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& Page Two THE DA Many Pay Tribute to C. E. Ruthenberg (Continued from Page One) fought most bitterly the imperialist butchery of 1914-1918 and for his op- position to the entry of the United States in the war waa sent to prison. “The Russian proletarian revolution immediately enrolled Comrade Ruthenberg in its ranks. He fought the reformist socialists and was thrown out of the Socialist Party for so doing. He was one of the pioneers in the organization of the Communist Party in the United States. For his defiance and opposition-to American capitalism and its ruling class he was sent to prison in 1919 for a long number of years. “We bend our heads in sorrow at the great loss we haye suffered. How ever, we draw from the spirit of his life and activities that inspiration and determination which will give us the will in this, the United States, the bulwark of capitalism and reaction, to carry on the fight where Comrade Ruthenberg too soon had to leave off, ‘That we pledge ourselves to build up in the United States a powerful section of the Communist International, a mass Communist Party and that united we will mobilize the workers and all the exploited and oppressed to give capitalism its death blow and to herald in the, victory of the proletarian revolution.” LOSS TO RADICAL MOVEMENT, SAYS THOMAS. NORMAN THOMAS, Director of the League for Industrial Democ- racy, writing in the New Leader.—Just as I was finishing this column 4 was informed of Ruthenberg’s sudden death. Sharply as 1 differed in my view of tactics I always found him sincere and engaging in per- sonal relations and absolutely devoted to his cause. He was certainly one of the ablest and sanest men in the Communist Party and one from whom constructive leadership might be hoped. His death is a loss to the radical movement as well as to his own Party. RUTHENBERG DIED AT HIS POST. JAMES P. CANNON, Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party —“Comrade Ruthenberg died at his ost. d “Death cheated the warden. Comrade Ruthenberg died at his pest before the honorable judges of the Supreme Court put the seal on his latest prison sentence. We will not deny the shock of grief that comes to every one of us at the first news of the death of Comrade Ruthen- berg; but just the same we hold our heads up in pride that he who em- bodied so many of the finest qualities of soldier manhood belonged to us, “He was an American who did not go the easiest way of corrup- tion but remained true to principle at all costs—and the cost for him was very great indeed. “Courage, devotion, self-sacrifice, faith in the workers and the future—these were the qualities that made Ruthenberg a towering figure in the movement for which he lived and died. ; “Comrade Ruthenberg’s life was a full and fruitful one. All the future is on the side of the cause he served. His life and work were invested in the movement which will prevail in the end. “The example of Comrade Ruthenberg’s life is worth a great deal to the labor movement. The party which he helped to found and build will cherish this heritage.” THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OPPRESSED. JACK STACHEL, Organization Secretary, New York District, Workers (Communist) Party.—“In the death of C. E. Ruthenberg, the Workers (Communist) Party has lost its foremost leader. In the labor movement he was the symbol of the revolutionizing process that is taking place among the American workers even in the face of the most powerful imperialist state, constantly reaching out to corrupt the workers and divide them. He more than anyone else was the Tepre- sentative of all the oppressed. He was not only a fearless and tireless fighter for his class but understood the necessity of utilizing -every force that would make his class more powerful and lead it to victory. This explains his tireless work among the Negro workers, the poor farmers, the working class women, and his interest in the youth. “To those of us who have come to the movement later, after he at the head of many others, had broken the ground and laid the founda- sion, his work will remain an everlasting inspiration to continue in his footsteps. “We must gather in thousands of new members in the Ruthenberg Exrollment and together exert ourselves to make good our great loss.” “MIGHTY LOSS,” SAYS CLINE, CHARLES CLINE.—“My personal observation found him always to be a man thoroughly contented to live as he chose and although I per- sonally disagreed with him from time to time, nevertheless I must say that he was heart and soul in any of his undertakings, be they political or otherwise. “My last conversation with him at the International Labor Defense conference at Chicago hardly gave me any idea he would be called so soon to depart from us. “My sympathy goes out to his relatives and friends on their mighty “SINCERE CHAMPION,” SAYS SHIELDS. ART SHIELDS, manager of the Eastern Bureau of the Federated Press.—“It is with deep regret 1 hear of the death of C. E. Ruthenberg, a sincere champion of the workers. “ALWAYS FAITHFUL,” SAYS GORETZKY. JOSEPH GORETZKY, Manager Local 35, I. L. G. W. "We con- sider the death of Ruthenberg a severe loss to the whole American labor movement.” ‘ “All his life,” said Goretzky, “he was faithful to the interests of the workers and served them even tho his uncompromising attitude brought him to prison. He is a leader who will never be forgotten by the American working class to which he has given so many years of service.” ONLY SIX MONTHS FREE FROM INDICTMENT. BERTRAM B. WOLFE, Workers’ School.—"C, E. Ruthenberg’s death comes as a severe blow to us. A comrade whose whole life was devoted to the labor movement, whose last years were spent in valiant fighting under the continual shadow of jail sentences, general secretary and leader of the party that represents the vanguard of the American working class, member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International—his loss is a deep and {rretrievable one. “*Since 1917 there is one period of only six months during which I have not been in jail or under indictment,’ he said to me only a few weeks ago and the proud smile with which he said it showed the in- dominatable spirit of the man. “His life was brief as reckoned in years but long and full as reck- oned in deeds of se to the working class of our country and of the world. , as secretary, as speaker and writer, as political leader and thinker, as fighter for every labor cause, he filled so great a lace in our party and in the labor movement that he leaves tremendous gaps by his passing and imposes great tasks on those who followed him and survive him, His last published pamphlet was entitled “ine Work- ers (Communist) Party, What it Stands For and Why Workers Should Join.” We may regard it as his last will and testament, As a monu- ment that would satisfy such a fighter we can build nothing fitter than a more powerful party to lead the American working class,” AGGERING BLOW,” SAYS OLGI MOISSAYE J. QLGIN, Editor of “The Hammer.”—Ruthenberg’s death is a staggering blow to the Communists of America. The class siruggle of the American proletariat has lost one of its most powerful leaders. One cannot reconcile oneself that “C. E.” is dead. He was strong, vigorous, in the prime of his life. He looked like a rock. After a whole night's committee meeting he hardly showed signs of fatigue. The impression he gave in party life as in personal contact was that of a man of iron. > , Of iron was his logic. Of iron was his will. His life was entirely and absolutely devoted to the party. One could not visualize him out- side of the revolutionary struggle of the workers. He was so merged WY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1927 ~The Facts of the Life of C. E. Ruthenberg | ORN July 9, 1882—Died March 2, | 1927 at 11 A. M. in the American Hospital, Chicago, [l., after an op- eration for appendicitis, at the age of 44, His father was a longshore- man, and he himself after primary school education in a German Luth- eran School, and completion of Busi- jness College was in turn factory | worker, clerk, newspaper correspon- dent, and from i909 until the day of his death, active fighter in the la- bor movement. Activity “in the Labor Move- ment: Helped to build I. L. G. W. U. and took active*part in the Cleveland strikes of that organization. He participated in, and took a leading part in many other strikes in Cleve- | | | | land and in the state of Ohio, Joined| times a member of the Central Ex-| to build: the socialist party January 1909. Re-| ecutive Committee of the Communist | Natioual Executive Committee of the | First Communist Secretary Delegate to every Annual State ‘Convention of the Ohio Socialist: Par- ty from 1910 to 1919. Delegate Na- | tional Convention of the Socialist Party 1912. National Committee Convention of 1915 and National | Emergency Convention of 1917. Elec- | ted secretary and organizer of the | Socialist Party in 1919. Editor the | Socialist News from 1914-1919, .Ex- ecutive Secretary Communist Party of America 1919-1920. He went to | jail and was therefore unable to serve. Upon getting out of jail he ‘became secretary of the Workers | (Communist) Party from its incep- | tion and remained sdlretary until the day of his death, He was at all | In 1917 he was the Ieader of the | Ohio delegation te tne St.Louis Em- jergency Convention of the Socialist |Party and the icader in the fight |which put across the anti-war St. | Louis resolution thereby committing jthe Socialist Party to an anti-war | stand which was subsequently sabo- | taged. by some of its officials. From jearly in his career as a member of | the Socialist Party he became a lead- ing figure in its left wing, or more | militant section, and when that left ‘wing became the Communist Party |he assumed the position of leader- | ship which he maintained until his |death He was an honorary member of the I. L. G. W. U. by vote of | the Cleveland locals which he helped He was a member of the mained in it until 1919 when the| Party and its successor the Workers | International Labor Defense. Communist Party was formed, and was one of ‘the founders of the Com-| few years of his life he was a mem- | Cleveland Socialist, | (Communist) Party. For the last As editor of the | (3) | Writings: “i the Socialist munist Party and of its successor | ber of the presidium of the Executive | News and as contributor to the Revo- the Workers (Communist) He was an official of the socialist party from 1909 (a few months after | joining) until he entered the Com- munist party, 1909-1912 Recording City Central Committee, Party Cleveland. Secretary Socialist Political Standard Bearer. 1910—Candidate for State Treas- urer of Ohio. 1911—Candidate for Mayor of | Cleveland. | _1912—Candidate for Governor So- | cialist Party of Ohio. | 1912—Editer the Cleveland So- | cialist. 1913—Secretary and City Organ- | izer. 1914—Candidate for United States | Senator of Ohio. | 1915—Candidate for Mayor of Cleveland. 1916—Candidate for Congress, 20th District of Ohio. 1917—Candidate for Mayor of | Cleveland. | 1918—Candidate for Congress. | 1919—Candidate for Mayor | Cleveland. In November 1917, of after convi pending appeal, he ran for Mayor of Cleveland and received 27,000 votes out of a total of 100,000 cast. | | tion for anti-war activities, and while Party. Committee of the Communist Inter- | lutionary Indicted June 1917 charg- | (The DAILY WORKER and numer-| ous labor journals. He is the autltér) ;of a great number of articles of alt | national. ed with obstructing the draft through speeches made on the public square in Cleveland. | First Jail Sentence, He served one year in the Canton! fundamental character in that they | o¢ Ohio Jail. him It was after Debs visited | in the Canton Jail that he) (Debs) made the speech that caused| Party and to develop its Program | will alway: his own indictment and imprison- | for the American Labor Movement. | ment, He was indieted and convicted under the Criminal Anarchy Law of | the State of New York in Nov. 1919, enumerated “Are We Growing To- | young workers\in America. and served 2 years in Sing Sing} . “ a uthenberg’s Prison on an indeterminate sentence | the War What?” (1918) The Farm- | struggle oe J of from 5 to 10 years’ which was | terminated by parden issued by Gov- ernor Smith, who based his decree | upon the minority opinion of the Jus- | tice of the United States Supreme | Court to the effect that the convie-| tion. was unconstitutional. | Died in Shadow of Jail. 1 | In 1922 arrested for attending the, Michigan Convention of the Commu- nist Party and convicted and sen- _tenced to an indeterminate sentence of from 5 to 10 years. At the time! lof his death ke was out on appeal | j against that séntence which had al- ready heen upheki hy the State Su-| preme Court of Michigan and was in| ‘the hands of the United State Su- preme Court, with the moyement he could not Ruthenberg is dead. It seems appeared to be the central point of and good natured smile of a domi loss with a smarting soul, But his to ed revolutionary working class su for the movement but the big task i | nm to the co-operative commonweal UPTON SINCLAIR.—“In the Patty has lost a faithful worker int one of its predestined victims. tical ideas I respect his loyalty and methory.” tio MARTYR OF REVOLUTION. H. M. Wicks.—The foremost Amer- iean reWolutionary leader of this cen- tury ligs dead in Chicago, a martyr to the }cause of the proletariat. In every Sense of the word Comrade Ruthenberg was an invincible revo- | lutionist} He will forever be remem- | bered by} the working class of this | country-and of the world as the mov- | ing spirit in founding the Communis |movement in defiance of the might. jiest imperialism the world has ever seen. It was my privilege to work with | him and be intimately associated with him for more than a decade. In the dark days of this country’s entrance into the world war when the heroes of the Socialist Party were wallowing in the slough of sentimental pacifism, | perverting the revolutionary move- ment into pro-German channels or erying in the wake of jingoism, Ruth- anberg took the lead in the anti-draft agitation for which he served his first 3entence in the prisons of America, “EVEREST LOSS” EXECUTIVE 0 CHICAGO, Tl., March The Young Workers League has issued the *ollowing statement: “C. E, Ruthen- ‘erg, leader of our party, and of the revolutionary American working class died this morning. This is’the sever- ost loss the working class of: this -ountry has suffered since the death of Lenin. Comrade Ruthenberg sym- holized in his person the fusion of “he militancy of American workers with the revolutionary heritage of Marx and Lenin. He was the link that united all that was best in the work- oo this country before the war, with the revolutionary ideals of Communism to which Inrge masses of the Amer- | ican workers have been won over since Telegraph Congress Today! absorption with party work, he failed to take care of his own illness. { Rutherberg, who looked indestructable, unshakable. mainstays of Communism in the United States. ul e move, never speak, never work among us, never smile the enigmatic | Ruthenberg is dead. The pain is great. utter devotion to the class struggle and revolution will be an example SCOTT NEARING SAYS, “HE DID GREAT JOB.” >. | SCOTTY NEARING.—“When Ruthenberg died American labor Jost \z of its gallantest and most militant fighters. ‘comrade we must close up the ranks, recruit some apprentices and go UPTON SINCLAIR RESPECTS LOYALTY. i ing class and socialist movement in| think of himself. Perhaps, in his It is a devilish irony. Ruthenberg, who the party, one of the most reliable Ruthenberg will never | monstrous. inant figure. The party will feel his memory will live and inspire. His for years to come. | | He did a great job s still ahead. With one less trained th.” | death of Ruthenberg the Workers and our capitalist government has While not agreeing with all his poli- devotion and I join in tribute to his ‘that were later to claim so many years of his life, | When the time came in 1919 for | the decisive break with the opportun- | listie and vicious socialist party, Com- | rade Ruthenberg became the first} \secretary of the Communist Party. of | | America, a position he continuously | held when free of the capitalist dun- | geons. Language’ is pitifully inadequate to express the deep sense of loss we all | feel at the loss of Comrade Ruthen- | | berg, stricken down in the very prime | of his life, and at a period when the | jackal pack of fascist socialists and te- jactionaries of every brand are doing leverything within their power to aid | their capitalist masters destroy the |Party our lamented leader gave his |life to create. There is this consolation, that long after the enemies of Ruthenberg and | the Party have sunk into merciful ob- | erties.” { | *|overthrowing of capitalism and the Age, Communist World, the Liberator, the Workers Monthly, kinds, helped to determine the line of devel- opment of the Workers (Communist) He is also the author of various) pamphlets among which may be} wards Socialism” (1917),” “After| er Labor United Front (1924). From} the Third to the Fourth Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party | (1925) also The Workers. (Commu- nist) Party, What It Stands For, Why Workers Should Join (1926). | AMERICA NEEDS RUTHENBERGS Fred Kirchwey, managing editor of The Nation.—“It is with the deep- est regret that I learn of the death of C. E. Ruthenberg. In his death the merican working class loses one of its most fearless leaders. “America ‘needs more men like | Ruthenberg. It needs courageous struggle is most fierce and when we need every working class leader to fight for the workers’ interests we learn of the death of one of our fore- most leaders, Comrade C. E. Ruthen- berg. “Comrade Ruthenberg fought fear- lessly for the interests of the work- ers during his 20 years in the radical and labor movement. He fought when it meant much to fight; namely, dur- ing the world war period and because of this was thrown in jail. “He fought when Ameri¢an imperi- alism was frantic, during the revo- ljutionary upsurge of the European workers and was again thrown into jail. Comrade Ruthenberg fought: un- til the time of his death against capi- tulism and all that it stands for. “As he fought so shall we continue to fight in ever increasing numbers until the task that he set as his ob- jective shall be achieved; namely, the establishment of Communism.” * * ° many of which were of a} | Ruthenberg 4181, jican working class suffers the loss of one of its most fearless and revo- | lutionary fighters. | “Comrade Ruthenberg was one of | the founders and the outstanding lead- | MUST GO ON ia RUTHENBERG’S WORK er of the most militant and revolution- | ary sections of the working class—| é the Workers (Communist) Party. | Become Better Soldiers in the “His whole Iife was an example|f™ 5ocial Revolution by: Reading of heroic devotion to the working] His Works. class, His unflinching loyalty to the | cause of the workers caused him to be the victim of capitalist persecu- | tion. “On the day of his death the United | The following books will give you a better insight into the life and work of C, E, Ruthenberg. They can be seeured from the DAILY WORK- States Supreme Court had before it} ER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 83 Comrade Ruthenberg’s appeal‘in the | First Street, New York. famous Bridgeman case; in which} 4 Communist Trial. This book pe yrnicir pag at in danger | contains the speech delivered by C. of serving trom ‘ive to ten years In|}, Ruthenberg at his trial for vidla- a penis Beall Ret ae Han of the Syndicalist law in 1919, a tremendous loss, évery party mem- | pes Rec ooh yg agg thipeaer ber and every clags-conscious worker | United States, Price 25 cents. will % inspired ‘by the life-long ser-| The Fourth National Convention, are Somer pe ‘ leontains resolutions, thesis, declar- rer e are saét ane tl tong our loss: | ations, constitution of the Workers ; but we = only to take up with | (Communist) Party, adopted at the greater deterfiination the revolution- i {. ary tasks to Phich Comrade Ruthen- prog Sage cnecggra ia igh |berg devoted Mhis life.” price 60 cents, said | ae ed | The Second Year of the Workers SOURCE jOF INSPIRATION. | (Communist) Party. This is a re- Young Workers League, District 2.| port of the Central Committee to the third National Convention held in | Chicago, January 1, 1924, with intro- ; duction by C. E, Ruthenberg, price ‘The Young; Workers League, Dis- ct 2, feels keenly the passing away | Comrade thenberg and mourns the sudden demise of our great leader | 50 cents, |and comrade.} Comrade Ruthenberg| From the 3rd Thru the 4th Conyen- $s remain a source of in-|tion. Ruthenberg reviews the devel- spiration to thg young workers in this| opments of the Workers (Commu- {country, andy jis life and work will | nist) Party, the different stages it | went thru, a brief history of the con- | troversies within the party on the | labor party policy; Trotskyism, ‘{ the whole system of | Loreism, cable from the Comintern jexploitation ofthe working class, his|to the National Convention, etc., fight to abolish ‘phe capitalist system, | price 10 cents. his sincere and devoted fight for the) The Workers (Communist) Party emancipation of theworking class, will! What It Stands For, Why Workers act as a clarion call for the young | Should Join. A complete explanation workers to gather Atrength and in-/ of’ the principles of the American tensify their activities, Especially | section of the world Communist will the young workers of this coun-| movement, its principles, immediate try remember his strbgele against] program ‘and reason why eve militarism jand war kes id the last} worker should join. Tiastiated, world war. | Price 5 cents. District Executive Cominittee, Dis- 1 “Let Us Fight On!” tric. 2. Death Is | Hi Shek © fines | (Continued from Page One) + ae PEE, 4 Socialists, Union StS | ary of the Workers (Comimunist) |Party, who died yesterday in Chi- |cago while undergoing an operation ; at the hospital, had been active in the | revolutionary moyement since 1909, Ruthenberg’s Early History. Born in Cleveland on the Sth day of July 1882, of a somewhat conser- gret learning of comrade Ruthen- bvative parentage, young Ruthenberg berg’s death. The working class has entered into a world that was full of lost another idealist whose place ean- |fontradiction and which was later to not easily be filled.” \Jrive him an.eventful career as a lead- Anton Horvat, business agent of i, of the working class movement. the Journeymen Tailors Union, Localf tis father was a longshoreman and th argv was shoeked to lea Jcould only, afford to kive his son a ‘ the sudden death of C. E. R ‘primary school education, His early vere _W ho was well known to dose ‘instruction was also clouded with the dehiyiags of this city and ex ly | religious teachings of the German to the workers of the needle fades, ! 1 uthoran Church, the denomination of due to the part he played /n the | i. rier tis : «| his its’ faith. Later he visited struggles of the needle workers in| yy), poe Cleveland, Ohio.” | the business college of Cleveland and b between working in a factory and at- Sam bares business oeey. Amal-| tending night school Ruthenbery gemated lothing Workers #f Amer- | thered his first ki led f whiet ica, Local 86, issued the following fe hak 0 ea Ps pond wr Med opin’ statement: “In behalf of thé: Lithuani- i later i ed th bap ora yey an workers of this vicimity I want! later on. He entered the field of busi- to express deep regret git the death | "°SS first as @ clerk, but in a few \t always be a Mjide and teacher to the “Comrade valiant * (Special to The Daily Worker}) \he ie PITTTSBURG, Pa., March 2. Dr. J. Van Essen, chairman of national executive committee of socialist party on learning of _ tl death of C. E, Ruthenberg, issued the following statement: “I sincerely re- FOUNDER OF THE PARTY. John J. Ballam, organizer of the textile industry.—“In the death of our Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, the Amer- of the champion bf the workers __. |Shot years held the position of man- C. E. Ruthenberg.” ‘4 /ager of the sales department. Activity in Socialist Party. His intellectual ¢apacity prompted him now to enter the field of journal- pli CY { Roll in the Subs Ror The DAILY WORKiER. WORKERS PARTY OF NEW YORK — CALLS ALL TO CONTINUE WORK The Executiye Committee of Dis- trict 2, New York, Workers (Com- munist) Party, states: —“In the death of, Comrade ©. E. Ruthenberg, the American working class loses one of | its most militant and fearless leaders. The Workers (Communist) Party has suffered the loss of its foremost lead- | ivion, the workers will remember and | revere him. | eo f * | WILL FIGHT ON. Charles Krumbein.—“Now when the SAYS NATIONAL F YOUNG WORKERS | the glorious proletarian revolution in | Russia, The death of our leader places | additional burdens upon us, the liv- jing, just as the death of Lenin was | the signal for the workers of Russia end of the entire world to consolidate their ranks and strengthen the party of Lenin. So must we now work with redoubled energy for the cause for which Ruthenberg has given his life. The red flag of the workers which | Kuthenberg bore aloft all through his | life will be taken up by us and borne | forward to working class victory. “Close the ranks of party. and league for struggle against capital- \ism! Long live Communism!” (Signed) National, Executive Com- ‘rittee, Young Workers League. er—one of its ablest organizers and administrators who led the struggle in the formation of the left wing and Communist Party, Twenty Years Service. “In his twenty years of service to the Socialist and Communist move- ment, Comrade Ruthenberg symbol- ized steadfast and uncompromising devotion to the interests of the ex- ploited masses. He was an unflinch- ing fighter against imperialism and imperialist wars. In prison for his ourageous struggle against America’s participation in the imperialist war of 1914-1918, Comrade Ruthenberg carried on this struggle for interna- tionalism in the Socialist Party and led in the formation of the left wing and Communist Party, when the So- cialist Party ceased to be true to the cause of the working class. « | Most Persecuted. “Ruthenberg was hated and, feared by the capitalist class. For that rea- son he was one of the most persecuted revolutionaries in the United States. From 1917 to the day of his death he was continually in the shadow of the capitalist bastilles. The capitalist \ism, and in a short time he became a regular correspondent to newspa- pers, It is at this time that Ruthen- berg came in‘ contact*with the social- ist movement to which he soon devoted all of his time, In 1909 he becamé city organizer and secretary of the sg ge fae puevetenes which po- _ A ‘sition he until 1919, when he, unity “of the ‘labor movement, for with the other members of the left hent of a Labor Party, wing, organized the Communist Party for the ov@rthrow of the capitalist! o¢ America, of which he became the system for the formation of a| executive secretary. Prior to the split from the socialist party he had been on the national committee of the so- cialist party and had been editor of the “Cleveland Socialist” and later of the “Socialist News.” Is Sentenced Under Conseription Law. Tn 1917 he was indicted and con- vieted under the national conseription law. Prior to going to jail he ran as candidate for mayor in Cleveland omsthe socialist ticket and polled 27,- C00 votes. In 1919 he was indicted with others under the criminal anarchy law of the state of New York, as the result of the investigation of the Lusk com- mittee and served two years and a half in Sing Sing prison. Becomes Secretary of Workers Party. Soon after his release he became executive secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, whic! position he held until his death. _ Ruthenberg was also convicted yin- der the Michigan criminal ist, law, but appealed the case from ‘the lower to the higher co: ‘until the case finally reached the U. 8. Supreme of his coljrage, his revolutionary ideas and his practical work in the labor He inspired the working ruggle for the end of the exploiting system of capitalism. Loyalty and Integrity. “The name of Comrade Ruthenberg signifies loyalty and devotion to the Party and the Communist Interna- tional. It symbolizes) Bolshevist in- tegrity, faith in the wth of our movement and undying é¢onviction in the ultimate realization of our aims. The name of Comrade Ruthenberg is a challenge to the capitalist system. He is no longer with us. We must make up for his loss by enrolling fresh forces into the Party, and by more systematic and tireless work to spread the ideas of Communism among the Anerican masses. “The District Executive Committee of District 2 calls upon the member- ship to close its tanks for work in the spirit of devotion which Comrade Ruthenberg bequeathed to us, » “On with the struggle! “Long live the Communist Pany! Cee ee Sos ceilsiey bE Pes tabs woe oo ional!” ; (Signed) District Executive Com- dicalist law. mittee, Workers (Communist) Party,| Dies With Sentence Pending. class of America persecuted Comrade Ruthenberg, because he stood for mili- tant and strong trade unions, for the WITHDRAW ALL U. S. WARSHIPS FROM NICARAGUA! _ NO INTERVENTION IN MEXICO! District 2. This decision has not been made. | William W. Weinstone, general sec-| Yet Ruthenberg was active in his re- rotary. sponsible position up to the last day. HANDS OFF CHINA! i i |