The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
GERMAN COMRADES GUARD RUTHENBERCS ASHES

the voice of the martyrdom of the
German working class, Of the blood
that has been sacrificed in its struggle
for victory Only such working class
defiance as Kaspar uttered could come
in land where there are 100000 Of
unemployed, where 1000 political
prisoners still languish in the capital
list bastilles, where hunger and misery
/ gtip great masses of the people,
where revolutionary struggles have
continuously ragged since Karl Lieb-
tnecht raised the cry ofFWar Against
the War; while the kaiser's armies
where still in the tsenches
Kaspar reviewed the story Of
Ruthenberg's life and Of his contin-
uous struggle for 20 years in the
revolutionary movement in America
He told of kUthenberg being sent TO
prison during the war, Of the part
played as . iounoer OF the American
Communist Party, OF his being sent
to prison g second time, and of the
ten year sentence to prison that how
ered over his head when death
stepped in and struck him down.
This brief biography seemed to reveal
to the German workers, more than
anything else possibly could, the real
nature Of the American capitalist re-
public. 1t showed that American
democracy" was of the same brand
of tyranny that ruled in Germany I'M
der the kaiser. / responded in part
as follows.
Il bring to you, workers of Bremen
haven, the ashes OF Comrsde Ruthen-
berg. They are symbol Of the soil
darity and the unity Of the workers
of the United States and Germany.
And as | bring them to their final
resting place in the Red Wall of the
kremin at Moscow, they become
/ symbol of the unity and solidarity of
the workers thruout the entire world.
"Ruthenberg was member of the
presidium of the Communist Inter
national. He was our foremost stan
/ dardI bearer in the social revolution.
"Ruthenberg was our Karl Lieb-
knecht When the Wall Street i'm
perialists joined in the world slaugh-
ter, Ruthenberg, before masses of
workers gathered in the public square
at Cleveland, Ohio, declared, Not one
penny to help pay for the imperIalist
war! Not one man, not one drop OF
workers blood, to help fight the i'm
perialist war"
For this he was put in prison.
Following the war when he raised the
standards of the newly organized
Communist International in the Uni
ted States he was again imprisoned
"Ruthenberg was a feminist and q
Marxist. He knew how to lead, he
was our best leader in the revolution
airy struggle in America"
Then Osterlohr spoke briefly re-
viewing the significance of the fact
that the ashes of a leader in the
American revolutionary movement
We're being brought across the At
lantic Ocean and over Europe to be
buried in the free soil of the Soviet
Union. The speeches had to be cut
short since train time was rapidly
approaching.
Again taking up the march, led by
the Red Front Fighters carrying our
crimson banners, and with Comrao,
Kaspar carrying the Urn, and. ali
singing "The International" we pro-
ceeded thru the huge waiting room
of the station. The procession did
not halt until it drew up alongside the
train waiting to start for Bremen.
Thus the journey overland to Mos
cow continued, after it had spanned
the more than 5000 miles Of the
OCEANS width.
I During the day arrangements had
been made to go to Berlin by way of
Bremen and Hamburg. 1t was in the
latter city that the Young Communist
League of Germany, with 10000
delegates present, was holding its
annual congress over the Easter Holt
days. But first to Bremen.