The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSION
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE. U. s.A.
BY BURCK

Basketball, baseball, track and field, swimming
boxing and wrestling, ETC., must be encouraged
Also our sport meets must popularze our prin-
cipleS and our organization. Therefore, invita-
ton open road and street runs must become
vital part of our technical sports program. Also
the children must not be neglected-street meets
sport carnivals festivals must be arranged with
the entire neighborhood solicited for children to
participate.
Cd To send large delegation of worker
athletes from the U. S. to the Spartakiad in
Berlin Through this campaign we must reach
far into the heart of the boss controlled sport
movement and win large numbers into the LSU
This Spartakad campaign must develop into a
mass counter movement amongst the workers
against the bosses international sport meet
(Olympics) in Los Angeles in 1882. This cam
paign must stimulate active recruiting of new
members and must build mass circulation for
our sport press-"The Sport and Play" 1t must
be remembered that the Sport and Play" is the
only workers sport paper exposing and fighting
against all the scores of boss-published sport
magazines and the bourgeois sport press.
AS stated at the Enlarged Buro these basic de-
cisions have not been popularized among the
LSU membership and surely not carried out,
Therefore, drastic steps must be taken with the
consequent decisions to remedy the bad situation
in the LSU:
l. That Chicago. Detroit, Cleveland Pitts
burgh, and New York as important industrial
centers, strongholds of reformst and boss con-
trolled sport movement be chosen as points of
concentration. That the comrades of the ma
tional board be sent to these districts to help
the district comrades in their work.
hot I1n ef
National Youth Day to involve the mass partici-
patton of worker athletes in the sports program
on NYD. In this manner NYD becomes an i'm
portant step in the preparations for the SPARTA
had On NYD the Spartakiad campaign should
be at its highest point with the district SPARTA
kiad elimination meets taking place on NYD.
8. That we turn to more systematic strug-
gle against the AAU and all oss-controlled
sport organizations by raising partial demands
based on local issues. AL of the districts must
begin to issue leaflets with partial demands to
win the support of the worker athletes.
A. That major emphasis be placed on the or
ganzation of baseball teams and leagues in all
districts. Baseball is the basic commodity" in
American sports without which the LSU cannot
grow into mass sport organization.
S. That our fractions and YCL districts make
a more systematic check-up and give more as
sistance in the organization of United Front
Spartakiad Conferences and general stimulus to
the Spartakiad Campaign. Especially must this
be emphasized to our comrades in mass organ
izations such as trade unions language clubs
etc. large representative delegation of ath-
letes must be sent to the Spartakiad in Berlin
Through the successful execution of these de-
cisions we will be able to develop mass popular
interest in the Spartakiad campaign This will
insure the striking of effective blows against the
boss-controlled sport organizations and building
OF workers sport movement in the u S.