The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-14

and now coach of Berkeley u
ing in the longshoremen's
strike. 1t is an activity they
do not denounce in the navy.
Like the government arbitra-
ton boards, in attempting to
break the strike Lieut.. Ingram is
working for Uncle Sam. To crush
every worker VINO cries out against
his oppressors is the duty of every
patriot. What other duty has
tool than to do its work we'll for its
owner? Here it is to break strike.
In New York, three weeks ago, it
manifested itself after the student
demonstration against war, when
Benny Friedman was hired by City
College to coach its football team
in order, as was announced by the
authorities, that he awake enough
enthusiasm for football to combat
the RED Propaganda" which is in
fiuencing the students. AS it was
the National Students League, which
sponsored that onstra tion
against war, as it has successfully
done before, so it is again. The Ma
tional Students League in San Fran
ciSmo which is leading the protests
against Migrants patriotic" work.
par t i c pa t e d in a demonstration
Three hundred and fifty stu
dents participated in q demonstra-
ton Friday against the Navy gorilla.
COACHES, however, are not the
" only characters in athletics who
are utilized by our masters in their
cathedrsls of culture. In the clammy
hands of our lords are also athletes
whom they use as thugs. Has it
escaped the notice of anyone that
in every demonstration against war,
in every fight of students against
their administrators, it has been the
heroes of the gridiron or of the dia-
mond or of the crew who have taken
the part of the authorities against |
the demonstrators, and have at
tackled and tried to howl down the
demonstrators? The blockheadS, |
most of whom are grating their
way through college on their athletic
ability land who generally become
professionals or bond-selling Swind-
lers after they leave the UNIVERSE
ties), have always combined with the
cloistered thinkers. In the March |
6, 1880 unemployed demonstration
at Madison, Wis, it was the U. of
Wisconsin football team which at
tackled the hungry workers. In the
anti-war demonstration last year 1t
was the Columbia crew which played
the part Of fascists.
The coaches and their men,
though there are some honorable
exceptions. have worked for their
bosses in helping along the vicious
chauvinist attacks on Negro stu
dents. There are teams in this
country, let alone colleges, on
which no Negro student, no matter
how capable, can get place. Who
has ever heard of Negro Cor
Jew, for that natter being well
comsd on a Harvard or Yale team? |
And I do not know of a team or
coach or a college administration
which has supported a Negro ath-
lete to whom it has been impossible
to deny place and who has run
afoul Of the chauvinistic terror.
One OF the most convincing ex-
amples of this was vouchsafed us
here in New York short few years
ago when the white men of Georgia
refused to play against Dave My
ers of N Y. U. Myers, who was not
going through college on creased
rolls, but who was one Of the most
brilliant students Of the Engineer
ing School, was an all-around
athlete. On N Y. us gridiron
team he played guard and had a
record hard to equal. A sensitive
boy, he recoiled from making an
issue over the matter.
Mr.. Chick Meehan, the coach,
also recoiIed from making an is
sue over the matter, but for diff
ferent reasons. He annc> need
that Myers was sick and that the
game would go on. The college
authorities, who can give you I