The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-12
OPENING OF THE End CONGRESS OF III
INTERNATIONAL.
iPetrogrsd Pravda, July 81, ls2o)

(Perograd Pravda, July a. l92O)
SPEECH OF COARADE ZNOvIEv.
BY l2 O'Clock the hall and balconies filled to overfowlng
The members of the Executive Committee OF the LII inter
national appear with the president of the LATTER Comrade Emo
nev their head At the time Comrades LenT kaihn
Rade Bukhar and Others mount the stage The Leaders OF
the protara welcomed with thunderous applause Inc
members of the Congress take their seats.
The members Of the Congress the front rows On each
members desk is previously prepared full set of the Com
nunst international in artistic binding and also portfolio
containing collection Of photographs Illustrating various aspects
Of the Russian revolution and of the constructive work OF Soviet
Russia, and also pad of paper, notebook, etc.
At LOS Comrade Anoviev in the name of the Executive
Committee of the Communist international declares the sitting
Of the Congress opened.
In Memory Of Fallen Fighters
THE first word said Comrade Znovev must be consecrat
I'd to the memory Of friends and leaders who have perned
for the of the Communist international There is country
where the blood Of woen Communists has not been she'd One
has only to recall Hungarian comrades Comrades Samuel
Levin and many others In Finland Esthona Hungary and
elsewhere hundreds and thousands of the best OF the work
ing class have perished.
n opening the Congress do honor to the of the
comrades who have fallen"
On Comrade zinovievs proposal all present sand the Or
ehestra plays the funeral march,
Greetings to Comrade Monat, LOriot, and Others
AT this historic moment may recall also those comrades
who sitting behind iron gratngs who anguishng m
prisons thrown there by the enemies of the petaria Our
French friends Comrades Loro Mona and Others have been
mprisoned. --a-s sl.r--4.s s .s ls
we send greetings the any fighters in the workuens
revolution who are langushing in prisons
Struggle Between II and iii International.
The Communist International founded 15 months ago.
and from its very first steps it naturally had to cross swords
with the II International entering into direct conflict with the
atter Both friends and enemies in all Europe and
America must face this fact and also recognize that our struggle
has been crowned with and that result OF this duel
the International has been knocked in the head by the Iii
Communist international.
The struggle between us and the International the real
struggle of classes the Of the International there
were many of our classroters who had been deceived by the
false theology Of the yellow Socialists who had followed the
road with the bourgeosie.
The Triumph Of the III International
Eve tuned because the bourgeoisie proved poweres to
qudae the heritage Of the because the bourgeose as
whole able do anything reconstruct the economic life
Of Europe The II International linked its fate with the bour
geosc at the very first shot that proclaimed the beginning of
the mperasc The later attempts to reetabish the IL
international naturally with Its principal leader
strove to enter into alliance with the League of Nations
They put Wilson the slate with Jaures that martyr
of the labor movement
The Bomgeoisie is Destined to Perish
Therefore all the blows showered the bourgeose
fall like heavy hammer the II International Every organ
zaion that associated itself with the bourgeois class whose
end predesned by that very fact condemns itself also to ruin
1.-THE working class coming into power and the bourgeoisie
in its despair sehes the hafdead International and sran
giles it in its dying grasp There doubt that both ap
preaching definite run because in the historic sense years are
reckoned by days Their collapse will make possible for an
international union of women to create world founded
Communism The idea Of democracy has faded away before
very eyes.
When the American borgose before the of the whole
world suspended constitutional guarantees when this much
praised democracy violated all the principles established by it
by this itself determined its place On this question there should
not be two opinions In noting the victory the II Inter
national is necessary emphasize this mucdebaed point
and finish for all with democratic tendencies.
The Tasks Of the Congress.
Ths Congress has been convened to decide certain questions
which the subject of dispute in the ranks Of the Communist
movement We have brought to the Congress parties which have
not yet manifested their purely communist character (which
have not yet fully defined their tactics Individual groups of the
working class in certain countries a at the crossroads We
have brought here all the wormens organizations that
wish honestly to combat capitalism ~