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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
Tomsk (siberia) July A, 1880.

Tomsk (Siberia) July A, 1880.
TIC the New England District Or
ganization of the Labor Sports
Union of America:
Dear Comrades The sports or
CARNATIONS of the city of Tomsk
sends its warm greetings to the
worker sportsmen of New England
and to the American proletariat.
The international solidarity Of the
proletarian sportsmen and If the
whole proletariat is the best basis
for the final victory of the work
ing class in the whole world.
Comrades, our district is attached
to you New Fngland) with he OBJ
ject of establishing permanent con-
nections between US, the contract of
internatios socialist competition
has been signed and this letter must
serve as the first signal of what
the sportsmen of Siberia are doing
in order to fulfill the socialist con-
test.
Your delegation which visited
Siberia has told you, of course, how
we are building socialism in our
country. The delegation also ac-
quainted you with the sports move
ment of the U. S. S. r. and Siberia.
Through this letter we want to
let you know about our achieve
ments in the sports movement in
our district.
Altogether, 1,145 workers are par
ticipating in the sports movement
here. The sports work is organized
at every factory and institution;
everywhere where there are five to
seven or more members interested
in sports there is always a sports
nucleus, the first embryo of the
sport organization. On June 1 we
had 43 such nuclei.
Our sportsmen are taking an ac-
tive part in the socialist reconstruc-
ton and are active assistants of our
working class in rebuilding national
economy. The sports and physical
culture occupy one of the first
places in the so-called shock bri-
gades movement which is now in
vogue in the whole working class
U. S. S. r. Altogether 672 men are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

Cube around the union. What are
the unions located outside of New
York doing? How many sports
clubs can the Miners Union show?
How about the Detroit Auto Work
ers' Union? The New York unions
challenge you to revolutionary
workers competition. Let's hear
from you through the columns Of
our Daily.
Daily Worker and L. s. U.
The L. S. U. showed that it is on
the job in helping to raise finances
for our Daily last Sunday at TIE
Daily Worker picnic. Comrade Sa-
pirstein, an N. E. B. member of the
L. S. u, raised over SIS with a set
of boxing gloves. The workers
present at the picnic showed their
interest in boxing by putting the
gloves on and watching the work
ers getting some practice in the art
of self-defense, which today for
workers means workers defense
Besides this attraction the soccer
game entertained the workers well.
This is just one example of how
the L. S. U. can help the labor
movement. There are many others,
but this alone should convince every
class-conscious worker that his duty
is to support the L. S. U. Send in
your contribution and application
fol- membership now!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
CAPITALIST PRESS
FACTS"

The ginks who run the capitalist
press are very boastful about
"giving the facts" The poor cub
reporter who fails to get the exact
address of murder, or who dares
to say that it occurred at 1859 p. M,
when it really happened at 1858, is
raked fore and aft by his city editor
with lectures on the enormous i'm
portance of facts. Of course the
poor devil has to reverse his engine
when it comes to handling stories
about workers, like the N. Y. Times
writer, who gravely estimated"
the August / demonstration crowd
at 5000. But the Herald Tribune
Sunday got off a new one. AS an
"explanation" added to the story
of the Chinese Red Army, it said:
Some of the names of leaders of
the Communist armies are: Gener-
ais Chu Teh, Mao Cheh-tung, Chang
Teh, Chu Mou, Chu Notch, Mai
Tsai-tung and Chu TAX" That
makes seven generals in all. The
only trouble is that only the first
two really exist, and the other
seven are capitalist press variations
and mistakes in the names of the
first two. But no alarm need be
felt. The Red Army will take Han
kow just as quick with only two
generals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
BOXING

With Young Stribling back from
England, where he recently knocked
out Phil Scott in the record time of
two rounds, the boxing racket is
taking on new life. This feat
makes Striblihg the outstanding
heavyweight for the title adjoining
the brow of Max Schmeling. In the
past he has been considered a bet
ter wrestler than boxer. But his
knock out of Van Porat, a few
months ago in Chicago and recently
of Scott, places him in the front
ranks of the heavies.
The writer is of the opinion that
if Stribling and Schmeling meet
the Georgian will come out the win
ner, provided the bout is on the
level GU. Before these two
heavies collide we can look forward
to a transforming tour of Stribling
which will help to build him up into
a big attraction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
SOCIALIST FUNERAL
ELOQUENCE.

Each time a celebrated scoundrel
croaks, the same thing occurs.
There is a kind of graveyard tradi-
ton. Delegates arrive from all
bourgeois associations and institu-
tons and in turn develop their
points of view with respect to the
qualities of the deceased. The
burial begins at 10 a. m. and at
2 p. m. still continues, with the
corpse in the coffin ON the ground,
stoically enduring the speeches. In
death the deceased has to endure
that which in life he was rarely
subjected to; to listen to the eulo-
gies of his fellows. To listen {.
and keep quiet. This is still more
true when the dead is a prominent
socialist" as we were reminded
when reading the speeches given al
the burial short time Ego of Juan
B. Justo, social fascist who passed
from this life with our enthusiastic
permission. But on reading ac-
counts of the speeches we are given
the following: One socialist"
commenced his speech thus: "In
this solemn moment there is room
only for silence" He started out
thus and kept on talking for twenty
minutes. Another one said: Here,
before this corpse, this fallen giant,
a fall that has the character of
thunderous noises {. and we go
on without finding out what kind of
thunderous noises are referred to.
Another Socialist" chief, despite
his own activities as a banker,
clinched his fists and declared: "The
only hatred of the deceased, was his
haterd of the powerful whose influ-
ence is built on the needs of the
people" Really we don't under
stand how Senior Justo, who was a
powerful South American financier,
was able to hate the powerful, as
the other socialist" financier said
he did. But the prize for eloquence
was earned by the speech of the
secretary of tn socialist" party of
Argentina, who over the coffin de-
clared: Socialism is where lies the
deceased" That is to say, that
socialism" of the social fascist
brand, was laid out in the coffin in
the cemetery awaiting burial, and
certainly we conclude that by the
time the news reached US it must
be fittingly inferred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
HAM FISH
a contribution

81 knew Ham Fish at college. He
was already poor ham and poor
fish. Once in a football game he
seized up the bali and ran with
pathetic and mistaken zeal---in the
wrong direction. When the time
came for the election of senior Of
ficers, Ham Fish and another snob
named Bacon were nominated and
expected to be elected; but their
classmates .who knew them too well,
voted against this combined menu
of ham, fish and bacon. Perhaps
Americans as whole will wake up
to recognize Representative Fish
for what he is and vote against
him. Meanwhile, Fish swallows
hook, bait and sinker, and the
American public swallows Fish,
Alumnus Harvarddiensis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
IT'S AN ILL WIND.

There is lot of noise coming up
from the Sunny South, where
tobacco farmers are finding out
what a blessed thing capitalism is,
as they discover that the price the
Tobacco Trust will pay them is be-
low the cost of raising the weed.
I'll bet nobody has noticed any
lower prices for their smokes.
Which may account for the fact
that though the poor farmers go
broke in the South, and have moth
ing to live on but fat-back and
Anglo-Saxon Superiority" they
should be comforted by the news
that the trust, the American To-
bacco Co., made bigger profit this
year than ever before. Put that in
your pipe and smoke it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

While millions of workers in this
country and in England are star
wing. the American capitalists are
spending millions of dollars on sail
boats to sail against Thomas Lip
tons Shamrock Y for the interna-
tional cup.
During this and next week the
American contenders will hold elm
nation races. The international
race will be held September 13 in
the Long Island Sound.
The bourgeoisie indulge in the
most expensive sports to crafty
their desires and at the same time
endeavor to show their superior
ity" over the bourgeoisie of other
countries. Boating and boat racing
in the capitalist countries is exclu-
sively bosses sport. No matter
how necessary it is for the workers
% get out for fresh air and relaxa-
9bn they are unable to do so. 1t
is only in the Soviet Union where
the workers enjoy all sports, boat
ing as well as others.
Boxing.
The ceaseless attempts of the
boxing trust to bring foreign" box
ers into the country and develop
them TO INTERNATIONAL bouts
bring them results now and then.
The latest such find is an Argen-
tine lightweight, Justo Suarez. In
the first three fights he has had
in the United States he has proved
that what he lacks in boxing science
he fully makes up for in aggres-
siveness and stamina. The last
fight, in which he knocked out the
veteran Tiger Flowers in six rounds,
showed that he will make dam
gerous opponent for AL Singer or
Kid Berg. But the writer does not
think that he will get this chance
before having several more fights
which will bring in more money for
the promoters. After all, boxing
is racket, in which the state par
ticipates through its boxing CON-
mission, and it must be worked out
so that the boxing bugs are trimmed
from all sides.
Fellow workers! watch the an
nouncements in the near future of
boxing bouts promoted by the Labor
Sports Union, not for the interests
Of an individual, but to help train
workers for Workers Defense.
Labor Sports Union Notes.
Boys! the Eastern District is
bringing out its best track and field
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
SIBERIA SPORTSMEN
" RITE us. WORKERS
Their District Attached to New England in
international Socialist Competition

participating in the shock brigade
movement of our district. r..
The sports organizations, in the
course of their activity, have signed
between them contracts of socialist
competition, paying their chief at
tention to the fulfillment of the
plan of work, to the organization
of rational rest and to the attrac-
ton of as many as possible sports
men, men and women, especially
grown-ups, into their ranks.
At the present time, through our
sports organizations, we are finish
ing the collection of international
payments to the funds of the Red
Sports International.
BY the resolution of the sports
conference it was decided that each
sportsman must pay ten copecks
Is cents) for this purpose.
The courses for training sport in
structors have been successfully
finished. They were the first sport
courses where amongst the students
were mostly workers and children
of workers.
In this way the sports orgauiza-
tons of Tomsk district live and
work.
Now, from our part, we ask you
to tell US in your reply what your
district of the L. S. U. is doing at
present, are you acquainted with
ire contract of international social
ist competition which your delega-
tion signed with the sport organiza-
tons of Siberia and what are you
doing in order to fulfill its objects?
When we receive your reply we
shall keep up regular corrspeon-
dence and will write you about
everything in which you are inter
ested.
Long live the Communist Inter-
national, leader of the working class
of the world in their struggles
against their exploiters!
Long live the international unity
of the workers sports movement!
Long live the Red Sports Inter-
national, leader of the proIetarian
sports movement.
With revolutionary sports greet
ings.
SPORTMEN OF THE CITY
OF TOMSK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
ON GETTING THINGS
MIXED,

Roaming around among the small
town minds last week, we observed
few ladies-not women--but
ladies, immensely concerned be-
cause, in Chicago, tw0 babies had
got mixed up. This shocking, that
is to say Chicago, incident, has for
weeks occupied nearly as much
space as Lindy's baby in the capt.
alist press, which makes all such
nonsense seem tremendously i'm
portant. A mixup that really
amounts to something is told about
in papers the workers don't read.
'The Annalist," for example is a
paper for bosses, and it's leading
writer takes a whack at Hooverian
boloney in the following courteous
terms: July has come to an end
without giving any indication of the
'unmistakable and definite turn
toward prosperity, which was so
loudly announced a fortnight ago
from certain quarters which ought
to know better" Incidentally, the
Annalist takes poke at Mother
Matte VOLTS campaign against
Soviet manganese. 1t says: There
is not enough manganese in the
United States to supply more than
a very small part of our require
ments," then, for those who think
there is no war danger, it adds:
American manganese should be
reserved for exploitation in the
next war crisis" This logically
make one think that they figure
that Soviet manganese will be cut
off from America~in the next war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
LABOR SPORTS

athletes this Sunday to show their
stuff in the fir part of an Eastern
District championship track and
field meet. The events will be run
off at the Pelham Bay Stadium,
Pelham Bay Park, Bronx. The sec
ond, and more spectacular, part of
the program will be run off at the
Timer Park on Saturday, Septem-
Der IS. This affair is to be cele-
brated in connection with the Inter
national Youth Week.
The last track and field meet
held by the Eastern District, on
Jun T, did not get very good sup
port from the revolutionary labor
movement. Come on, comrades!
Give your support to the L. S. U.
The L. S. U. must be built up into
all organization which will be able
to give it's best forces to the build
ing of Workers Defense. All out
this Sunday to Pelham Bay. No
admission charged here. On Sep
TENDER 10 there will be a small
charge of so cents, which will also
include dancing in the evening.
Eastern District Training School.
1t is important to train workers
for the class struggle in the trade
unions and political organizations.
The same can be said for the sports
movement. The l.. S. U. is prepar-
ing to hold Five Weeks Physical
Instructors school beginning the
Sept. Is, to be held in Camp Kin
, derland. By the way, this is one
of the most beautiful workers
camps around New York. The tu-
ition fee is very nominal, only $50
for the full course. Every workers
organization, fraternal and trade
union should send at least two stu
dents to this school. The school
will not only train sports leaders,
but also leaders for Workers De-
tense work. Send in the entries to
the Labor Sports Union, 90 Fifth
Ave-, Room 300.
t. U. U. L. and Sports.
The revolutionary trade unions
are beginning to realize that unless
they carry on sports activities
among the young workers in and
outside of the union they will not
be very successful in holding the
young workers in the union aud at
tracing others to the union. There
fore the Industrial Needle Trades
Workers Union, the Food Workers
and the Jewelry Workers Union
have taken steps to organize such
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
THINGS AMT WHAT
THEY SEEM

Last Friday the capitalist press
gaze a fen soldering headlines to
the New York Edison and Associ.
ated companies, aohose head guy
made big flare about Producing
rates" for electricity. Due to The
depression, he said, the company
thought 1t a0os only fair to help the
small consumer" By cutting the
rates for juice. Who says that big
corporations are heortless? Perish
the thought! Rates would be cut
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
The Past and
the Present
To the comrades abroad:

! To the comrades abroad:
This letter is from an old grand
father, Semen Samofaloff, born in
the Voronej District, village Kaltsh.
Actually Semen Samofaloff is liv-
ing in the little town Armavir--in
North Caucacus.
To you, dear friends, to the work
ers, peasants and employees I am
writing the present letter.
All the workers must know about
the life of our Soviet Union.
About the Red Army.
How it used to be before.
During the Czarist regime the SOL
diers were treated as dogs. Every
where you could find inscriptions:
'The entrance in the garden is for
hidden for soldiers and dogs" The
soldier had to salute every minute
the officers. The soldiers used to
be at that time quite illiterate, stup-
id; he was taught only to praise
the car and the czarina and coming
home from the army he was good
only to be considered as cannon fod-
der. The soldiers were always sent
into barracks situated in cities far
away from their home. That was
done in order to tear him from the
masses of the workers, so that he
would agree every minute on the
order of the officers to attack the
workers in case of an instruction
or of their economical or other re-
quests. The soldiers were abomin-
ably nourished. They were sent by
detachments for preparation to the
sacrament and for confession. And
if soldier confessed to the priests
his sins the next day he was sent
to court because the priests told
everything to the officers. Such was
the stupidity of the Russian SOL
diers in the time of the car.
Now
After the October revolution the
Red Army has become true defense
of the laboring people. The Red
Army is the own army of the folk.
Whole legands are sung about the
Red Army. A worker, peasant or
employee entering the Red Army is
here educated, gets not only a mill
tary education, but also a political
and social one and in finishing his
military service becomes a useful
citizen of our Soviet Republic. We,
the Soviet citizens are closely bound
with the Red Army.
The barracks of the Red Army are
situated in the center of the city, so
they can entertain close connec.
ticn with all the other workers. In
the barracks you always can find
clubs, wireless, all sorts of circles,
a band, etc. From the army the
soldier can pass to university and
study there in any branch he wishes.
According to Soviet laws the
family of the Red soldier are in full
security during his service.
Such is actually our Red Army
which we can consider not only as
our defense but also as your de-
tense.
SEMEN SAMOFALOFF.
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i h q p Ollie =
BY FRANK HALL.

See their cruel faces
Their sodden and vicious faces
That blank and brutal expression,
That hard, inhuman expression,
That coarse, dull ignorant look
See him go by swinging his club,
To keep up his towards courage,
With gun his fat hip.
See his well-fed mug.
See the brute strut.
How brave with his club and his gun
Against unarmed opponent.
Thud goes the club
On the head of unarmed worker,
jobless and hungry worker,
Never on the head of a millionaire.
The armed against the unarmed-
That's all your bravery consists of,
That's the total of your stupid wisdom
For whom are you welding those clubs?
Who put those weapons into your hands?
Perhaps you do not realize your true role
AS the wachdogs of the ill-gotten gain of thieves,
As the mercenaries of the oligarchy.
For blood money
Are you willing to help the rich enslave humanity?
1t is they who put the weapors into your hands.
Can't you see that you are waging losing fight?
Don't you know that day,
And not so far off,
We will wrest those very weapons from your hand,
And then you will pay
Even like the dogs your prototypes,
The cars police?
Humanity groans under the thud of your clubs,
Not, however, without retaliation
There casualties your side too.
Does it annoy you the turns,
Or rather that the beast at bay fights back,
And that often you paid in kind?
Relent while it is still time
One of these days your masters will not be there
To pay you blood money.
Then you will run you never ran before,
With no place to run to-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23

The traditional good-natured and
prosperous days of the farmer and
his apple-cheeked children are things
of the past for the New York state
farmers-fairy tales to be told
along with mother goose and grand
mothers tales.
The soil on the New York state
farms is rich enough, the climate is
all right; crops grow and peaches
and corn ripen, but it brings no
prosperity to the farmers of the
state. 1t is true that at the pres
ent time many crops have been
nearly ruined by drought, but since
all prices are fixed in advance farm
ers go bankrupt even when the
weather is good. Farmers have
used corn for fuel when crops have
been good, because they could get
no prices and because corn was
cheaper than coal
Lost All In Last Crisis.
In the last great crisis of 1922
New York farmers lost their farms
and all their belongings to the bank
ers. Whole families were evicted
and marched the countryside look
ing for work as farm laborers and
seasonal pickers. Thousands of
farmers and their families swelled
the city unemployed looking in vain
for work.
Needless to say that these bank
rupt farmers never recovered what
they lost at that time. Those who
hung on in the face of starvation
soon found themselves going from
bad to worse and in the present
crash farmers of New York state
have been struck :. blow from which
no recovery is possible short of rev.
dictionary organization and revolu-
tionary demands upon the govern
ment.
Typical of the plight of the New
York farmers are some of the farms
that I visited in the northern part
of the state.
Out of a dozen farms only one
was in passable condition. This
farmer specialized in milk and eggs,
because he had not been able to
make expenses raising farm prod
uce. He complained bitterly of the
swindlers who force the farmer to
sell low and then sell the same
produce high to the city consumers.
This farmer could see that although
he was better off than the major
ity of his neighbors that it would
not be long before he would be
reduced to the same condition as
the rest.
Robbed By Middlemen.
He received s cents for milk that
sells after bottling for 16 cents.
The dairy robbers have now raised
this one cent in New York City,
pretending that there is a short
age. But the farmers did not get
any of this raise in price. This
farmer received % cents for eggs
that sell in the city for IS and 45
cents and Is cents per pound for
chickens that sell at So and 40 cents.
Another farmer had lost his farm
a year ago and has been a farm
hand ever since, working for $50
a month. This farm laborer was
a wreck. To see him on Sunday
afternoon sitting in his hot, fly