The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-25

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THE grief Of the Comintern over
the comrades who were taken from
the revolutionary work is increased
yet by the circumstances that the
English Communist Party and the
Workers Party Of America are COM
paratively young parties, and their
! general staffs are small in number.
Due to the peculiar character Of the
labor movement of England and to a
considerable degree of North America,
the specific gravity on the compare
lively small Communist parties of
these lands is considerably greater
than in many other lands where the
Communist movement embraces wider
strata of the proletariat. Therefore,
the loss of two outstanding leaders Of
these parties is very keenly felt loss
for the entire Communist Interna-
tional. They descend from the stage
just at the moment of a most tense
struggle. The British and North
American imperialists Just at this mo-
ment unfold their brazen grasping and
counter revolutionary offensive over
the entire world.
And the reformist leaders made
their task easier by putting to sleep
the working masses, with their SER
mons of industrial peace and class
collaboration.
THE English and the American
parties are confronted with colossal
tasks of world historic importance for
the solution of which the revolution
airy experience and the outstanding
abilities of the Comrades MacManus
aAll Ruthenberg we're exceedingly
valuable.
AFTER an untiring struggle ex-
n tending over many years, in the
first ranks of the revolutionary pro-
letariat, which provoked deep hatred
and vengeance of the bourgeoisie,
death found our acknowledgement
comrades at their fighting post. Just
recently released from capitalist pris-
on for his courageous revolutionary
work, MacManus hurried to the In
ternational Anti-Imperialist Congress
in Brussels in order to participate in
the preparation of a grand interna-
tional campaign against the brazen
British Imperialism. As to Ruthen-
berg, who already experienced several
times the pleasures of the American
prisons for his leading participation
in the revolutionary struggle of the
proletariat, the American billionaires
were preparing again to throw him
for long period into prison in order
to deprive the revolutionary move
ment of the country Of it's greatest
leader at the moment when this move
ment is more than ever in need of |
modelling and straining all of its
forces. The end of the two revolution
aries is worthy Of their lives. Their
untimely interrupted revolutionary |
careers will always serve, for the
young revolutionary generations, as
an inexhaustible source Of loyalty to
the workers cause of self sacrifice in |
the revolutionary struggle and of I'M
shakable faith in the victory of the /
world revolution.
WHILE lowering, as sign of
" mourning, the banners of the
Comintern in honor of the dear MEM
ory Of the dead comrades, we are far /
from being depressed. We firmly be-
lieve in the revolutionary creative !
power of the English and American
workers which will put forward from
their midst new loyal fighters, talen-
ted agitators, and courageous leaders. !
The great work of MacManus and |
Ruthenberg will facilitate the speedy
replacement of the breach caused by
their death, in the leading staff of the !
English as well as the American and
the world revolutionary movement.
The world revolution will unflinching-
ly develop in the same path upon
which marched in complete under
standing with the Comintern our per-
ished comrades, and will end with the
undoubted victory of Communism in
the entire world, victory in which
they unflinchingly believed.