World: End of the Rebel Girl

Yes, her hands may he hardened from labor

And her dress not he very fine

But a heart in her bosom is beating

That is true to her class and her kind.

Joe Hill—The Rebel Girl

The words of this old Wobbly song were recited last week in Moscow's Hall of Columns, where the body of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lay in state. Chairman of the feeble U.S. Communist Party, she is the third foreign Red leader to die in the Soviet Union in the last two months, being preceded by France's Maurice Thorez and Italy's Palmiro Togliatti.

Diaphragm Power. Elizabeth Flynn came young to radicalism. The...