The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-18
our League Work in
OPPONENT Organizations

comrade inside and the l.. S. u. even
to have built a basketball team of
these disgruntled elements and use
this team as point around which TO
organize this opposition group.
3. Special Dues Payments for I'm
employed. In the A. a. u, as well
as in other bourgeois organizations,
no special dues system has been in
troduced 3r the unemployed mem
bers. In discussing this question
with some young unemployed work
ers, they claim that one of the things
they miss most while unemployed is
money with which to pay dues to
their clubs. A sharp struggle in
most cases could be organized against
the leadership Of the A. A. U. clubs
on this issue.
4. Race Discrimination. In the
A. A. U. especially do we find an
almost open Jim-Crow policy, as evi-
denced by the United States Lawn
Tennis Associations barring of Nc
gro tennis players, etc. 1t is only
when the A. A. u. discovers an ex-
ceptional star amongst the Negroes,
such as Tolin, that they allow him
in the organization to cover up their
Jim-Crow policy, but discriminate
against him when it comes to oues-
tons of hotels, restaurants, ETC., while
on tour. In the Y. M. G. A. in Pitts
burgh there is an entirely separate
branch for the Negroes.
s. Against the Payment of Elk
orbitant Fees to Officials. In the
United States Football Association of
the Amateur Athletic Union the Soc
Ger teams are forced to pay the game
referees as much as S. per game and
oftentimes much more. Many of the
players, due to unemployment, can
not afford pitching in" for the ref
erees' fees and as result sometimes
do not play.
6. Amateur Sport. This can and
must be made one of the most i'm
portant issues. Although the A. A.
U. does not pay their star athletes
openly, they pay them in the form
OF padded expenses. This really
makes the A. A. U. amateur.
This also tends to develop stardom
and favoritism ON the part of the
A. A. U. leadership for certain picked
athletes, which in turn means less
participation in athletics for the
rank and file, and less chance for
them to develop into good athletes.
These are only few of the par
tial demands that can be raised in
the A. A. U. and some Of the other
sport bodies. Together with these,
other issues of a broader nature can
be introduced. For instance, during
a strike in a town where a club is
located, We should approach e5pe-
cially those organiza tions in which
we are working to give strike relief
and participate in the collection of
relief. This itself may develop q
struggle in the organization on real
class issue. Other and broader class
issues may be introduced. into these
orgc ai1ations around which struggle
can be developed
Therefore, in our opponents work
we must remember that cur task is
to build broad opposition groups
based on certain partial demands
fitting the situation in the organize
ton; as a result of carrying on these
struggles for partial demands the
drawing of the widest number of the
membership into certain forms of the
class struggle such as strike relief,
etc, and finally at the oppo-ture
moment splitting from these organ
iasticns the largest possible number
CT workrng-class elements to our rev.
dictionary organizations.
HE who has the youth has the
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