The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-18
MASSES SWARM RED
SQUARE FOR RUTHENBERG
FUNERAL In MOSCOW
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high officers Of the Red Army, and
scores of Communists exiled from
America, who now live in Moscow
stood by as two workers screwed a
plate into the wall and then sealed
with mortar Ruthenberg's last rest
ing place.
The wife of one of the worlmen, an
interested spectator, carefully wiped
away with a cloth the last bit of
moisture, the last bit of stray mortar
from the face of the plate so that its
polished surface blazoned brightly
the name Charles Emil Ruthenberg, I"
in both the English and the Russian
languages, giving also the dates of
his birth and his untimely death.
Aids Unity Of Workers
Then we all returned to the steps of
Lenin's MausoIeum and the throngs
dispersed after the Red Army detach-
mepts, followed by the workers
marching according to the factories
or shops in which they worked, passed
in review. Thus the workers of
America, in scores of memorial gath
erings, the workers of Germany at
Bremerhaven, Bremen, Hamburg and
Berlin, and lastly the workers of Mos
cow had joined in paying a final tri-
butte to the memory of Ruthenberg.
No question that the unity of the
workers of these countries had been
knit more closely together as a re-
suit.
Thru Sunday afternoon and night,
thru all day Monday and Monday
night, thru the morning Of Tuesday,
the Guard of Honor of the Red Army
had stood its continuous watch in
the magnificent Red Hall of the
beautiful Comintern Communist In
ternational) Building. Then shortly
after noon, on Tuesday, April Goth,
the Guard of Honor was doubled. In
addition to the four Red Army sol
diers, the Guard of Honor contained
four more, comrades selected from
the workers in the shops and the fac
tories, from the workers in the Co
mintern Building, from leaders in the
trade unions and from the members
of the Praesidium of the Communist
International, of which Ruthenberg
had been a member, and from the
Profintern and the Young Communist
International.
World Leaders Guard
The watch changed every five min
utes. Bukharin stood watch with
Smeral, of the Czecho-Slovak Party,
TRENT of the French Party, and Ed
ward Duncan. | took my turn with
Kolarow, the Bulgarian revolutionary
former secretary of the Communist
International; with Kuusinen, the
present secretary of the Coinintern
and Piatnitsky, head Of the Organi-
cation Department of the Comintern
J. w. Murphy, representative Of the
British Communist Party in the Co
Smintern, stood guard with Petrovsky
OF the Agitprop Department of the
Comfntern, Boris Reinstein, formerly
of the United States, and Charles
Scott. To give the full list would be
TO call the roll Of the leadership in
the Communist movement, in the
world, in the Soviet Union, in Mos
COW. Many came and eagerly asked
to be permitted to join in this final
tribute to a courageous soldier Of the
social revolution.
Huge palms thanked the dais on
which stood the r.-n. Before huge
red banner on the wall beautiful
marble bust of Lenin surmounted q
pedestal. The banner blazoned the slo-
gan that appears on the covers Of the
official publications of the Communist
International, showing a worker with
a huge hammer striking the chains OF
capitalism off the earth.
Workers Come from Shops
Since noon the Red Army detach
ments had begun to assemble and ma
neuver before the Comintern Build
Ing. Later came the workers direct
from their shops and factories, direct
from their work places, carrying th'
banners of their organizations
Sharply at A o'clock the last watci
came to an end in the Red Hall. Will
Red Army Soldiers in the lead, inn
mediately followed by Bukharin, car
rying the Urn decorated with Til,