Exactly 100 years ago tonight thousands of Chicago workers gather at Ashland Auditorium to commemorate the first anniversary of Lenin’s death.

‘Lenin Memorial Tonight’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 8. January 21, 1925.

CHICAGO LABOR JOINS IN HUGE DEMONSTRATION

Big Memorial Meeting at Ashland Auditorium

Tonight the thinking workers of Chicago, in myriad thousands, will bend their way towards the Ashland (Carmen’s) Auditorium, to join in the commemoration of the first anniversary of the death of Nicolai Lenin, leader of the workers’ revolution.

Workers Rally to Communism.

Last year thousands of workers gathered at meetings in Chicago and thruout the country to hear the slogan–“Lenin is dead–Long live Leninism.”

This year, more than ever before, the truth of the teachings of Lenin is apparent to the world’s workers. With the Coolidge-Morgan government actively entering Germany to enslave her workers under the Dawes plan, with the white terror being instituted by the bourgeois dictators in Europe and the colonies, the workers are rallying around the Communist International, founded by Lenin.

With the decline of capitalism, the working classes of the world realize more than ever that the road to their emancipation leads thru the Soviet state, and the tactics to be used to achieve the rule of the workers are the tactics taught by Lenin.

Prominent Speakers.

The speakers at tonight’s Lenin memorial meeting are to be Earl R. Browder, acting secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, J. Louis Engdahl, William F. Dunne, Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party and Gordon Owens, prominent Negro Communist. Twenty-five thousand Communists in Berlin paraded in memory of Nicolai Lenin a few days ago. The worker of the world cherish Lenin’s memory because they know that it was Lenin who instilled the iron discipline into the Bolshevik Party of Russia, that enabled the Russian Communists to overthrow the imperialistic regime of the czar and the bourgeois Kerensky regime, and establish the Soviet government.

Lenin Fought Opportunism.

Lenin relentlessly fought all petty bourgeois menshevik thot thruout the world. He carried on an unceasing war against the traitorous Kautsky; of the world who betrayed the workers because they thot the proletarian revolution “wasn’t nice.” Lenin was a true friend of the working class of America, and warmly welcomed the American delegates to the first congresses of the Third (Communist) International which he founded.

Long Live Leninism.

Tonight the Chicago members of the Workers (Communist) Party, and all who are loyal to the revolutionary working class will meet to hear America’s leading exponents of Leninism do honor to his memory and explain the great contributions made by Lenin toward the emancipation of the workers by means of the overthrow of the capitalist exploiters and the establishment of the rule of the workers thruout the world.

Minneapolis Meeting.

Lenin memorial meetings are being held in all principal cities and industrial centers of the country. The Lenin memorial meeting in Minneapolis, where the Communists have resisted all efforts of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats to break up the labor movement there, will be held Sunday Jan. 25 in the Finnish Hall, 1317 Western Ave., Earl Browder will be the principal speaker. Dan Stevens, who was the center of the recent fight in the local Trades and Labor Assembly will open the meeting as chairman. A splendid musical program has been arranged.

At tonight’s Lenin memorial meeting In Chicago, the Young Workers’ League, which has co-operated in all arrangements for the meeting, will supply the music. Admission will be only 25 cents.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924.

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