The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-20

AAAN tesbAN was ALLEANEA lVV AhSE
NEW YORK. 49, Twelve thousand
persons poured into the Bronx Coli
scum Sunday night in solemn
tribute to the memory of the dead
revolutionary leader, J. Louis Eng
dahl, and in grim determination to
carry to still higher levels the fight
for the Scottsboro boys in which
Engdahl gave his life,
Negro, Chinese, japanese and
white workers and intellectuals,
Communist workers and non-Com-
munists joined together at this meet
ing in the tribute to Engdahl and
the pledge to carry out his last
wishes for the relentless prosecution
of the Scottsboro struggle to a vic
ferrous conclusion, for the release of
the Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney
and all other claSs-war prisoners.
Impressive Scene
In an impressive scene, the huge
crowd rose to its feet and stood in
bowed attention as the marble urn
containing the ashes of Comrade
Elgdahl was borne to the platform
by q guard of honor with Engdahl's
cO-worker, Mrs. Ada Wright, mother
of two of the Scottsboro boys, in
The center of the guard of honor.
Behind the guard of honor the ban
ners of many organizations were
maSsed as hundreds marched in the
procession. circling the huge Coli
scum, TO the platform where the urn
was placed on a red-coVered table,
as a chorus of 500 voices rendered
the new revolutionary funeral dirge
This was followed by a selection of
revolutionary music by the WIR.
band of so trained musicians.
Standing beside the ashes Of the
fallen revolutionary fighter, speaker
after speaker paid glowing tribute
to his 25 years of self sacrificing
service to the revolutionary move
ment
Big Step Towards Negro Liberation
i. Amter. national secretary of the
Unemployed Councils, acted as
chairman and spoke briefly of his
long association with Comrade Eng
dahl James w. Ford, Communist
candidate for vice-president in the
1882 elections, declared the Scots
boro struggle, in which Engdahl gave
his life, was the greatest step toward
Negro liberation since the Civil War.
During the evening tribute to Eng
dahl from William z. Foster, who
regretted his inability to attend, was
read to the meeting.
Mrs. Ada Wright, still suffering
from the strain Of the European tour
she conducted together with Com
rade Engdahl, spoke in glowing terms
of..his work for the release of her
two sons and the other seven boys,
Of his heroism in the face Of police
terror, arrests and deportations in
stigated by the u S. inlperialists and
carried out by the European bourge-
oisie and Socialist leaders in the
futile attempt to disrupt the Scots
boro campaign.
Greetings of European Workers
Mrs. Wright brought to the meet
ing the greetings of tens of thou
sands of European workers, farmers
and intellectuals who have rallied to
the worldwide fight to free the
5cottsboro lads. She told of the tire
.ess efforts of Engdahl, Of his revo-
hItionary refusal to be discouraged,
of his constant efforts to cheer her
UP. of his last words to her telling
her never to give up the fight. She
declared:
ST pledge myself to carry on the
fight where Engdahl left off. We
must build the LID, into power
fm mass organizations. Whatever
happens to my two sons, will
carry on the fight in the ranks of
the LID. as long as I live
Anti War Stand
Robert Minor, representing the
Central Committee of the Commun-
list Party, told of Engdahl's opposi-
ton to the imperialist war, Of his
sentence to twenty years imprison-
ment. of his breaking with the trait
orous Socialist leadership who sup
ported the war, of his long activities
as a leader of the Communist Party.
He contrasted the conditions Of the
Negro people in this country under
capitalism to the conditions of the
formerly oppressed nationahties of
Czarist Russia, liberated by the Oc-
tober Revolution.
other speakers included Richard
b.. Moore, who made an irapassioned
appeal for the building of the LID,
Mother Bloor, Carl Hacker, Miraim
Brooks and William Patterson,
Resolutions were unanimously adj
opted demanding the release of the
Scottsboro boys, Tom Mooney, the
Tampa prisoners and other victims
of capitalist justice, and pledging the
huge audience to a relentless fight
against the growing capitalist terror,
wage cuts deportations and attacks
on the rights of the toiling masses.