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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

Other names might be mentioned But enough
has been said to bring out the strictly upper
class nature of this affair Fascist army officers,
millionaire labor haters, Matthew Vol and his
SportSmanstip Brotherhood--all are united in
the promotion Of the Olynpics.
II a look at some of the above names is not
enough to convince the most skeptical reader
that the Olympiade is an out-and-out capitalist
affair then glance at the some of the contr-
butors to the last Olympics may. Here are some:
Marshall Field and Co. Silas Strawn, Anton
J. Cermak, Clarence Guggenheigner, United
Fruit Co., James A. Farrell (who Just cut wages
of the workers in ''his' u. S. Steel Corp,
Charles Schwab, Murray Guggenheim, Otto Fl.
Kahn, Clarence H. Mackay, Gerard Swope,
Ralph Pulitzer, Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.,
and, lest we forget, Chicago Building Trades
Council page Avery Brundage!), and the Chi
cago Federation of Labor.
Enough! 1t reads like list of Who Owns
America!
Reflects Boss Policy.
The Olympics faithfully reflect in the sport
world, the general policies of the American CAPT
talist class. 1t has an internal" policy and an
international" policy. At home it chooses for its
Olympic games from the sons of the wealthy,
lads who ron1p around at college and whose ed
ucation" consists of one round OF sports after
another. Those few workers who find themselves
good athletes are given expense accounts" or are
given soft jobs but even they are a tiny mi
nority. Negro athletes in the South are openly
Disseminated against; in the North the same
thing is done only more subtley. Corruption, devil
alton from even their own broad" amateur
standards-an this was openly discussed in the
sport pages after the 1923 Olympics and IS a COM
mon feature # these Roman circus affairs.
Internal lily the Olympics reflect the hatred
of the bart s and bosses of the entire world of
the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is simply not
invited to the Olympics, One-sixth of the worlds
surface-pecuarly enough, that one-sixth that
is run by workers-is ignored totally--a sport
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tons have been greatly strengthened and new
organizations have been set up by the Czecho-
sloyak, Ukroinian, and Polish workers. The
Ukrainian workers and poor farmers sent dele
cation of IA to the U.S.SR. this year which
carried on wide campaign on returning, being
enthusiastically received by the masses and max
ing many recruits for the revolutionary organ
izations.
The Young Communist League increased its
membership by over 100 per cent q 500 to 10000
and has made the beginnings of turn to the
factory and mass work. The Friends of the
Soviet Union was established in Canada this
year and is firmly rooted in all the main centers
throughout the country and has several thou
sand members.
The 5000 French Canadians in Quebec who
up to now have been dominated by the Catholic
church and were hostile to the revolutionary
movement are showing that they are moving
into the front Of class struggle alongside the
rest Of the workers They have spontaneously
struck in several places accepting the lead of
the Workers Unity League in their strikes. They
have marched in unemployed demonstrations
with red flags ahead. The Party is very weak
in Quebec, and this year has resumed publica-
ton Of the "Ouvriere Canadienne" and definite
gains are being made by the paper in paving
the way for organization.
The successes of the Canadian Communist
Party and revolutionary movement in mobilizing
and organizing masses of the workers and poor
farmers against the starvation and interven-
ZIONIST policies of the Bennett Government, the
successes gained against the social fascists of
Canada are the reasons for the outlawing and
suppression OF the Party.
The Party will not quietly sink down into H.
legality but will fight every inch Of the way.
mobilizng greater masses for the struggle
4 against the attacks on the only leader of the
Canadian workers and poor farmers against
capitalist exploitation and oppression and the
treacherous social fascists.
The Party Is strenuously and rapidly reorgan-
izing its whole work to carry out the tasks that
face it under the new conditions. The organiza-
ton of the daily struggles will be guaranteed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Ry I. AMTER.

The workers of the United States
want the Daily Worker. To be sure,
they still read the capitalist press,
and many of them still reject the
Daily. But the crisis is driving them
to struggle-unemployment, starva-
tion, part-time, the stagger plan
(Which, according to President Grace
of the Bethlehem Steel Co., has COL
lapsed and long hours, are making
the workers think and rnove-and
their only leader is the Communist
Party.
In this crisis, which becomes worse
every day, the workers are beginning
to turn to other thoughts. They need
guidance-and therefore we find in
the most remote sections of the coun-
try, where the persecution and OPP
preston is worst, where the terror is
most widespread, where Sheriffs and
stool-pigeons are on the alert-there
the Daily Worker is to be found. In
Kentucky, in the South among the
share croppers-in the mining and
textile towns, in the steel towns,
where practically martial law exists,
the Daily Worker is read, despite
postal discrimination. YOU CAN
NOT KEEP THE DAILY OUT!
In the last miners strike, In the
textile strikes of Paterson and Law
renee, in the coming strike of the
Harlan miners, the Daily has and
will play the most significant part
In the coming needle strikes, in the
struggles in the building trades-we
cannot conceive of a proper leader
ship of the strike without our ability
to reach the workers with the rev.
dictionary policy and tactics, with the
ability to expose the role of the fax
ers and their bosses.
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ers viii ,be gcailed out on strike
against the sstage wage cuts which
have brought them to starvatiorp
We pledge yourselves to support tli4
strike BY 'rallying with the Workers
International Relief, the officially
appointed relief organization OF the
Kentucky miners, in its campaign Of
collection and distribution of funds,
food and clothing.
THE eyes Of the workers and pea~
SAINTS of the Soviet Union, the miners
| of Germanyssnd the Soviet Union all
fare directed toward the militant
movement Of the Kentucky miners
These eyes are also looking expect~
antly to the great masses of workers
and farmers Of sympathizers In this
country. These masses must supply
( the strike relief which is absolutely
necessary i'm order that the Kene
lucky miners Will not be forced back
into the mine pits under the bosses
starvation wage scale.
Our slogans must be:
Donate and collect mass support for
the Kentucky miners!
Support the Workers International
Relief in its task of providing relief
to the Wentucky miners!
Mobilize a. solid army in every mine,
mill and shop in solidarity with the
Kentucky miners.
Long live the heroic struggle Of
the Kentucky miners!
Long live the Workers International
Relief: o.
Defend the Soviet lion!
WORKERS De EGATION TO THE
EIGHTH, WORLD CONGRESS
OF. THE, WORKERS INTERNA-
TIONALqt RELIEF AND DEL
EGATES st TO THE SOVIET
UNION.353sc
MARTIN CRAMPO, Steel Worker.
JOHN ROBINSON, Negro Coal Miner.
BELLA sALTZBERG, Textile Worker.
DEWEY ARMSTRONG, Coal Miner.
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despite the imprisonment OF the leading cadre
and the fiercer terror and reaction.
The mass movement will be built up through
out the country, by the Party revolutionary
unions and mass organizations and the Labor
Defense League to rally broader masses in a
militant fight for the release Of the Communists
in jail Greater mass pressure is being mobilised
TO fight for the legality Of the Party.
The miners Of Drunheler Alberta, have al
ready given heroic example to the working
class in the fight to defend the Party and the
revolutionary movement when their protest
demonstration was attacked by the police they
resisted and fought back for hours, many being
wounded on both sides. ~ r.
The Canadian workers and poor farmers, In
their struggle against reaction and oppression,
must be supported by the workers of the world.
Canada is an example of how the mailed fist
of the bourgeosie in the British Empire Is striv-
ing to destroy the fighting organizations OF the
masses that stand. in the way to further at
lacks upon the conditions Of the employed and
unemployed workers and poor farmers. The at
tack on the revolutionary movement in Canada
is part of the wave. OF reaction that is sweeps
ing across the blood soaked ifnperialist Empire
in Ireland and Canada the revolutionary move
ment is oppressed in India and Cyprus the toll
ers are moved down by machine guns-all over
the attack goes on to Smash effectively the grow
ing revolutionary movement
This attack is part Of the preparation for
armed attack on the soviet Union, and calls for
greater struggles against Observation-Disclosures Of
Imperialism, the II international and A. F. Of L.
Particularly the British and U. S. A. revolu-
tionary movements must mobilize mass support
against the reactonary Canadian imperialists
who try to crush the struggles of the ruaSses
in blood, to Jail the leaders or the masses. Mass
demonstrations before the offices OF the Cana
dian Commissioners throughput the world must
be organized to show the representatives Of
Canadian Imperialism abroad and the Canadian
toilers that the international tong masses are
in solidarity with them In their fight against
reaction and terror -s-s'esess4s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
RY 81 GERSON.

THE American boss class misses no bets in its
i preparations for war. Industry, the movies,
radio and literature are all modified. Sports,
which holds SO much of the attention OF the
American working class-and particularly the
working class YOUTHS by no means overlooked.
The 1892 Olyn1pics at Los Angeles is now the
center of attention of the boss class sport leaders
A few words on the history of the OlympicS
and its significance would not be amiss, particu-
larly in view Of the Woeful neglect OF the reVo-
lltionary movement to the field Of sports.
The history of the Olympic games goes back to
IT'S BIC. when the ancient Greeks Slaves ex-
cluded) gave homage to zeus and the other
gods OF Olympus with athletic games and reig1-
Gus festivals. These games were held every four
years for 900 years but lapsed during the Mid
die Ages The games were revived at Athens in
1896 After that the games were held every four
years with the exception of the war period, when
the Olympic games were suspended to permit the
bosses of the various countries to send their
workers to the shambles for the sake Of the prof
its of international capitalism.
Capitalist Leaders.
The Importance which the hard-shelled barons
OF American finance and industry attach to the
Olympics can be readily seen by the list OF indi-
viduals who are connected with the promotion OF
the games A few of the worthless who are mem
DSrS OF tIl6 AlIleFICdL arc
Herbert Hoover, honorary chairman. He
needs no introduction to the masses Of workers
whom he has refused unemployment insurance.
Avery Brundage, president of the Amateur
Athletic Union, leading figure in the Olympic
Committee, is a rich Chicago building contrac-
tor. General Douglas Macarthur, president of
the last Olympics Committee and big man"
In this one, is a leading member of the War
Policies Commission. Major General Guy V.
Henry, Major Eley p benson, Major Walsh and
few more of various ranks are among the
peaceful gentlemen promoting these interna-
tionai games.
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The Workers Want the Daily

The need, therefore, of getting the
Daily Worker into the hands OF more
tens of thousands of workers and fill
ing them with the knowledge of the
revolutionary struggle is apparent.
The subscription drive is the occasion
for this task. The adding of 5000 new
subscribers to the rolls, the addition
of tens of thousands Of readers are
our revolutionary duty. 1t is the duty
of the militant workers to get into
the line of reading the Daily Worker.
of being boosters for the Daily
Worker. s'E
When we watch the developments
in Manchuria, and the feverish prep
arations for open war on the Chinese
Soviets and the Soviet Union, can
we conceive of our being able to con-
duct q proper struggle against the
growing inperialist war danger
against the Soviet Union, without the
Daily WORKER
1t is obvious that the workers want
and they NEED the Daily Worker.
1t is our duty TO get 1t to them Put
steam into the drive. Make the drive
a 100 per cent success! Add to the
list of the fighters who keenly read
the Daily! Make the Daily stronger
by writing for it from the field OF
STRUGGLED 7'ie
Make the Eighth Anniversary
Celebration at Bronx Coliseum ON
Jan. 8 a mass demonstration on the
Daily's eighth birthday-but also a
demonstration of the fighting abiI-
ity and will of the workers.
The workers want the Daily
Worker. Put it in their hands! Get
them to subscribe for it! Build up
the circulationoof the Daily Worker.
so that it becomes the paper Of the
J broader fighting lnassesl
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THE OLYMPICS~ ANOTHER WAR FRONT

boycott! The workers of the United States must
not see real workers in action, demonstrating
that where the workers have won power they arc
raising the physical and cultural level of the
tire of workers-this is the intent of the
Oiympics Committee. A hatred of the Soviet
Union, preliminary to armed attack, must be
built up, and the American Olympics Committee
must do its Bit!
Workers Counter Olympic Campaign
The state OF California is the place where not
only the Olympics will be held, but also where
Tom Mooney victim of the ghastlest frame-up
in the history Of American labor, is incarcerated.
The state of California which refuses to release
Tom Mooney contributed cool million dollars
for the Olympic games.
This is the history and setting Of the Olympic
Games 1t is sport mobilization for war, par
tcularly for war against the Soviet Union.
Against the 10th Olympade at Los Angeles the
worker sportsmen, through the initiative of the
Labor Sports Union are organizing Counter
Olympic committees, a wide united front
basis. Tom Mooney, has accepted { e honorary
Craftsmanship of the National Counter Olympic
Committee. The entire campaign is to wind up
in huge International Workers Athletic Meet
at Chicago, 1882, at the same time as the Los
Angeles Olympics.
This entire campaign must clarity the entire
issue of workers sports versus bosses sports in
the United States and must build the Labor
Sports Union as a real mass organization. Every
workers organization must support-and not Pla-
tonically-ths campaign. This is not a youth
issue alone; it is issue for the entire working
class. The National Conference of the Labor
Sports Union at Cleveland Ohio, November 25
26, and 81, which will mobilize the workers sport
movement for the Counter Olympic Campaign
must be supported by every workers organization.
Its decisions will be of moment for this hereto
fore badly neglected field of work.
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The MdrChers
Are Fed!

I slogans in big letters pulled into the
cred with tremendous cartoons and
ball field in Bellaire. Mrs. Kovslsly
and a dozen other wives Of steel
workers and coal miners piled up
sandwiches and arranged cups for the
hot coffee.
Marya looked Ike a human dy-
namo. Her rheumatism forgotten, she
fairly danced. From head to toe, all
fifty eight inches Of her was in mo-
ton. She had burnt herself three
times already, humping into the cof-
fee urn. But she hadn't stopped to
notice. The women hustled about,
laughing, testing, listening to exciting
bits Of news and piling the delegates
with food. There was lots OF home
made cake, and each Of them kept
an eye on the cake she made, to see
whether it would prove to be the fav-
orite. Marya wasn't tactful about 1t.
"You like my cake, yes? Good cake,
yes?"
Then came the speeches. Although
she couldn't understand more than
dozen phrases, Marya applauded
and cheered Justify turnout. There
were lunberjacks from the north
west wearing old fur caps, farmers
from the Dakotas in overalls, coal
miners and steel workers from around
her own town in the Ohio Valley
They were all going to Washington TO
demand relief from the fat Hoover
and Congress, the rich ones. Ooray!
And If they didn't have enough
money for gas and oil--if they were
worried about not getting there :
Maryas eyes danced. She Rugged
herself, almost jumping to keep her
secret from popping out.
After the speeches, the delegates
piled into trucks ready for the march
upon Wheeling to break through the
terror there. The police had threaten
ed to attack the march If 1t attempt
ed to hold any meetings there. Every
body was talking about it, ready for
the fight. Oh yes, the marchers we're
veterans by this time! One coal min
er was telling Marya about it in pid-
geon English, and curiously enough
Marya understood 1t much better
that way.
Jim Brennan, smiling at the dane
ing Marya, waved and ran for the
first truck Marya, shouting wildly,
stopped him. Digging into her bosom,
Maya brought out big handker-
chief heavily knotted. Carefully I'M
tieing it, she pulled out $40.
With a grand gesture, Marya hand
ed it to Jim, explaining ecstatically,
THE society give it. Special meeting
yesterday night vote putty good!"
Three cheers for the Russian Fra
ternal Society,"" Jim Brennan shout
ed. Three cheers for international
SoudarlLy OF the Workers.!
All heads turned toward little fat
Maya, and the cheers rang through
the park. Maya was laughing and
crying, and soon sobbing vigorously.
Whats the matter, MISUSE" young
Brennan asked as he bent down and
awkwardly put his arm around her
shoulders. why are you crying?"
Il no cry!" she denied hotly while
tears streamed down her round
cheeks.
But"
ooh, them goddam capitalists!
Them capitalists make me cry!"
=
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years. leadership Chinese
unframed fighters
these in their
together last nine months these
with staff
proper o communications, training, etc
soldiers
Guards in the villages local
Million whom 100000 armed with
rifles.
of revolutionary
train 10 in-On the battlefield.
December reaOnary KuOmnng government alarmed
growing menace despatched crusade" against the Red
divisions numbering 100000 with three squadrons
advisers formerly in the
months offensive
in province White divisions
capturing entirely, destroyed the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
By BARBARA RAND

The door banged. Jim Brennan ale
most stumbled over the doorstep. He
grasped the doorknob in time to avoid
falling down down the steps that ran
almost vertically downhill. His feet,
stamping into the mud and slush,
made gurgling sounds like Mrs. Ko-
valsky's sobs inside the house.
The heavy fog, bianketing the town.
Kept the soft coal smoke low over the
streets. 1t stuck in Jinl's throat. Be-
low lay the steel mills, stretching for
blocks. The fire from the bessemers
spit systematically into the fog, max
ing reddish-yellow streaks.
Brennan didn't bother jumping
from stone to stone as everyone else
did on the unpaved streets. Mouth
set, brown knit, he storned down the
the hill, wading thru slush, to the
home of another steel worker.
What can do?" Mrs. Kovalsky
shouted at the closed door. Make
money from me myself? They no give
morel"
Big Julius, struggling into his
patched work clothes that reSembled
the colorful sails of basque fishing
vessel, grulnbled. Last night, a big
piece was burnt. Marya had just fin
ished sewing on big purple square
remnant OF the last best dress.
what the devil! got no money! I
only get eight dollar in last pay. No
rent, no nothing. The society no want
give more to the Hunger March. They
give five dollars already. Any way no
more meetings of society or commit
tee before the Munger March, and I
not make more troubles! Right wing
err he say! My God!"
Her arms waving, Marya Kovalsky
burst out in storm Of Russian.
"You too! You right wing pig! You
all time the same! My God sonva-
bitch!" she roared lapsing into the
few English words she knew. That
Jim, he say true. Hunger march,
come, We say, 'Comrade, you hun
gry?. Comrade, you go to hell Not
on my life!
Marya was glaring at her husband
You get fired, and then what?
You say nothing! You just make"
with an exaggerated shrug Of the
shoulder ''iml Our delegates, they
must go to Washington and tell that
Hoover something good! What we
poor people DO this winter? I'm, ha?"
again with the gesture. In three
days time the delegates from far
away they come here, and our boys,
they go too. Gas and oil costs mo-
ney! Eats too! What you think!'
The bewildered julius blinked as
his "old lady banged her coffee pot
on the stove until it was covered with
dents. Her little fat body quivered
with rage.
But you told Jim yourself - you
heard what the Society say"
And what you say back, ha? No
tlling" Marya was putting shawl
lOFCE 44CL iICdNs Illcll III 6llSuSIlb
spik only foreign-born language putty
bad little bit words, but I tell them
something fine!"
Where you going?" julius called.
ITO John and Vincent and Mike!
I tell you make them godam kulals
call special meeting like Jim say and
give Hunger March money from
treasury. What you think, we stop
Hunger March because no gas mo-
ney?" Giving her shawl q tug. she
added in English, "Goddam sonva-
bitchl"
Its no use. I tell you julius
shouted after her Where is my
elinner bucket?"
But Maya was gone.
Pausing every few minutes to shout
"oo-ray!" as additional trucks COW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

I'm one word, you .reproacb us
with intending to do away with
your property. Precisely so: that is
Just what we intend."-Marx.
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provinces Hupeh Kang Whites 100000
all and the Red Army substantial quantities rifles
ridges machine
dictator
second attack Thirty divisions numbering 100000 thrown
into the field under the leadership of German fascist
Kangs the divisions forced
another $4,000 occupied important
set peasant SOvie all south of province.
Chang third
"an expedition like its predecessors
Communism in three
forced by tanks and aerOpan moved in three against
Red Kang cautiously according methods
in punitive expeditions" by its European advisers
the outset spell muny
isolation destruction
who slowly fell back fighting ncant but refusing take
ne
the
Fifteen divisions the Whites utterly