The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1927, Page 4

; ana: % ‘ Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six nionths $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Phone, Orchard 1680 | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WIPRIAM E.DUMME Ser ree? ° | BERT MILLER ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail atthe post-office at New York, N. Y., under | the act of March 3, 1879. | Advertising rates on application. | Se Next Step in China The entry of the People’s Army into Shanghai, almost exactly ten years after the fall of Czar Nicholas marked the beginning of the revolutionary epoch which, developing with lightning | speed, saw the establishment of the working class dictatorship eight months later, is another milestone on the road along which the social revolution is surging. Important as the Chinese national liberation movement is, as damaging as are the powerful blows it has dealt to world im- perialism, the rise of the labor and peasant movement within the} framework of the nationalist movement, the leading position |‘ The Disintegration of the Socialist Party By DAVID KVITKO. Article 1. HE Socialist Party is rapidly fad- Now,, what is the lesson the So- cialist Party is supposed to be taught? “Unfortunately,” says Mr. Ghent in the issue of Nov. 27th and Dee. 4, (1926), “so long as Mr. Berger can Even those who hitherto turned a/ war record, in the predominately alien blind eye to this staring fact, are | bailiwick of Milwaukee, there is small | beginning to realize this deplorable| hope of a change for the better. Yet | {the A, F. of L. | Mr. Ghent maintains that the So- | | clalist Party is further away from iste trade union movement than ever | {before and that this is due (besides | ing from the political horizon, | be elected to office, largely on his | its alien and pacifist policies) to its | favorable attitude in the past to’ the Soviet Republic. He says: “The tactics of the party Fritz Busch to Return / Here Next Season }at a time when thousands of member | were leaving the party and the work- \ers ceasing to vote the Socialist Party state of affairs., The self-deceiving, boastful tale that “we are growing, ticket, is heard no more. The proletarian exodus from the Socialist Party has been so disastrous, the loyal members remaining so few, that to induce the remainder to stay, and as a bait for new‘ ones to join, the insurance policy plan is offered by some leaders, and there are pros- pects that some real estate dealer, a socialist old-timer, may introduce a plan to offer cheap cemetery for “the good of the cause.” Meanwhile, the struggling for dear life. To disappear from the political arena, without attempting to retain at least a small part of its former prestige, is too painful, and the So- ialist Party decided to speak openly s critical state, to summon whom- taken by the labor movement in all the industrial, political and military actions, the tremendous influence of the representatives of the trade unions in determining policies of the Central Com- mittee of the Kuomintang, are unmistakable ‘indications that the mass movement is of a depth and width which cannot much | ' longer be confined within the relatively narrow boundaries of the) nationalist revolution. ae The Chinese liberation movement has proven that it is part of the world revolutionary movement—the ally of the working 3 class in the imperialist countries. The Chinese revolution is following the path pointed out by Lenin. It is already bursting the bonds of the capitalist-demo- cratic movement. The latest developments in China—the aggres- sive role of the left wing, the organization of a People’s Assembly in Shanghai, the collapse of the northern militarist forces under | the joint impact of the revolutionary workers, students and| peasants supporting the People’s’ government and the superior | morale of the People’s armies, the huge strike and the rapid} spread of trade union organization—all testify to the correctnes' of the estimate of the role of the national revolutidnary move ments and the forces involved therein contained in the theses drafted by Lenin for the Second Congress of the Communist In- lernational. Lenin wrote: “Foreign domination has obstructed the free development of the social forces, therefore, its overthrow is the first step towards | a revolution in the colonies. So to help overthrow the foreign| rule in the colonies is not to endorse the nationalist aspirations of the native bourgeoisie, but to open the way to the smothered | proletariat there. There are to be found in the dependent coun-) tries two distinct movements which every day grow farther apart} from each other. One is. the bourgeois democratic nationalist movement, with a program of political independence under the bourgeois order, and the other is the mass action of the poor and ignorant peasants and workers for their liberation from all sorts of exploitation. h often succeed to a certain extent, but the Communist International | anq the parties affected must struggle against such control, and} help to develop class consciousness in the working masses of the colonies. For the overthrow of the foreign capitalism, which is the first step toward revolution in the colonies, the co-operation of the bourgeois nationalist revolutionary elements is use- iui. . The real strength of the liberation movements in the colonies is no longer confined to the narrow circle of bourgeois democratic nationalists. In most of the colonies there already | exist organized revolutionary parties which strive to be in close connection with the working masses . The Communist par- ties of the different imperialistic countries must work in con- junction with these proletarian parties of the colonies, and} through them, give all moral and material support to the revolu- tionary movement in general . the proletarian parties must carry on vigorous and systematic propaganda of the Soviet idea, and organize the peasants’ and workers’ Soviets as soon as pos- sible.” The differentiation in the Chinese liberation movement ex- presses itself in the workers’, students’, soldiers’ and peasants’ assemblies formed in Hankow, Wuchang and Shanghai—the in- dustrially developed centers of China and in the alignment of right and left forces within the Kuomingtang (People’s Party). . The imperialist press estimates this process of differentiation as internal division weakening the nationalist liberation movement but it is nothing of the sort. It is proof positive that the Chinese t can in order to be saved from disaster. That this sounding alarm work havoc, there is no dange ¢ the simple reason that the Social- Party has nothing to lose. Those who read the “New Leader” are quite wware of the fact that of the Socialist Party only its shadow remains. The first on the program is Mr. Ghent, sometime ago a star of the Socialist Party’s brilliant constella- n. When the patriotic hurricane wept over our land, these gentle- men were carried away from its folds and blown into the lap of the Social- Democratic League—“a free (or, per- haps paid) premidm of the Wilsonian democracy.” They chose then the noble mission of “enlightening” the American-people and the “intelligence department” about the Bolshevist bird of prey and its American fledge!- ing whose wings they advised to clip before it is too late. With these renegades the Socialist Party, sin which is morally and physically lower and lower, beings to + party is gasping for political air, is; the effort will have to be made. \of partnership in the national com- munity and a decent respect for the institutic folk of the land of one’s adop- tion is too sickly a plant to thrive lin this soil.” It follows that if the Socialist Party’s leadership wishes to save the | | party it would have to recall Berger {for his anti-war stand and tell the! jalien bailiwick of Milwaukee to be-| jcome Americanized. It would have to | learn to respect American institutions, j observe traditions, in a word become | whatever vestiges of Social democracy | Richard ja respectable hundred-percenter. Mr. Ghent warns the Socialist Party to eliminate the subject of war |from its propaganda, “To boast of |the party’s seditious attitude during the recent war is but to strengthen) the popular conviction of its intract- | jable alien-mindedness and to push it | into further isolation. . .The only | war of which we can be certain that it will be opposed by evety pacifist, | lis a war in behalf of the people and | | government of the United States. But | |as for other wars, your true pacifist \picks and chooses. -There was {hardly a professed pacifist in the Al socialism too narrow to include a sense | history, traditions and | leaders had reached an extreme stage of dishonesty and dishonor. For the oligarchy in Moscow there was one kind of argument and profession, for the people of the United States a directly the opposite. . .The ult of this shameless duplicity was lexaetly what any intelligent pesson could have foreseen. . .With the ad- vent of the Bolshevik terror the party found a new field for the exercise of its wrongheadedness and folly, and in its servility to that regime it re- nounced its support of democracy, {civil liberty, legal processes and | kind it had till then retained.” | What is the conclusion Mr, Ghent |reaches? “What still persists of the ‘insane and inhuman revolutionism to which it became addicted in the worst period of its servility to Moscow must be extirpated and the whole mad de- lusion repudiated.” Mr. Ghent is right when he ac- cuses the Socialist Party of hypocrisy. Of course, his own stand in relation to the Street flunkey. If he were an telligent person” he would realize that the “insane and inhuman revolu- tionism” has been “extirpated,” long Soviet was that of a Wall, ‘in- | | United States who did not work him-| since and the Socialist Party is now |self into a frenzy of exaliation over} above reproach, At present he may |the Soviet invasion of Poland in the; join hands with. the leaders on the summer of 1920.” | basis of a common cause—a deadly | Sure, Mr. Ghent is no pacifist. Not | fight against, the progressive forces {in .vain was he on Wilson’s band|in the American labor movement. | wagon, where he rubbed shoulders; That the Socialist Party offers its with the Burlesons and Palmers, and|°olumns to such traitors as Ghent, the “socialist” Pilsudsky is still dear |is very symptomatic. Its leaders are to his heart, for did he not lead war} ready to liquidate the remnants of with Russia in “behalf of his people | socialism. They are recanting their and government?” Another lesson the old “socialist | v teacher” is ready to impart to the | Socialist Party, is very interesting | Ghent. For this purpose they are (not in itself but as a characteristic |veady to pay the price and to turn of the Socialist Party which lends |their cheeks to the slaps of the Ghents. such an attentive ear to it), for it is} a new brand of socialism—not an/ duced the Socialist Party to expose | alien one, namely “trade-unionism, so- | itself? .Pitying its readers and mem- | | cialf@gislation, welfare work, diffus- | bers, who languish from inactivity | | past sympathetic attitude to the So-| iet government; they are ready to) ioin forces with such reactionaries as/ Gz, perhaps, another reason in-) | Curtis |penrance of the present season ox | guest conductor of the New Yor {Symphony Orchestra Sunday afte noon in Mecea Audiforium, has ac- jcepted the inviipition of the Sym ph Ms ™s announced Harkness ler, the socie' The Dresden condu be beck here for the opening pres | will leoncert of 1927-28 in Carnegie Hall i }on October 2i, and will remain for a longer period than he passed here this season. | Mr. Busch sailed |sume his post at Dr |been filled during his absence Strauss. In May he wil! take his company to Geneva, at the linvitation of the League of Nations, jon the occasion of the international jmusiec festival, ' Mr. Busch, it was said yesterday, | will be here next season until about January~1, followed by Walter Dam- ich as guest conductor, with a third guest to complete the season. BROADWAY BRIEFS | brook are the latest additions to the: jcast of “Lost,” the new drama by | A. E. Thomas and George Agnew Chamberlain, which opens at the Mansfield Theatre next Monday night. * J * \this evening: “Lucky,” Charles Dil- \lingham’s new musical show. at the |New Amsterdam, and “The Spider,” |a crook play by Fulton Oursler and Lowel) Brentano, at Chanin’s 46th | Street theatre. * - * ‘ Bound,” the new play by Hugh Stan- |islaus Stange in which Richard Hern- {don will present Nance O'Neill in New Haven, Conn. next Monda Other players in the-east inelud Cooksey, Alfred Hickman, Betty Linley. Clara Blandick, Perci- val Vivian, Dorothy Ellin, Lois Ress, | Fritz Busch, who made his last ap- | New York.to return | by last night to re-" Harry Davenport and’ Ellen South- | Two openings are scheduled for | Alfred Hickman is directing “Fog | : el Borkman”, “Let bygones be bygones.” So|sion of stock ownership, the federal | and boredom, the “New Leader” may | Star of “The Nightingale,” now in | its final week at Jolson’s Theatre. his orchestra joined the new Spring }edition of “Gay Paree” at the Win- ter Garden last night. * * * | Cliff O’Rourke, the Irish tenor, | joined the “Earl Carroll Vanities” at |the Earl Carroll Theatre last night. GP a om “Fiesta,” by Michael Gold, a play | with a Mexican setting, will open | Wednesday, April 6, at the Fifty- | second Street Theatre. Robert Milton | is directing this. third production of |the New Playwrights Theatre. | * * * Em Jo Basshe’s “Earth” was trans- ferred last night to the Grove 1 era | Theatre, where it will play indefin- litely. “Loud Speaker” will continue lat the 52nd Street, until Michael | Gold’s “Fiesta” opens, when the two ‘plays will alternate. The repertoire at the 14th Street jtheatre this week will include four |performances of “Cradle. Song”, | Monday night, Wednesday, Thursday jand Saturday matinees: “John Gabri- | Tuesday night; “In- jheritors” Wednesday, Friday and | Saturday nights. The-former endeavor to control the latter, and| | Ghent. His reminder of the past sins an idle turning over leaves of war history. It is a lesson. By ENEA SORMENTI HE political party of the working class in the United States has t one of its greatest leaders, C. E. Ruthenberg: * * Hastily we are jotting down these lines, Later we will say more and * fighter of the ommunist Interna- tional. Today we limit ourselves to | sketch briefly, from an historical and Marxian point of view, the figure and the talks of C. FE, Ruthenberg in the revolutionary movement @ the working class in the greatest capi- face of the earth. Such an analysis can only be made by observing the facts with a large vision of ensemble, | without coming down to pafticulars | ter. Lee, ane No problems of the revolutionary movement of this nation have been discussed or solved within the last fifteen years without the theoretical and practical contribution of this leader. And there has been no strug- gle in the Marxian left wing of the socialist movement that has not seen C. E. Ruthenberg as a_ strenuous fighter against the falsification of the revolutionary Marxian doctrine, independence movement is vital with the unconquerable power of the millions of workers and peasants who will not stop with nom- inal freedom from imperialist control and who are driving the} movement forward toward the goal of a workers’ and peasants’ state. The fall of Shanghai to the Peopie’s Armies is a decisive victory for the national liberation movement, it gives it undis- puted control of all of southern and central China and at the same time it puts on fhe order of business of the Chinese Communist Party, the trade unions, the left wing of the People’s Party and the peasant organizations, the @stablishment of the Chinese Soviet Republic. } WORKERS OF LOS ANGELES MEET TO DO HONOR TO RUTHENBERG AS COURAGEOUS, ABLE LEADER “LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 21.) upon his anti-war record, which Was ~2Six hundred workers of Los An-j|not pacifism, but a determination to g@les attended the Ruthenberg mem- | fight only in one war, the workers’ orial meeting and sang the Interna- revolution against capitalism. The tional and the Revolutionary Funeral | imperialist war he fought against Dirge in honor of the dead leader of | when it ‘was dangerous to do so, at the Communist movement in Ameri- | by very time the hysteria was great- est. | Comrade Frank Specter expressed the grief of the International Labor Defense, of which Comrade Ruthen- ca. ~Comrade Globerman, sub-district sneretary of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, acted as chairman and in a short address, called attention to| berg was an energetic member. the fact that the workers of Americs | Comrade Jessie Scholem spoke for had lost a militant comrade and a/the Pioneers, and Comrade Edith pioneer of the revolutionary cause. | Berkman for the Young Workers Comrade Tom Lewis made a strong | League, both of which organizations appeal to the workers to follow tn |deat the loss. The Freiheit chorus i the footsteps of Ruthenberg, a hun-'led in the singing. dred per cent Communist. | _ Bruce gave a brief sketch of the cares of Ruthenbéry, laying»! yes: BUY THE DAILY WORKER AT THE NEWSSTANDS |80 magnificently expressed in all its | parts by the two teachers of scien- tific socialism, of which the Com- | munist Manifesto of 1847 is the clas- | sic synthesis. Furthermore, he was a leader of the Marxians left in the incessant struggle against the deviations and degenerations of the reformers and lin this fight he gave notable con- \tributions. He always hated equivo- cations, deceit, opportunism and dev- iations. Of the oppertunist Amert- ean social-democracy he always was an implacable enemy. | * * | We find this precise, straight, | massive, Leninist character impres- sed on the theses and on the deci- sions of the conventions, in the pro- grams and in the proclamations of the Party, which he directed with ar- dor until death, thru all storms, with abiding faith in the future. We find itein his concise speeches, formidable for profound theory and enviable ex- |perience. He never deviated. He was, we believe, the most genuine in- terpreter of Leninism in America. | To him we owe the building of the Communist party of which he was an incomparable pilot. To this party he gave all his care in order to perfect better of the work of this admirable | talist and imperialist state on the) jof analytical or journalistic charac-| it as a class political party, capable | dition” of that capitalist party which favors ] | |Shoe Workers Pledge | To Keep Up Struggle | To Emancipate Labor | | Shoe Workers Protective Union, | | Lecal No. 53, New York, have adopted the following resolution on | the death of C. E. Ruthenberg: | “Whereas, the working class of | America has lost a great leader | from its ranks by the sudden death © of C. E. Ruthenberg, Therefore, be it resolved, that | Local No. 53, Shoe Workers Pro- tective Union, goes on record to ! commemorate him and keep up the | struggle to emancipate the work- | ing class. | “And be it further resolved, that | this resolution be forwarded to all | of the labor press.” | Max Hein, Secretary, Local No, 53, S. W. P. U. ‘ters and without against capitalism. * * * | The theoretical work of C. E. | Ruthenberg cannot be detached from ithe political, because both form an \inseparable whole. During the world | war, he was the leader of the Marx- ian left. Grounded in his Marxian ‘education and possessing historical jintuition, fortified by the perfect 'knowledge of the economic develop- ‘ment of this nation, he fought ,against the -yariqus opportunistic ‘tendencies and groups. While not ‘well known yet by the great crowds, like the traditional chiefs of the so- | cial democracy, he, At the head of the socialist delegation from Ohio, intro- duced at the St. Louis convention a ‘motion against war. The motion was shunted by several official | He had seen also the shameful end of the Second International on Aug- ‘ust 4th, 1914, and had been present in spirit at the conference of the Marxian left groups in Kienthal and Zimmerwald, He had accepted also with enthusiasm the words of | Lenin: “Let us turn the Imperialis- | tie war into a class war.” For these leonvictions of his, he risked jail and the most infamous persecution. * * * | After the shameful enc! of the Sec- ond International, it had become ne- i cessary to found a new International ‘and this necessity became a throbbing | reality in 1919, when in the capital | of the First Worker’s State, was con- | stitated the Third International, up- on the solid foundations of the Marx- ian doctrine. sparing blows of accomplishing its tasks, and in the’ C, FE, Ruthenberg was at his place, process of clarification he reproached|He greeted the event with a heart the opportunists of all kinds, holding | full of joy. He too had struggled to that the politics of the revolutionary | re-establish the revolutionary concep- class could not be based on low col-|tion and program in the Socialist laborating speculation, but on strat-| movement of America and finished |egy, mobilization, fight without quar-' this work of his by founding the / is to support the candidates | lood of the phlegmatic membership | - and move it to action. There Survives the Political Party of Labor | {Communist Party of America, of, | which he became the leader. Facing, jail anew as well as other persecu-| tion, he actuated in the practical |elass struggle the principles which | ‘he defended in the field of doctrinal | | criticism. | * 04 The struggle for complete clarifi-| {cation still continues. Like Lenin, he | |affirmed that the Party cannot lead ithe proletariat to victory if it does | /not succeed in liberating itself of | traitors, hesitant members and op- |portunists. It is necessary to resort |to a cut of the diseased parts of the | | body. He smiled when he was called | sectarian and disruptive, being sure of himself and of his work. His} \dream was expressed in his last words on his death bed: “Give the | | Party the theoretical and practical | | weapons, the perfected structure, a | body of disciplined members to face | the revolutionary everits, as instru-| |ments of action and of battle. | * * . | Our chief has left his work, Com-| lrade C. E. Ruthenberg departs from lus at a time when his work and his! counsel were so Precious against | \black reaction. The Communists lose | |their best leader, the American Pro- ‘letariat loses a fighter, the colonial | people one of the hardiest fighters {for their rights, the Communist In- |ternational one of its bravest mili- jtants. What does all this mean to} us? What will be the consequence) of the disappearance of this man, who |has permeated our movement with} | his knowledge and with his sacrifice? | | ©. E. Ruthenberg is dead, but \there survives his handiwork: the} ‘Communist Party of America, the! political party of the working class | of this nation! i “Novy Mir” Weekly, N. Y.—Griet , stricken by the dreadful news of the’ untimely death of our beloved com-. rade, Charles E. Ruthenberg, we feel, | however, confident that this heavy jblow of the blind forces of nature,: while depriying us of our most tried fighter, who led the Communist! movement in th> United States from ‘its very inception, shall only the more | consolidate the fighting ranks of the |Communist Party by imparting on \the whole membership the conscious- ‘ness of double edaponsibility, by penetrating it with the spirit of the most self sacrificing devotion to the cause of the proletarian revolution, which distinguished the whole life and work of our unforgettable com- rade and leader, C, E, Ruthenberg.” oye oe West Philadelphia Workers’ Club, Philadelphia, Pa.—“Words fail to ex- press the loss to the American work- ing class by the untimely death of our Jeader, C. E. Ruthenberg. Our vonsolation will be that we will eon- \inue to carry on as he had tirelessly taught us to work “ow freeing the working clasa.” yi Oe SEBEL AMUSEMENTS, RUTHENBERG RE avs Mr. Feigenbaum, but not so Mr. | reserve system, the International La-| have decided, in a Christian like man- | ieigas Fenelly. and. William sais MUSIC NOTES. sre 5 | bor Office, industrial Locarnos, the | ner, to offer its meagre body to be | A P4 * + | & of the Socialist Party is not merely | League of Nations.” To “respect tra- | publicly flogged in order to stir the | Ruth St.: Denis, Ted Shawn, and Another Theatre Guild possibility for next season is a new play, “The Genius and His Brother” by Sil-Vara, the Viennese playwright and journal- ist, which the Guild has just acquired. * * * “It’s a Wow,” a comedy by Bert J. / | Morton, has been placed in rehearsal, The Oratorio \Society .will give the by Albert Bannister. The play is first complete \performance in this scheduled to open here.early in April. | city of Bach’s minor Mass at Car- Fe _ |negie Hall, Thufsday “@vehing, “A prit Sophie Tucker and Ben Bernie and ; 20. {the Denishawn) Dancers, at Carnegie Hall on April 4, 5 and 6, will present (a program of \Orientai dances, the ;result of their) eighteen months of travel in the ba st. tui rtory Cor 6 Ay. &1 Civic Repertory fF §.44..& EVA LE GALLIENNE Tonight, “JOHN GALRINL BORK MAN” | 466 Grand St. Wednesday Mat. . “CRADLE SONG" | Drydock 7516. —_— i Every Eve. (except PINWHEEL TIMES SQ. |Mon.). Mat. Sat. epee aN atk EARL _ eee os ESSICRIME carro. Wanities The LADDER Now in its 5th MONTH WALDORF, 50th St. Fast of Bway. Mats. WED. and SAT. Theatre Gulld Acting Company in GMALION Thea., 7th Ave. & 50th St. Mats. Thurs, & Sat. 2:30 CK’S West 42nd — Stree. WALLA Evenings 8:30. Mats. Tues., Wed., Thurs, and Sat. What Anne Brought Home A New Comedy Urama Ear! Carroll CoD The es Karamazov Patani rats ny : RA. 15) -rew PLAYWRIGHTS thea. GUI Mats, Thu §2"4 Thea, 296 West!Mats, Thurs.&Sa: St. Col 7203|Eys.8:45. Mats.2; NED McCOBB’S DAUGHTER Week Mar. 28—The Silver Cord John Golden ,72..58. Bot B'y (Circle PRICES EVES, $1.10 TO $3.85. By John ward Lawson ‘Loudspeaker’ :.. MievThiu. @ Sat 9678. |HAMPDEN’S 7,11! Ant B., Evs, 8:15. Matinees Wed, and Sat. walter HAMPD in CAPONSACCHI ‘ sam AR THEA, West 42nd st. 149th Street, HH. HARRIS Twice Daiiy; 2:20 & $:30 Bronx Opera House }'°¢h cer - WHAT PRICE GLORY Pop. Prices. Mat. Wed. & Sat. | Mats. (exe. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. b0e-$3, “RESTLESS WOMEN” A Powerful New Play of ' aye CRUITING DRE "STARTS; THO CHICAGO MEETINGS The Ruthenberg reerviting drive is The. Communist. All friends and in full swing, Reports are beginning | ympathizers are welcome. to arrive of tho first meetines ar-|» The tenor of these meetings as wel ranged to secure new members foi | 1s all of the recruiting work is The Workers (Communist) Perty as}on the slogan: “Ruthenberg part of the drive. building the workers’ cau: Chicago has already arranged two|munism; Build The Worl mectingys for this week. ‘The first |munist) Party in America!” one wii] be held Thursday, March Close. the Ranks 24, at Northwestors Hall, North and|) Nucleus 2; Workers Pa Western avenues under the auspices |land, 0, of Section 6 of The Workers (Com-|Puthenberg, the leader of our Party, munist) Party, Jay Lovesione, Act-|has done irreparable harm to. the ing General Secvetary of ihe party| Party. Comrade Ruthenberg’s devo- wil! lecture on the wor's of Kuthen-|tion to the Paxty, his keen/mind and bers in relation to the Communist | unquestioned leadership haye been the . movement and the lessons (o be} guide for our Party in the difficult learned from it. All workers sve in-| position in which it has had to per- vited to the meeting. Admission |form its work. free, “The death of Comrade Ruthen Friday, March 25, a mem)orship demands that our ranks be clo: drive meeting will be held at the South Side Community House, 0201 South Wabash Ave. It will be ad- dressed by Max Bedacht, member 6f the Central Committee of The Work- ers. (Commiuist) Party and editor of OL that every comrade put his shoulder to the wheel, and with redoubled en- ergy do everything in his power to build up the Party, as the best testi- monial that we can erect to the mem- ory of our departed leader. bar | “Let's Fight On” will | of our nucleus.” wv |