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In Cleveland, Comrade Ruthenberg's wife and son heard the news, prepared to go to Chicago for the cremation and burial. From comrades in Moscow came despatches. Russians were grieved, said : "His ashes will rest beneath the Kremlin wall, together with other revolutionary leaders." In New York, Communists were expelled from the International Fur Workers Union, lost their last hold on the furriers' trade. One more blow came in Cleveland. The Soviet propagandist film Breaking Chains was banned by state authorities, its permit to show revoked after one performance.*
*Not only in the U. S., but in the Americas generally were Communists disheartened. In Chile, last week, the government continued its campaign against Bolshevism, suppressed the Communist newspaper El Pueblo of Taena-