The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-10
BERLIN PARTY
LEADERS LAUD
C.E.RUTHENBERG
Red Flag Floats at Half
Mast
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.


floating at half mast over beautiful
structure that dwarfs the buildings
about it.
The building is Karl Liebknecht
House, the new home Of the German
Communist Party in Alexander
Strasse alexander Street,. The
structure also houses the Party's Of
fetal organ, ode Rote Fahne" THE
Red Flag.
The crimson standard of the Ger
man Party was at half mast over its
own home in honor of the coming on
Tuesday, April 10, at noon of the
Ashes of our American Comrade
Ruthenberg.
Met BY Party Leaders.
Here in Berlin we had been re-
ceived, as at Bremerhaven, at Bremen
and at Hamburg, by the leaders Of
the Party, by Guard Of Honor from
the Red Front Fighters and by hosts
of workers, who joined in the pro-
cession from the Iehrter Bahnof,
where we arrived from Hamburg, to
the Party Headquarters. In the es-
cort were Ottoman Eberlein, the po-
litical secretary of the German Com
munist Party, and Wilhelm PECK, its
general secretary.
Another room beautifully decorated,
had been prepared here as in the
other cities as the resting place for
the Urn, during it's stay in Berlin.
Here another Guard of Honor was
placed on continuous watch.
The stop in Berlin was not to be
very long. l seized the first oppor-
tunity, therefore, to visit Friedriehs-
field, the beautiful cemetery where
lie buried Karl Liebknecht and Rosa
Luxembourg with hundreds of other
martyrs of the revolutionary strug-
giles of the workers in Berlin.
Friedrichsfeld lies to the East of
Berlin, along the railroad that runs
toward Moscow. / was accompanied
by a young comrade from the party
headquarters. AS we approached the
cemetery, we came up with funeral,
a proletarian funeral being conducted
by Red Front Fighters. The casket
was carried in a. horse-drawn black
hearse. All those accompanying the
casket walked. All except two big
autobuses filled with police, for the
police are always present in large
numbers at all Communist funerals
in Berlin. In addition to carrying short
swords and revolvers, many Of them
had rifles thrown over their shout
ders. More police were already wait
ing when we arrived at the cemetery.
Wreath For Liebknecht.
The party has a large plot of
ground here of it's own. In the cen
ter there has been erected with the
contributions of workers huge "Red
Wall" at a cost of $4,000. The build
ing of this "Red Wall' was inspired
by the "Red Wall' of the Paris Com
mune, and of the "Red Wall' of the
Kremlin in Moscow. It's foundation
is deep, it stands thick, high and
wide, it's solidity a symbol of the
strength of the German Communist
movement. In the center at the front
of the "Red Wall" Liebknecht and
Luxembourg lie buried. On behalf
Of the American Communist Move
ment / placed wreath upon their
graves with the inscription: "In
Memory of Brave Red Soldiers of the
World Social Revolution" In this
plot alone 244 lie buried, many of
them the martyrs of the Spartacus
struggle for power in January, 1919,
Eebknecht and Luxembourg being
slain on Jan. 18th of that year. At
least 5000 workers in all lost their
lives in this single revolutionary eff
fort. Many of these are buried in
other parts of this same cemetery
that contains no graves Of the bour-
geois dead.
Then we returned to the city and
as we passed thru the working class
sections the workers were already
gathering in the open spaces, pre-
pairing to march to Karl Liebknecht
House for the demonstration that was
to bid Revolutionary Farewell to the
Ashes Of Ruthenberg on their way to
Moscow. In one public park we no
ticed that the Red Standard, one of
the Red Front Fighters Organiza-
tions, had been placed and was a.
ready surrounded by many workers.
When we reached Karl Liebknecht
House, the streets were already be-
ginning to fill up, with the police
present in large numbers everywhere.
Exactly at $50 o'clock the procession
began to move toward the Sehles-
ischen Bahnof (Station) thru LINEN
Strasse, thru the Gollnow, Weber,
Andre strasse, thru Die LANCE Strasse
the procession moved and finally ar
rived, after half an hours march, in
the great open space before the sta
ton. Every bit of room, however,
was filled. Hundreds had greeted the
Ashes on their arrival in the morn
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