Comrade Emil Eichhorn, one of the old guard of Social Democratic leaders remaining faithful until death to the revolutionary proletariat, died on 26 July. Comrade Emil Eichhorn was born on 9 October 1863 at Roehrsdorf near Chemnitz. During the period in which the “Socialist Law” was in force, he joined the then prohibited Social Democratic movement, and took an energetic part in the illegal work of this movement. He was a metal worker by trade, participated in the labour movement from his earliest youth, and was invariably to be found…
