New-York tribune., 1918-05-13
Internationalism Will Weld
World in Single Unit,
Declares Finn
Tribute to Karl Marx
ue |. Cerdited With Chang.
ing Socialism From Dream
to Science

Internatonalism as very present
sope was the vision hailed by two hun
drcd odd Socialists at belated Karl
Marx centennial celebration yesterday
sfternoon at the Peoples House,
East Fifteenth Street.
exactly as the autonomy Of the
ysrious states in this country has
,snsed." cried Santeri Nuorteva, ambas-
asdor Of the republic of Finland to
America. so will the boundaries now
.enarating nation from nation be swept
.way-through the action of the united
i.hor movement of the world"
Long before the war, he declared,
.be trend in this direction had become
unmistakable.
"The Turk went abroad to do bust
ness-and dofed his fez,' he said.
aImproved communication facilities
were getting in their work; they were
making US acquainted, and making us
alike in consequence. National cost
,tmes disappeared when clothing began
10 be made wholesale in factories in
stead OF locally in the homes of the
workers. The international trust
arose, and the whole world became
inter-deperdent."
in consonance with the gospel accord
ing to Marx.
MARX" he said changed Socialism
from Utopian dream into a science
and a species of practical politics"
And going on to state that the ma
teralistic conception of history" is the
key to all life, Mr.. Nuorteva explained
that the workers can be relied upon
TO fulfil the rest of the MARKHAM
prophecy because it is most practically
10 their interest to do SO.
"New inventions and improvements
are coming said he, land the working
man will want 30 enjoy them. To-day
It's the millionaire who travels around
the world. But just think of working
men travelling around the world! Just
think OF workingman stepping into an
airship and running over to London or
Paris to spend the week end! That is
what we are coming to-"
The audience applauded that senti-
ment very heartily. They we're en-
thusiastic, too, in their applause for
Alexander Trachtenberg, who spoke on
the lesson of the Russian revolution.
It seems that many Socialists have
been obJecting to the Russian revolu-
ton on the ground that it wasn't in ac-
cordsnce with Karl Marks schedule.
But Mr. Trachtenberg maintains that
this is an unworthy quibble.
'fhe Russian revolution is the ami
mating Inspiration of radicals round
the world to-day" he told his hearers.
Everybody knows that the Lloyd
George and Clcmenceau governments
are the most reactionary that England
and France have ever had. The British
and French workers are against those
governments. 1t is the Russian revolu-
ton which has shown them the way.
It shines now as a beacon light to labor.
because it furnishes the concrete proof
Ct what the workers can do if they
wii'
Scoring American laboring men for
their lack of "class philosophy" Mr.
Trachtenberg urged the gathering to
ponder the inspiring lesson in solidar-
ny which the Bolshevist e6ime has af-
forded and to order their own course
similarly
al this centennial celebration" he
concluded, 1.-The Russian revolution is
The greatest monument to Karl Marx
there is on the face of the earth" And
the audience howled its concurrence.
u. Rarenberg, a Socialist instructor
at the Rand School. in the opening adj
Gsress reminded the company that
Marks idea was an international work
ers' organization for power, and at nc
time simply "fair days wage for a
lar days work" Morris Winchevsky
who introduced himself by rcmarkine
that he had had the honor of being
expelled from Germany in 1877" told
o. MARKS stay in London. and of how
a. that time the idol of all present day
ncciallsts was comparatively little
snown man. slight in influence even
within the Socialist movement