The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-07
BY ANNA THOMPSON,
District Junior Director

NEW YOHkEN. Y, Feb. 5.-The
most sensational feature of the ire
mendous Lenin memorial meeting
held here at Madison Square Garden,
was undoubtedly, as even the capital
ist sheets seem to agree, the wonder
full and inspiring INSTRUMENTATION
of the Junior section of the Young
Workers League in New York. The
Juniors were there-they certainly
were!! The seats reserved for them
before the meeting started proved en-
tirely insufficient to accommodate the
almost 100 per cent turnout of the
Junior section
400 Juniors March In Singing
There were over 400 young Reds
there to do honor to our dead leader
the Foster group. the Ruthenberg
group, the Kari Marx group, the Lieb
knecht group, the Trotsky group, the
Luxembourg group. the Lenin group
the Young Guardsmen group, the Red
Guards groups etc. About P. M. the
Juniors began arriving in groups. sing
ing, cheering and shouting. Right
then and there things began to
happen. The police were evidently
not very much pleased to see these
sturdy little Roisheviks growing up
into clear and determined young Com
munist fighters against capitalism. So
when the Red Guards Junior group
passed by thru the lobby of the huge
edifice, a few particularly patriotic
policemen pounced upon them and
seized their beautifully printed sign
and tore it up growing: 1--WE don't
want no Red Guards here-we don't
want them Bolsheviks." The Juniors
Immediately staged spirited demons
tration informing the hired servants
of the capitalists that tearing up the
sign wouldn't help, that to-day they
were the Red Guard Junior group, to-
morrow they would be real Red
Guards and Red Soldiers.
Junior Leader Speaks /, a.
During the speeches, the Juniors
listened attentively noting points upon
which they could have group discus
sions and in many cases carrying on
low whispered Conversations with
their leaders who were sitting with
them. The climax of It all was reach
ed when the Junior speaker, Comrade
Morris Spector city organizer of the
Junior section was introduced by the
chairman, Comrade Gitlow.
In a speech that was variously
characterized by. the capitalists press
as fiery" "reds9 dynamic" force
full" enthusiastic, Comrade Spector
paid tribute toothe memory of our
dead Leader and called upon the re-
evolutionary working class including
the working class children of the
world, to close rs ranks and carry on
the fight. ''In Lenin" Comrade Spector
said, the toiling masses of the earth
saw the promise OF time when the
blood and bones OF little children shall
no longer be coined into yellow gold
to feed the greedy lust Of the exploit
er when the flower of the working
class youth shall no longer be slaught-
cred for the dirty gains of the profit
mad capitalists, when oppression and
exploitation shall have vanished from
the earth, when man shall no longer
tremble before his fellow-man." And
when Comrade Spector' enthusiastic
ally cried: "Comrade Lenin is dead
but Leninism still lives--will live
forever" the roof was almost raised
with the cheers Of the audience. Final
ly our Junior city organizer ended up;
ours is the dutnoof mobilizing the
working class children under the lead
ership OF the CoWmunists. our is the
task Of drawing tbese children in the
fight against capitalism and the cap.
italist system. ours, is the duty of en-
rolling the masses q the working