The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1934, Page 2

Page Two Big Vote for Unite Shoe Union Expected In Referendum Today Arcadia Hall Meeting To- night To Join Forces of Shoe Workers NEW YORK.— Two events of outstanding importance to shoe workers are scheduled for today. At special polling plates set up by the National L Board outside the factories, workers of 19 shops will ca vote for the union of hoice, the United Shoe and Leather Workers Union. Tonight at Arcadia Hall, Brooklyn, plans for consolidating the forces of the shoe workers and br he union those organized gre outside the United Shoe ¢ Leather Workers Union will be made at a special membership meeting called at the request of the Coordinating Com- mittee to effect amalgamation of the shoe workers. The referendum vote, which was part of the decision of the National Labor Board in connection with the ending of the recent general shoe strike, will register the demand of the overwhelming majority o fthe ps shoe workers for the United Shoe and | Leather Workers Union. Bosses Intimidate Workers Soon after the announcement that &@ referendum vote would be held, a Strong United Front Will Win Strike, Says Old Hotel Worker (By a Worker Correspondent) I was t Sunday, Jan. 28, to the Hotel 2 R 3 ers Union New Yo e holding a their strike 0 orkers don’t know union called them on strike. jotel workers have many International, Geneva As- and Amalgamated Food Besides, there are the which sociatior Workers, emplo; ombined w Year after year these organiza- ions have been robbing the work- t rs. he Food Workers Industrial Union has the only right to fight to unite and improve the condi- tions of the food workers. Now the hotel workers are fight- ing the strongest chain in the food service business. This demands that all the workers get together in a solid united front and smash down any attempt of the leaders of the International and Amalga- mated to keep our ranks divided. S. MILLER, an old food worker. ci Hudson, Marine Un. Leader, ScoresWage Cutting Marine Code (Continued from Page 1) standard of wages that will not re- turn one half of the -vage cuts, al- forced, especially in view of buying power of the dollar. the light of these wave cuts, the concessions in the code ar equate. This minimum y result in a sli¢ht improve me workers but for most ing more than the } ‘h provided for in the cod it means a wage cut. In fact, the radio operators were given a 25 per cent. wage cut afte the November 10th hearing to brin, their «wages down to the ley proposed by the revised code. “The workers are alarmed and see the true wage-cutting nature of the N. R.A.” A War Measure ‘We can clearly see that the proposed Labor Board is not only an attack on the rights of labor but is a preparation for regimenting marine | workers to insure the profits of the shipowning class during war. “The only way we'll get our rights is to use our ability to unite and de- mand recognition.” ¢ aa WASHINGTON, Jan, 31—The re- vised code proposed by the American Shipowners’ Association is still a shipowners’ code, strengthened in| |secret conferences by strikebreaking proposals made by Victor Olander of | |the International Seamen's Union, | | and Joseph P. Ryan of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s Association, both of whom are members of the shop committee meeting was called | by Mike Miller, owner of I. Miller Company in Long Island City. Miller admitted that he opposed the refer- | Phila.ToHold ‘Daily’ wee toi iat tne Bose ana shoe C@lecration Friday | By ne, ie a lyers attending open hearings on the Union “goes through.” When a com t raised stion of 4 : >a eons eae "a PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 30—A | revised code before N. R. A. Deputy : ns 7 mass meeting and entertainment at | Administrator Weaver. which C. A. Hathaway, editor-in-| Two hundred Negro and white M. Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, Roy Hud- son, National Secretary of the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union, today bluntly told several hundred com- placement shipowners and their law- the workers of the| ler Co., a committeeman em-| phatically declared that the shoe|Chief of the Daily Worker, will be |W. I. U. delegates, renresent'ng 12.900 "s would vote as the bosses|the leading speaker, will be held| workers, elected last night at the here this Friday, Feb. 2, 8 Pm., at) Baltimore Federal Relief Station the Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Gi-| (known povularly as the boneyard) Tard Ave. contro‘led by merine workers, gave This event, celebrating the 10th) the Commerce Department Audi- victorious year of our “Daily,” is ex-|torium a labor coloring seldom seen pected to be the starting point for|in a Washington dominated by in- placing the Daily Worker circulation | dustrialists and their official and drive in om an unprece- | private servants. Six bus loads—not basis. enough for the number of marine At the Novelty Slipper Co., similar intimidation took place when the » M. Goodkind, and an agent Boot and Shoe Union called rorkers together at a meeting irtually ordered them to vote for a “patriotic union,” meaning a bosses’ union. The workers applauded for 20 minutes after a spokesman for the workers arose and denounced the the Boot and Shoe Union. “We all know which union we want and it is not the Boot and Shoe. I know that in saying this I risk my} job, but I am taking this chance as} my duty,” said the worker. Tt was learned that a repre- sentative of the Association appeared at the Regional Labor Board today demanding that elections in the slip- per shops be postponed VOTING SHOPS The following shops are expected to vote today: Bressler, American Shoe, Clarenden, Wolf and Son, Kadas, Weisman-Sass, Morgan | Grossman, Julius Grossman, Her- 4 for this event includes a dramatic|Washington—brought the militant production by the John Reed Club, | seamen, longshoremen, towmen, an oratorio by the local Freiheit | barzemen, lightermen and scowmen Gesangs Ferein, and recitations by | to the Capitol. In addition, two of members of the New York Artef|the delegation vaid their own way Theatre. jfrom Philadelphia. | Though the vrovosed revised code . bd | provides a slitht increase in wages Amalgam ted Heads (from $40 to $50 a month for ab'e- z bodied seamen) and proposes no Send Hi t | Bo workaways (those who work only for Secret Agreement | Shipping Labor Boards Mies |. The main ideas of the strikebreak- |ing National Marine Board, proposed |by Paul Scharrenberg, Secretary of ing provisions. (Continued from Page 1) man Grossman, Andrew Geller, ing no demands for wage inc s,| the I. S. U., are contained in the Elec. On Friday the following ; erding th: un y back to the | Pending code under the name of Shops will vote: Cornell Unity, Dan | present miserable pittance they are |Siipping Labor Boards, to which Palter, Delman, La Valle, Lo Pres- receiving in the hotels. The “pres. | labor representatives will be ap- ti, I. Miller, Premler and Seymour | ent scale of wages,” from which they | Pointed by the N, R. A. code admin- Trey. ask no reduction. are, with few ex-|istfator. These boards, contain, All workers of ceptions, little or no wages, ince | 2mong other provisions, such outright hours are nearly unlimited in the | strike breaking measures as compul- hotels, the requests for “no increase |SO'Y erbitration. In addition, the from the present hours” is farcical, | Labor Board will have the authority The agreement completely disre- | 0 study and apply the decasualiza- gards the conditions of the hotel tion plan, witich is fundamentally a in the} hoe workers urged to go ms eer 3 r th ral & i | we 's fr the industry. Girectiy from their polling places | for the general strike in the revolt | Workers from Mee soy As! te the important meeting tonight | against the present slave conditions|, The M. W. 1. U. demands ase | at Arcadia Hall, 918 Halsey St., | in the shops, and out of bitter resent- tilly the 1929 Shipping Board scale | Brookiyn, where the Coordinating Committee will report. Member- ship books are required for admis- sion to the hall. Anti-Nazis Jailed For NRA Exposure avainst the N. eN.R. A. hotel | Of wages, and include the following: by which the hotel owners pro-|1, $62.50 a month for able-bodied ;Seamen; 2, three watches, with over- pose to beat the wages down still further. ‘hours for stewards; 4, 33 per cent in- crease in the manning scale, so more jobs will be provided; 5, the right to join any union; 6, the right to strike; 7, Ship and Dock Committees ‘on shivs and docks; 8, central shipping 1 owners have agreed to n the union on the basis | al, it was learned yes- é We go to press, strikers are mo- bilizing to demand the Strike Com- mittee, which is now in session, act quickly to annul the agreement an PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3i—Police |call upon strikers of each shop to | B%Shoremen. Z : groke up an anti-Nazj demonstra-| formulate economic demands a be | eA idee ae tion and arrested 13 demonstrators | made to the hotel bosses, canialipcauinouneed that “get: akip eT ees the “Friends of Neatly. 6.000 enthusiastic, cheering | @eUap “momen tne Won cu New = Germa: the American | hotel strikers gathered in the lower | ‘® ain gh them later.” branch of th zi Party, held a of Madison Square Garden Rude rose immediately and said: few doors away. sNecee tay Gulled the hall with |«t would like to know the reason for few .doors : for the continuation and| sinning the labor ‘Gravisioris\ or'at The sergeant who ordered the ar- @ of the strike, and wildly '1 oP ee po ceassured that labor will rest said s ded any mention of mass pick- | 15 : be heard today. I made this pow G ‘ . several months ago when we ha 1,000 a _ rs ci ming from Bry-| wait all day and part of the night Hall, where they had held a for a hearing. ‘Therefore, on behalf e call of the Industrial | o> the Marine Workers’ Union, marche | Union I propose that we either take were welcome is ; cries of “Long Livi up the labor provisions now, or that Hotel Workers!” E visi concluded today.” At the close of the meeting, organ- | Provisions be conclude ized in mass formation, the strikers, | pear enemy be are under their own shop signs, marched | *#*¢ UP 4 q diately after lunch.” out to hold a mass picketing dem- | “I: ss onstration at all hotels on strike. | ‘Conciliation and Arbitration’ a% the demonsi eting. As the meeting opened, nearly | American Les hey 1 R. A. ot call board) to the exclusion of the crew, | it still contains outright strikebreak~ | workers who responded to the cali|P¥ogram to drive all but “company” | | time pay for all departments; 3, eight | | offices, with rotary system, controlled | by elected committees of seamen and | Industrial | we be given assurance that the labor | City Events | UNEMPLOYED LOUTH OF BROOKLYN TO MEET dele Street. A program OWA. ‘The meeting of action MOVIE SHOWN For STRIKER: Gorky's “Mother” will be show ously today from 2:30 to 9 p. Auditorium, 181 W. 28th St. under the Suspices of the N.T.W.I.U, for the benefit Of Maiman ond Sanger strikers. BENEFIT OF Ss 2 continu at Unior MEMBERSHIP MEET OF FURNITURE WORKERS A membership meeting of the Uphoistery | Section of the Purniture Workers Indus- trial Union will be held tonight, 7:30 p.m. at 812 Broadway. RR ae Se CURTAIN AND DRAPERY WORKERS TO MEET A Mass Meeting of all curtsin, drapery, bedspread and pillow workers will be heid tonight, 6 p.m., diseussed. 2 ‘MASS MEETING OF METAL WEATHER- STRIPPERS AND SCREEN WORKERS ‘The’ Metal Weather-Strippers and Screen Workers Union will hold a mass meeting on Thursday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m., st 820 Broad-/ ‘way, New York City. « ° MEETING OF ANTI-PASCTS A meeting Of the N asd Vietims 5 lao>, ‘Thureday, iT COMMITTEE : ee to Commi he the campaign in connection with the acttval of Lord Marley to this country. , The main point on the agenda will/ Is of the union and repre- s of other organizations ad- the striker Not a single and file striker was given the All the speak: Iked in gen eralities about the strike situation, failing to touch on the concrete de- mands of the strikers. The rene- in the leadership of the strike, also spoke of recognition of the union, but made no mention of the economic demands or the next steps to be taken in the strike. Mention of the betra; agreement was carefully avoided. This line was followed by A. J. Muste, Mary Fox of the Social- ist Party and Heywood Broun, who also spoke. The Hotel and Restaurant Indus- trial Union called on the strikers | Yesterday to strentthen their ranks, lrepudiate the betrayal agreement, work to spread the strike to every at union headquarters, | hotel and restaurant and tie up every Where the situation in the trade will be| hotel from the basement to the top| floor. “We are determined to establish unity of the strikers over the heads of the officials and to demand the election of a broad rank and file strike committee. We call upon the workers te repudiate any agrec- ments made without ir sanction and approval. 7 of the strike must y and unity,” decizred Industrial the Union Jeaders at strike headquar- ters yesterday, A delegate of the marine, cooks and | stewards division of the IS.U., de- clared: “As a result of our disastrous | experience in 1921, we have adopted a policy of conciliation and arbitra- | tion which has won the confidence of | conservative ship owners and the }men.” This, despite the fact recognized by the ship owners. The delegate from the American | Radio Telegraphers’ Association de- | clared that on foreign shins the size | of the S.S. Manhattan and Washing- | ton of the U.S. Lines, there are from on U. S. ships, there are only three. ‘Two-day Layoffs “The passengers ask, ‘is that enough?’, we answer, ‘no’, in addition, | we now have mates and sailors acting es redio operators. The owners have the habit of laying off radio opera- tors when the ship is in port for only one or two days. They do this on | the Roosevelt, the American Merchant and the U. 8S. Lines. | “Some of these practices have been | temporarily eliminated because of the |recent strike. The shipowners now know that if their men are laid off, they get others. The radio > 1 of holding up e fact is that gWNEZS V2 to ones who hold up the mails despite the fact that they receive huge government ' subsidies.” that | gades, Cannon and Gitlow, who are | they haven’t any men and are not} six to eight radio operators, whereas | GUTTERS OF NEW YORK “A $2 fee on all applications for teachers’ licenses has been proposed by Fred C. Kuper, of the Board of Education. Kuper, a Tammany appointee, the protests of several civic o DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 By DEL | Hathaway to Preside || at Meet in Support || of German Workers It was announced today that the chairman of the “Support the Ger- man Workers’ Revolution” Concert and Affair on Feb. 11 at the Bronx Coliseum, will be Clarence Hatha- way, editor of the Daily Worker, ‘| who gave sensational testimony in |] Washington about Nazi activities |] in this country. | The Workers Dance League, who has been permitted to choose two || of its most exceptional groups for participation in the affair, has an- nounced that the Duncan Dancers will be one of these groups. The program committee stresses the aeed of buying tickets early. Lynched Negro Was ‘Transferred’ From: ‘Tampa Jail 3:15 AM. | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Jan. 31— Governor Scholtz ordered Hillsbor- | ough County officials today to make a complete investigation of the |lynching of Robert Johnson, Negro | worker, yesterday, after he was | handed over by Deputy Constable T. M. Graves to a lynch gang travelling {in automobiles, The governor de- | Clared: “We do not condone the crime of lynching in Florida.” Five Negroes were lynched in Florida last year, four of them, in- cluding three women, in a bunch. got his $7,500 a year job over Worlers Push ; e i eee | NEW YORK.—The call by the Cen- | tral Committee of the Communist Party, U. S. A. to root the Daily | Worker in the b; industries is be- ing answered nh real effort in this | direction in various parts of the coun- | Canvassing in this early stage of |the “Daily” circulation campaign | among railroad workers in the small town of We: le, Pa., resulted in | the securing of subscriptions from five | Negro workers on the New York Cen- | tral Further results are expected as An outstanding pogram arranged | workers who wanted to come to/the canvassing in this territory will| to spread our “Daily” among the| | be intensified. | Reaching Textile Workers | Middletown, N. Y¥., is producing | some real shock brigaders in the sub-| | scription drive. The numerous textile | mills in’ Middletown and surrounding | towns, such as Port Jervis and Walden | are being canvassed with the “Daily.” | “We have made some good contacts already,” these shock brigaders write, | “and we hope to obtain new subserib- ers among the textile workers very soon.” Sisseton, | Ss. D., sent in three new | subs, showing that the comrades there | are losing no time in putting the Daily | | Worker circulation campaign on a real | active basis. Faribault, Minn., sent in two new subs. In Dillenvale, Ohio, 14 City Workers Fired From Blanshard Office: Some onJob Since] 920 NEW YORK.—Fourieen civil service employees, including ac- countants, telephone operators and clerks, were flred on Mon- day from the office of Paul Blan- shard, Commissioner of Accounts, who himself holds down a salary of $15,000 a year. The discharged workers, some of whom have been in the service since 1920, were informed of their dismissal in letters which they received Monday morning. In addition to the dismissals at Blanshard’s office, 18 workers were removed from city hospi- tals. Not a word of these firings appeared in the metropolitan Delegates at Feb. 3 Jobless Meeting From All Sections | (Continued from Page 1) Philadelphia, Pa., has elected a del- egate. The Paving Cutters Union locals (A. F. of L.) at Tenants Harbor, Vinalhaven, Long Cove and Rock- Jand, Maine will be represented. The five Texas delegates come from Fort Worth, Breckinridge, Hamlin | and Houston and represent the Com- mon Laborers’ Association of the Rangers, Federal Labor Union of Laborers, Hamiln Workingmen’s As- sociation and the Unemployed Coun- cils. One of these delegates is an oil worker, one a carpenter (member of the A. F. of L.), one a railroad) fireman (member of the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Firemen and En- gineers). Cleveland Has 32 Delegates The Unemployed Council at Ash- Jand, Wis., is sending a paper mill worker and the United Front Un- employment Committee of Worcester, Mass., a carpet weaver. An electrical worker will represent the United Workers League of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, As we go to press a telegram in- forms us that a representative dele- Cleveland, Ohio, for the convention. Tonight in the St. Nicholas Areua, 69° W. 66th St., will be held the New York send-off meeting for the large New York delegation, The delegation from New York leaves on Friday morning at seven o'clock from 29 East 20th St. The New England delegates also en route to Washing- ton, will speak at the Arena meeting, and accompany the New York dele- | gation to Washington, Haye you sent fo the fund to nes Convention Against Unerypteym to the National Committee, Un- | employed Council, 36 East 11th St, New York City? contribution | | rganizations.” No one ever has been arrested or Gi? ii The A.A.U. and the L.S.U. By JERRY ARNOLD (Batting for Si Gerson) FEW days ago I foolishly made a statement that neithes J Marx, Lenin, nor Stalin concerned themselves much with athletics or the sports movement in general. I said, if I re | member correctly, that the great working class leaders never | evolved any theory of the crisis of the bourgeois athletic | world, or something of the sort. And now we have a contribution from Sol Fisher who | Writes that he was inspired@——+—————____ “Daily” Into Basie Industries Drive to Bring | plans have been made for a thorough | house to house canvass to help put the/| | subscription drive over the top. These and other new subscriptions secured in the early stage of the drive for 10,000 new daily subs and 20,000 new readers for the Saturday edition | show that workers are ready to sub- | scribe to our Daily Worker provided | | they are systematically approached. | What is your District, section and} unit doing to help put the circulation | | drive over the top? What is your Mass organization, trade union doing | workers? Answer these questions by getting} into immediate action, approaching your friends, your fellow workers, ask- jing them to subscribe to our only]! | American workingclass daily news- | Paper, the Daily Worker. | Chicago Conference Chicago will hold a Daily Worker Press Conference this Sunday, Ifeb. 4, '10 am. at the People’s Auditorium, | 2457 West Chicago Ave., to mobilize broad forces for the subscription drive. All workingclass organizations are} urged to have representatives at this| conference, | Lewis Usurps All Wage Negotiations _ With Bosses, NRA | | (Continued from Page 1) be a disagreement between the opera- |tors and union representatives in | Washington Feb, 12th, “then the solu- | tion of our difficulties naturally rests | upon the N, R. A.” | “It is also the opinion of the Com- | mittee that a formal demand be made | upon the next Joint conference by the | members of your Scale Committee for jincreased wages,” the report conti- | nued, | Twenty-one page mimeographed | Summaries of the convention and re- | port of the Scale Committee were} sold to the delegates today at one| | dollar a piece. Many of course could | not buy it. John L, Lewis, International head | |of the Union, making the concluding | speech before a vote was taken on the Scale Committee’s report, said: | | “We must not unduly influence or unduly oppress our great federal | | government.” Then harkening back to Miss Perkins’ plea to the miners | | yesterday, Lewis continued “here is| |an opportunity for labor to offer a | constructive contribution.” | | The Convention will end this after- | | noon. Japan Aims To Beat U.S. Sea Power, Says punished for these crimes, which the governor states are “not con- doned” in Florida. While Johnson was taken oui of the Tampa city jail by Deputy Constable Graves on warrants charging petty Jarceny, the white ruling class is now raising the cry of “attempted rape” age” ~ the victim of their lynch ter- Tor. .... .ere has been a slip-up in the usuaily efficient lying propaganda of the bourgeoisie. Thus, the Interna- tional News Service reports Johnson was arrested for beating a white man, a cigar worker; while in the United Press dispatch the male cigar worker is transformed into “a white woman cigar factory worker”; and the Asso- ciated Press reports that he was charged with petty larceny, but held for “investigation” for an alleged at- tack on a white woman. It was revealed today that Johnson | had been removed from the Tampa city jail at the unusual hour of 3:15 am. The deputy constable gave no explanation for this. Bill for 100 Warships Passed By House (Continued from Page 1) upon oi es for our protection and defense,” Vinson orated in tones re- miniscent of Southern evangelism. He called upon his fellow members to authorize nearly a billion dollars for warships and war planes so that when the American delegation sits down at the 1935 Naval Conference it shall “not be at the mercy of those other two delegations (Japan Great Britain)”. Other developments on the Wash- | ington war front were: Chairman McSwain of the House military affeirs committee made it understood that his committee soon would begin consideration of the war | department general staff's program calling for the construction of 1,000} | airplanes and the addition of 400 of- ficers and 6,200 men in the Air Corps. McSwain yesterday hoisted the fas- cist banner by introducing a bill which would authorize the organ- ization of a Junior Air Corps Re- serve. This new arm of the service would train boys between the ages of 18 and 21 to operate fighting ships, 146 of which are contemolated in the $95,000.00 war plane bill attached to the Vinson Bill as an amendment. The Senate naval affairs committee yesterday unanimously recommended the Vinson Bill after only one session | devoted mostly to the same admirals who recited their act before the House Committee, The most curious demagogic note of all the House discussion was the proposal of Dirksen, Republican, Il- linois, for an apnropriation of $50,000 to set up an Under Secretary of Peace in the State Department to coordinate the Vinson Bill. And no one laughed at him. MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East and) gation of 32 workers has left from} Pure Foods Proletarian Price Navy Chief to Diet (Continued from Page 1) DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet, Mtkin and Sutter Aves, Sroekiyn PHON®: DICKENS 2-9018 Offiee Hours: 3-10 AM., 1-8, 65 P.M. —_—_—_—_—_—_—— is being conducted with the parti- ipation of combat and bombing! lanes, warships, submarines and troops. The air force is said to be| the largest ever assembled here. | It left this morning under secret | orders for ten days of advanced-base | operations. The air force includes! Squadron V.P. 10 which recently fle here from San Frencisco, coverin; the huge distance in less than 24) | hours. | ‘The maneuvers will include experi- ments in the laying of the latest depth bombs. . Optometrist and Optician oO 1376 ST.NICHOLAS AVE LEXINGTON AYE. at 179” ST.HY. at 106th ST.NY. * 8 Japan Renews Bid to U. S. TOKYO, Jan. 31.—Japan’s re- doubled maneuvers to win the U. S. to its side before it launches its at- tack on the Soviet Union were em- phasized again yesterday, when Kat- suji Debuchi, until recently Ambas- sador to the United States, urged. reasons for Japanese-American co-! operation in China and Manchuria, before the Japan-America society in Tokyo, He pointed to the fact that the chief American-Japanese trade rela- Sane URES REIS AE Sei aainrRee TAY tions were the we of cotton for Williamsburgh Comrades Weleome Ik, and declarc ‘even in China | the trade intere-ts of the two coun-- De Luxe Cafeteria tries were compicmentary. He urged | American capitalists to take part in| 94 Graham Ave., x Cor. Siegel St. ‘ the exploitation of Manchuria, WILLIAM BELL orrictaL Optometrist 16 EAST MTH STREET Near th Ave. MN. ¥. ©. Tompkine Square wbone A by this column (that makes us feel good) to send in an article which very carefully analyzes the revolutionary position on sports, Very gently Sol asserverates that Lenin, himself, had surveyed the field of sports and had advocated a ao movement of workers’ ath- letics. Sol quotes him: “Physical culture snd sports in the hands of the bour- geosie is an implement that can be used against us. Physical culture in the hands of the proletariat is a powerful weapon for our cause.” And while the Soviet Union under the banner of Lenin moves steadily forward with the development of mass athletics such as no nation and no society has ever known before, the stink of the decaying bourgeols- controlled athletic organizations here pre stronger and more unbear- able. entire educational system, beginning from the kindergarten to the university, is used by the ruling class to serve the capitalist system,” Sol writes. “Sports and athletics are utilized to make the millions of sport loving young work- ers better servants to the rule of the exploiters. Their aim in sports, as they themselves admit, is “Amer- icanism,” “Loyalty,” “Efficiency,” and “Defense.” Their “Americanism” ;Mmeans lynchings and discrimination ogainst the Negro masses, terroriz- ing and persecution of foreign born workers and the suppression of the Communist movement. Their “Loyalty” means to be loyal to the bosses and their strikebreakers. “Ef- ficiency” means to work harder and nreduce more profit for the exploit- ers. “Defense” means to prepare better soldiers for the next imperi- alist. war. ot eae ae.) “Q\NE instance, one in the hun- | dreds, will show how hypocr- *tcal and false the bourgeois slogan, “Sports for sports sake,” is for sports is used by the capitalists as a weapon against the working class. Members of the New York A. C., inspired by the boss leaders, offered to police commissioner Whalen their help to | break up the first unemployed dem- onstration at Union Square in March 1930. I could site you many other instances where company sport clubs “Daily” To Expose the Working Conditions in | Y. Hotels Tomorrow | | Starting with tomorrow's issue the Daily Worker will publish a series of articles by Harry Ray- mond exposing the appalling con- dition under which workers in New York's greatest hotels are forced to work. The startling revelations con- tained in the series are the result || of an investigation made by the || Daily Worker of conditions in the New York Hotels now on strike. || _ All organizations should order their special bundles early and |] aid in distributing the paper | among the strikers, | > DAY BAZAAR H The Following Artists Will Appear Andre Cibulski Rose Namy Irving Korenman Eugene Nigob |] Freiheit Gesangs Verem || Prolet Buehne Artef ‘ |} Ukrainian and Daily Worker | Choruses Conducted by Lahn Adomyan Artists from Maxin Gorki Union Red Dance Group Theatre of Action Symphony Orchestra Nature Friends Dance Groups Harlem Performers Freheit; Mandolin Orchestra New Dance Group Fredricks & Fredricks-—-Magician Pioneer Performance of “Strike Me Red’ Slavish—Finnish—Russian I. L. D. Choruses FEB. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 | Manhattan Lyceum |} 66 East 4th St. (Entire Bldg.) TT CLASSIFIED ROOM wanted, below l4th Street. ‘Tele- Phone conveniences, Write K. 0. ¢/o Daily Worker, ii At 8:15 P.M. SI GERSON 2 were used for scabbing and break~- ing up strikes.” “There are millions of young workers who belong to capitalist con- trolled sports tions where they are taught to be enemies of their own class. The revolutionary working class, though as yet not sufficiently realized the importance, have long realized the necessity of worker sports as a means of draw- ing in the young workers in labor nor ine Miser would =f ven. Opportunity to learn an indulge in their favorite sports and at the same time be taught the prin ciples of working class solidarity and of the class struggle.” “The Labor Sports Union is the only working class sport organization in this country which has undertaken the important task of drawing in the young workers from the bosses sports organizations, like the A. A. U., the community centers and settle- ments, into the clubs of the L. 8. U. “So far our labor has not yet penetrated the ranks of the bour- Reois controlled sports organizations. The result is that the vast majority of the young workers still belong to and are under the influence of the enemies of the working 4 “Nevertheless, the A. A. U. has been aware of the existance of its enemy, the L. 8. U. In order to combat its growth, the A. A. U. has succeeded in making many states adopt laws prohibiting the L. 8. U. from holding various athletic meets without first taking out a permit from the A. A. U.” “The Metropolitan Workers’ Soccer League, the soccer department of the Eastern District of the L. 8. UL through a relentless struggle against: the domineering U. 8. F. A., has succeeded in drawing in many tearrs from the U. 8. F. A. in spite of its corrupt leadership which has done its darndest to destroy the first workers’ soccer league of this coun- By. cReeorgeeaiet 8. L. will become e: most powerful in the United States.” WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL SOCOmR LEAGUE OF CLEVELAND STANDING—FALL SEASON 1938-36 Games G joals Team Played W. L. Dr. Socor. Ree, ¥. A‘reraft 7 5 ° 2 oCy 5 u Red Stars 7 ¢€ 6 3 16 « iy Mansfield 6 3 1 3 4 4 s Elore, jr. 7 2 3 2 bBo Mw € Erie 2273: Rok 8s & Pks. Music 6 1 3 3 a ow 4 Eintracht 7 2 8 ° low 4 Workers 6 E 5 ° ae 3 2 Dr. E. EICHEL Dentist 150 East 93rd Street, New York City Yor. Lexington Ave, Tel. ATwater 9-883° Hours: from § a.m. to 8 p.m, Sun. 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