The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-26

w ny has IllS ASSOCldL6u
ton Of clubs of English-speal
yet formed a single well-func
Because the organization
and energy, and mo one
would waste time on such
frivolities where there was
real work to be done" But
clubs no. club without base
ball or wrestling or boxing or
some kind of sport activity. The
"Y's" and the settlement houses
understand this and draw the
masses Of youth in on that basis,
if no o'her.
However, individual workers
clubs. on their own initiative, re-
slizing the significance of drawing
the youth closer to the revolution
ary movement through sports, have
to some extent done some organize
tional work to this extent.
The American Youth Club has
a boxing team. The West Side
Youth Club has a baseball team.
Various other groups reported
similar sport activity, till finally
the executive council of the As
ISOLATED Workers Clubs realized
that the basis of club movement
among the mass Of the American
youth must be to engage in
worker sport activity.
Thereupon, we proceeded to ac-
tivity. Boxing and wrestling tour
naments we're initiated between
various clubs under us. The win
ners of these tournaments will
exhibit at the A. w. G. annual af-
fair at Manhattan Lyceum, April
rs. The Cli-Grand Youth Club and
the Harlem Progressive Youth Club
will put on tumbling exhibition,
An open-air track meet. called the
"Anti-War Track and Field Meet"
win be held June 2 at Ulner Park.
Affiliations with Labor Sports
Union have been arranged.
Our task nov, after this be-
ginning, is to build baseball leagues,
gymnasiums must be equipped, |
hikes must be arranged, and the
whole field of sports must be en-
countered by us and made useful
for our youth We call upon all
members of clubs to join and build |
UP sports groups. We call upon |
all workers to join their neighbor-
hood club and sport group For
communicate with the
Associated Workers Clubs, II W.
18th st.
Sports greetings,
SPORT COMMITTEE.
ASSOCIATED WORKERS CLUBS.
MORE and more workers groups
lil are coming into the fold Of
sport activity and drawing work
ers into their organizations who,
although they might know moth
ing about politics, enjoy sports
work. And II is the drawing Of
these workers into the clubs, ex-
posing them to the significance
of labor sports, which will
strengthen the revolutionary
movement.
ALONG with this movement, the
"A Nature Friends, in order to get
all lass-conscious workers &C
quainted with this phase of work
lng-class activity, has sent me this
release:
1.-THE Red Sports International
has set aside Sunday, April 20, as
the international Hiking Day, on
which all sports and cultural clubs
are invited to join in one big hike
which is being called in every city
throughout the world where work
ers are engaged in sports.
"This outing should be looked
upon not as an opportunity to get
away" from the task of organizing
workers in shop and factory, but
rather as a means for this purpose.
Here is the opportunity for every
to invite his fellow work
ers. to have talk with him in
surroundings, and to show
him the necessity for workers or
Whole groups from |
shops can be organized in this way,
because often workers cannot be in