The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23
20, 900 HAIL MEMORY OF LENIN AT NEW YORK MEETING

the direct attack. they furnished
the arm that struck down one Of
the leaders of the Socialist Father
land"
Pointing to Lenin's great role as
the liberator of all oppressed, Brow
der proclaimed that a major task
of the revolutionary movement is to
fight for equal rights for women,
for the special demands of the
youth, and for the smashing Of the
poisonous system Of jim-crowism
and degradation of the Negro
people.
Victories of Soviet Union
Contrasting the steadily rising
living standards of the masses in
the Soviet Union with the ever
deepening misery of the toilers in
capitalist countries, Browder de-
clared:
These great victories of the
Russian workers and farmers I'M
der the leadership Of Stain and
the BOlsheviks are the ripe fruit
OF Lenin's teachings. They grow
out of the feminist solution of the
conquest of power, out of the die
tstOrship of the proletariat. These
achievements are possible because,
millions following Lenin pene-
trated the falsity of bourgeois
democracy, which is only demOc-
racy for the capitalist rulers but
a dictatorship against the work
ers, and through Soviet power es-
tablished a dictatorship against
the capitalists which is the broad
est, the only democracy, for the
toiIers."
Continuing, Browder stated, 1--WE
in America have the duty of bring
ing these feminist teachings to the
broadeSt American masses, to fuse
them with our native revolutionary
traditions, and bring the toAing
people of our country to the soIu-
ton of the crisis which threatens
our lives as the crisis threatened the
lives of the Russian masses.
Now N6UlDeTS GleOgea
Concluding his speech, Browder
hammered home the lesson of
Lenin's life, that the building of the
working class revolutionary party is
the vital condition for abolishing
the yoke of capitalist wage slavery.
AS great red banner rose above
him with the slogan inscribed on
it, Join the Party of Lenin, the
Communist Party" Browder turned
to the two thousand new recruits
and gave the pledge of membership
saying, What can be more fitting
on this occasion when we honor the
memory of Lenin, than to use this
opportunity to give the obligation
of membership in Lenin's Party to
that newest group of recruits to our
ranks here in New oYrk, who are
only the first green shoots of the
revolutionary spring time in Amer
lea, which will bring us, in the not
distant future, to the harvest OF
Workers Power in our own land
to the harvest of Socialism in this
country. which above all others has
the material prerequisites for So
ciety of peace, plenty and pros
perity, which can only be achieved
by following the path of Lenin."
Negro Liberation
In brief speech, preceding
Browder, Ford pointed out that the
question of the liberation of the op-
pressed Negro people in this coun-
try was made by Lenin one of the
fundamental questions of the work
ing class revolution. He quoted
from Stain who declared that the
struggles of the oppressed nation.
alities are mighty revolutionary al
lies of the working class, and, Fore
stated, not to fight for the liberia
ton of the Negroes in the United
States is to give up any serious fight
for the overthrow of American cap
italism.
He was cheered when he de-
clared that "the perspective is fol-
Negro rebellions which will be the
prelude to mightier class battles"
Unity Stressed
Pointing to the extraordinary vic
tories of Lenin's and Stains poll
cies for self determination of al
nationalities in the Soviet Union
Ford called for greater revolution
airy struggles in this country.
Charles Krumbein, as chairman
drew picture of the misery
brought by Roosevelt's New Deal, anc
called for the united front of al
workers in the fight for better con-
ditionS, and against the menace OF
fascism and war.
Resolutions were unanimously
adopted, in addition to the Kiroy
resolution, protesting the brutal ex-
ecution of 10 Bulgarian anti-fascist
soldiers. denouncing Hearst ano
calling for joint action to defeat his
fascist campaign, for the Liberation
of Rakosi, imprisoned Hungarian
revolutionist, and demanding ar
end to the Nazi terror in the Saar
AS announced, at 1920 the meeting
was adjourned.
In answer to an appeal by Krum-
bein for funds to carry on the work
of the Party and to pay for the
expenses of the meeting, the audi
ence contributed $1,453.59.
The dramatic program was under
the supervision of Paul Peters ano
George Sklar.