The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-27

THE capitalist rulers confess to
l. their own fear of the wonderful
powers and great abilities of our
dead comrade, Felix E. Dzerzhinsky,
when they hail his passing as "a
blow to the Bolshevist Party only
second to the death of Lenin."
1t may be said that Dzerzhinsky
sent double wave of fear slashing
its way thru the bourgeois world;
first as head of the "Veh Cheh Kah,"
the All-Russian Extraordinary Com
mission for Combating Counter
Revolution that safeguarded the
proletarian dictatorship; and later
as president of the Supreme Eco
nomic Council, directing the devel-
opment of industry and the realiza-
ton of socialism as stage toward
the Communist Society.
Time will give Dzerzhinsky his
proper and high place among all
those who served the Russian vic
tory that tore down the outer ram
parts of the capitalist fortress and
gave the workers and peasants of
the world a vantage point from
which to press forward to the cap
ture Of the whole structure. 1t is
not for the Capitalist scribes to do
honor to Dzerzhinsky by saying he
was second to Lenin. They merely
write thus in an effort to give the
oppressors Of mankind, whom they
serve, some comfort in the belief
that one of their greatest enemies
has passed, to trouble them no
more.
SO they greeted the death of Lenin.
They told themselves that with
Lenin dead the Russian Communist
Party would crumble into dust, the
proletarian dictatorship rapidly dis
solve and the Soviet Union be de-
stroyed. Thus they treasured them
selves.
But Leninism lived, as the capital
lists have learned, the Russian Com
munist Party has grown, the prole-
tartan dictatorship become as adam
ant and the Soviet Union more pow
erful than ever.
Dzerzhinsky lived nearly four
years longer than Lenin to witness
the successful development Of the
Bolshevik Revolution to which they
had both contributed their every
energy and ability.
One of the Moscow correspond
ents writes of the last tribute paid
by the Russian workers to their
dead comrade as follows:
''Dzerzhinsky lies on a red-draped
catafalque, surrounded with flowers
and a motionless guard of honor, in
the former Mobiles Club, now the
House of the Labor Unions.
His face is utterly serene, strong,
resolute-this man who, his enemies
say, has 100000 deaths upon his
conscience.
Towards the narrow street,
where the Mobiles Club is situated,
marching columns of interminable
length converge from every section
of Moscow.
"a quarter of million of his fell
low citizens will pay last tribute
to Felix Deer, and then a red-draped,
open coffin will be carried to the
Red Square and inferred below the
Kremlin Wall near Lenins Mauso-
leum."
zone hundred thousand deaths
upon his conscience" says this
writer, and then adds: mot even
his bitterest enemies ever ques-
toned the sincerity of his motives,
not even his closest friends ever
detected a spark of self-interest or
ambition"
Dzerzhinsky had but one thing
upon his conscience, and that was
his loyalty to the revolution. Against
the enemies of the revolution he in
voked the short, sharp DEGREES Of
proletarian justice. Thus he trium-
phantly advanced the Bolshevik out
posts of the new civilization, bring
ing life and happiness to the genera
lions OF workers of today and yet
unborn, thru insuring the success of
the revolution, even by taking the
lives or the putting into prison OF
those who would resurrect the dead
czarist regime.