The daily worker., 1928-03-02
MUST MOBILIZE
WORKERS FOR
Great STRUGGLE
Funeral Grafton Called
for Stubborn Fight
Tsa- is Hte address, delivered by
Comrade Bukharin at the funeral
of Comrade c. E. Ruthenberg in.
Moscow, April 26, 1925.

COMRADES, we are lowering into
the grave today the ashes of Com
rade Ruthenberg, the leader of the
comparatively small but energetic
Communist Party Of the United
States Of North America.
In the entire world, comrades, there
exist two opposite poles of a strug-
gle, two fundamental, powerful his
torical forces. around which secondary
and weaker forces group themselves
and unite: these two poles are on
one side the United States Of Ahneri-
can-the forces of the old, the forces
Of capitalist counter-revolution, the
forces of imperialism; on the other
side the Union Of Socialist Re
publics-new forces, the forces of the
Communist Revolt, the forces for the
construction of socialism. And while
cur country which only ten years
ago was the stronghold of the most
barbarian, the most despotic tsarist
reaction, has been transformed into
the great land of the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat, at the other pole of
the earth, in the United States of
America, there still reigns, still
flourishes, still rules the most power
fully armed, the most highly de-
veloped imperialistic capitalism. The
bourgeoisie of the United States at
the present time represents the hege-
lrony, the leadership Of all the plum
dering, reactionary, counter-revolu-
tionary forces Of the entire world, Of
everything tending to support the
old order. And in the great events
Of the Chinese revolution we see the
United States of America in league
with Great Britain pursue their
peaceful" policy of robbing and tor
turing the Chinese people.
A great symbol is hidden in the
A present occasion The fact that
the ashes of cornrade Ruthenberg are
now here, that Comrade Ruthenborg,
the leader of our American Com
munist Party, which carries ON the
struggle under the most difficult con-
ditions, willed before his death to
be buried in Moscow; that his ashes
were brought here under our red BAN
/ ners; that his remains will rest side
by side with the remains of our best
fighters, side by side with Lenin. side
by side with scores of other great
proletarians, who raised the banner
Of revolt in the days Of October and
who sacrificed their lives on the bar
ricades, fighters whose bones paved
the road for the growth Of our great
future,--in all that there is great
symbol hidden.
OUR leader died in a country which
" at present is the main support of
international capitalism. He willed
that his ashes be transferred to the
country of the Proletarian Dictator
ship, country which is ,ncompar-
ably weaker than his native country,
which is a so-called "civilized" coun-
try, country Of refined executioners
Of the working class. In this there is
a great symbol Here is hidden the
profoundest historical idea of unity of
the world proletariat, the symbol Of
solidarity of the working class, the
symbol Of the Froletarian Dictator-
ship. The proletariat, the symbol of
solidarity power directed against the
enemies of the working class, is the
embryo Of the great brotherhood of
al1 toilers, and it is easily understood
that the workers of all lands, all ma
tions, all languages, Of all races see
! in the Communist international their
| banner, see in Moscow the capitol Of
! that great country which will finally
] become the motherzcountry of the
entire world In the graves of the
great fighters of the revolution, at
the Kremlin wall, they see the COM
mune of the dead martyrs, who sacri-
feed their lives for the brotherhood
cf the working class.
COMRADES, we are particularly
y grieved over the loss Of our COM
rade Ruthenberg. American capital
ism is still powerful. Bourgeois
ideology is still penetrating the Amer
ican working class. Our American
Party is still small. her leaders are
few in number the Communist move
ment Is just beginning to develop in
America. There is great future be-
fore them, but, before they will reach
4 that future, the fighters for Amer
/ lean Communism will be compelled to
pass many difficult roads and over
come many obstacles. Communism
in America is Just being born, and the
Communist Party is passing through
it's period Of childhood. The Party is
growing day by day, but 1t is still
small, while its enemy is the most
powerful on earth That is the reason
for our great grief over the loss Of
the leader Of the American Party.
But we also know that our grief is
not the grief Of the peoplc who are