The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-18
The Cause He Died for
Shall Live, Pledge Of
Red Youth to John Reed
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, comrades of the social revolution Moscow
the walls Of the Kemin the United States the revoIu-
tonay youth Of this country, in many memorial meetings.
will recount his services in the struggle against capitalist
For today the anniversary the death Of the young
American revoutonst John Reed who died his
tonay post in Moscow, October II, 1920, when his work
had hardly begun.
1t is very fitting that the John Reed Memorial Meetings
should be held by the Young Workers Communist League
Our comrade to the last until the strangng grip of the
dread typhus took life from him. the Disqualification of
the restless spirit and fearless daring Of revolutionary youth
Down thru the years John Reed will continue to be a
growing Inspiration youth enlisted under the standards of
Americas BoIshevik revolution. The pledge uttered by
New York City Oct IS 1920, will find expression from
mya6ds g. Ri with the he Passing q the THAT
THE CAUSE HE DIED FOR SHALL LIVE"
the pampered pet of the Hbest publishers" He was
journalist Of rare ability But instead of occupying
editorial chair comfortable and remuneratVe,
"Brass Check" daily, helped edit poor and
hunted publications of the revolutionary wing of Americas
working class
It Robert Minor who tells best how Jack lone of the
most brilliant students at Harvard University the object of
pedgogc and bourgeois aduaton dsdaned the praise and
aIurements Of capitalist culture.
"He too sincere, too great artist to
caze his talent to pande to popular dictums the
tribute of great Communist artist to another of Robert
Minor to John Reed.
"Even those high priests of capitalist attainment Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were attracted to Jack
Reed by his extraordinary talent and personal charm says
Minor Both endeavored to bring him to conformity, but
failed. Jack not whit dazZed by the strong PERSONAL
ty of Roosevelt the meIuous phrases of Wilson, APP
pretending the egotstic demagogy of the former actuay
refusing associate with him) and the sophstic deaism
of the latter"
Thus instead of another Jack London, prostutng his
talents to the sodd purposes of Hearsts demands for
stories for his magazines have the immortal John Reed
author of book that will die, his Ten Days That
Shook the World"
John Reed struggled with the zeal and ardor to
eVoutionze American labor that he showed helping the
Russian workers and peasants to maintain the fruits of their
victory.
In the stormy days of 1912 within the socialist party
he conspicuous in his Jealous endeavor to crystalline
all revolutionary elements into the Communist movement
He had his convictions and he fought for them 1t while
returning from Moscow where he had gone to present the
position of the Communist Labor Party to the Communist
International that he arrested and imprisoned by the
White Terror in Finland Those days when the block
ade of the world mperasts surrounded Soviet Russia like
impenetrable WALL Hunger and disease were claiming
many victims in the Workers Republic when John Reed re-
turned there in 1920 Counter-revoutionary movements
supported by the mperas of the Gordon santare
pounding away the Soviet Rule many fronts. John
Reed took his place with the defenders of revolution Halt
and undenoushed he worked endless hours until
struck down by the yphus He was buried with the highest
Communist honors.
John Reed dead but his memory freshens with the
passage of the He lives in the efforts of greater
numbers inspired by his valiant deeds for the revolution
Standing shoulder to shoulder the ranks of American revo
tonsts grow, that the he died for shall live.