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HONOREDDead Leaders iiThe Friedrlchafclde cemetery on tbo outskirts of Berlin was crowdej with thousands and thousands 01 workers when the Communist Party held a memorial meeting at the graves of Karl Llebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, who are burled there together with other Benin workers who died In the revolutionary struggles. Numerous factory delegations were present with wreaths. The Central Committee of the Communist Party, the Berlin District Committee of the Party and the Central Committee of the Young Communist League had all sent magnificent wreaths.All the proletarian revolutionary mass organisations were represented, and a detachment of tlio Antlfa (Anti-Fascist League) stood at attention before th© Impressive revolutionary monument which the workers of Berlin have erected in memory of their murdered readers and fallen comrades. When the representative of lhe Central Committee of the Communist Parly began his speech, tho cemetery was a forest of red flags above a packed maBs of heads.No assemblies were permitted out-Bide th© cemetery and no processions, and those workers who were unable to find room in the cemetery were immediately turned away by a large force of police, who held the gates or the cemetery occupied. Deeplte the unueces8ari!y rigorous and provocative attitude of the police there were no untoward incidents. ♦-
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Sydney Workers Weekly
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Apr 01, 1932
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