The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
BY eERTRAM 0. WOLFE

In face of the tremendous loss of
their greatest national figure, Felipe
Carrillo, and their greatest inter-
national leader Nicolai Lenin, the
peasants and workers Of the federal
district here joined hands irrespective
Of party or faction in the most COM
plete united front that Mexico has
ever seen. In the auditorium of the
school Of engineering assembled mem
bers Of the Agrarian, Communist, and
Labor Parties and of the Socialist
Party of the Southeast Louis N. Mo
rones, leader of the Mexican Fedora
ton of Labor, presided over the me-
mortal meeting. Gutierrez Cruz, presi-
dent of the League of Revolutionary
Writers, bitter personal enemy of
Morones, stood on the same platform
to recite poem he had written in
honor of Nicolai Lenin. What was
perhaps more impressive was the
joint presence of long-standing polite
al enemies on the same platform
united in the bond of common sor-
row.
Inspirational Atmosphere.
The vast auditorium was decorated
by the Union of Communist Painters.
The center of the platform was oc-
cupied by an enormous canvas of the
face Of Lenin painted by Mexico's
greatest artist, Diego Rivera, who had
known the great Communist leader
personally, and put all his love and
admiration for the man in his futur-
istic canvas painted in jet black upon
red background. To the side of the
Lenin painting was one painted by
Xevier Guerrero of the dreamer's
face Of Felipe Carrillo, martyr gov
ernor Of Yucatan, Socialist leader
killed by the rebels in the recent up
rising. The foreground Of the stage
was decorated to represent the soil,
symbol of the agrarian movement in
this dominantly agrarian country. The
soil was jet black and torn by red fur
rows, and on it stood red plows with
black steel blades. Above the stage
hung silver hammer and sickle, and
o'ertopping everything else, the red
star of Communism, illuminated, and
casting over everything a strong red
glow.
The side walls bore manifold Ie-
gends such as; "The rifle in proIetar-
ian hands is the guarantee of Iiber-
tyr; "The hennequen of Yucatan ties
the sheaves of Russian wheat;
peasant, the earth yields hundred
for one and you get one for humid
red"; and most prominent of all
"Lenin has died but his work con-
tinues."
The meeting was opened by a.
speech of Diego Rivera on behalf of
the Communist Party of Mexico. He
traced the significance of Lenin in the
world revolutionary movement, dec
laring that Leninism consisted above
all in the judging Alright of the role
of the farmer and peasant in the re-
evolutionary struggle. He pointed out
that the slogan of 1905 of "a workers
and peasants government, the slog-
an, Cali power to the Soviets" of 1917,
the new economic policy, the so-called
Trotzky shears, and the formation by
the Communist International of an
international peasant-farmer organiza-
ton, were logical realistic applica-
tions of the feminist estimate of the
significance of the peasantry.
"Lenin LIves-carrilIo LivesI"
Turning with great emotion to the
1ifelike face he had painted on the
stage, he declared: "Lenin lives! Car
rillo lives! In the audience and in the
Mexican region there are thousands