The daily worker., 1930-03-19


petition with the National Meet of the l.. S.
U. of A., which was held in New York City,
they organized meet in Chicago under the
patronage and sanction of the Amateur Ath-
letc Union-definitely affiliating themselves
to the bourgeois sports movement and allow
ing the A. A. U. members to participate.
The A. A. U. athletes were the majority pres
ent at this meet. The working class athletes,
knowing the role of these social-democrats,
boycotted this meet. Undaunted by their fail
ure, these renegades continued to call them
selves the L. S. U. of U. S. and to act as the
agents of the A. A. U. in the ranks of the
working class.
With the leftward swing of the masses in
the last six months, the socialist party of
America, carrying out its historic role as the
servant of the bourgeoisie, took this gang Of
renegades under its wing, formed "pro-
visional committee for the organization of
the Labor Sports Union of United States"
and appointed Clarence Senior its national
secretary as the political head of this organ
ization. This is the L. S. U. of U. S. and the
history of Mr. R. c. Palm in the labor sports
movement
Mr.. R. C. Palms presence at this congress
of the WG&SA is no accident. He was there
under the instructions of the socialist party
and the invitation extended him was directed
working class to the left, all the reformists
are uniting their ranks in the struggle against
the revolutionary working class movement.
Their role is to arrest this process of radical
lzation of the workers and turn it into harm
less channels. The worker sportsmen of the
W. G. & S. A. have been demanding closer
connections with the L. S. U. of A., so the
officials thought that by affilating the organ
ization to Palm Urttamo, they would be
able to deceive the membership. Neverthe-
less, they did not succeed in doing so.
The Labor Sports Union of America was
aware of the proposed treachery of the Off
cials of the WG&SA and it therefore sent
representative to this congress. But for the
protests of the rank and file delegates, the Of
ficials would have refused admittance to the
representative of the l.. S. U. of A.
Rank and File Protest.
Palm was given the floor to speak on their
affiliation to the L. S. U. of the U. S. but the
whole line of his talk was TRADE against
the real /. S. U. About half wav IN his +'<
the delegates, after calling for several points
of order, finally raised their voice in p4u....
to these ISLANDERS and demanded of the chair
man that the L. S. U. of A. representative
l. Sapirstein, be given the floor This the
leaders refused to do and upon motion of
Theodore Weisenstein, former president of
the W. G. e. S. A, both representatives were
asked to leave the congress. In order to fur
ther placade the delegates, Theodore Weisen-
stein made another motion "that another con-
vention be called in the near future to which
both l.. s. US be given the opportunity to
present their views.
In the meantime, both organizations should
present written material to the W. G.. & S. A.
for discussion.
Mr.. Theodore Weisenstein is no more in fa-
af
of the R. S. T., than the other social-democratic
leaders of the Alliance. Weisenstein is the
left" of the American Section of the Lucerne
His role is that of maneuvering and deceivng
the membership and turning them from the
road of class struggle. The revolutionary
worker sportsmen remember we'll the role of
Mr.. Weisenstein when he was the head of the
W.G.&S.A. The worker sportsmen and espe-
cially the soccer players, remember the split
ting role of Weisensten in connection with
the New Jersey Workers Soccer League. They
remember his refusal to have the W. S. & G..
A. send fraternal delegates to the Labor Sports
Union conventions. Mr. Wesenstein, like
those of the Prague Congress who voted
against the motion to break off sport rela-
tons with the Soviet Union, is no better but
the worst part, of the leadership of the AL
lance. He would like to keep the mask on the
face of the officialdom of the Alliance, in
spite OF their willingness to unmask them
selves. He would also like with the support
OF the fast growing opposition (40 per cents
OF the congress) to place himself back into
the leadership. But the membership has
passed the stage where they are willing to =
listen to the prattle of these leaders, both
right and "left." The membership, over the
heads of the officials, is having sports COM
petition with the members of the L. S. u.
Since this congress of the WG&SA, the Of
ficialdom of the Alliance has embarked on an
open splitting policy. Because of the fact
that one of their members, member of the
executive committee of the Manhattan Club
OF the Alliance, was helping out the l.. S. IT,
Eastern District Physical Instructors School
by acting one of the instructors, the Of
ficialdom of this club has, without the con-
sent and over the protests of the membership,
removed him from the executive committee
and threatened to expel him from the club if
he refused to stop teaching for the L. S. u
OF A. The officialdom has gone further and
attempted to expel him from the National
Executive Committee of the Alliance The
reasons for these terrorist methods are that
this member, along with many others, stands
on the line of unity with the revolutionary
workers sports movement and for a revolu-
tionary line in sports. In the near future, we
can expect more expulsions and removals of
real honest revolutionary worker sportsmen.
We call upon all workers within the ranks
OF the Alliance to fight against this social
fascist line of the leadership of the Alliance.
To fight for the line of the Rod Shorts Tn.