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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
Questions and Answers
Of Firs t Delegation
To U.S.S.R. Published

Following the publication of the Of
fetal report of the first American la
Dor delegation to Soviet Russia, head
ed by James P. Maurer, the Workers
Library Publishers of this city, have
just issued in book form the inter-
view of this delegation with Josef
Stain, head of the All Union Commu.
mist Party. The book is issued UNDER
the title of Questions and Answers to
American Trade Uhionists" and is pre-
faced by an introduction by Jay Love-
stone, secretary of the Workers Com
munist) Party.
The questions asked by the delega-
ton concern the connection between
the Communist Party and the govern
ment, the relation between the city
workers and peasants, the attitude of
the Party towards religion and other
matters. Stain answers all these
questions in detail and brilliantly.
Stain Also Asks Questions.
After answering all the questions
submitted, Stain begged permission
to ask questions of the delegation.
Brophy, Coyle, Robt. Dunn and others
of the American delegation answered
various questions put by Stain on why
trade unions in the U. S. are so small,
why there is no Labor Party and on
other matters of particular interest to
American workers.
Questions and Answers to Ameri-
can Trade Unionists" sells at rs cents
copy and can be secured from the
publishers at 80 E. 125 St., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
By MARTIN ABERN.

The economic theories developed or
the laws formulated by Karl Marx are
now making themselves felt in the
field of sports, particularly baseball.
To many, this new development is
unusual; actually, it is natural, in
evitable and based on ascertainable
causes.
The trend in professional baseball
is for justification of the enterprise,
towards a system of concentration OF
the ownership of the ball teams thru
out the country, high and low, and
towards interlocking directorates or
ownership.
Whereas in the past, Major
League Ball owner, for example, OF
New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago or st.
Louis, was satisfied to despoil and
profit through the ownership of his
particular group of players, it is now
found necessary to maintain either
domination or actual ownership of a
group of teams in the minor leagues.
Big and Little Magnates.
This is resulting in a good deal OF
discussion aud bigter dlsseaslon be-
tween the owners of the teams in the
larger cities, or major leagues, and
the minor league teams; that is, a
struggle between big business and
small business, or the petty bour-
geoisie of baseball.
Some Exceptions.
Baseball rules and laws, of course,
are not governed entirely even by or
binary capitalist procedure. They
have their own special laws such as
relate to the ownership and trade of
their labor, that is, the ball players,
which go further in their enslaying
aspect, contractually, than even ordi-
nary capitalist business. But with
this we are not concerning ourselves
at the moment.
Big Capital Counts.
1t has been noted even in recent
years that such ball clubs as New
York and Chicago and those having
the largest sources of income are the
ones to get the best commodities
the best baseball products. The less
influential and rich owners of major
league teams have to be satisfied with
lesser products. The result is that
such teams as the New York Yankees,
the Giants. Chicago, manage to get
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
The Brand Bill, the Labor Movement and the
Foreign-Language Press

bill aimed at every foreign-anguage publication which is
absolutely the instrument of capitalist reaction general and
the open she parcu has been introduced IN congress by
Representative Brand of Georgia.
Opposition to organized government is forward the
why foreign language should be denied
the of the mails and usual the assumption that only the
press will be affected since the anarchist foreign
language press practically nonxstent and in spite of the fact
that against government in principle but
against capitalist Communists in the Soviet Union
established which exce in organization any
thing yet organized for the capitalist class but
against it.
the with the drive the Communists and
the left wing in the unions jointly by the BOSSES the
government and reactonary ofcadom the attack the
revolutionary section the fognanguage will not stop
will be extended include in its attack language
paper which opposes any the intensive exploitation and
brutal persecution of the forgnbo workers carried on IN the
United States just the attack the left wing became an at
tack the unions
bill is part of the general drive against the for
egn especially in basic industry which finds
preston bills for the registration and fngerprnng OF the
oregnborn resolutions like those of the Bea o. chamber
denounng the striking coal miners who foreign
born in the demand deportation of oreignbon workers
who 90 by ossconroed 100 cent
organizations and in nuncons like that issued in Ohio
prohibiting oregbon miners from appearing the picket line
Against all such attempts special classification of
times police supervision and to place the
press under the kind of espionage the
LABOR movement must fight a unit
legislation is nothing less than scheme to
establish nationwide blacklist organized by government agen
and placed the disposal the capitalists for whatever pur
poses they choose to use it for.
Spying workers by and private agencies of
capitalists is already fine art Every important industry
infested with under men, who ferret out militant work
try by all including murder to prevent union
ganization
The Brand bill this tactic to the for
egnanguage prevent being used organization
campaigns election worker defense campaigns
that strengthens the labor and raises the
level of class consciousness.
Council the Protection of the ForegnBorn has its
its fight against the further enavement
workers have the support of the entire
labor movement.
defeat of such the Brand bill will be
tory for the entire working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
KARL MARX AND THE BUSINESS
OF BASEBALL

naturally try to squeeze the highest
price possible out of the big business
baseball moguls and have often sue
ceeded. Since sport is not sport, but
business, the Morgans of baseball,
such as the John McGraws, the Ru-
perts, the Wrigleys and the rest have
sometimes squirmed and become bit
sore over these excessive prices, as
they termed them. Occasionally, they
received "lemon" and were soured.
Generally, they Strike" the minors
pretty hard thru the draft" and other
forms of squeezing. Still, this method
of obtaining new players desired in
the big business institutions was too
unsatisfactory and uncertain. Big
baseball was and is determined to
have a permanent source, of supply
of raw material.
Buying the Source of Supply.
In recent years, therefore, major
league ball teams have been either
openly or secretly (more often the
latter, because they did not wish as
yet such transactions to be publicly
known), purchasing minor league ball
teams.
This practice was instituted in a
large degree by Branch Hickey, for
mer manager of the St. Louis Car
dinals, who purchased, for instance,
the Syracuse, Ft. Smith and Houston
teams and developed his raw mater
ial of baseball players at the source.
Cheaper Labor.
He was then later able to bring
them to the major league team of st.
Louis at little or no cost at all. In
other cases, the practice of lending
or forming out" players to smaller
teams for further training and devel-
opment, that is, for finishing up or
polishing up within their own labora-
tories, has been a steady and common
practice. Virtually every team in the
major league has followed this meth
cd. Now it is DESTROYS of having COM
plete ownership and certainty in this
field as far as possible.
Big Business Methods.
The methods of big business, of adj
vanced capitalist economy, must and
will prevail throughout baseball. With
economic foresight, such as it is, they
are preparing for the future. Indi-
vidual ownership is passing; the sale
and distribution of the commodity
the baseball PLAYER. the form of his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21

superior teams. But this is strug-
gle within big business itself and
which, no doubt for its own economic
interests, it will find some ways of
adjustment. But adjustment with the
petty bourgeoisie owners leaving out
of account the laborers, the players,
is not so simple.
Squeezing the Little Fellows.
AS we note today, it is insufficient,
for example, for a steel corporation
merely to have control over matters
in it's immediate vicinity, the factory,
ground, the men in the factory, and
SO on. 1t is essential that it also
control, dominate and own subsidiary
bodies and raw materials. So such
corporations own also railroads, coal
mines, electric power plants, etc. That
is, all the raw materials also which
go into the final making of particu-
lar product. While in the past, it is
true, such monopoly tended toward
cheaper prices, and often better pro-
ducts, today we know that the result
is monopoly of price and, due to the
partial elimination of competitive
forces, the passing off of inferior pro-
ducts.
The Competitive Period.
For years in the history of baseball
and in fact up to very recent per-
iod, the little fellows, that is, in the
small towns throughout the country,
such as Dallas, Texas, San Francisco,
California, Waco, Texas, Minneapolis,
Mimi, and so on Ito use names at
random to illustrate. l do not know
the status of these particular clubs)
had ownership of their teams. In
many cases, it has been a sporting"
proposition, town booming PROPOSE
ton, and not entirely an ordinary
business proposition, though the trend
is very much in the latter direction,
even in these places. For the most
part, the owners of these small town
teams depended upon the sale of
particular player who might have ex-
ceptional ability to a higher grade
team, and thus perhaps realize finan-
cial equilibrium over the period of a
baseball season.
Small Fry Methods.
However, like all other petty bour-
geois business men who are after their
full pound of flesh, or, if you please,
desire their rights. these little fry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21

from the worker to the technical ex-
pert, from the rank and file Party
member to the bureaucrat, from the
poor peasant to the rich peasant, from
the Shanghai worker to Chang Kai-
shek, from the Chinese peasants to
the upper class officers clique, from
the British workers to Purcell, Hicks,
the General Council people, etc. This
is the very substance of Stalinism.
Though the Stain fraction is deal
ing blows left and right, it is really
giving way to blows from the left and
right 1t is adopting bureaucratic
centrist policy halfway between two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
advice Hidden"

SAoF lNC 1Al0uCus
THE selected apparatus having hid
den. this advice, we are now con-
fronted with the results. The leading
fraction thinks it can do anything it
likes by violence, but it is profoundly
wrong. By terrorizing the Party the
ruling fraction is lowering its capa-
city to maintain fear over the class
enemies.
The Party regime expresses the en-
tire policy of the leadership.
Of late the class basis of this policy
has moved from left to right: from
the workers to the lower middle class,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
II. Trotsky's Speech

CON Thursday morning, December o. The DAILY WORKER
will publish the speech of Joseph Sta Secretary of the Com
naunst Party of the Sove Uon IN reply to the caIunie and
inaccuracies ich apparent IN the speeches of Zioviev and
Trotsky.) -EDITOR,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21

NAY proposal to discuss separately
AVA the question of the Wrangel Of
ficer and the military conspiracy has
been rejected. put forward the ques-
ton as to why, how, and by whom
the Party had been deceived, in say
ing that the Opposition had partici-
pated in nter-revolutionary or
ganization. And, as a further proof
of what you mean by discussion, you
decided to hide from the Party my
short speech about the fictitious
Wrangel officer.
The question is how and why the
present leading fraction was COM
PEELED to deceive the Party by pre-
senting GPU agent as Wrangel
officer, and by frightening the Party
with false statement concerning OPP
position participation in counter-rev-
olutionaiy organizations?
The main political question is:
What is all this leading to?
In our declaration of July last year
we accurately foretold all the stages
through which the destruction of the
feminist Leadership of the Party and
its temporary replacement by the Sta
linist leadership was taking place.
l say temporary replacement be-
cause the more the leading group is
victorious" the more will it weaken,
and we can now say that Stalin's
present organizational victory is the
forerunner of his political collapse.
The main task of the Opposition is
to see that the consequences of the
perilous policy of the present leader
ship causes the least possible damage
to the Party.
Present Policy.
YOU want to exclude US from the
Central Committee. We agree that
this is fully in line with the policy
of the present leadership at it's pre-
sent stage of development or rather
defeat. The ruling fraction, which
dares to exclude from the Party hun
dreds of such fine Bolsheviks as
Mratchkovsky, Serebriakov, Preobra-
zhensky, Sharov, Sarkis, Vuyovitch,
comrades who alone could form a
party secretariat with immeasurably
more authority, more educated and
incomparably more feminist, than our
present secretariat-the Stain Blu
kharin fraction which has incarcerat-
ed many fine Party comrades in the
.GPU prison, which holds down the
Party by force, by suppressing Party
thought and disorganizing the work.
ers' vanguard not only in the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics but
throughout the whole world; this
thoroughly opportunist fraction which
during the past year has had at it's
.ail Chang Kai-Shak, tong- yu-dai-
ang, Wong Chin-Wei, the Purcells,
Hiskses, Ben Tilletts, Kuusinens,
Smerals, Peppers, Heinz Neumanns,
,.affessas, .4artinJveS, hnndr5tevs
and Ustrailovs. &. this fraction cannot
bear us on the Central Committee
even a month prior to the Congress.
We can quite understand that. You
have hidden our program, or rather
tried to hide it. To be frightened Of
program is to be frightened of the
masses!
We told you on September that
we would get our program before the
Party in spite of all the bans and we
have done so.
The selection of people through the
Secretariat by the Stalinist group ac-
ouired from the time of Lenin's i'll
ness an Independent political nature;
that is why Lenin gave his final adj
vice to the Party: Remove Stain,
who might bring the Party to split
and destruction" (Vociferous inter-
ruptionS-l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-21
Small Fry Methods.

However, like all other petty bour-
geois business men who are after their
full pound of flesh, or, if you please,
desire their rights. these little fry
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
Ruth Is Day Ahead
OF Home Run
Record Of 1921

Making two home runs in one
gorgeous afternoon puts Babe
Ruth ahead Of his record year
of 1921, when he smacked fifty
nine home runs.
He cracked out No. 5 in the
first inning yesterday and No.
6 in the eighth inning.
His fifth in 1921 was made
on April % in the ninth game
of that year. His sixth was
made on May 2, in the thir-
teenth game of the season.
The Big Six" Of yesterday
was made in the sixteenth game
Of the year, but one Of these
games was a tie, which will be
played over, so the big hitter
is in q favorable position for q
grand assault on the record.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
CARD
IS HUGE

ANNAPOLIS, May 2.--During the
present week many and varied ath.
letic contests viii be presented at
Annapolis, some Of them being Of
considerable importance IN the col
lege athletic world. A particularly
large and important program has
been arranged for Saturday at the
Naval Academy.
In addition to the home schedule,
Naval Academy and st. Johns teams
go visiting during the week. The
Navy lacrosse team plays Johns
Hopkins in Baltimore on Saturday.
Neither team hes been beaten, and
it is admitted that the result may
have much bearing on the intercol.
leglate leadership this year.
with Naval people delighted
ever the work of tlssiF eRaWw
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
Concord BOoters Beat
Fast WinfOOt A. c., SO

BALTIMORE. Nd. May D.
washington sent over one Of the
best balanced soccer teams seen in
action here this season. Playing
against the Winfoot team of this
city, the Concord hooters of Wash
ington easily outclassed their OPP
ponents. and 2,
II was the first time any team
from washington has scored victory
over the fast Winfoot clubmen. The
greatest surprise to Winfoot follow,
ers was the playing Of the visitors
who completely outclass the Balti-
more team. Kennel played star
game for the winners,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
&c |.
ACTION

Scholastic athletes VIII put ia the
heaviest week on the diamond and
tennis courts IN months. Baseball
win hold to spot light with tennis
q close second. Besides these games
the Junior Prep School League opens
today.
The schedule for the week
viii bring Business against Dew.
itt Prep. Eastern against st.
Adams and Georgetown Prem
against Georgetown Frosh in
baseball today. Dewitt viii MAY
Friends ct tennis this afternoon.
Tomorrow Eastern will clash with
Western; Georgetown Props win take
on st. Adams and ST. Johns will
meet Georgetown. Two tennis
matches are arranged. They are
st. Adams and Woodward, Eastern
and Western.
Wednesdays scheduled Is equally
g heayy. Tor Calvert will play
eastern High nine. Gonzaga viii
oppose Georgetown Props and St.
Albans will meet Central.
Two games are arranged in
baseball for Thureday. 81.
Johns viii clash with Central
and G0nzaga win take on East
eFIl. Georgetown Props and Sc.
Adams win meet ON the tennis
courts.
Tech and Business, Western and
Catholic University Frosh, Fred
ertcksburg and Eastern will play
their scheduled ball games on Fri.
day, while Tech and Business, st.
Adams and Georgetown Props play
tennis.
Eastern High school nine will
close it's heavy week schedule on
saturday by playing the Navy
Plebes. This Is the only baseball
game scheduled. Tennis, on the
other hand holds IT'S own.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
5 LEAGUES
IN DEB|JTS

Five weekday sandlot baseball
leagues are slated for their opening
games today.
Here's the program:
Departmental - Postoffice vs..
Treasury. East Ellipse. 5:15 p. m.
Government-General Accounting
Office vs.. Government Printing
Office. South Ellipse, 5I5 p. M.
FederaI-NavaI Hospital VS..
Public Buildings and Parks,
West EIlipse, 5:l5 p. m.
Merchants Chestnut Farms
vs.. Thompson Diaries, No. 4 dia-
! mond, Monument Lot, 4:46 p. m.
r. r. T. NJ. C. A.-Pullman VS..
Railway Express. Terminal field,
4:45 p. m.
Postmaster General Harry 8. New
win throw out the first ball IN the
Departmental. Col. u. 8. Grant, 30.
and Rear Admiral G. 81. 7. Lowndes
Will TAKE part III CIAC = SQSSG1 @Se4BOO
opening ceremonies.
The Federal and Merchants
leagues are newcomers to the sand.
Had the Capital Cities semi.Pro
League been organized as planned
the Shamrocks today might be one
Of the leaders. AS it is they hold
an independent victory over one
of the strongest clubs that had
planned to enter the loco. The
Shamrocks defeated Eastport, to Q,
for the most notable triumph OF
the weekend.
Pitcher Ucilton's wildness enabled
the Shamrocks to get S-run lead
in the first inning. After Ucilton
had walked four Shamrocks Catlin
was sent to his relief and stopped
the enemy almost dead.
Frager yielded one hit in five
innings to EastpOrt and Sans
two In four. Jones got two
Of Eastport's three binsles. It
WIS an unusually we'll played
game. The ShamrOcks got six
hits.
In q wild and woolly battle, the
Addison team beat the Union Print.
ers. Is to ~. but the victory was
costly. Jim Bruen. shortstop, broke
a leg Sliding into third.
With McRoberts pitching fine
ball, the Maryland A. G. defeated
the excellent National Circles team,
5 to o. McRoberts allowed three
hits and famed ten.
Chevy Chase swamped Mt.
Rainier. IL to 2. Burrows
pitched shutOut ball for Chevy J
Chase except IN the fourth
inning. Fisher led the winning
attack with four straight hits.
MANAGER MeAuIiffe got three
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
liz LISENBEE MAKES
MILAN REAL PROPHET
BY SHUT0UT VICTORY
BY Louis A. Dougher

"You Lsenbee YETI Milan manager
Memphis club this writer Birmingham April "Tve
watching his he's right
right seldom issues than the farther
the better he be fooled but I'll that he
will be winning pitcher with Grff this not this
It might interesting Milan
peek the Lisenbees big show
The youngster only hung victory but he shut
Boston Red Sox During the nine innings he
hits and issued just solitary free ticket According Man
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
SPORTING SPIRIT

Toronto's ball park, known as
the best in the international Lea
que, will be used by the local am.
ateur baseball league when the
Maple Leafs are on the road.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
.IheBiGFfVe:]
MT. Rainier collected only four
safe sWats.
MARTIN GALLAGHER
other aandlots resuIta follow.


Other sandlots results follow:
Saks, IS: Collins, is.
Ku Klux Klans z; Alexandra Fire.
Comets, &: Brodt's, Q.
Sport Mart, .: Park view. :.
Terminal Ice Company, 10: Takoma
Tigers. s.
corInthian Jrs. Z: spartans, 3.
Isherwood. o; Winonas, z.
Coca Cola Juniors. s: Southern Rail.
way juniors /.
Red sox. 10. Marlboro. l.
Manhattans, 8. Palace, 2.
Manhattans, /; Alexandria PirateB, o.
All stars. 6s1; Black sox, as.
snslthfield, 8 Kennedy, 4.
Keanes, 10; Cards. 4.
Moose, 10: Romans, {.
Eagle Juniors, ~ Peerless, s.
Brookland b. c.. o: Arrows z
Brookland B. c.. 10; Brookland A.
c., ..
Rice. Q: Emery, s.
District Heights, 2: Hilitops, 3.
Trernonts. II; Freers, 8,
Holy Rosary, 8: Coca Cola Seniors o.
Elliotts. 8: Cabin Johns. 2.
n you are in need OF domestic help
a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-05-02
SPEEDY GOLFERS

s. c. Snow and James D. Stand.
ish. r.. both members of the Loeb:
moor club, near Detroit. played q
round Of golf In one hour and fifty
five minutes and both scored under
en-