The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-01

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Took Up Fight Against Wa
Be.oly long, IS Comrade 81
began seriously to study the IN
and practice CT the reYo.r'"
movement. she realized that
ic."' 0ociaist Party leadersh
rsesine with opportunism an
in no asrao waeing real ST
against war ari social-patri
Soon she joined q small grol
!eft-wingers in New York and
came en- ardent worker in the 81
gle against the opportunisn1
treachery Of the Socialist Party lie
ership.
Helps to Organize Communist Pan
Fer two years she worked in q
left-wing. striving to consolidate IL
growing rank and file opposition t
the rFillauits, BorTers, O'Nesls, PanR'
ems, Londons. After series Of
sarug gles-inner-p party struggles based
upon theory and practice that for
the first time in her life had any
meaning for her-Rose was sent to-
Chicago rs an elected delegate to
help form the Communist Party.
At that first convention she was
elected q member of Central Exec
utive Committee of the Communist
Party. During the next few years
all through the underground ex-
ist9rce of the Party, she worked tire
lessly.
Active Among Negro Masses
Rose was one of the first comrades
in the Communist Party to take upI
work among the Negro masses. THU
she took up after a visit to Moscow
where she participated in discusi
stons on this question. While still
in the Socialist Party, as early 2
1909, she, contrary to the practi
Of other leaders and agitators of tl4s
Party, tried to find a way to rs4y
The Negro masses FOR struggle sgaisst
i'm crowisrn, segTee alton. lyncailRs
At that time she attended a conf
ence at Tuskegee and took q
stand against jim tt
She met many Negro leaders am
them Dr. w E. B. Dubois. In
memoirs she throws an illunine
J light upon that betrayer of The 81
giles of the Negro masses, 3ayin
"Dr. W. E. B. Dubois was
a guest. l found him a cold l.
lectual with frozen sympathies.
was perhaps the first black M
10 make me realize that not
men whose skins are black are o.
pressed prcletarians; that the blac
| like the white workers have IN tht
midst the shrewd reformers
concerned with freeing the swoThsa
but with keeping them I'M need o
social service which, like the com
pany store, weaves about its c.
tins an eternal web OF debt
seryitude."
The last days Of her activity
taken up with hJiping to carry
the revolutionary policies of the Pc -
ty es thsy relate to the unity Of
gro and white i'll a struggle aga
the common enemy. ~
Arrested for Communist ActsN,
In the Red raids of 1920 cons9ue
by Wilson'S attorney general, the
orious A. Mitchell Palmer. Ct
Rose was one Of those
New York and extradicted
/ to stand trial. Again she
rested for attending the B
convention CT the Commw
in Michigan in 1922
Had Rose been able TO sur
rayages Of the dread disease
which she suffered and returnet
Germany to take her place aga
the ranks she would have !
able to deliver heavier bic
than ever against the social-demt
cratic leaders, for, although i'll, 81
was able to see the results Of th
social-fascists OF Germany who help
ed Hitler to power and who shar
the responsibility with the bourge
elsie for keeping him in power.
Tribute from Tom Mooney
When Rose was in Germany and
group of friends had organized the
Rose Pastor Stokes Testimonial Com
mittee to help finance her attempts
to obtain a cure, letter was SEN
to Tom Mooney asking the use Of
his name. His reply is the splendid
tribute of one fighter to another:
Yes. a thousand times yes. That
is my reply to your request to use
my name as one of the sponsors
Of the mass testimonial and con-
cert to signify my comradeship for
this brave, heroic little woman who,
some twenty-odd years ago, was one
of my inspirations in the working
class struggle"
To the very last Rose engaged ac-
| lively in the mass struggles Of the
workers. It was in one of the fierce
street battles with Tammany police
thugs that, upon endeavoring to save
a boy from being brutally beaten by
police, she received the blows from
/ a policemsn's CLUB inducing
NOR that led to the fatal disc.
She was the type Of fighting
man Of whom Lenin spoke when
wrote: "A bourgeois -witnessfof
! the Commune wrote in May, 1871 In
| an English newspaper: If the Ere Bin
nation consisted o.2ly Of women, Wat
a terrible nation it would be then
Women and thirteen-ysar-ol chill
dren we're fighting during the Com
mune side by side with men. 1t
| cannot be otherwise also in the fut-
ure battles for the overthrow Of the
bourgeoisie'
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