The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-03

mltGee OF the Communist Party, at
a banquet held in his honor Satur-
day night at the Workers Center,
SO East 18th Street.
"On this occasion Of the fiftieth
birthday of Cornrade Trachtenberg, %
declared Stachel, speaking on be-
half of the political bureau of the
Communist Party, I'VE must recog-
nize that with our vast experience
we must set ourselves the imme-
date task of rapidly building the
Party. Our influence is growing
tremendously, but our recruiting
campaign is crawling along. We
must learn from those splendid
works published by Comra d e
Trachtenberg, how to combine, as
Lenin said, the high theoretical de-
velopment of the Bolsheviks and
the practicability of the Americans.
We must not only plan, but must
nov carry them out"
kilograms lauding Trachtenberg
for his long service to the working
class poured in from all parts of
the country and from abroad, in
Guiding a message Of congratula-
ton from the Comintern.
Telegram from Foster
The telegram from William 2.
Foster, read to the assemblage by
Max Bedacht, who acted as chair
man, stated:
My Dear COmrade Alexander:
/ send you the most hearty and
comradely greetings on the Ocea-
sion of your fiftieth birthday,
which comedies with over thirty
years of your activity in the labor
and revolutionary movement.
1 look back with great personal
pleasure to the years that we have
worked together in our common
cause-for the interests of our
class. Those of us who have been
associated with ysu personally
throughout the many years know
of and appreciate the contribu-
items that you have made to the
upbuilding of the workers move
ment, to the building of our Party,
to the laying of the foundations
for the final struggle which will
make our class the ruling class.
We honor you on this occasion
for your contributions to the cause
of labor as well as for your loyalty
and devotion to the Party and the
class whose interests it represents.
And especially for the great con-
tributions that you have made to-
wards the development of the
Marxist- feminist publications in
the United States.
1t is well that our Party and the
revolutionary labor movement in
general shall give honor to its
loyal and outstanding fighters. For
it is through such occasions that
we also are able to estimate the
course that we have travelled and
the distance that still separates us
from our goal. In doing so we
strive with all our power to &C
CELEBRATE the pace towards the
reaching of our goal. And in this
sense we know that the best and
most fruitful years of your work
are still ahead of you.
Your Comrade and friend,
WILLIAM z. FOSTER.
Other wires we're received from
Robert Minor, John Williamson,
Sam Darcy, Clarence Hathaway,
James w. Ford, Israel Amter, the
Cooperative Publishing Society for
Foreign Workers of the q. S. S. R.,
Anthony Bimba, Jacob Burck, Paul
Crouch, for the Communist Party
district of North Carolina, John
Steuben, for the Communist Party
workers in Youngstown, Ohio, H
Shepard, for the Communist Party
district of Buffalo.
Many Pay Tribute
A long list of speakers at the main
table who rose to pay tribute to
Trachtenberg for his long and loyal
service to the movement of the
working class, included Jack Stachel
for the Politburo of the Communist
Party; Mother Bloor, veteran revo-
1utionary fighter; Moissaye Olgin,
editor of the Freiheit; Charles
Krumbein, for the New York Dis
trict of the Communist Party;
Robert Dunn, of the Labor Research
Association; Harry Cannes, for the
Daily Worker; A. Markoff, for the
Workers School; Heller, of the F.S,
u; MacWeiss, for the Young Com
munist League; Merrill Work, for
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights; Isidor Schneider, for the
New Masses; Orrick Johns, for the
John Reed Clubs of the country;
Radze, of the Russian Bureau of the
Communist Party, and William
Seigel, for the Artists groups in
the John Reed Clubs.
During the celebration, news came
of the assassination Of the Bolshe-
vik, Kirov, and the whole assem-
blage rose in silence to do him
tribute.
In reply to the many speeches,
Tratchtenberg spoke Of the still
great need for bringing Marxist-
feminist theory to the working class,
to the work of the Communist Party
in its daily struggles. He traced
his work in the revolutionary move
ment from the time when, as a
soldier in the Czarist army during
the Russo-Japanese war, he learned
of Socialism from the peasant
soldiers, to the days of his 16-year
membership in the Socialist Party,
down to his becoming a member of
the Communist Party after the split.
ut is the daily work for the revo-