The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07

- III ~ AANSsA Z 4 DAlAAiAS anu .
of the st. Louis team.
Mr.. Dizzy Dean and Mr..
Nutsey Dean, of course, were
merely engaged in an exhibit
ton Of family solidarity, in
spired by visions of pieces of
eight, rather than in any attempt
to bring about an organized up
heaval in the National Pastime US.
A, but to the owners OF st. Louis.
fed on the Constitution and bathed
in the principles of Washington.
Lincoln and Jefferson. the action
of The yasssls must have been 9
veritable menace to American in
situations.
Hold-outs are established in base
ball and the farsighted owners have
made provisions for dealing with
them. and such recalcitrants are re-
garded as fools. ingrates or sages-
depending on their ability or re-
nown-but these hold-outs have al
ways viewed their differences with
the management as personal ones
and have sought cooperation only
from the newspapers and the open
minded and Just fans of America
No hold-out therefore has ever put
into practice the idea of calling the
brethren out on strike. The Breadon
bulwarks Of American fair play and
clean sport must have felt, accord
ingly, when Dizzy and Nutsey
walked out, that their action vio-
lated the spirit of democracy and
that this was RECOMMENDATION and
collectivism and that while It might
be alright in Russia, the American
people would never stand for it.
OUCH theoretical considerations as
v RECOMMENDATION and collectivism,
however never entered the minds
of Dizzy and Nutsey. They are
simple souls who are looking to
make their way in the world with
out encroaching on the province of
men better fittsd for serious think
inc. Nor did they look upon them
selves as symbols of the oppressed
ivory of the baseball leagues. l am
afraid, too, that they did not look
upon their cause as common with
the struggles of workers through
out the country against their bosses.
Theirs was simply a case in
which Dizzy was getting $500 for
six months about two days a week,
four hours a day work. and con-
sidered himself grossly underpaid,
and Nutsey was getting $4,000 for
the same amount of time and ener-
gy, and also considered himself
grossly undergrad But while Dizzy
was willing to suffer solely with
mumbled protests in his own be-
half, the plight of his brother made
his heart bleed, He was, therefore,
q leading voice in the negotiations
with the Bresdons.
Naturally, the Breadons. though
they probably put another curse on
Karl Marx, did not think 1t neces-
sary to call out the militia. This
was conflagration that gave no
signs of spreading but was easily
anlenable to settlement. The fact
that Dizzy and Nutsey are again in
the chains for ST. Louis is proof of
this. The boys had the one thing
in their favor which hold-outs must
have-they are good pitchers and
box-offlce attractions; and strike or
no strike, bad example or no bad
example, RECOMMENDATION or collec-
tivism, the proper spirit or no proper
spirit-the box-off1ce is what counts
Such man like Dizzy. who
had 1879 strikeouts last year. and
who has already won games this
year, and such q man like Nut
sey, who has already won 5 games
this year, are not to be dismissed
with gas and bullets like ordinary
laborers.