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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-08

Passerby: What, excavatine
this street again.
Foreman: Sure, the contrac-
tor is a surgeon, and it seems
that three steam shovels are
missing.
-TerresSe Magaznp.
/ went into a barber shop for
a shave. ! sat down. / waited.
II seemed hours. The two men
we're still in the chairs. / waited.
Il was getting late. Still I
waited. 4 was getting hungry.
1t couldn't take much longer. I
waited. Finally two men got
out of the chairs. The next dav
the Smith Brothers had a new
picture taken.
- -Yelor Grab.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02

ing the election campaign is five thousand new
members in the party, five thousand new sub
scribers for the Communist press and $500 marks
for the election fund. The comrades tell me
that this quota is almost reached. This was
ten days before the elections.
AT the main entrance really stands huge
round box Gone story high) all covered up with
red
Near the building there are always groups of
workers and jobless. They read "Rote Fahne"
Central organ of the c. P. g.. They talk dis
cuss passionately. What will be the result of
the elections? But every one is optimistic. We
march to victory.
Inside is turmoil. Most of the leading COM
rades touring the country to agitate, to
mobilize the masses and organize them for the
struggle fora Soviet Germany. The others that
remained here are so busy, there is time TO
speak even to foreign comrade. Only ten more
days left before the elections. There is SO much
work yet to be done to close this brilliant and
most victorious election fight. Whether there
will be a victory nobody doubts. We will surely
get over four million Red votes, million more
than two years ago. But have to get more
Z and more fighting votes for Soviet Germany!
Here came whole battalion of young workers
shock troups-Young Communist League mem
bers tens and hundreds of bicycles and motto
cycles Every of them gets a package of
leaflets pamphlets and papers and they all fly
back to the workers sections, to the shops and
factories to distribute them. to mobilize and or
ganize for the class struggle.
Wedding and Neukoin
! ride with them to the famous workers sec
tons, Wedding and Neukoln. Here you feel the
Red Berlin every step. Almost on every
workers house there red flags, banners and
huge placards with the following slogans:
VOTE C. P. G.-VOTE BALLOT 4! HELLO
RED BERLIN! WIR GREIFEN AN! eve are
the extensively LONG LIVE SOVIET GER
MANY
You really feel on every step that we are
the offensive. You become electrified with it.
You are eager to join the Red heart and soul
of Berlin and cry out: LONG LIVE RED WED
DING-RED NEUKOLN-RED BERLIN-RED
GERMANYi
The Working Youth Demonstrates
A Y. c. L. member took to demonstration
of the working youth of Neukon for the election
campaign of the Communist Party Hohenzoern
Square, where the demonstration was to start
already crowded with the young workers.
The militant singing of the revolutionary songs
was heard for blocks and blocks.
The parade started soon Everybody fell in line,
four in line and like trained Red Front Fight
ers marched and paraded the streets of
Neukoln. Ahead of them waving the huge
red flag. After it huge placard with the words:
"ONLY THE COMMUNISTS FIGHT AGAINST
HUNGER AND FASCISM. VOTE BALLOT Az
On the way and more young workers
Joined the lines The police, the watch dogs of
the Socialist "comrade" Zoergiebel, followed the
demonstrating working youth. But they did not
dare break up the demonstration with their
clubs, night sticks black jacks. 1t was just
before the elections and they had to keep up
the illusion of liberty and democracy"
Outside the Soviet Union you cannot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02

whole length and breadth of the hall there are
revolutionary slogans as:
VOTE FOR THE c. P. G.! VOTE AGAINST
BALLOT 4! DEFEND THE SOVIET UNIoNi
FIGHT WITH THE RED TRADE UNION oP-
POSITION FOR A SEVEN HOUR DAY AND
FOR A WAGE INCREASE! FIGHT AGAINST
UNEMPLOYMENT! JOIN THE RANKS OF
THE c. P. g. WORKING WOMEN VOTE FOR
THE c. P. G.! VOTE BALLOT 4! YOUNG
WORKERS, FIGHT WITH THE YOUNG COM
MUNIST LEAGUE AND VOTE FOR THE
COMMUNIST PARITY
On the steps over the platform marches up
column of eight workers. On every one of them
is embroidered huge letter. They form line
and together it reads: VOTE c. P G." Over
them is huge hammer and sickle
The first speaker, Comrade Walter Ulbricht,
tells in simple, convincing words about the pres
ent critical situation in the country and about
the only way to liberate themselves from this
Young Plan Crsis-to seize the power by the
workers to introduce the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat and to establish a Soviet Republic.
A stormy. but organized three-fold cutlery:
Red Front! Red Front! Red 'FRONT.'" the
best unanimous, enthusiastic answer Qike Red
OATH of the whole proletarian crowd.
Max Hcltz, the Revolutionary Hero, Speaks
The announcement of the chairman that Max
Holtz, who just returned from the Soviet Union,
would soon speak, was like an electric current.
stirring ovation greeted this revolutionary
hero, this favorite of the proletarian masses,
when he appeared on the platform.
Comrade Holtz brought warm comradely
greetings from the first proletarian land He told
how the capitalist and reformist press wrote
that he, Max Holtz, kidnapped there in the
Soviet Union, arrested and even shot to death.
The entire proletaran audience burst out laugh
ing.
"Hitlers" and Detectives Wanted to Break Up
Demonstration
A few "Hitlers" (of the National Fascist
Party, who were snuggled into the hall, began
a disturbance and wanted to break up this
demonstration. But here the organized and dis
ciplined action of the German workers was
shown. In order not to be provoked by the few
Hitlers" and to prevent any disorder, the whole
proletarian audience stood UP at and in
organized way began to sing the International.
While the spirited tunes of the International
were carried the huge hall the Order Com
mittee threw the few disturbers out of the hall.
The singing finished and Comrade Max Holtz
proceeded with his brilliant fiery speech.
After the meeting the workers marched out
into the street and for a long while you could
still hear the revolutionary songs and the cheers
for Red Berlin.
"WIR GREIFEN AN! WE ARE ON THE Of
FENSIVE! WE MARCH TO VICTORY"
Being in Germany a few weeks ago. especially
in Berlin, could foresee this tremendous vic
tory. The Communist hopes in the election fight
were more than realized. Our four and a half
million fighting votes given for Soviet Ger
many One million and three hundred thousand
more than two years ago. In Berlin and in the
other industrial centers the Communist Party
overwhelmed the Socialists The present cleo
tons big step forward towards the Proe-
tartan Revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02

and should be held in industrial centers and in
the working class sections of the cities.
The popular appeal in sports to the young
workers is baseball, basket ball. volley ball, box
ing, wrestling, soccer skatins; and track and
field meets. Our past form of sports activity
has placed too much emphasis ON closed Gales
thenic and gymnastic meets which has little or
appeal to the American. youth AS for, sports
activity for children, marble tournaments. kite
flying, city block meets. Ind junior teams in
soccer, baseball and basketball must become the
form of sports activity which will build the ju-
MON sections and junior clubs. THUS WE SEE
THAT ONE OF THE CURES FOR OUR $50
LATION is A CHANGE INCUR TECHNICAL
SPORTS ACTIVITY.
Another serious shortcoming Oscillation from
class strugges) of the L. s. u. is it's isolation
from the struggles of the workers Firstly, from
the general struggles, and, secondly, from sports
struggles.
The L. S. U. as working class sports organi-
cation participates and supports the struggles
of the workers (strikes- demonstrations. but we
cannot record any serious efforts in this respect.
We can record some participation March 6th,
May list, Aug. list, and in Workers Defense
Corps, but this is far from satisfactory The
L. S. U. must be involved more in the general
struggles and particularly must the L. s. U. fur
nish powerful physical technical force to the
building of the Workers Defense Corps.
Also many of our members workers in the
factories and mines, but we find that no attempt
has been made to involve the membership into
the task of organizing factory or trade union
sports clubs which would assist the building of
the revolutionary trade unions OF the TUUL In
the metal auto, textile and mining industries In
which militant left-wing strikes and struggles
have taken place. Nor have our comrades who
are unemployed played any part in the building
and supporting the Councils of the Unemployed
or the organization Of sports to raise strike or
relief funds for the workers
Our struggles against the bosses sports move
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
Side-Ligghts of the Election
Fight in Red Berlin

witness such a tremendous enthusiastic and
stormy proletarian mass ernonstration for the
Communist Party. In the street car on the way
to the Sport Palace we saw workers battalions
marching in steeled lines with the Red Flags
banners and placards. The battalions form
right at the shops and factories, From there
each battalion marches separately over the
streets of the city with its Red Flag, with its
placards, with its own orchestra to the Sport
Palace, where all the workers battalions Join
together in one huge workers army and with
great enthusiasm march into the Sports Palace.
The hall is packed. Each marching workers
battalion is met with stormy applause. The
working youths march in with their clenched
fists appraised and here the Young Pioneers with
their red kerchiefs around their necks These
are the only ones in their uniforms. The others
Gas of the Red Front Fighters League, Y. C. L.,
etc) are forbidden by the socialist police.
The hall is the size of the Madison Square
Garden, if not bigger. 1t is already so over
crowded there is no place to move around. Many
cannot come in and must stay outside. Over the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
Labor Sports and Mass Work

ganized sufficiently INDEPENDENT sports ac-
tivity, but has acted too much IS a Snowman
and entertainer for festivals and celehra tions
of the workers. This is vulgar distortion of
the role of revolutionary sports organization.
However. this does not mean that the L. S. u.
should not provide wholesome physical culture
programs but that it should organize on a larger
scale independent sports tournaments and sports
festivals. BY limiting ourselves to program ac-
tivities' we narrow and isolate ourselves from
the masses of young workers.
Open sports meets, particularly open street
runs, is one of the best means to bring the
L. s. U. and its program to the workers and
worker athletes splendid example of this is
the recent open street run held in connection
with the Penn-Ohio district conference. This
street run reached Thousands of workers who
lined the streets of the working class section
and also attracted non-L. S. U. members into
participation. This form of sports must be en-
couraged on a city, district, and national scale
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
Goodwill" Trips

The trip of Hoover to Latin America was
called goodwill trip. But before year had
gone by, the whole southern continent was in a
ferment with revolts, coup d'etats and war talk
everywhere.
Maybe you heard about the latest movement in
Chile. Some Chilean gentlemen are supposed to
have hired a couple of American aviators to
drop down from Argentina into the most strategic
town of Chile to get the soldery there to rise in
revolt.
1t seems to have missed fire somehow and the
revolution was placed under arrest But one
funny thing we noted that the airplane they
used was named Friendship
We are betting odds that the next few months,
maybe weeks, will see revolt in Cuba. Every
body there is falling everybody else de-
handing peace and order"-a sure sign OF riots
and revolt.
One of the big shots, Menocal, who is playing
the fake nationalist" game against the present
fascist tyrant Machado, is assuming to speak Tor
"the people," Machado has fixed up the Novem-
Der elections for his own crowd to win, and Memo
cal is warning him that:
1.-THE people of Cuba demand the postponement
of the election. If it is not done. grave conse-
auences will result"
That is warning or we miss our guess-and
we seldom do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02

ment and the States control through sports
laws.@of the official sports movement has been
practically zero. The struggle against the bosses
sports movement means the organization of
splits and the winning of the young workers
from the bosses controlled sports organizations
by raising class issues such as discrimination
against Negroes; against official rules and laws
directed against the interests of the workers;
and the exposing of the fascist and militarist
leadership of these sports organizations This
struggle against the bosses sports movement
(AAU) will bring us into a fight against the
state OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the Sunday Blue Laws
and the authority of the ,AAU and the State to
sanction meets bosses sports) and prohibit 9TH
(workers sports) and the fight for the free
use of Fairgrounds and athletic grounds by the
workers and workers children
The above ills must be remeded through sys-
tenlatic education of the membership to the
class division in sports. The bosses, use sports
for their own class interests Exploitation of
the workers defense of the capitalist state, etc..
The workers must use sports for their class in
terest, which means participation in the strug-
giles of the workers against the capitalist state.
These some of the problems before athe
coming convention. 1t must be understood that
our tasks are not mechanical nor can they be
accomplished over night, These tasks and a
change in our work can be accomplished only
by % sharp struggle against the bosses sports
movement and the reformsts. (2) a deep going
change in our technical activity, (3) the educa-
ton Of the membership through educational bull
letins, % the fuflment Of international obliga-
lions (5) and, above all, conscious participation
in the struggles Of the workers. Without ef-
fecting these changes we will remain sectarian
organization isolated from the young workers
and the class struggle but by lifting the L. s. U.
from its present isolation we will win the Amer
lean young worker sportsmen and will become a
vital factor in the struggles Of the American
working class. FRANK HENDERSON.
Sept. ~, 1890.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
BY FRANK HENDERSON

The central task confronting the Fourth National
Convention of the Labor Sports Union is the
bringing of the revolutionary sports movement
from its sectarian isolation to the broad masses
of American young workers who under the
influence and control of the bosses and reform
list sports organizations in the u. S. To un.
derstand this sickness of isolation" and effec-
lively administer cure it is fundamentally
necessary that we analyze our. basic shortcom-
ings and also the tasks confronting the coming
National Convention.
Our present form of sports activity technical
isoation) is of the basic reasons for our
general isolation from the American worker
sportsmen. We have not organized such sports
activity which would satisfy the needs of the
young workers and would attract them into the
workers sports movement. Up to the present
time the L. S. U. has been hidden from the
American young workers because it has not or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
Asl<,..
D. VnnHn
All, Now We
Have It!,
By JORGE

Have you been looking for a solution to t,,,,
employment? Are you, in short hungry? All
you have to do is to go to Jail. A Chicago cor.
poration has fixed it all up
1t seems that Chicago has been purified and
the old Criminal Court Gall courts are criminal
courts, but there are and old ones) and the
Old JAIL wherein your humble servant spent
nearly year once. is empty
So wealthy lady who is not yet in the 80.
cialist' party Mrs. Thomas D. Collins and a
certain John H. Kraft, vice president of the
Straus National Bank. with number of others
have formed company entitled: 1.-THE Tower
Town Food and Shelter Fund, Incorporated" -.
So lovely of them! They have leased the Old
Jail on Dearborn street for period of 80 days
count 'em, NINETY. And will operate it as
a free shelter and eating place" for that period
Please notice that the presumption is that pros
perity" will be back about week before Christ
This ought to set Haywood Broun into
action with "Give Job till Christmas move
ment for Chicago.
Mrs. Collins, the chief optimist in this venture
says that expenses will be limited to fuel-"and
we hope that some kind hearted coal dealer will
give some COAL"
The U. S. Army is to contribute horse blankets
feas included, free. The hotels are to turn over
the come backs that are too rotten to dole out
to their kitchen help and strain their garbage
through sieve, thus contributing food"
Jobless workers, take hope! Though the rich
would be panied to pay taxes enough to pay you
Unemployment Insurance, because that would be
charity or a "dole" still they have a great
heart"
They will see that you are sheltered in a jail
which has been condemned as unfit for prisoners,
fed on, the most select garbage and warmed by
that rarest of all bipeds-a "kind-hearted coal
dealer"
AS Karl Marx once said, the capitalists will do
EVERYTHING for the workers, except get off
their backs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
Organize and Strike Against
Wage Cuts

be concretized for the several shops, mines or
mills you have decided to concentrate upon You
must in advance decide upon the steps which
will lead to winning the workers in shop, mine
or mill for our union league shop committee
thus enabling to lead them into struggle.
shop concentrated upon must be studied.
Daily and accurate information must be obtained
from many departments in the shop as pes
sibe. Especial attention must be given to the
various forms of wage cuts and speed up so that
we can clarity these attacks upon living STAN
dards to- the workers. No matter how small our
shop committee, It must meet at least once
week. At every meeting concrete tasks must be
assigned to all members inside and outside the
shop; at all meetings there must be check up
to ascertain whether tasks assigned have been
carried through with success. Only by following
this step by step policy, will the workers begin
to feel our leadership, only in this way will
the workers begin to regard us a fighting
economic organization, engaging in propaganda
as WE'LL instead of pure and simple propa-
ganda club, only -tc ~
These are questions that must be dealt. with at
every meeting of leading TUUL committees and
Affiliations
And in order to facilitate eur. tasks, to make
it possible to function more efficiently and speed
lily to build and strike, must at once gather
contributions for the 100000 Organize and Strike
Campaign. Into the shops, mines and mills with
the collections lists Collect from house to house
in working class neighborhoodss Hold affairs.
Request sympathetic workers organizations to
contribute. Put the drive for funds on the map.
The Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts"
program is test of the ability and understand
ing of all the heads of national unions and
leagues of every district TUUL secretary and,
leading committee of every TUUL afiliation and
member. Together we can, by the use of reyolu-
tionary strike STACEY and action tactics, spike
the bosses guns, and in solidarity with the un-
employed workers, march forward to victories.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-02
BY A. WAGENkNEcHT

wage cuts, slashing already very low standards
of living throughout all industries Workers on
the job workers walking the streets starving
and suffering because of low wages and speed-up
or no wages and jobs. Workers everywhere
in a mood for fighting, for striking and strug-
Cling against the bosses to halt their wage cut
offensive, to form solid front for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill
And yet, in this very favorable situation, the
TUUL is not leading strikes against wage cuts
of any size. Why not? The Trade Union Unity
League has ten national unions and leagues
covering ten industries, among them the most
basic We have Trade Union Unity League district
and local secretaries and leading bodies in the
most important industrial centers. But, we are
not in contact with the masses of workers. We
are not asserting our leadership. There is
total lack of check up on activities OF all our
affiliations and members $50 ~
1t was for the purpose of placing before all
our organizations and members the Immediate
need of speeding up organization work, that
the National Bureau of the Trade Union Unity
League decided upon the basis basis of, the AC
TION. SLOGAN of ."ORGANIzE AND STRIKE
AGAINST WAGE CUTS to draw emphatic at
tention to this as Our central ia SIX 2; $50.
One month has elapsed since the national Of
not Just a propaganda slogan You are doing no
leagues and the district and local leagues. Our
activity should by now be at a peak all forces
engaged in it, perspectives very definite How
ever, the situation today leads US to- frankly say
that we are only now starting.
Organize and Strike Against Wage Cuts is
not just a propagand sloagn. You are doing no
great service If you only write this slogan into
your leaflets and shout it from the house tops,
or mechanically stick it under the noses of
masses of workers. If we are to lead strikes or
masses of workers now actually ready to strike,
we must plan the strikes All Of our tasks must