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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
PRE-PLENUM DISCUSSION
the Childyvns SPORTS Movement
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE U.S.A.

Pioneers over to become leaders of the Junior
Section clubs of the LSU. With these COM
rades to start and with the popularzing the
demand for leaders from the LSU clubs them
selves we will be able to get leadership suf-
ficiently large enough to take careeof our chill
drens sports movement.
At the 4th National Convention we must have
the LSU clubs start to follow out that part of
the LSU constitution which demands a leader
from every club.
Our perspective must be to hold a basket
ball tournament in every LSU and Pioneer dis
trict in the country; to hold soccer Journeys
amongst the children in those districts where
the LSU Soccer Leagues exist; to hold indoor
swim meets as was held in New York last year;
and especially to hold the street activities and
games the children respond to so well and
which it is very simple to organize.
In each district there must be regular lead
ers' meetings to discuss the activities of the
sports groups. These leaders councils must
at the same time have classes on the signifi-
canoe of the children's sports movement, how
to carry on sports work and how to educate
the sports groups politically while carrying on
their sports work
Our district leaderships must pay special at
tention to what the bosses are doing with the
workers children in the field of sports. They
sports through the issuance of leaflets and open
air meetings in front Of school Fairgrounds, etc.
We must have our children's press print a
magazine reflecting the life of the vast masses
of children in sports as well as the other &C
tivities that our children take part in. 1t must
be one of the methods of showing up that the
bosses sport for children is really means Of
making the children both fit and willing to
fight for their country in time of war" as the
late PSAL head in New York admitted. The
late Gen. Geo. W. Wingate admitted this to the
Board of Trustees which is composed of such
big bosses as Rockefeller and Morgan. If our
Young Pioneer" becomes such paper it will
become one Of our best organizers of children.
We must also utilize the Pioneer Corners and
the building up of Workers Childrens Sports
Correspondence. Our Workers Sports Junior
Page must be of the means Of building our
junior sports and calling upon the seniors to
give leadership to the workers chidren's sports
movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
ALL MIXED UP.

Capitalist authorities" are having a hard
time these days in figuring out what's what.
F'rinstance, those interested in imperialist in
vestments in Latin American, are beginning
to wonder if the claw an order" in those parts
is quite safe for their capital investments.
The Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co.,
which seems to have been caught out in the
rain with lot of South American bonds that
are hard to sell, has issued Statement"
saying that everything is all to the good in
Latin American investments, that "nost of
the countries have adopted modern financial
practice and well considered budgetary sys-
tens, frequently assisted by American ex-
perts."
That, we observe, is just the trouble with
Latin America, and our opinion is borne out
by the remarks of Max Winkler, who is known
as an authority on Latin American invest
ments. He says:
MANY of the Latin American nations
have doubtless oyerborrowed But what
would seem to be more accurate, we have
over-lent. We are placing hundreds of mil
lions rof dollars in Latin American enter
prises We have invested huge sums in
oil, and in many instances the result was
tuTNOll we nave pldCed large sums IN
Latin American bonds, and in some cases
the result for the borrower was bondage
We have furnished substantial amounts to
create booms in Latin America, and the re-
suit in some cases was boomerangs."
Winker follows this engaging resume with
some concrete instances. He says that in ten
years-during which the Wall Street lackey
Leguia ruled Peru, its foreign debt rose from
S5,000,000 to S112,000000, while Peruvian rev.
enues increased from S30,OoO,0OO to only $780,
100000.
Then Bolivia, where the experts" of the
Dillon Read bankers of New York were "as-
sisting" in the most approved style, Winkler
says is--"another country which can hardly
consider assuming additional burdens It
seems that Bolivia, under the assistance of
American experts" has borrowed some S7O.-
100000, most of it in New York, while its
revenues total S15,O00,0o0 year and it only
met the interest on its debt lately by selling
the monopoly rights to charge Bolivians five
times as much for matches as necessary to
the Swedish match trust
Some of these days these Bolivian Indians
are going to use those Swedish matches to
burn up all the fancy agreements" and "con-
tracts" treaties and constitutions meant to
enslave them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25

talk Miners Union and miners demands to a
coal miner he is Immediately interested, while
general propaganda of the T. U. U. L. leaves
him cold Again this does not mean capitula-
ton before the narrow craft interests of any
section of the workers, but it does mean get
ting away from abstract propaganda and
down to something the most backward worker
can understand
This same general abstract approach colors
much of our organizational work as we'll. We
must put an end to the theory that
organize the masses of workers through gen.
eral 7. U. U. L. mass meetings in halls miles
removed from the shops On the contrary
the various unions must learn to concentrate
all their activity in and around the shops and
mines making up their particular industry.
The second mistake consists in our failure
to establish in each industry and each shop
clear prospective for our work and con-
crete program of activity which will enable
us to achieve that prospective.
Our general prospective is one of strike
struggles, but this is not enough. To merely
shout the slogan of Strike Against Wage Cuts
means nothing. To bring this slogan to life
we must answer in each industry and in each
shop where we are working the questions
when, where and how is this strike to be con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
By TOM JOHNSON.

Without question the weakest sector of our
Party work is the trade union field The to-
tally unsatisfactory position of the T. U. U. L.
and the revolutionary Mons, without one ex-
ception, are all too apparent. This has been
admitted in countless resolutions and in
equal number of resolutions the basic line for
our activity in altering the present very dam
gerous situation has been laid down. The fact
remains that despite these drectves, the basic
correctness of which no one questions, the sit
uation does not improve or improves but very
slowly. 1t is clear that our failure in this
most important sphere of work is due prinar-
lily to our inability to correctly apply the
Party line in T. U. work.
The line of the Party in trade union work
is the organization and independent leader
ship of mass struggles. This is expressed con-
cretely in the present situation by the slogan
of the T. U. U. L., "Organize and Strike
Against Wage Cuts" This is slogan, of
action to be put into effect now and not in
some dim and distant future. The workers
are ready and if this slogan is properly ad-
vanced and correctly applied to the given sit
uation the workers will respond and will put
it into action under our lee -ership. What are
the chief mistakes which have prevented US
from realizing this slogan in practice?
The first mistake we have made in Dis
trict IL, and / think nationally, consists of
our too general and agitational approach to
the problems of the workers. The masses of
workers in any industry are not yet self-sac-
rificing revolutionists and on the other hand
they are not fools. The workers come into the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25

Quoted in this industry, this shop. 1t is not
enough to state in ou- resolutions that the
revolutionary unions can and will be built only
through the strike struggle. What is neces-
sary is to prepare and carry through these
strikes.
To talk today of national strike on a
fixed date in any industry is pure nonsense.
We are altogether too weak to prepare for
and successfully carry through such an action,
the organizational base of our unions is too
narrow, our connections with the masses of
workers entirely too inadequate. This was
proved in the mining industry, where the
prospective for general strike in the indus
try was advanced year ago, and as the
date of the proposed strike drew closer (Sep-
TENDER of this year, it became clear to every
one that national strike was out of the ques-
ton.
Our prospective must be for the develop.
ment of strikes embracing whole industries,
not from above, but through the carrying
through of countless smaller preparatory ac-
tions, and broadening these strike actions to
include ever wider sections of the workers.
This means that our present implanted method
of work, consisting of more or less futile at
tempts to build up small locals and shop COM
mittees in the shops or mines nearest at hand
without any clear program of action for these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
DIR. JEKYLL AND Mr.. HYDE.

AS an unnoticeable postscript to all his
screening against the Soviet, Mr. Hyde adds
in whisper that-"Of course l do not claim
that the Soviet wheat sales alone caused the
decline in wheat prices" He fails to be ex-
phcit, however, in saying just what was the
other factors, let alone making a fuss about
them.
But also, Hyde should keep in touch with
Mr.. Legge of the Farm Board, who in speak,
ing to the New York State Grange meeting in
Syracuse last week, told the farmers that all
their woes were dhe to-"the advance in labor
rates. that is, to "high wages"
Legge proceeded admirably to lie in the
accepted Hoover style, saying that-"the aver
age wage earnings today are about two and
quarter times the average of pre-war days"
This, Legge told the farmers is the source of
their troubles. Now, Mr.. Hyde says that it's
because the Soviet, which has grain to sell, is
simply giving it away just to make the farm
ers broke so they will love the Soviet. That's
remarkable.
Actually, even the reformist statisticians
say that. in 1914 employers paid 1853 per cent
of their costs to wages, and in 1927 only 17.3
per cent, an increase" of only one-half of one
per cent. Also, that since 1919, wages (rnoney
wages, not real wages increased only ia
per cent, while output increased 46.5 per cent;
and as 2.9 per cent fewer workers were en-
ployed, the productivity actually increased
53.5 per cent per worker So, as matter
of fact, compared to what they produced, the
American wage workers have had hell of
wage-cut, if you subtract that ia per cent
from the 535 per cent.
But then, who expects DR.. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde, or their boss, Hoover, to tell the truth
about anything? To get out from under the
fact that Hoover's eternal prosperity" was
the rankest fairy tale, and that neither poor
farmers nor workers can expect anything but
misery and starvation under capitalism, they
try to set the farmers against the workers on
one hand, and on the other to tell them that
the Soviet is to blame for the drought and
other incidentals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
Mistakes In Our Trade Union
Work
Work

unions for one reason, and taken by and large,
for one reason only, to better their condi-
lions and to prevent further attacks on condi-
tons by the boss. Unless we can show them
a concrete program of struggle leading to
that end they will not follow us.
1t won't do to talk only in generalites of
the struggle against wage-cuts, the fight for
work or wages, etc. What the workers are
most interested in is the concrete issues aris-
ing in their particular industry and shop. 1t
is with these issues that we must deal first
of all. This does not mean that we narrow
down the activities of the unions to the prob
lens of the particular shop or even industry.
1t does mean that we approach the worker
with a program for the solution of the i'm
mediate burning problems which he feels most
keenly as he comes in contact with them every
day. The starting point for all our union
activity must therefore be from the shop and
the problems facing the workers there. In
the same way when framing demands, we
must raise concrete definite demands based on
the conditions in the particular shop and in
dustry we are dealing with. From these shop
demands must flow our broader and more
comprehensive demands and slogans.
A part of this same general abstract APP
proach to the question is our failure in many
instances to give real independent life and
vitality to the various industrial unions and
leagues. In my opinion, we talk altogether
too much in generalities about the T. U. u L.
and its program of struggle to all workers,
and not enough by far about the Miners
Union to miners and the Metal Workers In
dustrial League to steel workers When we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
By JACK HARRIS.

1t has never been hard task to get the
groups of children, especially in the most prole-
tartan sections of the cities to take part in our
sports activities. The problem has been hold
ing them. That is why New York where
the first attempt was made to really build
childrens sports movement failed. We had
wrong idea of how to work with children.
We tried to build organization without
trying to build corps of leaders either in the
districts or on a national scale. Therefore,
when we did get 10 teams to take part in a
Basketball Tournament in New York after it
was over we were unable to hold to them
We held block meets during the summer. In
the two cases where we had leaders who took
care of their clubs, the clubs not only took part
in our activities but became organizationally
bound up with the Junior Section of the LSU
The second shortening in our work was that
we had an entirely wrong conception of the re-
lationship between the only workers children's
sports movement to the Young Pioneers Of
America. Our idea was that the individual
Pioneers had to act as a leadership in the build
ing of junior sports clubs of the LSU. In
practice we found that this theory did not
work Now there has across the ECYCI
resolution on chidrens work which it seems
to me calls upon to build cartel of chill
dren's organizations each taking part in their
be one of the organizations that is part of the
mass Young Pioneers of America.
If we no longer have to worry about draw
ing the children into the Young Pioneers from
the Junior Section, but instead the children's
sports movement is part of the broader Young
Pioneers then the question is settled, the ques-
ton of building sports clubs with the Finnish
children of whom there are about 600 through
out the country. We found that they readily
joined the Young Pioneers but then they had
too many meetings and dropped out Of the
Young Pioneers when it interfered with their
sports work But when the sports club to which
they belong is part of this broad Young
Pioneers of America will be able to hold
on to the children That is, provided we build
up a leadership.
We need leaders for our childrens sports
clubs. The League must give part of those
whom they give as leaders for the present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
&l2Aa~s..A-
GETTING WORRIED.
By JORGE

Senator Walsh of the Foreign Relations
Committee has recently visited Cuba and beat
hasty retreat, emitting great clouds of warn
ings. 1t seems that the Cuban sugar barrel
is about to explode and Walsh is worried lest
all there will be left for the American bank
ers will be the bung -hole. He says:
eff the Cuban question reaches the political
crisis that is threatened, the American people
Tread 'bankers'O may prepare themselves for
revolutions of the most startling character"
From which we judge that Walsh fears that
any Cuban revolt that occurs may not stop
at just change of dictators as the Cuban
workers and peasantry are too hungry and too
experienced in political struggle to be kidded
along like those of Bolivia. So they make a
different kind of revolution, one of those
Startling" kind that raise the Hammer and
Sickle along with the scalps of all exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
HIGH MORTALITY AMONG TAKERS.

Woonsocket, R. I. (F.P).-Hard times are
hard on business agents, President James H.
Moriarty of the Massachusetts, Federation of
Labor told Rhode Island Federation delegates
in convention at Woonsocket. More business
agents have been discharged or defeated for
reelection in the past two years than during
the past previous 25 years, he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-25
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

WI hClS. JO1ti Tic dTCy OIL
Your Class!
Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street.
New York City
L. the undersigned, want to Join the Commu.
mist Party Send me more information.
name OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
ADDRESS ...............n..... City. ........
Occupation OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Age......
Mail this to the Central Office, Communist
Party. % East l25th St.. New York. N. r.
locals, must give way to careful plan of
campaign for each industry and each local
ity. A plan of campaign which will lead us
daily toward definite strike action in definite
shops mines.
(To Be Continued.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-16
Truck
Markets

F. o. B. shipping point informa-
ton reported Thursday. May Is:
Lower Rio Granoe Valley Points:
Carrots: Haulings light. Season
practically over. Moderate wire in
quiry. demand limited. market dull.
Carloads and in mixed cars FOB
usual terms-crates 81 .40-1.50; cash
track si.25-1.35. Last report.
Tomatoes: Haulines heavy. Mod
crate wire inquiry. demand mod
crate. market slightly weaker. Car
loads FOB usual terms-lugs green
wrapped mostly 6x6 and larger US
No. Is mostly $3.50. few lower; cash
track S~2.i5-2.25. mostly s2-25. Cars
running heavy to small sizes Is to
Is cents lower. Truckloads cash to
growers-per ID. sc fer mature green
stock.
Green Corn: Hauiings moderate
Moderate wire inquiry, demand mod
crate, market about steady Car
loads and In mixed cars FOB usual
terms-bushel baskets $1i0-l.l5:
crates SIPS; cash track 90c 10 si.00
crates sl.l5-l-25. Top Ice extra. Pay
ing growers 35-4Oc sushel in field.
few higher.
Lower Rio Grande Valley move
ment reported Friday morning, May
Is:
Mixed vegetables IL. carrots 8
beets 8. beets and carrots 2. tom
atces l66. corn 36. potatoes 8. total
232 cars. Freight movement to date
this season-Fruit 1919. Vegetables
204l0. total 24389: TO same day last
season-Fruit 1887. vegetables 20lls
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-16
TEXAS DIVIDED WOULD BRING
POLITICAL POWER-GARNER

political power that would accrue
and the enhancement Of sectional
initiative in development Of indus
tries and resources.
Texas is already divided into five
sections-North. South, West and
Central Texas. Each section has
its respective political and indus
trial interests. and there have been
occasional clashes Of these interests
which presage the ultimate division
Whether these sections could work
out their respective destinies more
efficiently and satisfactorily under
their individual control is, Of course
a matter for the people of Texas
and the legislature TO decide. but
il must be obvious TO all who have
made a study of the situation that
the additional political power that
would accrue through division. not
only to Texas but to all OF the
South and West, would be a potent
factor in securing such national
recognition as is necessary TO as
sure future development rnhamper-
ed by selfish designs ami interests
Of other sections Of the .epublic.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-16

WASHINGTON, May l6.-P-
The legislature Of Texas could, If
so disposed. transfer the balance of
national political power from New
England to the South, and obtain
for the Southern states the political
TAver, prestige, and recognition
which. under our party form of
government. has been a peculiar
prerogative Of A grouo OF small
Northeastern states ever since es-
enlistment of the Union.
This assertion was made by Con-
gresham John N. Garner of Tex
as. minority leader. in a statement
inserted in the Congressional Rec
ord. He pointed out that division
OF the vast dominion Of Texas into
five states would increase Southern
representation in the senate BY
eight members and would add eight
electoral votes to the twenty the
state now has. The statement said
IN part:
Position Unique
Texas occupies the unique po-
sition of being the only state that
can. merely by act Of irS legislature,
subdivide its area into any number
not exceeding four additional states.
This privilege is granted in the
Joint Resolution OF Congress for an
nexation Of Texas approved March
/. t845. which provides that; New
states Of convenient size. not ex-
ceeding four In number. In adj
dition to said state Of Texas. and
having sufficient population, may
hereafter. by consent Of said senate,
be formed out Of the territory there
Of. which shall be entitled to adj
mission under the provisions Of the
federal constitution"
This was approved by the Texas
government and the state vas ad-
mitted to the Union. by joint reso-
luton Of congress, approved Dec. 20,
1545.
Sentiment Opposes
The only argument that can be
brought TO bear in opposition TO di-
vision is that Of sentiment. Deep
in the heart Of every Texan is love
for his state. and pride in its heroic
history, its marvellous resources and
rapid growth. However. to divide
the state would in no wise detract
from the glory of the past. but
would add TO the glory Of the flu
ture by reason Of the additional
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-05-16
TEXAS MAY GET
CRADLE BOOKS
Vollbehr Collection
Valued at Many
Millions

AUSTIN, May 1F-Rl-Possibilisy
that the University OF Texas may
obtain the vollbehr collection Of
incunabuia in the event congress
fails to appropriate $4,000 0 %
purchase the collection for the
congressional library. has been
seen here. Wealthy alumni Of the
University may raise some $3,000.0 900
70 purchase the 5000 volumes for
the Texas school.
The vollbehr is one Of the out
standing collections Of incunabula.
or cradle books. in the world. The
term cradle books" Is applied be-
cause they were printed in the in
fancy Of printing. II contains more
than 5000 volumes and Of more
than 20 per cent Of the books. no
CODY exists in America.
The collection contains copies Of
20 Of the known 18th century books
dealing with the discovery of Amer
lea and fully 100 volumes Of the
library are not listed in anv bibiio-
graphy and more than 100 were
printed between 1855 and 1910 when
the art Of PRINTING v'as irsf being
established
The outstanding book Of the col
lection Is the famous vollbehr copy
Of the velium Gutenberg Bible. one
Of three existing copies. This Bible
Is commonly called the choicest
book OF Christendom."
The books have a value. not as
museum pieces alone, but also as
q source OF material for historical.
literary. and technical research.
The collection was made by DR..
Otto n. r. Vollbehr over a period
OF many years and compares far-
orably with the collection Of esr
editions in European countr'n-