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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
,e Class Struggle and the Labor Sports Union

who is also member Of the cts
Vigilance Committee, and doctor
who is a prominent reactionary. Con-
slider the official sports movement
which is headed by Avery Brundage,
General Macarthur, General Henry,
etc. (Avery Brundage played a pro-
minent part in breaking the building
trades strike in Chicago in 1870.
Consider the sponsors of the Inter-
national Olympic games that will be
held in Los Angeles in 1882, (foover,
the secretary of war and the secretary
Of the navy are the respective Hon.
president and Vice-President of the
games. Consider the Sportsmanship
Brotherhood with Mathew Vol as
President, Marshall Field, Hugh
Freyne and Otto Kahn as Board of
Directors. Consider the Tournaments
that are conducted by the Chicago
Tribune and the N. Y. Daily News,
Graphic, American Legion, Rotary,
Kiwinis, Elks, Moose and Chambers
of Commerce.
(Note: The Socialist and I.W.W.
henchmen Palm and Urtamo were
kicked out of the L. S. U. for preach
ing ing neutrality in class struggled.
The above considerations will help
the comrades to understand that the
enemies of the working class have
their fingers in every pie. The bosses
control the sports activities of 80 per
cent of the worker sportsmen. and
they don't have it for the benefits of
the workers as is proved by the fact
that some Of the unemployed workers
come from the factories that are
owned by the above mentioned mem
bers of the Boards Of various sports
organizations.
The physical condition Of the min
ers, textile workers and steel workers,
the farmers, the cotton pickers, ETC.,
the bulk of the working class and
farmers is such that comment re-
garding them is breaking into the
front pages of the capitalist papers.
The working class, in physical make
up and health, is degenerating. How
can perfect health be possible under
the present conditions of wage cuts
speed-up and the stagger system OF
work. The working class cannot re-
gain their health in one hour of gym
period week when they are subjec1
to the batteripg Of uldarnouT,5h-
! ment, speed-up and worry every Other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

The celebration of the 9th Ami
versary of the Daily Worker, to be
held at the Bronx Coliseum, Janu-
airy 3, must attract tens of thousands
Of workers. This mass affair for the
paper of the masses, the Daily Work
er, can only be a success if the mass
organizations of the working class are
fully modified to participate.
This means that publicity for the
Jubilee must be carried over into all
these organizations. 1t must be made
point in the discussion or on the
order of business of all the meetings
Of these bodies in the few days that
remain
The conferences now being held to
push circulation, sales and subscrip-
tons to the Daily Worker must take
up as one of their most important
tasks the rallying of thousands of
workers for attendance at the 9th
Anniversary celebration of the Daily
Worker.
So far this has not been done.
On Sunday Section l of the Party
had its conference. What was done
there to help make the Jubilee a
successp
Today, Section of the Party holds
it's Daily Worker conference. Its
task is clear. A real plan of work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
TANNERY STRIKE
IN WAUKEGAN, Ill
Come to T.U.U.L. for
Help in Walkout

wAUKEGAN, Ill, Dec. 27.-"The
Tannery Company here has a strike
situation and in one department 100
per cent went out on strike against a
new efficiency system of piece work
Forty eight in all walked out. The
company hired scabs, but it takes
about six months to break them in
on the job, so consequently it's hold
ing up the works of the other de-
partments. About forty strikers came
to the Workers Hall, asking us for
help-workers that never seen us or
never been at the Workers Hall. A
long meeting together with the I'm
employed Council was held to Or
ganize for struggle"
The Trade Union Unity League of
Chicago Immediately dispatched Nels
Kjar to the strike area.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
START new YEAR
WITH Big D R " E
IN DRESS TRADE
ORGANIZATION G. a m :
paign by Ind'l Union
to Prepare Strike

NEW YORK.-The Dress Depart
nent Of the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union is making extern
sive preparations to begin the organ
ization drive in preparation for the
dress strike Immediately after New
Years The decision of the general
membership meeting of dressmakerS
for the formation of a mass organ
ization committee is being carried
out.
Numerous complaints from open
shops have come in to the office, and
with the aid of the Industrial Union,
these shops will be declared on strike
for better conditions. A number of
strikes are in progress at the pre-
sent time in the dress department.
Active dressmakerS are called upon
to picket these shops, especially this
morning, so as to bring about a
speedy settlement. The following are
the striking shops:
w. Dress Co., 159 W. 9th st.
London Dress Co., 245 It'll Ave
w. & r. Dress Co., 253 w. 26th st.
A special complaint office will now
be opened to take up the complaints
of workers from open shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Mass Organizations Mast
Work for Coliseum Jnbt,c~

for drawing in all working class or.
CARNATIONS for mass attendance al
the Coliseum on January must be
drawn up.
These organizations must respond
without special appeals, The various
language organizations, the Internas
tional Workers Order branches, F.S.
U. branches, all youth organizations
are the foundations on which can be-
built successful affair for the Daily
Worker.
Only few days are left! The Co
liseum must be packed The mass
organizations must act az once. Take
this matter up on all committees, in
all conferences, in all locals and
branches, with all members.
Pack the Coliseum on Sunday Jan
uary 3rd! Show your support to the
Daily Worker and at the same time
see brilliant working class program
one of who-e features is the pageant
Trial of The Revolutionary Press"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

hour in the week. Health under Ca
pitalism is impossible.
The L. S. US. purpose is not pri-
marily to build health, although they
make every effort to have the work
ers retain it, but the recognition of
the instructive athletic demands OF
the working class to organize sports
for workers within their own class
and to make the workers conscious
of the class nature of athletic system
OF America. The play instinct is there,
and the class conscious workers
must recognize it and utilize it as
a means for organizing workers.
Some important struggles in which
the l.. S. U. participated we're: the
Pittsburgh vicinity where the official
football organization was in the
hands of brother of Pat Pagan of
the United Mine Workers of America
and which was being used as a pro-
paganda instrument to help break
the N. M. U. leadership OF the miners.
The L. S. U. organized with the sup
ort Of the miners a soccer league that
helped split many teams from the
U.M.W.A. grasp; in Detroit many of
the members OF the Uuto Workers
Union came from the ranks of the
baseball league organized by the
l.. S. U. The fight for free gyms for
the unemployed is one of the rnajo
activities of the L. S. U. throughout
the country.
The L. S. u. conducts schools to
develop instructors and at these
schools, workers are taught organi-
cation of workers as we'll as thletic
technique. They are initiating a
broad united front conference for a
counter Olympic meet. The platform
of the united front Anti Olympics
is, release Of Tom Mooney, whose
endorsement we have for the meet;
no discrimination of Negroes; mas.
participation of thletes; participation
of Soviet athletes.
We are out to make this counter
Olympic meet the biggest athleti,
gathering OF workers that has evel
taken place in this country. With
the help OF the comrades of the left
wing this can be made possible
Red Sparks commented in th,
Daily Worker about our having pu
On long pants. The comrades mus
help vs. hold tham w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
d ELE G TION
TO USSR TO ACT AS
SHOCK BRIGADERS
Plodo'e to Build . Mass
F. S. u. in National
Tour

The American Workers Delegation
wlliIe in Russia was made an interna-
tional shock brigade by the presidium
Of the Trade Unions Of the Republic
of Dagestan. The delegation reports
that shock brigaders who are not ac-
tive and fail to produce results flake
Udarniks" do not retain their title
nor PRIVILEGES 1ong-therefore. in their
role of international shock brigaders
they have entered into Socialist Com
petition in irving the reports of their
tour and building mass F. S. U.
The DELEGATES who are going to
seven different districts in national
tour for the FSU have pledged them
selves to stimulate activity in al
branches, to build FSU branches in
the factories, to further the recruit
ing drive for 10000 new members by
the first of May which they made as
a pledge to the International Secre-
tariat of the FSU and to push for
ward the drive for the new magazine
Soviet Russia Today to the goal OF
100000 circulation by the end of 1882
They realize that the most intensive
work must be done in order to insure
the election of so workers from basic
industries as delegates to the May LIST
Celebration.
The delegates pledge themselves to
secd in weekly reports on the result
of their activities which will be for
warded to the Russian workers and
have proposed that the end of their
2 months tour they should report
upon the results of their activities
and that a special meeting in connec-
ton with some Of the major cam
paigns of the FSU be arranged for
this purpose,
This is the first delegation which
has returned from the Soviet Union
which has entered seriously into So
cialist competition and set itself def
mite tasks. Mrs. Lynch, one of the
delegates, wife of Negro miner said
that in order to carry out our pledge
we must not only speak at mass meet
ings but must go into the homes of
the workers and into the factories
and make real efforts to bring to the
American workers the glorious
achievements of the Russian workers
in building socialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Furriers' Unity Committee
Issues Program of Struggle

NEW YORK. -- The Unity Com
mittee of the Joint Council and the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union met last Wednesday night to
plan the program of joint actin in
defense of the workers interests. In
a declaration issued, the committee
sets itself the following immediate
tasks:
l. To unite and organize all fur
riers in one mighty united front Of
the workers to carry on the day-to-
day struggle for better working and
living conditions.
.. To strictly enforce union con-
ditions won by the furriers as re-
suit of the courageous 17-week strike
of 1926.
3. To carry on a struggle for jobs
for the unemployed and for an I'M
employment fund.
4. To stimulate the organization
of shop committees in all fur shops
to carry through the program of the
united front of all workers in the
shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec Is
"A delegation from the Unemployed
Councils of NIiddlesex county will be
here Tuesday, Dec 20, at pm. to
attend the open hearing Of the coun-
ty commissioners called here "Board
of Freeholders) on the county
budget for 1882.
The jobless delegates will demand
that instead of turning over 100000
to the bankers as interest mad bond
payments, this money go to the relief
Of the unemployed in this industrial
county.
The amounts scheduled for the rich
bankers amount to nearly third Of
the county budget.
1900 Jobless.
Lewis Compton, director of the
Board of Freeholders admits that
there are in the county, including
the factory cities of Perth Anboy,
New Brunswick Carteret Wood
bridge. and South River, 10000 I'M
employed. OF this number, he also
admits, only 1,785 unemployed work.
ers get relief from the City, County
or State in the form Of work, others
get food from their respective cities
which amounts to SO or 81 dollars per
week
The Unemployed Council knows
that there are 10000 unemployed
not 1900, and we demand relief for
all these workers, not for only mere
handful of them
Committees to present demands to
the Freeholders at the Public Hear
ing on the Budget on Tuesday, will
be elected at mass meetings Of en-
ploged and unemployed workers in
different cities of the county; New
Brunswick, Monday, Dec. %, at 3 p
m. at French and New ST.; Perth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

is never called into conference by the
fraternal organization of the left
wing, and are seldom given the floor
in serious meetings wherein the
should find a place.
The comrades are not the only ones
responsible for these mistakes, the
L. S. U. too is at fault. Had they made
a sharper turn to mass work and had
they organized mass thletic meets
they would have made greater bid
for recognition. Our left wing COM
rades' narrow policies in their own
ranks reflects itself in the miscon-
ceptions they have of the sports
movement. They continually ignore
the possibilities for sports movements
in their ranks. They refuse to accept
the L. S. U. movement as one with
a political foundation.
The L. S. u, however, does not ac-
cept these rebuffs as final They need
the support of every organization in
their coming campaign and therefore
present the, following elementary
facts to help convince the comrades
The L, S. U. struggles are not iso-
lated from any struggles Of the work
ing class. To prove this consider the
following: Al athletic organizations
GYMS, excepting the l.. S. u, are in
the hands Of capitalist groups oil
their henchmen, in groups that are
led by the Socialist Party or the
1,W.W. The Bord of Directors Of the
factories, mills and mines are identi-
cal with those who are the Bord oil
Directors Of all play institutions Of
members of the Board of Directors
Of typical Y.MCA.: (The Nationa,
Organization has influenced 26 mil.
lion YOUTH of Youngstown, (Ohio
J. G. Argetsinger, General counse
Of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Co, B. F. Fairless, Executive Vice
President Of the Republic Steel Co.
Roy WEIGH, Treasurer Of the Youngs-
town Sheet e. Tube Co.
The typical Settlement House anc
Foundation, was founded and is al
present conducted by the guiding
hand Of August Hecksher, a promin'
ent financier and director of thu
Crucible Steel Co. Consider the typi-
cal Board of Education of typica
American city Detroit, 1890 which
has as its n ~lbers banker, an ex.
trenely wealthy clubnan end insur-
snce manager, an owner OF hospita.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Demand Jersey County Aid
the JobIess, Not the Bankers
Mass Demonstration in New Brunswick Dec %
to Back Delegation Before County Board

Am5oy, Monday at Unemployed
Council Headquarters, 1o1 Fayette
ST., ESQ pm.
The room at the County Record
Building. Bay ard St, New Bruins
wick, where the hearing on the
budget is to be held is a small one
seating not more than 100 persons.
When the committee asked per-
mission to hold meeting on the
Plaza in front Of the building on
Tuesday, to inform the workers of
the demands of the Unemployed
Councils and the answer of the Free
holders, the buck was passed from
one to the other, until the committee
was finally referred to the Counsel
of the County, a certain Edmund
Hayes who is also County Chairman
of the Democratic Party, to find out
from him eff such gathering is
allowed on the Plaza"
This lawyer answered that, eve
will not allow any 'mobs" to as
senlble on the Plaza. II you bring
mob" we will throw every one of
them mot Jail"
But the workers and jobless work
ers claim their right to use the Pub
lie Plaza, and plans are going ahead
to have such an outpouring of work
ers there Tuesday when the Public
Hearing on the Budget takes place
that neither the police, Mr.. Hayes,
or anyone else will dare to throw
the mob" Cmeaning the unemployed
workers. ''into jail"
Workers. All out to the Public
Hearing on the County Budget. Tues
day, 3 pm. at County Record Build
ing New Brunswick, N. ]. to de-
mand appropriations for Unemployed
Relief, and not appropriations for the
bankers!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
BY A. HARRIS

Youth need healthy sports, SWIM
ming, excursions physical training Of
all kinds" said Lenin in a letter to
Clara Zetkin.
The desire on the part of the youth
to throw, jump, swim and climb, act
ivities that are found in modern ath-
letics, is instructive, coming down to
us from the efforts of primitive man
to preserve and maintain himself.
And what the youth indulge in prac-
tice they must necessarily most talk
talk about. Our comrades are vexed
at this They are of the opinion, and
rightfully so, that much of the talk
Of sports is taking the place of
thought about the class struggle.
However, the fact is that the youth
do indulge in sports and they con-
tinue to think about it regardless of
the vexation of our comrades. In this
the capitalist class makes every effort
to have them keep their mind on sport
The boss class promotes every organi-
zation that promotes athletic activity
If one is to estimate the support
that the comrades give to the l.. S. u,
one is inclined to believe that the
comrades are taking their revenge
for their vexation out on the l.. S. U
Only few of them consider the
L. S. q. from the viewpoint Of class
struggle. Many of the canrades con-
slider the I. S. U. however, as an or
ganisation of athletic freaks who al
ways building their muscles, enter
AIRING in turnbling, building pyra-
Ids at large meetings, or supplying
ing arm men for demonstration
ticket lines.
II wing organizers have treated
j. organizers as youngsters that
10 be talked to but not considered
Z 7usly. An organizer in Detroit re-
! ssod an L. S. U. representative with
ring me a mass organization and
{ len will recognize YOU"
An organizer in Cleveland, when
eslzed for the loan of 10 cents to get
L. S. U. organizer to a most import
ant meeting several miles distant, be-
came angry and demanded to know
what right the L. S. U. had to ask for
fuch loan. In Lawrence during the
.extile strike our National President
seas SIdded as to his right to be in
he strike territory organizing sports
hen who we're on strike. The L.S.u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

S. To organize conference of all
shop unity committees which will tax
up the question of uniting all fur
riers into one class union.
6. No agreement between the bos-
ses and the kaufman clique shall be
recognized. Only the furriers shall
have the right, through their elected
representatives, to conclude an agree
ment with the bosses. Such agree
ment only to become valid after it
has been approved by the workers
T. To submit the whole program
for the United Front to a referendum
vote of all furrierS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
What's On -

MONDAY
women's Council, Nos. Q,
H. Gorelick, recently returned from
the Soviet Union, will give talk at
sos Adee Ave. at $3.50 pm.
East n. Y, Brownsville LID.
Will hold joint membership meet
ing at 11S Bristol St, at pm. All
members requested to attend.
To hold two mass meetings tonight
at the fremont Workers Club, 2075
Clinton Ave, Bronx, and the Church
Auditorium, 536 w. seth st,
LID. School
Next class to be held in Room 203
at so e. 18th ST. at 1880 pm. Joe
North to speak on Educational Work
and the Labor Defender.
X
S.L.W. Organiza Committee
Meets tonight at E, 18th St., third
floor, at pm.
Workers School
General assembly to be held to-
night at 35 E. / 9th St. third floor, at
which G. Siskind will speak. Fall
term students requested to attend.
X
Metal Workers Industrial League
VIII hold its regular membership
meeting tonight at E. 18th St., at
8 pm,
Roll up thousands of Daily Worker
subs in the fiyht AGAINST pgae go rutS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Documents of
Chinese Soviet to
Appear Tomorrow

Historical documents from the
First National Soviet Congress of
China will be published in tomor-
rows Daily Worker. These dOcu-
ments include Manifesto from
the Provisional Government of the
Soviet Republic of China to the
workers Of the whole world. Every
worker should make sure of read
ing these documents. Order your
copy Of the Daily Worker today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

1--WE are pronouncing in good faith
the words the dictatorship of the
proletariat' and we shall make them
a reality" LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Back Number Of Inprecorrs

Comrade wishes TO complete files Of
Inprccorrs. VIII buy back numbers,
or exchange for duplicates. Back
numbers for exchange available "A
far back as 1921.
See G. H. Daily Works..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Elect Left Winger
AS Business Agent
of Carpenter Local

NEW YORK. - The elections in
Local PITT of the United Brotherhood
Of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
affiliated to the A. F. Of L., held at
the regular meeting place of the local
in Brooklyn, gave Wolenchick, left
wing candidate for business agent 295
votes against 116 votes for Feldman,
the socialist party man. Raskin, a
petty labor faker got 70 votes, and
Kibovitz, the present business agent
got 44-from men he promised jobs.
Wolenchick is elected and the entire
local administration is left wing now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Yesterdays SOCCER RESULTS

NEW YORK.-Yesterday the Me-
tropolitan Workers Soccer League
played nine games at Dyckman st.
Oval. Three of these games were for
the benefit Of the Young Worker.
The results of the various games are
given below:
Division A:-Olympics, 2. Red
Sparks, l; Tico 4, Neckwear Workers
0; Spartacus 1, Italian American 0;
Division B, American 2, Crotona /;
Harlem Progressive 3, Gordon F. G. /:
East Side Workers 2, Neckwear
Workers /; Division Cred Sparks
4, Prospect Workers 0; Hebrew Work
ers 1, Dauntless 0; Needle Trades A.
G. l, Bronx Workers 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28

Roll up thousands of Daily Worker
subs in the fight against wage cuts.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-12-17

A complete SET of shaving
needs attractively boxed. In
cluded are nationally known
Aywon Tale, Shaving Cream
and After-shaving Lotion; a
beautiful razor, and box Of
five new style Moredge blades.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-04-02

The only thing we can win from an
other man without hurting his feel
ings is his confidence.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-04-02
BUSINESS MEN WILL
MEET MONDAY EVENING

A meeting of the Vashon Business
Mems Club is scheduled Tor Monday
evening, at the office of w. d. Garvin.
Among the many matters to come up
for consideration will be that of the
annual carnival. Starting us an ex-
pertinent three years ago this carnival
has become an annual affair, spon-
sored by the men of vashon, and
patronized by people from all parts of
the Island.
President w. d. Clark urges that all
members keep Monday evening, April
9th in mind, and be on hand to trans
act all necessary business. The meet
ing will be called to order promptly at
3 o'clock.