The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1927, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER Wo THE START FROM RED HALL Removing the ura containing the ashes of Comrade Ruthenberg from its temporary resting place in the Red Hall of the Communist International Building where the remains lay in state for three days under honor guard. Comrade Belensky of the All-Union Communist Party is lifting the urn to hand to Comrade Bukharin (in center of picture) who then | carried it to the chassis on which it was borne to the Red | y Square. ASSES SWARM RED SQUARE FOR RUTHENBERG streamer of the German Communist |Party, the procession made its way out of the building. There, at the ,entrance, the Urn was placed amid flowers and carried thru the streets FUNERAL IN MOSCO to the Red Square, among the pall {bearers being Bukharin, Manuilsky, : Kolarow, Treint, Smeral, Murphy, _ (Continued from Page One) | Engdahl, Piatnitsky, Duncan, Kuusi- high officers of the Red Army, audjnen, The procession halted when it | scores of Communists exiled from {came to the foot of the Lenin Man- America, who now live in Moscow,}soleum, the speakers immediately stood by as two workers screwed a/ mounting the Tribune on the Mauso- plate into the wall and then sealed} leum, equipped with a broadcasting | with mortar Ruthenberg’s last rest- apparatus, so that the addresses could ing place. |be heard, not only thruout the The wife of one of the workmen, an | Square very clearly, but over all Mos- | interested spectator, carefully wiped! cow and environs where amplifiers | away with a cloth the last bit of/may be found in all the public moisture, the last bit of stray mortar squares, from the face of the plate so that its| Bukharin spoke, interpreting the, polished surface blazoned brightly meaning of the occasion. the name “Charles Emil Ruthenberg,”| Smeral acted as chairman. Kola- in both the English and the Russian | row spoke for the Executive Commit- languages, giving also the dates of |tee of the Communist International. his birth and his, untimely death. | Kubjak was the representative of the , Aids Unity of Workers Communist Party of the Soviet Union Then we all returned to the steps of | and of Moscow. Harry Young, repre- Lenin’s Mausoleum and the throngs | sentative of The British Young Com- | dispersed after the Red Army detach-| munist League, spoke for the Young, mepts, followed by the workers} Communist International. Then I re- marching according to the factories| sponded for the Workers (Commun- ‘. | exist two oppos' rld Leaders of Revolution Address of Comrade N. Bukharin |‘ ‘EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927 P Page Three ay Final Tribute to Ruthenberg At the Funeral of Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg in Moscow, Apr. 26, 1927 Comrades, we are lowering into the ;grave today the ashes of Comrade} the earth, in the Ruthenberg, the leader of the com- In the entire w rid, comrades, there poles of a strug- gle, two fundamental, powerful hi | torical forces, arougd which secondary and weaker forces group themselves and unite: these two poles are on| one side the United States of Ameri- |; can—the forces of the old, the forces | we see] jof capitali counter-revolution, the) the United States of America in | forces of imperialism; on the other| league with Great Britain pursue} |Side thes Union of Socialist Re-| their “peaceful” policy of robbing | publics—new forces, the forces of the |Communist Revolt, the forces for the! construction of Socialism, And while |our country which only ten years! present occasion. | ago was the stronghold of the most|ashes of comrade Ruthenberg are | barbarian, the most despotic tsarist| now here, that comrade Ruthenberg, | | reaction, has been transformed into! the leader pf our American the great land of the Dictatorship of munist Party, which curries on the|ized” country, a country of the Proletariat, at the other pole of United States of] | America, there still reigns, still} paratively small but energetic Com- flourishes, still rules the most power. | {munist Party of the United States of/fully armed, the most highly de-| North America, | veloped imperialistic capitalism. The} bourgeoisie of the United States at! 'the present time represents the hege- |mony, the leadership of all the plun- dering, reactionary, counter revolu- tionary forces of the entire world, of everything tending to support the old order. And in the great events of the Chinese Revolution land torturing the Chinese people. . . * A great sfmbol is hidden ih the} The fact that the Com-! IN FRONT OF THE COMINTERN BUILDING {at | international struggle under the most difficult con- | ditions, willed before his death to be buried in Moscow; that his ashes were brought here under our red ban- ners; that his remains will rest, side y side with the remains of our best fighters, side by side with Lenin, side by side with seores of other great raised the banner of October and lives on the whose bones proletarians, who barricades, fighters | paved the road for the growth of our | future—in all that there is a symbol hidden. * * . Our leader died in a country which present is the main support of! capitalism. He willed his ashes be transfered to the of the Proletarian Dictator- ship, a country which is incom- parably weaker than his native country, which is a so-called “civil- that country refined executioners of the w In this there is Here is hidden t | histo 1 idea of unity prole lat, the mbol of of the working the Proletarian proletariat, the directed against of the working class, j of the great toilers, and that the w tior in the Communist Inter banner, in that gr country become entire te | Representative of Y.C.I. *t' Kulogizes Ruthenberg’s - Work in United States ch Die symbol Comrade Great he Young Com Young, power mrades, together Inte: - We Amer frightful broth whole | see Moscow capit e the America has lost the be ad of In the graves of | great fighters of the at n and who was the Kremlin wall, they see the com 1 tk leadership for our mune of the dead martyrs, who sacri- can Party which would ulti- ficed their lives for the brotherhood bring into being, also im the of the working class. United States of Am a, a mighty mi, ad powerful n Communist Party. Comrades, we are partic “The Executive Committee of {grieved over th¢ loss of our ¢ the Young Comm International | Ruthenberg. American capitalism and the Young s League of | still poyerful. Bourgeois ideology is) America mour' the loss of still penetrating the American work- and truest ing class. Our American P. We have still small, her leaders at all times, ~|number, the Communist Movement lergies to our as- just beginning to develop in Am sistance in our and battles. jea. There is a great future be Comrades, ¢ when the bie ewe | | \tering a difficult stage in its de-| | velopment. Again we hear the march them, but, before t will re future, the fighters for Communi Comrade Ruthénberg will laid to rest hake our fists in the face of erful American Americ m will be compelled to p many difficult roads and overcom oisie, confident in the knowl- many obstacles Communism in that that work which Ruthen- America is just being | nd the complished, that on those Communist Party dations which year after | its period of childt so painstakingly laid, shall yet growing day by da: be built the edifice of a Com- small, while its enemy i erica which powerful on earth. That is the rea ishing the for our great gricf over the les bourgeoisie the leader of the American Par the world’s most But we also know that our g i imperialism, not the grief of the people wh a Soviet Re- ;Teady to shed tears. W t a mass Workers’ Com- mourn the death of our leade: t Party Comrades, in thi we all of rade Ruthenberz; when we as: us today must ourselves here today and bent our mour gia firm hall unceas- draped banners over a new fresh | ingly inue the grave,—this gathering, this funeral, | work commence ade Ruth- this meeting ought to serve as|enberg, sec kuowledge that }a_ signal for a more energetic |his tasks and hi an be finished fight , our ideas, for our aims, and|by our hands and, that in America slogans, under whose banners com-|too, the Communist Int ional rade Ruthenberg carrie] the fight. | will not mourn Ruthe in vain * * * jbut will lead the Wor s Party of Comrades, again the world is en-| America to ultimate victory. or shops in which they worked, passed in review. Thus the workers of jist) Party of America. A represen-| tative of the Negro workers of Amer- <a \to battle, again are ripening power- \ful historical events. And now to- America, in scores of memorial gath- | erings, the workers of Germany at} } Bremerhaven, Bremen, Hamburg and... Breaewhite=thewspeakMmg Was pro- | Berlin, and lastly the workers of Mos- | ceeding new throngs of workers, in cow had joined in paying a final tri-! organized groups, continued to arrive bute to the memory of Ruthenberg. | from their shops. Because they come, No question that the unity of the/in this manner, instead of singly, the workers of these countries had been capitalist press, especially in the! knit more closely together as a re-| United States, spreads the propa- sult. |ganda that the workers are con~ Thru Sunday afternoon and night,; scripted to attend the demonstratio ica also spoke, Nails Slanders of Enemy | Address of Comr A part of the funeral procession begiming to form as the ashes of Ruthenberg are brought out of the Communiat. Int, ‘ PRAIA (SCCM a 6s ape wer tee by Bukharin and escorted by members of the Presidium of the Communist International. e J. Louis Engdahl Member of Central Executive Committee of Workers ( Communist) Party of America, Delivered from the Tribune of the Lenin \gether with the growing Chinese | Revolution, with the conspiracy of ~ }the imperialists against U.S.S.R., to- | gether with the threatening danger | of war, we hear the growing widen- ing call of the communists, a call to | carry on a systematic stubborn fight, a leall to organize our forces, a call to | raise the banners still higher, so that the working class of all countries, the | oppressed peoples of all lands, the ‘toiling peasants of the entire world,| SHALL NOT DIE! }berg we lost one of the most active |workers of the Communist Inter- |national. But we will answer this loss with still greater efforts on our part. We will answer this loss with still stronger mobilization of our for- |ces. We will answer this loss with a more energetic organization of our great struggle, the struggle for the overthrow of the capitalist yoke, the thru all day Monday and Monday arranged by the Communist Party i night, thru the morning of Tuesday, the Soviet Union. These sheets the Guard of Honor of the Red Army/clare that this is especially true in had stood its continuous watch in| Moscow. This is, of course, just gn-| the magnificent Red Hall of the! other fable spread by the subsidiged| beautiful Comintern (Communist In- press to malign the workers nd ‘ternational) Building. Then shortly) peasants of the Soviet Union. j yi you, My Comrades, the workers of Moscow and to the workers and Mausoleum at the Funeral of Comrade Ruthenberg’ in Moscow, U.S. S. R., April 26, 1927 ers from all parts of the earth, of all races, religions, nationalities and { after noon, on Tuesday, April 26th, the Guard of Honor was doubled. In addition to the four Red Army sol- diers, the Guard of Honor contained four more, comrades selected from the workers in the shops and the fac- | tories, from the workers in the Co- mintern Building, from leaders in the trade unions and from the members of the Praesidium of the Communist International, of which Ruthenberg had been a member, and from the Profintern and the Young Communist slanders of the evening press have no | been selected to hold’ positions of re- International. International events stir labor in the Soviet Union to deep inte: The arrival of the Ashes of Ruthe! berg from the United States wa: looked upon as an event of interna- tional significanee, and the thousands who gathered in the Red Square to listen to the addresses and to take part in the burial of the Ashes of! Ruthenberg in the Kremlin Wall were deeply moved by the event. This I |Jearned thru careful inquiry. The "| dictatorship; colors, have come seeking freedom, only to learn through bitter disap- pointment that they must bend to the yoke of what has now become the greatest capitalist tyranny upon the face of the earth. Ruthenberg was {an agitator, organizer, educator To you, My Comrades, of the) owas the bibdate pronase ad Sede 7, ere md} + always a party man, always keeping padi sg Bienen 4 Poe the vital need of building the recigiy ee ee ahi He vanguard party of labor, the Com- of the world; 4 To you, My Comrades, who have | munist bi acis ho peasants of the Soviet Union, uphold- ers of the first victorious proletarian To you, My Comrades, of the Com- ist International, the standard bearers of the World Social Revolu- tion; basis in fact, but are born of the! sponsibility in the Rule of the Sov- World Leaders Guard basest lies. iets; : The watch changed every five min- The speaking finished, the march\ To you, I bring from far America utes. Bukharin stood watch with!from the Lenin Mausoleum to the the ashes of my Comrade Ruthen- Smeral, of the Czecho-Slovak Party,| place in the Kremlin Wall set aside | Berg. the fallen leader of our Com- Treint of the French Party, and Ed- for Ruthenberg only a short distance | Munist Party, the American section ward Dunean. I took my turn with away, began. But this was also the} the Communist International. T Kolarow, the Bulgarian revolutionary, | end. | bring these ashes to you as a symbol former secretary of the Communist ./ of the unity of the oppressed workers Let’s Fight On! Join™ International; with Kuusinen, the of imperialist America with the freed The Workers Party! ‘present secretary of the Cofhintern, | workers of the Soviet Union. They and Piatnitsky, head of the Organi- are a symbol of the solidarity of the zation Department of the Comintern. workers of the world for we struggle J, W. Murphy, representative of the ‘everywhere, over all the earth, for British Communist Party in the Co-, In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- the common goal—the overthrow of ~~ stood guard with Petrovsky berg the Workers (Communist) Par- | capitalism and the emancipation of ofthe Agitprop Department of the ty has lost its fcremost leader and | the working class in all lands. Comintern, Boris Reinstein, formerly the American working of the United States, and Charles, staunchest fighter. This loss can only , Scott. To give the full list would be be overcome by many militant work. | to call the roll of the leadership in ers joining the Party that he built. | the Communist movement, in the Fill out the application below and world, in the Soviet Union, in Mos- ‘mail it. Become a member of the cow. Many came and eagerly asked, Workers (Communist) Party and) to be permitted to join:in this final! carry forward the work of Comrade \ tribute to a courageous soldier of the Ruthenberg. social revolution. |] want to become a member of the Huge palms flanked ‘the dais on, . | which stood the urn. Before a thee ere (Comatunist).. Party; red banner on the wall a beautiful) Name marble bust of Lenin surmounted a) pedestal. The banner blazoned the slo- | Address ‘an that appears on the covers of the, wficial publications of the Communist | Spexpation International, showing a worker with| Union Affiliation.... | a huge hammer striking the chains of, fai! this application to the Work- capitalism off the earth, _ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New | class its | Workers Come from Shops ‘York City; or if in other city to Since noon the Red Army detach-, Workers. Party, 1118 W. Washington ments had begun to assemble and ma-, Bly., Chicago, Ill. neuyer before the Comintern Build- Distribute the Ruthenberg pam- ing. Later came the workers direct) phlet, “The Workers’ (Communist) from their shops and factories, direct Party, What it Stands For and Why from their work places, carrying the Workers Should Join.” ‘This Ruthen- banners of their organizations., berg pamphlet will be ihe basic pam- Sharply at 4 o’clock the last watch|phlet thruout the Ruthenberg Drive. cume to an end in the Red Hall, With! Every Party Nucleus must ‘collect Army Soldiers in the lead, im-]50 cents from every member and will mediately followed by Bukharin, car-] receive 20 pamphlets for every mem- rying the Urn decorated with the! ber to sell or distrifiite Nand. As we mourn, My Comrades, never- theless, theresis joy in the knowledge that we in America, through the great accomplishments that our Com- rade Ruthenberg has achieved during the 20 years that he has been an ac- tive and energetic worker in the re- volutionary movement of America; through his work we may say today that, in spite of the fact that our leader has fallen, nevertheless, we are able to lift higher and more threatening than ever to capitalist * * |rule in America the Red Banner of the World Social Revolution. * * Comrade Ruthenberg, of proletar- ian origin, entered the ranks of the revolutionary army in America while still a young man, From the begin- ning he showed a keen knowledge of the needs of the American vevolu- tiondry movement. He started early in his work in the Socialist Party of America to build the very necessary unity in America of the workers in industry and the farmers upon the e sought to build that essen- tial working ¢ olidarity that we strive for in America, a land of many nationalities. a land to ch whr'r. Comrade Ruthenberg was our Kar! Liebknecht in America. When Amer- ican imperialism entered the world |war, Ruthenberg stood before the | masses in the open places of his na- | tive eity of Cleveland, Ohio, and de- |clared: “Not a penny to pay for the | Wall Street War. Not a man shall the working class spare to fight the capitalist war.» Down with the cani- talist war,” He raised the slogan of “war against war’ and American berg to prison because he dared | speak; brave and courageous, for the working class of America. | And again, when you, my com- | Union had achieved your victory, the | berg, as“Our Leader, faced new per- | secutions. In resnonse to the call of ‘the Communist International, we. ‘organized our Communist Party in |the United States. It found its ex- | pressi | manifestation of a new revolutionary development that again frightened the American ruling class. New pro- ceedings were started in the capital- ist courts against Ruthenberg and other comrades and some of the were sent to prison to serve for many years in the bastilles of American capitalism, Yes, they thought thus to destroy the American Communis' driving it into iNegality. But our movement grew, our Party became powerful and the capitalist rulers of America continued to become ever more terrified at our success in win- ning workers to our standards in the coal mines, on the railroads and gen- erally throughout capitalist industry. Due se d its oh the capitalism sent ovr Comrade Ruthen- | will meet the terrible hour in a dif. | Strueele for the emancipation of the ferent manner from the one in 1914/¢ntire oppressed humanity, a life and when the working class was fooled | death struggle amninst: the Sercee 9 and stupefied by the bourgeoisie and | imperialism, a life and death strug- deceived and betrayed by the social gle for si Communist Society, for the democrats. This preparatory work rineioescerteakis - a eager“ And of mobilizing our forces can be done gidetchneg igicter hig peal ot i of all countries unite. Courageously and fearlessly carry on the great struggle. Long live our victory. Bridgeman, Michigan convention of the American Communist Party, and! Ruthenberg, with many others, were arrested and jailed. He was the first , to be convicted. a result of this | renewed persecution, Comrade Ruth- jenberg when he died, was under sen- jtence of ten years’ imprisonment for 1 as it should be done by Communist parties only, and only the Communist International, as the great inter- national brotherhood of the working {elass, which is marching towards | : . jcarrying aloft the standards of the | Smianctpation: Not for ra machane | Long live the International:Revolu- Communist International in the} not for a second shall our energy be_| ti” United States of America, come exhausted. On the ance ma bs bd * again and again we say to ourselves: | BUY THE DAILY WORKER with the death of Comrade Ruthen-| AT THE NEWSSTANDS Yes, My Comrades, we in America| | are today faced with greater strug-| ' gles than ever before in all the his- tory of our movement. Ameri war on ‘BEGINNING OF THE PROCESSION imperialism today makes icaragua, the small Central American Republic. But it attacks not only Nicaragua. This attack is/ only a part of its attack against all Latin-America, against all the op- pressed peoples of South America, of Central America, of the Caribbean. American imperialism seeks new excuses to launch an armed interven- | tion against Mexico, to destroy if pos- | sible the struggle of the workers and farmers in Mexico to free themselves from capitalist slavery through win- | ning all power. } \rvades of Moscow and of the Soviet, Bolshevik triumph of 1917, Ruthen-! ion first in the Left Wing with-| |in the American Socialist Party, a) But more important still, American | imperialism becomes a leader im the | war against the revolution of the Chinese workers and peasants. “It be- | comes a Jeader in the new tmperialist | attack that is being planned agains’ the Soviet Union. We would find, if Comrade Ruth- enberg were alive today, if his mute ashes could speak, he would call to the sailors of American imperialism jnot to move a_ single battleship ‘against the Chinese revolution, not a} single inch forward of Wall Street's) battleships against the Soviet Union, | He would call upon the soliders of | a not to lif: a single rifle, nor) imperial the Chi- Soviet i | Americ: | fire a single cannon in the list robber effort to destroy ‘nese revolution and the Union. : | He would call upon the workers in f Party bY! the shops and mills and factories not ing Red Fighting Front of the Amer-| ‘to produce a single round of ammu- nition to be used to combat the Chi- nese revolution and the Soviet Union. | He would call upon the soldiers, sailors and workers to go over to the | side of the social revolution and join| jin the struggle to destroy capitalism | ‘the world over, i . ) Piitiipnbere was a Markist * Ruth- Bearing the ashes of Ruthenberg at the beginning of the procession. Pallbearers visible are: (1) On extreme left, Bukharin; (2) center, Kolaroff of Bulgarian Communist Party, member Presidium of E. C. C. L.; (3) on extreme right, Smeral of Czecho-Slovakia, member Presidium. enberg was a Leninist. Being a Marx- In this hour as we mourn, in thts ist and a Leninist he helped our Par-| hour as we bring the ashes of Ruth. ty to develop a Bolshevik struggle |enberg to the Red Kremlin Wall in against imperialism, Moscow, American Communists lift Ruthenberg is dead. But the spirit! their s to the face of the giant of Ruthenberg: still lives in the grow-| capitalist foe and declare: Down with American Imperialism! spirit sti Long Live the American Soviet Re- ican working clas: his lives in the developing world social! public! revolution. | Hail the civil war of the American Here, from the Tribune of Lenin’s; working class against the bandit war Masoleum, 1 pledge our Comnaunist | of American imperialism! Party to renewed and greater strug-) Long Live the Soviet Union! gle aléng the path of Leninism that} Long Live the Communist Inter- Jeads in America to the abolition of| national! the capitalism that flies the flag of} Hail Communism, the emaae Dollar Imperialism. ,of all mankind!