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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Ry PAUL CLINE.

THE American bourgeoise has long
ago realized and taken advantage
of the opportunities which sports af-
ford 1t for the strengthening Of its
control over the workers. Thru many
years of systematic work in this field,
the ruling class of this country has
perfected a national system of sports
organizations which has wormed its
way deeply into the ranks of the
working class, and which is the medi-
UNI for patriotic, fascist, militarist and
anti-labor propaganda. Thousands
and hundreds Of thousands of dollars
are expended yearly by the bosses for
the financing Of their sport work.
Factory Sport Clubs.
A typical form of bourgeois sport
organization, form which in its harm
to the interests of the workers ranks
next to the company's union, is the
factory sport club. Thru the factory
sport clubs the capitalists manage to
bind the workers more closely to their
jobs, to throw a cloud of good fellow
ship" around the process of exploita-
ton, to control the thoughts and ac-
tivities Of the workers after working
hours, and to prepare the loyal ath-
letes" for strikebreaking activity in
time of emergency. An additional pur-
pose which the factory sport clubs
serve-from the point of view Of the
boss-is that they build up the work
ers physically and thereby render
them subject to more intensified ex-
ploiation.
Such large corporations as the West
ern Electric, Sears Roebuck and the
Gary Steel works have set up huge
sport departments directed by salar-
led experts. These concerns have
built up an elaborate system of com
petitiye sport which tends to destroy
solidarity and to develop rivalry and
individualism. Basketball, tennis,
bowling, horseshoe throwing and base
ball are sports which are pushed
Mass drills or calisthenics are discour-
aged-in fact are prohibited, since
they bring large numbers of workers
together on cooperative basis.
Supplementing the factory clubs,
the bourgeoisie have set up athletic as
sociations all over the country. These
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
NEW LEAGUE ORGAN IN RUSSIAN
LANGUAGE.

PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia.- The
first number has appeared of the new
organ of the Y. C. L. of Czecho-Slova.
kia in Russian language, under the
name of "Karpathskaya Pravda" and
as supplement to the Russian organ
of the c. P. of Czecho-Slovakia. Hence
the Y. c. L. Czecho-Slovakia already
issues it's organ in five languages, viz:
Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian and
Russian. The new organ is an i'm
portant means for winning the young
workers and peasants in Podkarpatno-
Russ. For the present this Russian
edition appears once a month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

to successfully cope with our enemy
How can we do this unless we concen-
trate all our efforts to carry out sue
cessfully the campaign for subs for
our own paper, the paper of our class,
The DAILY WORKER?
Let our motto be not 5000, but a list
far beyond the limit set by the central
executive committee of our party.
In this country is concentrated the
greatest power of imperialist capital
ism. Here the workers have a
greater task than confronts the toll
ers of any of the other countries. The
workers of the world are looking to
the workers of America to set the
pace in fighting imperialist capital
ism, and it is fact of no small i'm
port to them, that the first English
Communist daily in the world, was
launched here, and is hurting defiance
at this monster of Imperialism.
Lenin told us the need of the work
ers' press and how we must guard and
defend it, how we must work to in
crease its influence among the masses
Of workers and see that the message
Of Communism goes out daily. I'M
polluted and indebted. Comrades let
us carry out the orders of our great
leader of the masses. and make our
press, the mouthpiece of every slave
Of capitalism, carrying its message of
evolution to the uttermost ends of
the earth. Long live the fighting press
Of the bondsman. Long live the DIAL
LY WORKER! Forward to a goal far
beyond the five thousand set by the
leaders of the proletariat of imperial
istic Americal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
BOURGEOIS CONTROL THRU SPORTS

athletic associations are accorded the
use Of the school and the public park
athletic facilities. They are controlled
by boards composed of local business
figures generally former athletes)
and are the objects of an intensified
boss propaganda. Patriotism and mill
itarism are rampant in these anna
teur athletic associations, whose mem
bers are overwhelmingly young work
ers. Speeches by military men, mill
tarists, and paid propagandists are
the usual thing in these athletic as
socIations. 'Athleticism and Ameri-
canism are synonymous" is the slogan
which the capitalists try to drive
home in their amateur athletic assoc
iations.
The Professionals.
Another and more indirect form of
capitalist sport influence over the pro-
letratiat is thru professional sport, e.
boxing, wrestling, and baseball. These
branches of sport are bonafide forms
of capitalist business enterprise, pro-
ducing enormous profits for the own
ers, managers and promoters from the
exploitation of the professional ath-
letes. Professional sport is also perm
Gated with the ideal of 100 per cent
Americanism and patriotism. During
the war, the professional athletes who
VOLUNTEERED were held up before the
sporting fans as martyrs, as super-cit-
liens. A tremendous proportion of
the American workers-and particu-
larly the young workers, patronize
and are absorbed in professional
sport. This, naturally drags them to-
ward the capitalist theology, prevents
their coming to class consciousness,
and diverts their attention from the
class struggle.
1t is an old and sound proverb, and
one which is particularly applicable to
our movement, that one takes an ex-
ample from the wisdom of his enc
mics. In the field of sport work, the
Communist movement, and particular
ly it's youth section has much to learn
from the bourgeoisie. There is a cry
ing need for the organization of a
large and strong workers sport move
ment in this country. In a subse-
quent article the tasks of the Young
Workers League in this field will be
dealt with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
new YORK WILL HAVE
SUNDAY NIGHT FORUM
AT WORKERS SCHOOL
Especial to The Daily wOrkerl

NEW YORK, Jan. ST. Sunday,
Feb. z, Rertram D. Wolfe, director
Of the New York Workers. School,
will lead a discussion on the topic.
"Whlther American" at the Sunday
night central forum to be held at
Workers School, 1903 East Four
teenth street. The following Sun
day, Feb, IA, William w. Weinstone,
general secretary Of the district,
will talk on the "Three lnterna-
tlonaIs," and on Feb. Fl, the organ
lzatlon secretary, Jack StacheI, will
discuss "class Collaboration"
The lecturer will speak for as
minutes or an hour and general dis
cusslon will follow. This general
discussion will give an opportunity
to all party members to train them
selves in public speaking and de-
veIop the power Of thinking on their
feet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
CHICAGO NUCLEI
is INTERESTED IN
WORKERS SCHOOL
Enroll Now and Be AS
signed to Class

The party units in Chicago are be-
ginning to respond to the enrolment
campaign of the Chicago Workers
School. Already. there are in the Of
flee of the Workers School the names
of SO workers, selecting 40 classes;
these do not include students in the
many classes of the first term, who
are sure to continue. But not all of
these are paid up enrollments; as
Arne Swabeck says: IAN enrolment
is an enrolment only when the money
rolls in"
All comrades who have selected
courses should send in the registra-
ton fee. When classes are cut down
to size, preference VIII be given to
those who first completed their regis
tration.
Nuclei Get EnroIlments.
Section 1 has enrolled six comrades
in both the Elementslo of Communism
and Historical Materialism; Shop
Nucleus 20-fye comrades for Eng
fish; Street Nucleus 12Atwo for Eng
lish, one for Historical Materialism;
for the Workers correspondence
class-Street Nucleus 37--one; No. q
one; No. 25-three; Shop Nucleus
20-three. Other units meeting be-
fore Feb. are urgently requested to
secure enrollments at their next meet
ing. Many units are satisfied with an
nouncing the classes; but this is in
sufficient. Secure enrollments, and
forward with fees.
So far, the enrollments are as fol-
lows for the various classes: English
ii; Historical Materialism-10
Workers Journalism-9; Capital-5;
Trade Union Organization and Tactics
Sc; Elements of Communism-S.
Enroll NowI
If you have the habit of waiting
around until the last day, and then
registering, now is the time to break
away, by signing ups Our slogan is
Fifty Enrollments Day Make This
Your Day.
The address is 10 South Lincoln st.
Remember this is limited to classes
in Chicago. 1f
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

this effort to increase the usefulness
and influence of this paper of ours.
When we call to mind the fact that
the minds of the workers are being
poisoned by S0,OOO,00O capitalist pa
pers going into homes of the work
ers and that we can not hope to see
the workers become class conscious
fighters, unless they are brot to see
the traitorous part they are playing in
supporting the institutions of their
enemies. When we add the thousands
of magazines and other means of
supplying and dulling the minds of
our class that are in the hand of the
enemy used to inject the opium of
indifference bigotry, race hatred, reli-
gious divisions into our ranks then we
must be blind indeed if we do not see
that it is imperative to build and ex-
pand the influence and work OF our
paper
The brass check press of the mast
ers is its greatest weapon. 1t is one of
the first lines of defense of right to
hold in subsection the workers. 1t is
the first weapon which is brot to bear
on our class in its struggles for the
overthrow of capitalism. The brass
check press must be destroyed and
rendered useless before we can hope
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
SHOP DELEGATES CONFERENCE
OF THE RoskovITZ TRADE
SCHOOL,

PRAGUE, -Slovakia.- meet
ing of shop delegates of the Continue
ton Schools in Boskovitz on October
18th formulated the following de-
mands:
l. Abolition of night and Saturday
afternoon sessions in the trade
schools transfer of training into
working hours.
2. Maintenance of the legal eight
hour day for all apprentices.
1t was stated at the Conference that
the majority Of the apprentices in the
Boskovitz district are often compelled
to work more than 70 hours a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
YOUNG WORKERS
BRUTALITY BEATEN
BY CARETAKER
Forced to Eat Soap for
Rule Violations
Especial to The Daily Worker,

KANSAS CITY, Kans., Jan. 81. -
During the grand jury investigation of
the McCune home for subnormal boys,
it was revealed how children of work
ing class parents were being tortured
under the brutal administration of a
political appointee. The investigation
Ia whitewash expedition would be
more ppropriate-follows a protest
from mother of boy who was
brutally beaten and made to eat soap
for minor infringement of the rules
Of the home.
Bert Hafer, who was promoted"
from county electrician to the super
intendent Of the home, made one boy
who was talking to another youngster
wear a paper clip that operates in
CLOTHES pin" fashion until his lips
bled for talking too much"
Another young lad was caught in
the act of breaking some Of the minor
rules. Bert Hafer then took bar of
toilet soap and forced the young lad
to take a bite. He then took the ID
year old youth by the ear which was
still being treated after an operation
for mastoiditis-and forced him to
swallow it. The boy was nauseated.
His stomach would not hold the soap.
1t came up. The "caretaker" then be-
came enraged because the lad had
not been able to keep the soap in his
stomach and "dirtied" the floor of the
home, forced the youth to gargle his
mouth with castor oil and then drink
it.
Many other boys testified to the
brutal treatment they had been sub
jected to. Most of them told of how
they had been forced to eat soap and
drink large quantities of castor oil
and were beaten in most brutal fash
ion.
The capitalist papers as well as the
labor papers have nothing to say
about the treatment that the boys are
receiving in the home. They are ST.
lent. Their columns are filled with
stories of what Russian Bolsheviks
are doing to counter-revolutionari
The Workers (Communist) Party
and the Young Workers (Communist)
League are planning to carry on a
drive and show to the. workers how
the subnormal children of working
class parents are "cared for" in these
homes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
COOP RATIVES
FIGHT fascist
RULE IN ITALY
American Society Joins
international Protest
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

CLOQUTE, Mimi, Jan. 31-The
Cloquet Cooperative Society, con
sisting Of SIS members of different
nationalities, at its annual meeting,
most emphatically protested against
the fascist terror in Italy Fascists
have not only destroyed local coop
eratives in Italy, but on November Is,
forcibly occupied the Offices of the Co
operative League of Italy and dissolv-
ed the organization.
The annual meeting Of the Cloquet
cooperative also demanded that the
International Cooperative Alliance
should take the initiative to call an in
ternationaI conference of the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions, Amster-
dam International OF Trade Unions
and International Cooperative ALI
ance, to formulate International meas
ures to fight fascism.
The resolution follows
WHEREAS, the present fascist
government of Italy has destroyed the
cooperative societies of Italy and
forcibly occupied the offices of the
Lega Nazionale;
we, the members of the Cloquet
(Minn) Cooperative Society assem-
bled in our annual membership meet
ing, join in the protest of the Interna-
tional Cooperative Alliance, and ex-
tend our sympathies to the perse-
cuted Italian co-operators.
Further, we heartily endorse the
proposal made by the Red Interna-
tional Labor Union that the Interna-
tional Cooperative Alliance take the
initiative to call conference of the
Amsterdam International of Trade
Unions. the Red International Labor
Unions, and International Cooperative
Alliance, to formulate measures to
fight fascism"
Send Resolution Broadcast.
A copy Of the above mentioned reso-
luton was sent to the Cooperative
League of America and International
Cooperative Alliance, London. A pro-
test was also sent to the Italian am
bassador at Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Mother" Bloor Tours
East for Labor Defense
1. L. D. News Service

Ella Reeve Bloor. who rendered
splendid service in Boston during the
taxi strike, in helping the defense of
several workers who we're framed up
by the company, is starting on a west.
ern tour that will bring her to Chicago
on Feb. rs. Her schedule is as fol
lows: Bridgeport, Feb. LIST; Philadel-
phia Feb. End; Baltimore. Feb. "a
Washington, Feb. Sc; Cleveland, Feb
Sill; State OF Ohio February, 1928.
Afterwards Mother" Bloor will pro
coed westward to the coast.
Stanley j. Clark will be toured thru
California, then thru Arizona and
Texas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE
PLANS TWO DAY BAZAAR
IN MILWAUKEE,, FEB. 1914

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 3i-The Young
Workers (communist) League and
the Young Pioneers have arranged
a two day bazaar to take place Sat
urday and Sunday, Feb. 10 and IA
at Millers' Hall, Eighth and State
street for the benefit Of the press
and to further the organization work
OF the league and the chIdren's
movement.
Party members and sympathizers
are urged to help the league make
a success Of this affair. The league
Is appealing to party members to
send In donations for the benefit Of
the bazaar.
All donations to be sent to Young
Workers (communist) League, Lo-
cal Milwaukee, so2 State street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
COMMUNISTS IN !.
ARGENTINE URGE
N EE D 0 F UNITY
Refornist Leaders Sow
Dissension In Unions

BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 22.-Comba-
ting the disruptive tactics of the re-
formist trade union leaders of Argen-
tina, which have already sowed divi-
sion in the ranks of the railroad
workers, seamen and other important
labor organizations, strong move
ment for national and international
trade union unity has grown up i'll
the Argentine. Syndicalists and an
archo-syndicalists, who are themselv-
es divided into various organizations,
are now beginning to appreciate that
their own mistakes are no less costly
for the working class than those of
the reformists.
The Communist Party of the Argen-
tine proposes a united front of all
labor organizations on the following
bases: ! support of national and in
ternational trade union unity; 2 unfit
cation of all parallel unions, on a
local as we'll as a national scale: 8
the sending of communication to the
Red International of Labor Unions, to
the Amsterdam and to the Berlin
fanarchist) international. calling for
an international labor unity congress;
active campaign for organization of
the unorganized workers; study of
projects for improving the work OF
all unions in Argentina establish
ment of special committees charged
with seeing that each of the above
points is put into practice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Duluth Proceeds to
Reorganize Into Nuclei

The Workers (Communist) Party Of
Duluth is proceeding with its reor-
ganization.
The city has been divided into three
sections and registration is about com
pleted Over forty members have al
ready been registered.
Compare Robert Sullivan, now dis
trict organizer in Minneapolis, is
preparing to visit all sections Of the
district in order to help the isolated
branches of which there are about sew.
enty to complete their registration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
WAR PREPARATIONS IN GREECE

ATHENS, Greece.-Pangalos has
declared that the reorganization of
the army is proceeding with dispatch.
Recently as many orders for war ma
terial were placed as during the whole
last ten years. In two years Greece
will be in position to defend its
Independence and to become a deci.
sive factor of peace. He declared.
further, that today there were no
longer any Venizellist or anti-venizel.
lists. Gel vima, Nov. 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Workers Communist Party
Subsection 9B Will
Hold Get Together"
Party in Brooklyn

NEW YORK, Jan. Subsection
9B of New York Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party is having a get-together,
Saturday evening, Feb. s, at Sc Man.
haitian Av. Brooklyn.
Various comrades come together in
their units to do Communist work
Many of them have not known one
another, but the comrades are getting
acquainted very rapidly and are even
growing intimate. Therefore the 9B
comrades feel that conditions are ripe
for a good time. The committee pre-
pared an excellent program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
YOUNG WORKERS OF OTHER LANDS

six to eight weeks. The attendance in
Brunn for instance is twenty. Every
village nucleus is pledged to send
three students, every town nucleus
ten. The expenses of the delegates are
borne by the nuclei. In addition from
those places in which no Y. c. L.
exists there will participate in the
school a member of the F. d. T. ].
(Red Sport Organization or of the
Party nucleus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Form. Student Council
at New York School
Especial to The Daily Workerl

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The student
body of the Workers School, more
numerous than at any previous period
in its history, has organized stu
dents council to take up matters Of
interest to the student body, to aid
in the conduct and financing of the
school and to promote friendly social
intercourse between students of the
different classes. The plans adopted
include the arranging of debates,
dances and a theater party. Glasses
which have not yet elected delegates
to the students council should do so
at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Northwest Side |. L. D.
Branch Meet Tuesday

The Northwest Side Branch of the
International Labor Defense will hold
a meeting at the Workers Lyceum,
1888 Hirsch Blvd, Tuesday evening,
Feb. 2, at o'clock. Many important
matters are to be discussed and every
member should attend this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Retributlon at Last. !.

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 31-James T.
Toye one of the firm which controls
the Yellow Cabs in this city is dead
as the result of leaky gas stove in
his apartment. The funeral was
largely attended, but not by union
men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
CHICAGO SECTION FIVE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MEETS MONDAY NIGHT

Section 5 executive committee
meets Monday, Feb. 1, at p. M,
at 24o6 North Clark street. All
executive committee members must
attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
LENiN SCHOOL OF THE Y. c. L
OF cZEcHo-sLovAkIA.

PRAGUE, czecho-sloyakia. Since
the end Of November the Lenin School
has been started in rs district-League
centers. The course is arranged for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
DAILY WORKER VS.. BRASS CHECK
PRESS; WE MUST GET MORE THAN
5000 SUBS IN LENIN DRIVE
BY W. J. WHITE.

GRRD Ohio jan S1The members of the Workers Communist
WORKER
Vladimir yich Uanov What
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WORKER for every meeting Of
your union.
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Take this copy of the DAILY
WORKER with you to the shop
tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
DUTCH socIAL-DEMocRAT
YOUTH LOSES

AMSTERDAM, Holland. - The re.
port on the membership of the Social.
Democratic Youth League in Holland
was announced as, September 1929
and October 1886. The loss falls
chiefly upon the 16 organizationally
strongest districts (Iet Junge volk.
Oct. l6.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

The Lenln Drive means quick
aetion--send your sub todayl
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-17
TRIBUTE TO WALTER
DAMROSCH

At 20 Walter Damrosch conducted
opera at the Metropolitan; at 81 he
retires from leadership in the New
York Symphony Orchestra, yet in
possession Of his great capacity as a
conductor and recognized by the mu-
steal public as one who probably has
has done more to elevate the popular
taste than has any other. His days
of usefulness to his beloved profess
sion. however. are by no means at an
end.
The New York World pays him
this tribute:
"But eminent as he is as a musi-
clan, we still love him most as man.
Which of the prima donna conduc-
tors can match the glamc- that he
manages to throw over a concerto
the glamour born of his real regard
for music, his modesty, his freedom
from affectation and theatricality
Which Of them can match his yeo-
mans service to music as an art?-
his long hours of teaching the I'M
taught, his children'S concerts, with
patient explanation of what it is all
about; his search for new creative
talent; his reverence for great men,
and his willingness to play their
neglected works simply because they
ought to be heard? The things
that he has done were not done by
one who was only a musician, but
one who was also q man, and a great
one-one who has that rich human
quality that transcends technical
brilliancy, and speaks to something
deep inside Of us. To whatever use
he now puts this quality it will con-
tinue to leave its impress on this
generation"