The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-23

4 Knew lSllGE WHO WOTkS IN
the stockyards. And he give
me a shipment of hawgs and
this here paper"-the document was
flourished under our eyes-"and he
says I'm to bring those hawgs to
New York. Well, it was pretty good
till bout halfway to New York,
when the hawgs went one way and
I went another. But kept goin'
on, hawgs or no hawgs. An by this
time I was kinda friendly with the
conductor and brakeys-I was sleep
ing in the caboose, you know-an'
they let me stay on.
Had to change trains about ten
times and walk around Buffalo about
six hours till got hold of the right
train. We hit New York about ten
at night, and they let me off at the
yards, up there, up at Seventy second
street" He pointed out into the
darkness. "Jeest, 1t was some walk"
He stopped abruptly and shifted his
gaze. He had said too much. he
felt.
uE'ye seen a dynamic, irresistible
w Pancho Villa come in and keep
coming in, arms working like little
brown pistons, and finally put down
Jimmy Wilde for the worlds fly
weight title. We've seen Ruth lean on
high, fast one and pole it out of
the Yankee Stadium to break up
ball game and receive the acclaim of
10000 fans. We've seen George Kojac
thresh through Lake George waters
like some mad eel.
But we've never been quite SO i'm
pressed as with the simple and I'M
adorned story of Bartlett's trip to
New York. Legions of young fellows
have hitch-hiked and ridden the rods
TO get places and do things, or get
things to do. But I've never heard of
a lad getting up an idea like this.
To think the whole thing out care
fully, plan all the details, then ex-
ecute the plan of playing nursemaid
to a bunch of grunting porkers-all
to get to national convention!
Such loyalty must be deserved. 1t
augurs well for the Sixth National
Convention of the Labor Sports
Union and the future of the workers
sports movement. Ay, and for the
whole revolutionary labor movement.
QARTLETTS spirit is expressive of
~ something new in American ath-
ietics. Times have changed, as Eddie
Newhouse, is wont to observe. There
is different feeling among workers
@:eo love sports, expressed partly in
a slght-although unsatisfactory
growth iii the Labor Sports Union
and mainly, however, in different
attitude towards the sport heroes of
today and yesterday, a critical spirit
towards the artificial standards set
up in modern sports.
This has not been separated from
the general spirit of revolt among
workers, expressed in one strike after
another and in growth Of militant
trade union organization. Lots of
idols have been smashed and the
workers are beginning to see that
sports can be weapon Of struggle
and recreation In the hands of labor,
THESE feelings among what we will
call sport-loying workers will get
its clearest expression in the Sixth
National Convention of the Labor
Sports Union, the first session of
which will convene today at the
Harlem Labor Temple in New York.
Workers and farmers from Wisconsin
to New York will get together and
hammer out a program for build
ing, at a far more rapid pace than
ever before, mass workers athletic
organization in the United States.
Not the least Of the tasks of our
comrades who VII meet ct this con-
vention will be that of deciding on
a program of building the Labor
Sports Union in the shops and trade
unions, the best base for a workers
sports movement, a base on which a
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