The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1933, Page 2

Score Ford Move ‘Striking Flint Die-Maker|6°*™* °F SEW YORE Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1938 to Oust Workers’ Candidate, Jones 700 Meet in Dearborn, Vote to Retain Their Candidate DETROIT, Oct. dred Dearborn wo ~Seven hun- | neh of space in jay afternoon and -fforts of the Ford Motor Com © smash the Unted Front Working People’s Election Movement, which n the primaries on ( 9, gained . splendid victory by putting its andidate for mayor, David Jones, and four other workers’ candidates on the ballot for the finals, Sept. 7 The meeting was called to dis- cuss the critical situation that had arisen as a result of the fact that | Jones, who is vice-president of the | Auto Workers Union and a member | of the Communist Party, had, un-| der blackmail threats and terroriza- tion by Ford agents, signed a state-| ment withdrawing as candidate for mayor. After Jones spoke and se~| verely condemned his own action | as a crime against the workers of Dearborn and announced that he had withdrawn the statement he| nad signed, the workers voted ananimously amidst thunderous cheers to retain him as their stand- | ard bearer. Among the other speakers were two of the other workers’ candi- dates who were nominated, Charles | Regan for city treasurer, and Frank Fraley for constable, gs well as sev- | eral of the unsuccessful candidates | for City Council. Max Salzman, sec- | tion organizer of the Communist | Party and campaign manager of | the united front movement, spoke | in the name of the Party, outlining | its position on the whole question. | | | | shut down completely all the auto- the just and modest demands granted. As the enclosed pamphlet | indicates, our executive committee | | 30 hours work. | provements adopted in ammany Officials Disfranchise Urges Independent Union Strike Can Be Strengthened by Drawing in| Production Workers, Establishing Rank and} |File Control, Fighting NRA Fake Negotiations | Dear Sir: There appears to be considerable Flint, Mich. confusion and misunderstanding con- cerning the energetic strike called by the Mechanics Educational Society of America. of protecting the interests of the Too! the most intelligent skilled body of craftsmen every as-) sembled in America. It comprises | the cream of the country’s seasoned | die, jig, fixture and special machine | | builders, in whose very hands lies| nd A. F. of L. offictaldom’s effort |the destiny of America’s uncrowned | to smash the i kings | This organization may truly be called the “Mechanical Heart of America.” It is within its power to mobile plants of Michigan by simply refusing to go back to work until | the union is formally recognized and | had submitted a Code to General} Johnson, calling for $45 a week for] | | In view of the tremendous im- | the auto| plants raising mass production pos- sibilities to unheard-of dizzy heights, automatically eliminating thousands of highly-skilled and semi-skilled auto workers, the code submitted, calling for a $45 per week pay of 30 hours is very modest indeed. To compensate for the thousands, of workmen thus thrown out unmerci- fully into the poor-house, the dreaded | “welfare” or to be left to starve, even a little child can understand that He stressed the necessity of organ- izing mass struggles and to build such a powerful movement that no weakness of an individual leader ean breek it. “On Oct. 9 the workers of Dear- born won a great victor statement issued by the tion of the Communist Party. spite every effort of the Ford Mo- tor Co., they succeeded in bringing forward as the candidate against Clyde Ford, the Ford Motor Co. candidate, David Jones, of the Ford workers for The statex . in part, “The acts of terror of the Ford service men could not keep you from supporting your candidate. The cry cf ‘reds’ only closed the ranks of the wo: ll more. decided that it was necessary for them to attack c: idate for mayor, and to off the ballot, and they upt and despicable to do this. After Jones had not charging talsely lived in Dearborn long enough to| able stools, who crawled among us| seen and heard. run for inayor, they organized a|like snakes, stinging our brother} Spencer, ‘that I was not interested | black cious jail, they created a terror under which Jones for the moment weak- ened and signed a statement with- e-|mnd could possibly view it with ds-| the working hours must be short ened and pay raised in order that | the craftsmen may remain an ade-| quate factor in the market. The need of a union truly repre- | | sentative of the rank and file mem-| bership is so great and sorély urgent | that only a craftsman of unsound | favor. There exists in the auto plants | |@ crying, surging need of an inde- |pendent union for the past four | years. | The “uncrowned kings” of America | |had successfully thwarted and| | crushed every attempt of the crafts- men to organize by employing brutal | police tactics and hiring professional terrorists, to create adverse public | opinion. | aimfully had conducted an orgy of | pernicious lie-spreading designed to | decimate our membership, coerce and | intimidate our pickets. The factory bosses had sent a great many stcol- | pigeons into our midst to raise con- along this line: Say, I saw 50 die- makers go in today. So and so is | going in tomorrow and so on, all/ | Nov. 7, Together with the newly pub- lished pamphlets, “Socialist Party— | Words and Deeds” and “Unemploy- | The newspapers willfully, | |fusion by instructing these despic- | of He “ment, This society had been organized for the very express purpose i and Die and Experimental workers, | and - highly- ¢————__ of winning. They are: drawing into! the strike of all production workers; establishing real rank and file control of the union; resistance to all N.R.A e through fake negotiations; unity of employed and unemployed. On this road lies the real advance | for all auto workers. Charges Sections With| Neglecting Election Material Distribution | NEW YORK. rious negligence | in the distribution of election posters, pamphlets, stickers, etc., was charged | against many N. Y. sections of the| Communist Party by the Communist | Election Campaign Committee yes-| terday. The Committee, through its man- ager, Carl Brodsky, issued the follow- | ing statement: | “This election material, which has | cost us dearly, and to print which | workers have contributed their pen- | nies, is laying around in many sec- tions and eletcion headquarters with- out any effort being mede for its distribution. “This material should be in the hands of the masses,” the statement continued, and there is only one week | left before the elections, Tuesday, ment and the Election Campaign,” all election literature, posters, etc., York.” —by del \ \S KILLING Mel “T, and not Curry; I, and not McCooey ; I, and not Theofel; I, and not Flynn—I shall be the Mayor of the City of New | Oa A Election 8:00—Ben Gold, for Aldermanic President, 187th St. and Camberling Ave., Bronx. three open-air meetings. 8:00—Robert Minor, candidate for M: Hall, 344 West 36th St. ing, 140th St. and 7th Ave. must be gotten out where they belong immediately.” Meets Tonight 8:00—Williana Burroughs, for.Comptroller, Communist Party, Brooklyn, jayor, Taxi Workers’ Union, Memorial 8:00—Israel Amter, for Borough President of Manhattan, open-air meet+ 8:45—I. Amter, open-air meeting, 133rd St. and Lenox Ave. | 9:30—I. Amter, open-air meeting, 86th 5S‘. and Lexington Ave. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | told the district attorney that he had | no money and only wanted to get a clear conscience out of the whole affair. “after a brief pause the official ts hundred dollars if he would leave the shore and forget all about the whole affair—everything that he had scheme and, under vi-| members at every opportunity with} and he replied that the Eastern eats of sending Jones to) their vile stories of imaginary tales| Shore was pretty well worked up and | the best thing for me to do was to} | get away.’ “This failed to upset Spencer and said to have offered Spenter one | ‘I told him,’ said | No Safety for Lynch Witness go to Princess Anne to commit suicide. You must agree to protect him.” A long silence followed this de- mand. “Will you protect him?” I repeated. “No!” Robins shouted. “Then you can’t expect him to ap- | pear.” | “I don’t care whether he appears or not.” “Don’t you want to get to the bottom of the lynch mob?” ‘Tl be glad to see Spencer.” “Not unless you guarantee that he leaves Princess Anne alive.” Ritchie “Running This Thing” \y drawing as candidate for mayor. of which are plain, manufactured | he reports that he told the attorney ‘If you wan't protection for him,” t “Such an e sharp | lies. | that he was going to tell Capt. Bald-| the state’s attorney shouted furi- est conde er, since| This strike is one Of the most) win of the Civilian Investigation De-| ously, “why don’t you go see the Signing ¢ Jones has | deliberate, popular expressions of re-| partment in Washington, D. C.| Governor? He's running this thing!” recognized and inex-|sentment to forever eliminate the | everything that he knew. This would The shockingly frank statement cusable e~ and is making every | disgusting slavery conditions insti- | mean a Federal investigation, accord-| that “The Governor is running effort to try and make un for his| tuted by the “uncrowned kings” of | ing to Spencer. this thing” opens up the whole 7 He has pledged to show| Ameriza to spread havec and misery Jail Keys Given To Mob | ghastiy background of the Arm- by his action that he is determined | into the ranks of America’s produc- “Robins is alleged to have begun| wood lynching. It is a common to lead the struggles of the workers| tion brains, by keeping them broke by series of questions one of whi conversation in Princess Anne and “regardless of what action the ene-| and in dire need of life’s indispens- was ‘How do you know that the keys| other towns on the Eastern Shore eemies of the workers mtght take) able necessities, thus perpetuating of the jail were handed over to some | that the Governor IS “running this ae uf. | their nefarious rule. member of the mob earlier in the| thing” for political advantage and j “The Communist Party declares} ‘Today, the union men, and they| Gayo’ spencer answered this by say-| that when Armwood was taken | \that this action of Jones’ makes it| include practically all the die-mak-| ing "They were handed over to a| ftom Baltimore to Princess Anne | Possible and necessary for the/ets, are holding firmly, unflinchingly | 8 named Henderson, who used to| the Governor knew the Negro was Workers of Dearborn to continue| and are not even dreaming of going be a friend of mine, between five} om his way to be lynched. Ard Jones as their candidate for mayor | back to work until our egotistical | ona five-thirty Wednesday afternoon| When the Governor told Dr. and to solidify their movement, to| “kings” recognize our union and|5"% before the lynching, | Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hop- Hid themselves of the rule of the| grant our demands. We are fully| iptv ute sintes that @ con-| kins University that he (the Gev- { »Ferd Motor Co. conscious that we have an absolute| eucation with Henderson revealed| ernor) did not know that Armwood David Jones, candidate for mayor | constitutional right for collective how the keys had been surrendered| was being taken to Princess Anne ; © in the Ford city, issued a statement | bargaining and also have a perfect by the jailer, Robins, who is said| he was lying deliberately. declaring, in part: |right to expect a just, honest re-'45 yo attempting to identify some| James C. Mulliken, assistant city One Monday, Tet. 16, I was con-| muneration for our services; and no raembers of the mob, is reported to|¢ditor of the Baltimore Post, states fronted with a statement of the a mount of misrepresentation, terror-| have told Spencer to come back at| that he is ready to sign an affidavit thorities that I had violated a la m and imprisonment could possibly | 5 p. ™. on Wednesday, because he| that he personally informed the Gov- = They stated I did not live in Dear-| alter our stand. wasn't sure that such testimony | ernor, telling him that Armwood was mere ae TEP ihe thes Yours truly, | could be used.” being taken baclk to Princess An > a e ate. investigated the | James F. Bell. idd? i y|and that there was danger of a | situation and found that the time| p. g, 1 am writing this leiter, hav-| Per etre nditettiveiee ny Sed | iynching, - i, Fale phe re sc hneaacth fu. (2MS 5 oF 6 fractured ribs, the work | Cisimed excitedly: Was Vote-Gaining Play [pidats., The real reason for trying to| Ct the Punt police, in thelr attempt Robins Loses His Temper The line-up that shows why Arm- Vy n ving to | to keep me from effective picketing. he ee hh te the. wast ‘ (hd me off the ballot was the at-| © oh a “He's a damned lar.) I'd like to| WoOd was thrown seal ah Sempt of the Ford Motor Company! aitorial Note: We ate vety glad| get hold of him. Can you produce | Shove deliberately for political ad- to break up and smash the United | to print the above letter from|him before me?” vantages follows: _~ Front movement which threatens to cs peny and the city administration |) mew victories for the workers, re- Sulting in the improved working ©Onditions and a standard of cash| relief sufficient to meet the needs) unemployed workers. | sorts of threats and intimi- “K pressure became heavy and for a| joment, under this atmosphere, [| wveakened. I committed an act | th 1 now can see as the most | ble mistake any class-conscious Workér can ever make. Instead of | iealicing that this was a method of | @ enemies to destroy our move- | under terrible pressure, We in, signed a statement force from the Ford Motor Com-| Brother Bell, and greet him for his activity in the die and toolmakers | Strike. We agree that the tool and die makers need a union “truly rep- resentative of the rank and file mem- bership.” But can we say that all the off- cials of the Mechanics Educational » dations were made against mie. The | Society have been acting in the best | interest of the rank and file? Did they not fight against the proposal to call out the production men in order to win the strike and to or- ganize one united union of all auto workers? No one will deny the effectiveness of a strike of the highly skilled tool I | and die makors, their strategic posi-| “We'll give him the regular protec- nr tr it workers in Dearborn, = irawing as eandidate fox rene net thereby played into the hands of enemies of the we ‘want to destroy our movement. “T want to inform you, tha’ “ize this serious and inexcusable | istake and want to assure you that I will remain in the ranks of | the workers and continue to strug- gle fot the interests of the workers, | rdléss of what action the ene- mies of the working class might take against me. 1 want to assure you that I will demonstrate in ac- tion, that I will correct my error by ng. more active than ever before, af ighting for the program we @ started to accomplish. | have recalled my letter ik : drawing as candidate for mayor and run as candidate of the workers | _ of the city of Dearborn for mayor. | I appeal to all workers and all ore} “ganizations of the United Front not | let anyone weaken as I did in| signing this blackmailing statement. |! ‘ = tion in the industry. But in fighting against such powerful corporations | as the General Motors and Fords, | jasting victory can be achieved mainly by united action of all work-| ers, regardless of their skill. Brother | Bell says: “It is within its (the Mech- | anic’s Educational Society) to shut down completely all the automobile plants of Michigan.” ‘This assumes a great deal and! leaves out of consideration some of | the most important factors that the | workers have to face. The auto bosses have the government power behind them, They will try to set unemployed against the employed. They will try to divide the workers on the basis of skilled and unskilled, Our main purpose should be to unite all these in a common struggle against our powerful enemies. Every worker should support in every way the strike of the Mech- anics Education Society, and in sup- porting this sirike the Daily Worker | I said I would take that up as soon as I finished reading. When I finished the wire was suddenly dis- connected. It was some minutes be- | fore I got Robins back on the phone. | His yoice was much calmer, | | “Do you know the people {n and | around Princess Anne?” I asked. “I do.” “Do you know Morrison?” “I do not. I want to get hold of | Spencer, Will you produce him?” | “Will you guarantee his safety it} he goes to Princess Ann? Will you} call state police to protect him?” “Regular” Protection “I will not,” Robins said excitedly. | tion, There’s the sheriff and his deputies—” “But the Sheriff is mentioned in the affidavit as being one of the mob.” “The Sheriff was not in the mob!” Robins shouted. “How do you know since you claim to have been in Chrisfield at the time of the lynching?” “Why, it’s nonsense!” “We're getting off the subject. Will you or will you not give assurances that Capt. Spencer's life will be safe if he appears in Princess to testify?” “I can’t give you any more than that the Sheriff's deputies will take care of him.” “That is insufficient. The Sheriff's deputies and even state police were not enough to protect Armwood.” “I can’t promise any more than that.” He paused for a moment and then exclaimed excitedly: “I don't give a damn whether you bring him or not!” points out the most effective means “You can’t expect Capt. Spencer to The Ritchie political machine, j aided and supported by the much- | publicized “liberal”? Sun papers, | which heve held Maryland in a tight grip for more than fifteen years, is tottering. The Eastern Shore, where the lynching took place, is eséentially Republican. During the last guber- natorial election, Ritchie was able to carry only two of the Eastern Shore counties. With an election looining next year and the machine totter- ing, failure to carry these two coun- ties on the Eastern Shore might mean losing the Governorship. Sentiment on the Eastern Shore roused by the Eucl Lee case and the Williams lynching two years ago is East- Negro would be given ample protec- tion by the state police. “About & half hour after this con- versation the Governor called me back by phone and repeated his as- | surance that if Armwood was taken back to Princess Anne, he would be given ample protection.” Mulliken’s statement tells how Ke | discussed the danger of a lynching with State's Attorney Robins and also received assurances that “we are a law-abiding people and the Negro will be well taken care of when he returns here.” Mulliken called the Governor and told him of Robins’ decision to take Armwood to Prin- cess Anne. The Governor said, ac- cording to Mulliken: “I have no authority to take any hand in this matter now. You say Mr. Robins is sure there will be no trouble; well then, what right would I have to take the matter out of his hands?” In a _ subsequent conversation Mulliken had with the Governor at | Ritchie's suite at the Belvedere Ho- | tel, the Governor said to him: “Your phone call was the first I knew that they planned to take the man back to Princess Anne.” “Thus it must be evident,” Mulli- ken concluded, “that the Governor is mistaken in telling Dr, Mitchell that he knew nothing of the plans to take Armwood back and the same state- ment he issued publicly after the lynching.” It is quite evident that the Gov- ernor’s memory bei:#; so excellent on him at this crucial point. Captain Edward McK. Johnson, in charge of the state police, was struck on the head with a brick during the attack on the jail. Othet state po- licemen were hurt. In Princess Anne the residents laugh about this, “We Weren't afraid to attack be- cause We knew Johnson had ordets hot to shoot! If he shot into us and hurt any of the Basterh Shore men the Govertior would have beet wiped out during the next election.” Captain Johnson, immediately after the lynching, was taken to his home and reftised to see anyone. Col. Austin E, Baughman, State Commissioner of Motor Vehicies, ts over Ceptain Johnson. The Motor Vehicle Department controls the state police. Commissioner Baugh- man, descended from one of Mary- land's “first families” and a leading social light in the state, is one of the Governor's chief pelitical advisors, In Princess’ Anne, they say the Governor told Col. Baughman to in- struct Captain Johnson not to shoot @ Move Is Seen as Drive to Exclude All Foreign-Born Minor toAddressLatin- American Workers in Harlem Thursday NEW YORK.—The cancelling of the registrations of eight Porto Rican yoters by Judge Cohn in the 21st Election District of the 17th As- sembly District, lower Harlem, Pri- day, is seen as the forerunner of an attempt at wholesale exclusion of foreign-born citizens in this section. ‘This charge was made by the Com- munist Election Campaign Commit- tee yesterday. “Realizing that a heavy vote will be cast by workers of Porto Rican and Spanish descent for the Com- munist Party,” the Committee stated, “Tammany has alteady, through an organization called the ‘Honest’ Bal- lot Association,” stated that they will exclude 5,000 Puotto Ricans on an “illiteracy” charge. “Lewis Isaacs,” the statement of the Committee continued, “repre- senting the Association, was re- ported in Saturday’s New York Times as saying that his organi- vation would have watchers at every polling place to see that il- literate first voters or those ask- ing for assistance to vote who were not entitled to it were stopped from voting, He believed about 5,000 Porto Ricans would be affected by the activities of the Association.” The main reason for this attack on the tight of legally registered workers to vote is seen by the Com- munist Committee in the fact that there is & great possibility of elect- ing Communist Aldermen and As- Semblymen in this district, the 17th, and in the 18th A. D, The Communist Party is the only Party that has nominated Latin- Americans for office in these districts, and due to the active campaign led by the Communist Party against American intervention in Cuba, thon- | i | other matters could not have failed | 72m, 66 E. 4th St. bitter against the Governor. under any ¢ircturnstances. That's why ern Shore men are poor. The Euel Lee case cost one county $10,000. The was really $25,000. With the Inter- | national Labor Defense most likely | stepping in to defend Armwood on the charge of grabbing a white woman's arm, Somerset County saw before it another long and expensive litigation which they could ill afford and decided that the best thing to do would be to lynch the Negro Mulliken, in his statement regard- jing conversations he had with the Governor, states: “I informed the Governor shortly after noon on Tuesday that the Sheriff of Somerset County was on his way to Baltimore to take over custody of the Negro and remove him to Princess Anne, | “The Governor said that he had Togzo back to Scme He said, the transfer was eet report spread around that the cost} not heard of the contetiplated trans- | they were not afraid to attack, On the day of the lyhching also, according to Captain Frank Spencer's affidavit, State's Attorney Robing said that he did tot want to be around “if there was going to be any trouble.” Robins was not around. Between the lynching, while the mob was gathering, State's Attorney Robing | planted himself before the movie | theatre in Chrisficld and, though it was @ windy evening stood for a full half a Carn his fellow towns- men, He is usually a man, state's attorney ate te: ironclad alibi as to his whereabouts. ‘Then Governor Ritchie was why the state police did not into the mob as they were to do according to the law, “If they had fired,” sdid the Goy- ernor, “the situation would have been however, that if| far worse than it is today. Captain} the cost of other lives, if accomplished, the | Johnson has told me that there were! oner was a “nigger” 7:30 and 8 o'clock on the, night of | sands of workers have been won over. Robert Minor, Communist can- didate for Mayor, will speak to the Latin-American workers in lower Hatlem this Thursday, Nov. 2, at Park Palace, 110th St. and Fifth Ave. at 9p.m. The local candidates who will also speak are Armando Ramirez, for Assembly in the 17th A. D. and Peter M. Uffre, candidate for Alder- man in the same district, Anthony Riagnon, for Alderman in the 18th A. D, and his running mate for As- sembly, Sidney Spencer. The Communist Elettion Commit- tee also issued an urgent plea to all workers of lower Hariem to volunteer as watchers for the Communist Party at the polis on election day to de- feat the attempt to rob workers of their right to vote. A meeting of all watchers will be held this Wed- nesday at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Itving Place (near Union Square), at 8 p. m. City Events | Painters’ Union to Hold Election Symposium Alteration Painters Decorators | and Paperhangers Union will hold an eleccion symposium tonight, 8| p. m., 1472 Boson Rd. All politi+ cal parties will present their plat- forms, ” W.LR. Anti-Faseist Meeting Louis Gibarti, international rep- resnetative of the Workers Inter- hational Relief, will make 4 report on the international activities of the W. I. R. into strike relief ac- tivities ani the campaign to aid! victims of German fascism, to- aight, 8 p. m. at Manhattan Ly- Taik on Trip Through Soviet Union Susan B. Woodruff will speak on} “My second trip throush the So- viet Union,” tonieht, under the auspices of the Friends of the So-! viet Union, at 120 Glenmore Ave.,! Brooklyn, 8:30 p. m. TAXI DRIVERS HOLY SLACTION SYMPOSIUM Ri Taxi drivers of New York will hold an election symposium tonight, 8 p. m, in Christ Chur 44 OW, | 36th St. under the auspices of the Taxi Workers Union. All major political parties will renrorent their stands on the 5 cent fare. comnanns, Pr ne TEE P & K Radio Service 1834 Pitkin Avefitic, Brooklyn Phones: Dickens 21725; 7876 No Service Charge for Workers mines Meet & BRONSTEIN Vegetarian Health Restaurant 368 Qler-mort Parkway. Bron: WORKERS—ZAT AT THE Parkway Cafeteria Near Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, N. ¥. 200 or 300 guns in the crowd. There would likely have been numerous casualties, “I consider {t fortunate that the state police did fiot fire.” To the people of the Eastern Shore this means that the Governor would | wink at the law which makes it man- datory to protect # prisoner even at) that pris- | Porto Rican Voters in Harlem. GirOl More Than Indigestion THOUGHTFUL and rather ei ae flattering somebody sent me a clipping of Saturday’s Paul Gallico column from the New | York Daily News with the red penciled comment, “Did you gho8t this?” -I didn’t. The piece is entitled “What? Indigestion Again?” and it: writer, the sports editor of America’s largest circulating news’ paper, is “disturbed by a con-¢———— sideration of the terrific amount of baloney that is sliced in the press on football from Monday to Friday.” He does not “exclude present com- pany because my young men can write as much tripe as anybody be- tween football games. I often ask them why they do this and they eye me reproachfully and say: ‘Boss, you should not talk like that about our art. You know that all we ever want to do is follow the example of dear teacher and be like you as much as possible, .. . Sure, it’s tripe, but that’s what we're all peddling, isn’t it?” “It is all keeping up appear- ances,” runs this sane spell of the saturnine satirist, and he gets “good and damn sick of it. I don’t mind writing it, but it bores me to read it. Of course it starts up on the football field, where it is dished out with shovels. The coaches give it out in buckets, but it is all they have to give. There is really noth- ing duller than what goes on on the practice fields between the games. There is, at that—the stuff written about the players,” He follows with two short ex- ataples of what football stories should be to “delight my eyes, Soothe miy feelings and please the ranoor in my soul. I would, how- ever, not dare print it.” This is the burden of the two stories: Coaches are dumb, Players are dumber, it possible. aie | gg GALLICO is an _ essentially honest writer. Time and again his healthier reactions blossom forth in such indigestion columns, He has been successful enough in subordin- ating these reactions to an extent Sufficient to keep his job and he doesn’t seem to be having a difficult time. Sensitive though he may be, his is not the bitterness and peneira- tion that was Ring Lardner’s, Not that Lardner exercised more pene- tration about the case in point. The columnist is puzzled and pained. With a lack of perspective that characterizes even the best of non-revolutionary satirists he casts about for goats, landing, this time, coaches and players. aig ACH GILLIGAN “appeared on the practice field in his usual state of confusion and befuddlement and proceeded to bawl hell out of the boys for not carrying out plays hatched, apparently, by the mind of an eight-year-old child. He inter- fered first with the smooth working first team, which had been function- ing perfectly until he arrived, and, after ten minutes of tagging the players, had the varsity in such a state of nerves that the scrubs secred four touchdowns on them and broke the star halfback’s collarbone. He then insulted three or four of the players to the point where they de- cided not to try any more. Next Coach Gilligan completed the job by working his entire squad to the point of exhaustion in preparation for the game tomorrow.” inane do-or-die principle; these are circumstances beyond the control of players, circumstances which ex- Plain the most single-tracked stu~ pidity. Players of football as it is now fought are selected not only on the basis of skill but also a dedication to those principles which are essential to their efficiency. Players are not to blame. And coaches are not to blame. For them, running a team is as much of a job as, say, writing sports for the Daily News, and some are better at it than others. Morally, there isn’t a great deal of differ- ence between working your players to the utmost, living on the divi- dends of a textile mill run by child labor, or ballyhooing the wrestling racket after the manner of the Daily News. And, grudgingly we have to admit, neither are athletic administrations, “meddling alumni” atid college presi- dents to be blamed. If the school is to be considered a running concern, suceessful by their standards, the great stadium and the great football team are essential. Nor can we foist the onus on the football-crazy, de- luded student bodies. ee tT. entire system of education and set of values which can only have sprung from a society based on the profit motive is at fault. If Paul Gallico is sore at having to write and print hooey and really wants to get at the root of the trouble, that’s where to look. No amount of gibing at individual pawns of that will produce the tangible or even in’ tangible results which should be aim of satire. ‘The stupidities at which Gallico rails will disappear only with the disappearance of the larger forces whose natural and inevitable out- come they are. Take the profit mo- tive out of the lives of coaches, play- ers, faculty and sports writers and See how much football hooey you have left. In the fight against the profit mo- tive we're bound to step on the toes of its representatives, but there's no point in making mistakes as to the hature of that fight. It does not originate on the football field at all. Wa FEEBLE ECHO DEPARTMENT Dear Eddie, You said I wouldn't box you because | I was scared, Did you think it was you | that scared me? No, my boy, it was: the thought of the audience snickéer- ing at us two that did it. Here's 50 cents for your competition! Shut up! Get to work! Save the Daily Worker! Mike Gold. Helping the Daily Worker Through Ed Newhouse Contributions received to the credit of Edward Newhouse in his effort to catch up in the Socialist competition with Michael Gold, and Dr. Luttinger to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker drive. About the pleyers: “Led by Big Boy| Third day: (Stupid) Malcighkiesko, the entire;Ted Weeks ......... seeeee$ 3.00 squad of Bilgevater University re-|Hammer & Sickle Club 2.00 ported for Facts an Dour late at/Del ....... 10 iigewater Field yesterday afternoon! Rd. Rolfe .... 02 ‘auce they could not find the en- -ance to the gridiron and ran around and around outside the gate. | Big Boy explained to Coach Gcal- post that scracbocy had shut the doo. ‘If the decor had been open, | we'd a fouhd it all right, but the Coor was siiut. Trey ouzhta leave the docr open, cosch; we mighta run areund the ovtside of this place all day. A lot of the fellows will not be out today, hoss, because they think | it is Sunday,’” And so on. | fy a iS is what I mean by lack of| Satifical reorpotiive. It is hot true that the hossy “nll ster the foothall field, of course.” ‘The eet can be traced back way beyon at, T haven't foucd that football players ate any @ossber than the wenera! rua ef whdergrsfuates, al- though -one stoulin't wonder if thay were. Subfection to the re- lanticss gtind of the p:nctice ses- sions, the destructive physical and cmotional wear prodiiced by the COHENS’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City i Tel. ORehard 4-4520 Wholesale Opticians SY88 EXAMINED bh Ohtcmttes t Factory on Premises 8. Funaroff Bubchi Michael Teng! S648 f. Brody . D. Platt, .. Provious total Total to date .. Celebrate the 16th Anni- versary of the Russian Revolution by showing Soviet Films 16 MM. FILME CAN RE SHOWN IN ANY CLUB, MALL OR HOME “War Against the Centuries” a 16 MM Version of the 5-¥r. 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