The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05
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Labor Sports Now Wearing
Long Pants
By yORGN

For long while We wondered whether
that poor little infant would ever bet beyond
the diaper and safety-pin age. We refer to the
Labor Sports Unions which for long after birth
barely existed with all the ailments of infancy
heaped upon it and nobody interested in whether
1t lived or died,
we were perpexed why, in view of the fact that
tife Labor Sports movement in such an out of tile
way Country as Uruguay, for example, is all over
the map and monopolizes whole pages in the
communist daily paper of .Montevdeo, our
brother paper "Justicia" And of course in Ger
many. Czecho- Slovakia and other Euroean cour-
tries the Red Sports movement is a big thing.
Behold the little infant has grown up and is
wearing long pants! Here in New York there
has been various fields that have fallen\ before
its advance, and now Metropolitan Workers
soccer League has been formed and it. has its
own home field for the soccer season :"
This home field is up at the Dykman oval
two blocks north of the Dyckman street station
on the Seventh Avenue IRT. line, and every
Sunday all soccer fans can enjoy themselves for
six long hours if they feel that way, because
matches between various soccer teams have been
arranged for every Sunday beginning at II a m
and continuing until p m. -.
One reason that the youngstef grew SO slowly
has been, undoubtedly, the idea on the part of
many of our good comrades that the united
front on the field of workers sports was beneath
their dignity For example the Labor, Sports
Union organizers in cooperation with the Needle
Trades Union put some of the unions sport &C
tiV1ties in news releases of the unions activities
only to have them Indignantly cut out by the
labor editor" of a well-known Communist paper
in the Jewish language, who objects to mixing
sports with trade union news"
But the sports movement Is growing and
every Sunday different soccer teams will play at
the Dyckman Oval, bringing outside. teams and
their mass following of workers to meet our
Workers Soccer League teams and our follow
ing OF workers-whicl1 is all to the good The
games OF the next few weeks will be with the
Needle Trades Sports Club versus the East Side
Workers; the Harlem Progressive Youth Club
versus the East Side Workers; the Harlem Pro-
gressive Youth Club versus the Spartacus Club;
the Neckwear Workers A. c.. versus the Savoy
A. c. and many other which worse luck, the
Daily Worker cannot give space to-
Soccer, different than Rugby IS a game rather
than pure meat and muscle, and we are sure that
Sam Scarlet, the old IW.W. who recently joined
The Communist Party of Canada would enjoy
get Mig in the game if he could. bacslise was
an old time soccer champions and gave us our
enthusiasm for soccer on the prison grounds at
Leavenworth. g
But Scarlet is busy up in Csnada,sc somewhere.
And you New York folks nlustsfill the Dyczman
Oval every Sunday. Admission is only Is cents.
so you don't bankrupt yourself But you do help
Labor Sports and get some air that most OF you
need. Run along outi -
Swindlers of Immigrants: Our recent Spark
about the Polish workers OF this cevIaw setting
film -flam1ned out of their life savings, brought
letter from a German who remarks: 1.-THE
Germans in this country lost eyen more money
in helping the poor fatherlands- The writer lost
even more money in helping the poor fetherland
The writer lost many hundreds of dollars The
money never benefited the German workers nor
the middle class. At the time of the Initiation an
enormous building construction was On in Ger
many chiefly bank buildings and expansions
That's where the money went