. =» By KARL REEVE on the Red Square of Moscow. From all nooks and corners of the vast Soviet Republics the plain people of Russia come pouring into Moscow. After being given tickets of admission across the street from the mausoleum, the crowd files in and around the dead leader as soon as the door_of the permanently affected world history.|tomb is thrown open at four o’clock. And when Peter Sorokin, formerly private secretary of Kerensky, who sold himself into the services of American imperialism for a professor- ship of economics at Wisconsin uni- versity, told the usual cheap lies about Soviet Russia and the Third Interna- tional, he was contradicted by Elmer Daivs, a Yale professor, who is young enough at. the game to be fairly honest. International was trying to propagate a form of state where the people own the industries, and that the Russian revolution would probably be known as the outstanding event of the twen- tieth century. Contributions to Marxism. Lenin introduced five important points into revolutionary Marxism, we learn from Comrade Zinoviev: The idea of combining the workers’ revo- lutions with the peasant wars; the idea of uniting the proletarian civil war against the bourgeoisie with the movement for national liberation of the oppressed nations; the theory of the Soviet state; his appraisal of im- perialism as the ultimate phase, of moribund capitalism; and his theory and practice of the proletarian dicta- Knew Foreign Countries, Lenin knew intimately the history of the decline of capitalism in all im- Portant nations, One of Lenin's books on America, “The Development of Capitalism in American Agriculture,” shows Lenin’s remarkable grasp of the course of events in America. The book also demonstrates Lenin’s theory that the speed of the es/ablishmeont of the Communist state ts dependent on the success of the workers in at- taching the farmers to their ewso. At four o’clock every afterncon a crowd of several hundreds of workors and peasants gather outside Lenia’s tomb along the walls of the Kremlin, | These people are not all Commun- ists. They come from thousands of miles around because they recognize that Lenin had faith in the masses of which they are a part. They know that democratic-pacifist France and imperialistic England have been forced to recognize their government because of Lenin’s work in guiding the Soviet revolution. The people of Davis ‘said that the Third Russia—the simple mouzjhiks and semi-proletarians of the towns and villages—know that Lenin gave them the land, peace and bread, and put them to work to build their own state. They know that Lenin starved and died for the cause of the proletarian revolution, and because of that they are willing to do the same, And the Lenin memorial meetings to be held by our party thruout America will furnish another testi- monial that the workers of America and the whole world are awakening to the consciousness that Lenin lived and died for their class—to the fact that the capitalist class is doomed to be overthrown by the triumph of Marxism and Leninism. MONDAY MEETING OF BRANCH EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORS OF N.Y. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—There will be a special meeting of all branch educational directors of local New York on Monday, Jan. 17, 8 p. m., at 208 East 12th street, Very important matters 'regarding the future activity of the Workers’ School will be taken up. It is essential that all branches be represented, co that the school may establish organizational connections with the party membership.