The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
LABOR SPORTS
union PASSES
8 Anniversary
Review Histor+ Of
Workers Sports

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This month brings on the third
anniversary of the organized revo-
lutionary workers sport movement
in the leading inperialist country
in the world-the United States Of
America. In this period of thee
years tie Labor Sports Union OF
America has grown in numbers till
it now has 1000 members. 1t has
also grown considerably in revolu-
tionary class understanding, being
now section of the Red Sports in
ternational.
Against Bosses Agents. H.
The history of the growth and
development of the Labor Sports
Union i a history Of struggle
against all reformist tendencies and
against the social-democrats-!he
agents oil the bourgeoisie.
From the very day that the or
ganization was formed the workers
sportsmen were confronted with
these bourgeois agents in their
ranks, who used every means in
their power to stifle the growth of
The organization, to deplete it of its
class character and to make it an
instrument of struggle against the
revolutionary workers movement
that is lead by the Communist Par
ty. The early defeat of the social
reformists in the L. S. U. proved the
soundnes3 of the class character Of
the organization and ensured its fu-
ture growth on the basis Of class
struggle. The former Opposition
list" elements have clearly proven
their anti-working class character
by going over to the bourgeoise
hand and bagage-affiliating them
selves with the bourgeois sport or
ganization-the Amateur Athletic
Union.
(For the sake of clarity it might
lie added that their total member
ship is less then two hundred men,
bers.)
Refornist Sports Disintegrates..
The fast disintegration oe the
other reformist sport organization
in the U. S., the Workers Gymnastic
and Sport Alliance, which is a sec
ton of the Lucerne Sports Interna-
tional, and the coming over of its
members into the ranks of the l..
S. u, brings closer the day when
all the workers sportsmen will be
united into one class organization
under the banner Of the Red Sports
International.
The Labor Sports Union, besides
carrying on relentless and deter
itlned fight against the reformists,
| in and outside its ranks has also
conducted a sharp struggle against
the bourgeois sports movement and
for the winning of the workers in
the bourgeois sports movement to
the banner of working class sports
and class struggle. The successes
iii his direction can be recorded on
the basis of the hatred it has earned
from the bourgeois sports move
ment. 1t is not only hated but
feared by the class enemies of work
ers sports as it fearlessly unmasks.
the role of bourgeois sports and
more and more d, US new numbers
| of workers from the bosses sports
movement into its rank.
Greater Success Coming.
The Fourth year of the organi-
cation should bring greater success
ses to it. In this period-the period
Of revolutionary class struggle of
the workers against their explicit
ers, with the intensification of the
class struggle in America by inten-
styling its activities among the
worker sportsmen that are still in
! the ranks Of the bosses sports move
Ment it should and will bring many
new members into its ranks, and
build the movement into a powerful
instrument of the workers to serve
them in their struggles against the
capitalist class and for the victory
of the world proletariat.
Long live the Labor Sports Union
Of America, Section of Red Sports
International!
Long live the revolutionary work.
Crs spoi is movement,
Long live the Red Sports Inter.
national. the leader Of the reyolu.