The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 18, 1934, Page 2

nse IL aot Page Two Celebrate 4th Anniversary ILGW Heads Betray Workers W to Go Home and Wait Industrial Union Will Aid Locked Out Workers 7 YORK.—The international Vorkers hing Union to fight © “go home and wait the bosses open the shops” were en to 709 shop chairmen at a in Webster No ques- allowed. were forcibly arm men sta- und the hall s betrayal would leave the rs absoluiciy helpless in the face of the lockout. “What can we tell the workers,” many shop chairmen were heard to remark as they left the hall. The “lay down and take it” policy of the I. L. G. W. U. bureaucrats Was first promulgated publicly at a meeting of union functionaries Monday night at which Hochman, rs manager of the joint ated that the policy of the W. U. will be to put out demands but wait until the S call the workers back to the The union has taken several halls for the strikers. . The bosses, in locking out their workers yesterday, them to the International Is, and not to the halis hired by he Needle Trades Workers Indus- trial Union. This shows a deliber- ate plo y the bosses and the In- ternational officials to force workers to accept the lockout, and the wage cuts that will follow, with the min- imum of protest. That their scheme will not suc- ceed was shown yesterday when many jocked-out shops reported to the Industrial Union that they are formulating demands to an- swer the lockout with strikes for better conditions. The N.T.W.I.U. urged the locked out workers to demand shop meet- ings to discuss the raising of de- nds, and if the LL.G.W.U. offi- 5 to call such shop meet- Ives. The Industrial Union urges the workers to demand minimum wage scale and im- te wage increases, LL.G.W.U. w come to the headquerters of the union, 131 W. 28th St. with com- plaints, for advice and help. About 5,000 locked out workers attended the mass open air meet- ing held yesterday afternoon at the corner of 36th St. and 8th Ave. Left Wing Opposition Calls Meeting NEW YORK.—The I. L. G. W. U.| Left Wing Opposition has called an open air demonstration today, noon | at 36th St. and 8th Ave., to protest against the orders of their union| officials to go home and wait till | the lockout is over. A delegation to the International Union headquarters will be elected to demand that the workers be or- ganized against the lockout and demands be adopted for the mini- mum wage and wage increases At one o'clock the workers will attend a mass meeting at the Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, to hear the report of the delegation. The Left Wing Opposition de- mands that the bosses pay for the Joss of time in view of the fact that lockout is a violation of the agree- ment. ATTENTION, ALL CARPENTERS! A special membership meeting of the Independent Carpenters Union Will be held tonight at 8 p.m., at the headquarters, 820 Broadway, New York City. You are requested to put aside all other activities and attend this meeting. Bring along other carpenters with you. MAY Ist Celebration MADISON SQ. GARDEN 7:30 P.M. Reserved Seat $1.00 General Admission 25 cents Communist Party, N. Y. District 50 East 13th St. | Important meeting of FES-§| TIVAL and BAZAAR COMMIT- | TEE, New York District, C, P., | this Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 P.m., 50 East 13th St., Room 205. All unions, mass organizations, | .W.O, and T.L.D. branches are fi} Tequested to send delegates with- out fail. 5TH JUBILEE CONCERT and BALL of the Prospect Workers Club At the Main Ballroom of Hunts Point Palace 168rd St. & Southern Blvd. Bronx Sat. sctARIONETTES Fy and 300 workers will parti- April Cipate in the excellent 27st program | Double Rand Will Play | Tickets in advance she, at] door 4h¢. Ourtain rises 4) at 845 PM. sharp Wirt “Revolution” Bubble Collapses | Under Testimony (Continued from Page 1) omplishing, It came out House Committee, investigat- fc the “red plot” charge by the school master of the U.S. Steel town of Gary, Ind., heard the par- ticipants in a dinner party at which, according to Wirt, the Roosevelt “revolution” was dis- cussed Questioning Lawrence Todd, now correspondent for Tass, the Soviet Union Press Association, but en- gaged chiefly as correspondent for Federated Press, Labor News Serv-' ice, at the time of the dinner, the Republican representative McGug- gin of Kansas flourished a copy of the Daily Worker and asked whether the witness wrote for this Communist néwspaper. “They received my articles,” Todd replied, “but they did not ordinarily use them.” | He also pointed out that about! 80 newspapers are served by Fed-' erated Pri including several re-| publican newspapers. McGuggin in- troduced the Daily Worker and pre- sented the startling “evidence” that is Communist—something printed| on its masthead. Republican McGuggin succeeded, | however, in getting into the record quotations from a speech by As- sistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford G. Tugwell, in which he called for a “planned economy” and explained that this preciudes “busi- ness.” Also, an excerpt from a book| by Ernest K. Lindley, saying “it may be” that “Roosevelt is only! the Kerensky of this revolution, | was inserted by McGuggin. ! All five of the government-admin- istrative-officer witnesses condemned Wirt's declarations. One, Hildegard Kneeland, of the A.A.A., however, confessed that she “objected to the| idea that 1926 is an adequate goal—! we can go on to greater prosperity) more evenly distributed.” | Asked how this could be accom-)| plished, however, Miss Kneeland confessed she didn’t know. Nor had she ever read any of Tugwell’s statements, she said. | House Democrats, put in a tight place by the Republicans "red bait-| ing” because it is a fact that the] | ithOrders DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934 Trish WorkersClubJoins | May Ist United Front NEW YORK.—The Irish Workers Club yesterday endorsed the United Front May Day demonstration and edged to mobilize the largest number of Irish workers for par- tion in solidarity with our class brothers on this great Inter- national May Day demonstration,” Section 2 of C. P. Holds Open Meeting on 8th Convention NEW YORK.—An open member- ship meeting of Party and non- Party members, organized by Sec- | tion 2 of the Communist Party, will be held Thursday, April 19, at Ir- ving Plaza at 7:30 p.m. in which | the eighth national convention of | the Communist Party, U. 8. A., will be discussed. Irving Potash, delegate to the convention and New York district | secretary of the Needle Trades} Workers’ Industrial Union, will lead | the discussion. Thirty-five shop locals have pledged to attend, along with all the sympathizers and non- Party workers they can bring. Strike Sentiment Spreads to Steel (Continued from Page 1) myth of “cheaper living costs” in the South, explaining lower wages result in the division of Negro and | white workers. They ask why the| N. R. A. has not abolished the dif- | ferential wage in other industries where there is no competition. The Communist Party leaflet, and the latest issue of “Blast,” Tennes- | see Coal & Iron Co, shop paper, are | having a tremendous effect and| great popularity | Company union representatives were called in by the superintendent | of the T. C. I. Wire Mill, and an} effort was made to get a statement | from them denouncing “Biast” as| lies, but the representatives refused, saying the shop paper speaks the | truth At Dalton, Georgia, the Real Silk| Hosiery Mill is on strike. The work- ers are demanding union recogni- | tion, and are in sympathy with the | Indianapolis, Indiana, strike for | wage increases. Weavers at the) Rockhill, So. Carolina, plant of the Highland Park Manufacturing Co.| struck against the stretchout. from 24 to 43 looms. wages and increased monopoly; profits under the New Deal) are A m algamated |Garlin to Speak on the E a rl Browder Will Diseuss Unity Move Committees from Food Unions to Meet to Discuss Uniting NEW YORK.—A definite advance toward the establishment of one union in the New York food indus- try through the amalgamation of | the existing unions was made yes- terday. The general executive board of the Amalgamated Food Workers Union, 799 Broadway, has elected a committee of five to meet in con-| ference with a similar committee or) the Food Workers Industrial Union | to discuss the question. Meaning of May Ist in | Brownsville, Tomorrow | NEW YORK—Sender Garlin, | feature editor of the Daily Worker, j will speak on “The Meaning of May | First,” tomorrow, 8 p.m. at the Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave., corner Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, Garlin will augment his talk | an interesting presentation of slides! | to illustrate “The American Scene | Under the N.R.A.” The meeting is called by the Brownsville section of the Young | Communist League for the benefit ;of the District Training School, | Sadie Berg, Section organizer, will | be chairman. Admission 15 cents at | door. Chicago Workers This agreement of the exeeusve | Defy Police Ban; to board of the Amalgamated to dis- cuss the question brings to a head the campaign initiated-by the Food Workers Industrial Union to forge one union of food workers in the industry so as to be in a better posi- tion to combat the attacks of the bosses and win better condtions. Move Started on March 7. The move to amalgamate unions began on March 7, when a| committee from the Hotel and) Restaurant Workers Union, local 119 of the F. W. I. U., appeared before | the executive board of the Hotel and | Restaurant section of the Amalga- mated Union with a plan to unite the two unions. The question was referred to the general executive board of the union. On March 24 a letter was sent by | the national committee of the F. W. I. U. to the general executive board of the Amalgamated and to all locals, which said: the} “We believe that a committee of your union together with a com- mittee of our union cah work out. definite plans in the direction of establishing one union in thé in- dustry. On the basis of these plans, the membership of the Amalgamated Food Workers and | the Food Workers Industrial Union will decide or amend these plans, and begin to carry them through into action.” Endorsing the proposal of the F. W. I. U. to unite forces, the mem- bership of locals 164 and 3 of the Amalgamated instructed their dele- gates of the general executive board to vote in favor of amalgamation. The final agreement of the execu- tive board of the Amalgamated to elect a committee to discuss the question was made following the ap- pearance of Wm. Albertson and J. Rubin, of the national committee of Roosevelt administration itself has, ready to drop the proceeding. Re-| the F. W. I. U., before the execi- —while actually serving the biggest! capitalists (witness lowered real more witnesses whom he wants heard. | TOOL, DIE WORKERS VOTE IN DETROIT MEETING TO CONTINUE AND STRENGTHEN THEIR STRIKE (Continued from Page 1) of the tool and die makers’ strike shifted from the question of “wages and hours to the problem of collec- tive bargaining and cases of dis- crimination.” “Informal” Conference The local press quotes Smith as saving that he conferred yesterday with the Automobile Labor Board and that it was “purely informal.” Tt is clear that the resolution of Smith to take up “cases of discrimi- nation” with the Board and to shift the strike demands from “wages and | hours to the issue of collective bar- | gaining” follow the “purely infor- -mal” meeting Smith has had with | the Automobile Labor Board. At last night’s meeting Smith did not in any way disassociate himself | from the decisions of the Pontiac | A. F. of L. auto conference which outlawed strikes in the automobile industry. Smith’s stlence on this vital point which concerns every} striking tool and die maker is omi- | nous. | Smith and his group follow now| in the footsteps of the A. F. of L.! leaders. Smith, who knows the mili- | tant sentiments of the striking tool | and die “makers, uses militant| phrases. He continues to talk strike action. But cautiously and cun- | ningly he moves fast to hand over | the fate of the striking tool and die | makers to the Automobile Labor | Board. As Smith is moving n the| direction of the A. F. of L. leaders, | he consolidates his own machine ini the militant M. E. 8. A. and begins | to move against the progressive op- position in the union. | The strike has every promise of | success, Most of the jobbers were! already talking recognition of the) union and granting of the demands for a 20 per cent increase in wages. However, many of them broke off, negotiations, heartened by the Pontiac conference of the A. F. of| L, leaders, The present arbitration | moves within the M.E.S.A., and the! attempt to recognize the Automobile | the manufacturers of the striking Was never against arbitration and| for the N.R.A. strike breaking La-| bor Boards is testified by the fact | that he is still a member of the| Detroit Regional Labor Board. Te nar) 2,000 Picket | (Special to the Daily Worker) | DETROIT, Mich., April 17.—vYes- terday at midnight, close to 2,000 workers joined the pickets of the struck plant of the Michigan Stove} Co. Police from six precinct sta- tions were rushed to break up the! militant mass picket demonstra- tion. Traffic was jammed for over an hour and @ number of windows hes The strike, led by the Me- i eo have nothing to do with the betrayal of the A. F. of L. chiefs. : romoted the fiction of revolution” | publican McGuggin insists -he has; tive board of the Amalgamated, ddaartets coe Hee where they outlined the need of | forming one union in the industry. (Continued from Page 1) The membership hate the arbitration schemes whose evil work they felt in their last strike and want to unite their ranks for a determined struggle against the manufacturers. But is this the policy of the dominant leadership in the M. E. 8. A headed by Smith? It must be frankly stated that Smith and his group is steering the workers into the pitfalls of arbitration. . . . pated the cover of demagogic speeches against arbitration this of- ficial, who is himself a member of the Detroit Regional Labor Board, opened the door to the recognition of the Automobile Labor Boatd when he proposed that cases of discrimination be brought to it for settlement. How does Smith accomplish this? By making the workers believe that justice can be expected from the Board in the questions of the right of organization. But if Justice can be secured from this Board in matters of discrimination why then should not the questions of | wages and working conditons also be brought to the Board? Why should workers strike and sacrifice theit time, energy and money when the Board exists to take care of the workers’ grievances. In that way Smith prepares the ground for abandoning the strike weapon and deflates strike spirit of the workers. The Automobile Labor Board will not give justice to the workers. Tt made its debut by barring unionism in the plants and handing down an agreement for the Nash workers upon the émployers’ terms which the Nash workers rejected. It cannot be counted upon to meet the terms of the Michigan Stove, and tool and die workers, but will only trick the workers into going back to work with weaker organization and their conditions and wages basically unchanged.. Smith is steering the way Of the A. F. of L. The difference be- tween Green and Collins and Smith is only a difference in the man- ner in which the employers’ policies are carried out—Green and Collins act openly and make no bones about their anti-strike policy, while Smith and his group, with an eye to the militant rank and file, ¢arry out this arbitration and class co-operation policy under the cover of radical phrases, and in an underhanded way. Both ways lead, how- ever, to the same result—tangling the workers in the meshes of arbitra- tion, restraining the workers from and strike. sabotage the tool and die workers undertake a struggle against them. using their full power to organize It is not accidental that although the A. F. of L. chiefs by their position, Smith does not The auto workers must militantly oppose the position of the A. F. of L. chiefs and Smith. They must demand the withdrawal of the labor officials from the strikebreaking machinery of the employers and the government. They must call for Smith’s withdrawal from the Detroit Regional Laber Board, consolidate their strike by uniting their ranks and pushing forward, in the of the union, militant fighters that strike machinery and in the work do not hesitate to struggle against | Labor Board still further encourages, the employers and the N, R, A. Labor Boards. a week ago and embraces a thou- sand workers. The main demand of the strikers is a 20 per cent increase in wages. Members of the Women’s Auxiliary of the M.ES.A. participated in last night’s picketing. Picketing con- tinued today. eee Brass Workers Strike (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Aprii 17— Around 100 workers of the Roberts Brass Manufacturing Co., makers of auto and aircraft parts, struck today under the leadership of the Brass Workers [Industrial Union, and fe eer under rank! and file leadersifip, i | tool and die makers. That Smith | chanics’ Educational Society, began; The strike started after the com- pany refused to listen to the nego- tiations committee elected by the workers, and resorted to the trick of declaring a lockout. The strikers, who include both men and women, are demanding a 30 per cent wage increase; union recognition; and the shop commit- tee to be consulted on piece rates; 24-hours notice to shop committee on discharge. The rank and file strike and nego- tiations committees were elected, and militant mass picketing is being organized. The Automobile Labor Board is trying to enter the situation in order to send the workers back on the company's terms, March on May Day (Continued from Page 1) action that will match the famous May Day of 1919, The workers in this industrial district are eagerly looking forward to this day to pro- | test the ever-increasing burdens and suffering imposed upon them by the decaying capitalist system. 18,000 C.W.A. workers have betn laid off, and denied any rélief at all, with 4 | 33 per cent cut for those on the relief rolls, and wage cuts approxi- mating 11 per cent during the past year for those still on the jobs. The demonstraton will be no | Picnic celebration in the pink-tea tradition of the Socialist Party, but a mighty roar of protest against un- | bearable living conditions and a | mobilization of the workers for de- cisive struggles, Rank and file mem- | bers of the A. F. of L., the Socialist | Party and its fraternal organiza- tions are joining in large numbers | Vigorous protest against the sabotage of the united front by the Socialist leaders, | effort of the United Front Committee to secure the adherence of the Socialist Party leaders to a united front of all workers on his- toric May Day have been knifed by the Socialist leaders, On March | 31, a sub-committee from the United Front Committee presented a plea ; to the Socialist Party conference for a united front. Daubringhaus, | Socialist leader, who presided at the conference of 12 delegates refused | to put the question to a vote, al- | though the delegate from the Slov- {enian Workers Federation declared | in favor of the united front, | ei elias Oakland Plahs Big May Day OAKLAND, Cal., April 17.—A May Day demohstration Will be held in Chabet Park, 11th and Jefferson Streets, at 2 p.m, May First, ac- j cording to the arrangements of a | United Front May Day Committee, set up by East Bay workers, and supported by many workers’ organi- zations in this city. From the park the workers will parade to the Workers Center at 645—22nd Street, corner of Grove, where an indoor meeting will be held from 3:30 p.m., followed by a | Mass meeting at 8 p.m, An evening celebration is also be- ing organized by Bast Oakland workers. ieee eres | May Day Rallies Throughout Coal | Fields | (Daily Worker Midwestern Bureau) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 17.— |May Day demonstrations will be | held throughout the Southern Ili- | nois coal fields. Thus far the towns |and cities announcing their méet- | ings include: hss. Bina SPRINGFIBLD — A county-wide demonstration at Nakomis, with an all-day celebration at Berger's Park |following the demonstration; the City Park in Virden; the Court House at Belleville; the City Park at Zeigler; the Court House at Peoria, Pana; Glen Carbon, Bloom- ington, Centralia and Staunton. At [the latter city efforts are still be- jing made to form a United Front demonstration with Socialist work- ers. A demonstration is also to be held at the Gillespie City Park. Unemployed Councils. in the mining fields are placing large or- ders for the special May Day issue of the “Daily Worker.” (eek sae To Fight for Youth Demands On May Day SUPERIOR, Wis., April 17—Four- teen organizations at the United Front May Day Conference here Pledged to carry on a fight for the three demands proposed by the West End Social Club for the youth of Superior. These demands are: 1, Free adequate dental and medical core for the unemployed young workers. 2 Five dollars cash allowance per week for all homeless youth; three d6llars for youth staying (“sponging”) at home, : 3. Free hot lunches for all stu- dents of unemployed workers, in the schools, In relating their experiences lead- ing up to the United Front Confer- ence the delegates exposed the vari- ous ‘social-fascist leaders who re- fused on the clear-cut issues of struggle for the everyday needs of the young workers to join in a united front to force concessions ftom the city government. On the issue of struggle against imperialist war (although this is in- cluded in the program of the Co- operative Youth League) the dele- gation was flatly refused any sup- port by the leaders of the League, Preparations for the parade and demonstration are under way under the leadership of a United Front May Day Committee of 14 delesated members of the conference. Ffforts are being made to enlarge the com- mittee by visiting unions and other workersfforganizations, in planning the demonstration in| of MWIU at Banqu Will Extend Lev. Greetings To Review Four Years of Struggles and Growth NEW YORK.—The Marine Work- ers’ Industrial Union will celebrate jits fourth anniversary, Thursday | night with a banquet at Manhattan | Lyceum, 66 FE. Fourth St. | Earl Browder, general secretary jof the Communist Party, will be | the main speaker, The M. W. I. U. was formed four years ago, with the largest conveh- tion of seamen ever held in Amer- ica. The convention, held in its present headquarters at 140 Broad | | St. worked out the plan for or- ganization of a seamen’s union | which has in the past four years led | many successful strikes and won notable victories on ships and on the docks, The M. W. I. U. has within the short space of its existence won the leadership of the seamen in their struggle for higher wages, against Negro discrimination, and against, the betrayal policies of the A. F. of | L. officialdom of the International Seamen’s Union, At Thursday's banquet speakers will review the growth of the Ma- |rine Workers’ Union, pointing out its weaknesses and successes, Ad- | mission is 75 cents. Carnegie Council | Endorses Social Insurance Bill | (Continued from Page 1) | | | negie Union Bank, and the presi- dent of the council is president of a large food corporation. Other council members are real estate men and large property owners. But the | workers’ solidarity, shown in two visits to the Borough Council, forced unanimous endorsement of H. R. ‘7598. In Carnegie the Independent Union of the Columbia Steel and Shafting Co. the Carnegie Polit- ical Organization, a Negro club; the African Zion Church, the Bap- tist Mission of Heidelburg, the First | Baptist Church of Carnegie, a Ne- gro church; the Superior Order of | Lithuanians, Local 3; the Polish Club and two locals of the I. L. D. have all endorsed the Workers’ Un- employment ahd Social Insurance Bill (H. R. 7598). The Allegheny County Directors of the Poor have also been forced to declate in favor of H. R. 7598. The Allentown, Pa., United Rib- bon. Workers’ Association has en- dorsed the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7508). The Los Angeles A. F. of L. Com- mittee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief reports 13 endorsements for the Workers’ Bill (H. R. 7598), ineluding the District Council of the Painters’ Union (A. F. of L.). In California only 50,000 of the 117,000 formerly on C. W. A. jobs will re- ceive work relief, it was announced by the government. The Technical Engineers, Architects and Drafts- mens Union, No. 48, are among those declaring in favor of the bill. The Congressman from Monrovia has written the Los Angeles A, F. of L. Committee, pledging to work for) the passage of the Workers’ Bill. | Workers Fight a New Injunction at Colby 36th St. Cafeteria NEW YORK.— “Down with the junctions” will be the slogan of the militant food-workers when they mass-picket the Colby Cafeteria, 36th St, and-Fighth Ave., on Thurs- day at 12 o’zlock. The last injunction was broken by a mass demonstration of the food workers WORKERS COOPERATIVE COLONY 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST has reduced the rent, séveral good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 ‘Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station ‘Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Direction: ‘.exington Ave., White Plains Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Williamsburg Comrades Welcome ASSEMBLY CAFETERIA 766 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. a) STATIONERY and Mimeograph Supplies At Special Prices for Organizations Lerman Bros., Inc. Phone ALgonquin 4-3356 — 8843 29 East 14th St. N.Y. CG. GARMENT WORKERS WELCOME SHERIDAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT (Formerly Shildkrauts) 225 WEST 36th STREET Between 7th and 8th Avenues et Thursda gp journalists would drop out of their cups and deliver them- subject. easily to verification. Those were days between the Dempsey-Car- Pentier and Tunney-Heeney com- motions. They were the adys of million dollar gates, of forty dollar singside seats. Ten dollars was con- sidered a fair price for ordinary fights at the Garden; and to charge twenty-five dollars for a seat at a bout between two popular light- weights was considered in the na- ture of a condescension. This was the price charged for a ringside seat at the Al Singer-Kid Chocolate contest, and the fight drew 243,000. It was the Golden Era of boxing. The statistics were undeniable. Lea oer HE crisis, however, has made a harrowing picture of this Prosperous enterprise. Such a speculation I speak of is now un- thinkable. To what extent the profession of the manly art of modified murder has degenerated may be judged by the spectacle, the other day, of Madison Square Garden, the nest of six hundred millionaires, announcing that the privilege of staging boxing bouts in its hallowed interior would be peddled about as a concession, as one seeks to rent out a hat-check or cigar stand. Or we have another example in the recent newspaper announce- ments that Barney Ross has at last been matched with Jimmy MeLar- nin. We get no arresting, elaborate recital, as the recitals of yore. We are not deluged with the life story of each boy, the tales of their sell- ing hewspapers and fish and study- ing the classics at night in order to carve out careers. The announce- ments are not replete with pic- tures of both fighters happily en- sconced in the bosoms of their fam- ilies, patting their collies or police dogs. They are not a*companied by pictures showing the managers of both boys giving pennies to blind Men and milk to babies. They are almost as staid and formal as an- nouncements of society betrothals. To say that the crisis brought about this debacle is, of course, stating it generally. There were causes peculiar to boxing itself (professional boxing). Chief among these, and to be accounted more than all the others put together, was the profit-making motive. The sport has not died; the finances have. ee ales | 'HROUGHOUT the ten years from 1920 to 130 Rickard, shrewd and unscrupulous, unedu- cated, but with a showman’s ima- gination, was the principal figure in |the promoting ehd, All the sports flourished during that period, but professonal boxing became the most picturesque and profitable be-~ cause of him, But he served it in the fatal role of every professoinal pro- selves of an essay on the! Tt was a theme that lent itself Pro Boxers Smack the Canvas By WILLIAM COVELIN (Batting for Sam Ross) E beginning of the baseball season and the space de- voted to enlightening studies of players and managers, | calls to mind one of the speculations which used to absorb the profound magistrates of the sports columns a number of years ago. It was the specious theme that boxing had sup- planted baseball as the national pastime. championship fight or a contest between two outstanding challengers go by, before the®—— ; Hardly did a moter. He made the profession colorful to those interested in it as a whole, but he led in robbing it of what modicum of validity | any professional sport can have. Under his influence, it became a puffed-up racket, like the stock market. It became a puffed-up racket even in its amateur as- pects (the A. A, U. notably). He tried to give it a reputable air, an aristocratic air, a sophisticated air, a statesmanlike air, by getting the blue-bloods, the politicians, the hack-writers and the fauna of the Broadway theatres to kiss it publicly. It became an ordinary thing to have a prize-fighter man- aged by a Mayor of a city, a scion of the upper classes, tective story writer or a Juliet. Though this served for publicity | purposes, the stuffed shirts added |nothing to the sport. Professional | boxing, once low-life, became a lus- trous thing as a career. It became an avenue to fame and money, to heiresses of Carnegie companies. |The baseball magnates were forced to make plans for their future ma- terial; and the leagues announced that they wuold sponsor and fi- nance sand-lot teams. Otherwise, it | Seemed, they would eventually be |left without players, * 8 ‘HILST heretofore, professional | boxing had been illegal in al- most every territory, now it has be- come even the halleluya of min- isters. Brawny young men hoisted themselves into a ring as soon as they escaped from knee-pants. In 1929, for instance, there was a schedule of bouts in New York City for Ld nights a week from May to er. OW the profession has returned to its old sordid state. So un- influential has it become, that a motion to ban it from New York State reteived serious thought in the legislature a year or two ago. The excuse of gangster influence was hauled out. But though the gangsters dictate to it in large patt, their fighters have become white elephants to them. Once, when the profession was illegal, it was at least exciting. The toughs, in the old days, entered the ring for the sake of fighting; now they are more re- fined, do their fighting with guns and knives, and make e@ living by hold-ups. There are tougher boys in the amateur ranks than in the professional stables. It is said that the color of pro- fessional boxing has gone. It is true. The game has become as dull as a Bar Association meet- ing. 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