The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30

the death of Valerian KuibysE
leaders of the Party and org
of it's glorious fighters. Mi
academicians, collective farmers,
artists, engineers, actors and build
ers of the new society in all sec
tions of socialist construction ex-
pressed their genuine, deep sorrow
on the occasion of the heavy loss
sustained by the Party, the working
class and the toilers throughout the
world.
Whole Country MOurns
The death of Kuibyshev put the
whole country in mourning. But
this mourning itself is a grandiose
demonstration in praise of the great
Welder of unity. The Soviet coun-
try mourns over her leaders who
have passed on, not by shedding
impotent tears but by marching
forward toward new battles, new
victories, under the skilled leader
ship of Stain.
Streams of people flowed from
all parts of the red capital, from
the factories and plants, to the
Trade Union House, where the body
Of Kuibyshev lay in state amidst
wreaths and flowers. 1t is quiet
and sad, the Column Hall Of the
Trade Union House.
ToiIers Fill Street
The streets adjacent to the
Trade Union House were filled with
toilers who came to pay Kuibyshev
a last tribute. Around the noun
tain Of flowers, wherein the coffin
was submerged, the dark, damp
and wide road winded, bearing
traces of the scores of thousands of
feet. It is road of sorrow. The
workers delegations moved in the
dim light. In half a day 100000
passed his body.
The delegations from all parts of
the Soviet Union, who had arrived
for the ALBUMIN Congress of So
VETS, replaced the guards of honor
one after another. Here were W.
beks, Georgians, Armenians, White
Russians, Ukrainians, Tadjiks, Chu-
vashians, Kossaks, Turks, Assetians,
Turkomen, Tartars and Bashkiri-
ans, all of them stood with bowed
heads, and before the guard was
changed fixed their eyes on the still
face for the last time
Nineteen days had passed since
in this very hall Kuibyshev de-
livered his report at the Moscow
Regional Congress of SOviets on
the work of the government. He
confidently erected monumental
structures with his figures and
grandiose columns of statistical
calculations. The audience which
filled the Column Hall listened
with tense attention because the
remarkable life of the Soviet
country Numbered and sang in
these figures. And in short
while he lay ten steps from the
place where he pronounced his
last report,
The guards changed, the Cheliu-
skiners, Bobrov, Schmidt, Babush-
kin and Ushakov approached the
coffin. They paid a last tribute
to the man who directed the work
of their rescue. Gray, sad Krup-
skaya stood at the coffin of her
dead friend and comrade. Here
were Stain Postyshev, Molotov,
Voroshilov, Kaganovitch, Ordjoni-
kidze, Kossior at the coffin; they
formed the first guard of honor and
then in the evening before the Gre
nation they were again in the
guard of honor, close to their friend
and comrade in arms in struggle.
The sounds of the mourning march
extended and spread to the throngs
in the open, standing still in sorrow
and silence. Stain, Molotov, Kaga-
novitch, Voroshilov and Ordjoni-
kidze lifted the coffin with the body
of Kuibyshev. And the song OF
mourning bore the undercurrent Of
fierce struggle as the strains of the
international rose.