DEMOCRACY CHALLENGES TOKIO OLYMPICS
Democracy Challenges Tokio Olympics Workers' Sports League Maps Nation-wide Ctunpaig, Against 1940 Games Labor and progressive forces throughout the world have opened the battle in earnest...
...The new instructions are in line with the recently initiated "fitter-Britain" physical campaign and are contained in an official handbook for women's exercises...
...Finland, as SPORT CALL readers and WSLA niembers will recall, has been chosen by the organizing committee of the Workers* Sports International as the host for the Fourth Workers' Olympiad to be held in 1943 in Helsinki, Finland's beautiful capital...
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...A Fitter Britain" LONDON...
...no games may be played against them...
...With tha unanimous election of Judge Samuel E. Hoyt to the presidency of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States one of die dullest conventions of the A.A.U...
...The agreement is valid for one year...
...The American labor sports movement is heartily in accord with this new move...
...Two lights crown the top of the backboard and the third ia located directly beneath the goal...
...Metric System Retained Among other important decisions taken by the Convention was the retention of the metric system, It was also reported that England soon would adopt the metric system and discard yards and miles...
...Flash, Flash . . . . Who says they do not put color into basketball games...
...All women athletes in Great Britain have been advised by the British Government to wear short-sleeved dresses because "a dress of this -type will be found more generally becoming to all figures than blouse or knickers or...
...l- "These methods and means are nasd ee> a nation-wide scale as well as within each factory and industrial establishment...
...Transfer Rumors At the moment of launching this campaign word comes from England announcing the probability that the) organization of the 1940 Games may be transferred to Finland...
...In his annual report President Mahoney reiterated his intention to resign and discussed at length last year's decision of the A.A.U...
...featf-Nall 4.S—lie in a letter to the Twenfieth Century Spus ting Club, sponsor of tha profitable nsnteiu This stand, the league erplahss, is in no way directed a garnet Schmeling personally or because of hi* nationality...
...It ia just aa important to pta roll control over the places of Lk, to permeate them with the ¦taper spirit of Hitlerism...
...The Nazis got bold of them and made them serve their purposes with the result that the powerful labor eports movement as known under the German Republic has been completely destroyed...
...The report says §part: f -""Terror U not the only mean* enployed by National-Socialism to j|aak the resistance of the German Barkers...
...The election of the 61 -year-old candidate in place of Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney marked a compromise...
...Modern ffaatsnhip 1 cares the people as Sms as possible to themselves...
...Now what about advising Brazil over the air waves on the blessings of democracy) LET'S TELL THE WORLD...
...The cooperation and support of labor is confidently aapeUssd...
...Schmeling Match Threatened Anti-Nazi, Aiinounee Boycott NEW YORK.—Boycott of the Mm Schnwiing - Harry Homes bwaung Wet snhodnlod tor MassNess-Sscsaria...
...Matters go so far that even the industrialists and factory managers are compelled by the Labor Front to support the Nazi sports sections...
...The movement has received a strong impetus by Japan's wanton aggression on China and her adherence to the Fascist block now arraigned against peace, democracy and progress...
...Of recently ¦rested new organizations the faclasjr aqua* a form*f yellow factory aSeVn and strong-arm squad of "Nazi gjfciin i ul i the factory workers' iports group and tha women sfjroup peril special attention...
...To promote*the "good neighbor" policy of the United States, the U.S...
...All funds collected from the sale of special permits to sell liquor and other alcoholic beverages after regular hours are turned over to the newly created State Department of Physical Culture and Recreation which is also administering all public playgrounds, gymnasiums and other sport centers in that state...
...The grant of special privileges, such as the honorary, title of "Nazi model plant" and other distinctions equally important if one wants to do business in Hitler Germany, are also made dependent upon the promotion of Nazi labor sports groups...
...The.Workers' Sports League at America, although not primarily nsterested in the Olympics, wiD swats initiate an energetic campaign ansoaag trade unions and labor and fraternal sports groups toward this ssmL It will lend its strength and enthuojasna to a mighty effort to Use up American public opinion against Ayr ican participatiea in the Tokyo Olympics...
...The league contends that, "win or loan, the result of the fight wul be to take large sums of American money to Germany and thus to help the Hitter regime...
...It presents, according to an official announcement, an attempt "to strengthen the cultural ties" between the two fascist ruled countries...
...shorts, which are now the accepted dress for gymnastics...
...Hoyt was the candidate of Brandsge, chief figure of the 1936 Berlin Olympics and a good friend of Hitler and the Nazi regime, who had been defeated last year by Ms honey...
...The Labor Front and fas workers trust councils hare proven insufficient...
...One of the principal tasks of the factory squad is the organization of workers" sports groups...
...Hoyt Elected A.A.U...
...Similar agreements are in force between Germany and Italy...
...The movement to deprive Japan of the 1940 Olympics is sponsored by the sarae* groups which were instrumental in gathering over one milKon signatures in protest against the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin under Nazi auspices...
...Old Groups Outlawed i "According to a recent degree of the Reich eports leader the organisation and promotion of labor ¦parts 'is turned oyer exclusively to the sports board of the Nazi leisure organization "Strength Through Joy...
...Democracy Challenges Tokio Olympics Workers' Sports League Maps Nation-wide Ctunpaig, Against 1940 Games Labor and progressive forces throughout the world have opened the battle in earnest against the Tokyo Olympic Gaines of 1940...
...the requirements of the jjr-powerful ruling pasty...
...The Nazis, by reorganizing them on a factory basis, are trying to imbue ¦he labor sports fans with the Nazi spirit and use them for their political ends (and also as a diversion iron unsatisfactory working and living conditions—Editor...
...In the'event Finland declines, England is said to be prepared to take over the organization of the 1940 games...
...masses...
...This is 1937...
...The International Olympics Committee will soon meet and a majority of its members are said to be of the opinion that Japan is too occupied with her war schemes to devote much attention and energies to international sports...
...Fascists Sign Agreement BERLIN.—An agreement providing for the interchange of sports, educational and cultural films has just been signed between the propaganda ministries of Germany and Japan...
...Michigan State teams have just rigged up their baskets in such a way that when a ball falls through three lights flash luridly...
...Department of the Interior in cooperation with the Columbia Broadcasting System, has started weekly half-hour broadcasts for Central and South America...
...Committee Feensod A committee of prominent American sports, labor and progressive loaders is now being organized which will work in dose conjunction with similar committees in other countries...
...All other labor sports sections not enjoying the confidence of the "Labor Front" and "Strength Through Joy" have been outlawed...
...Labor Sports Unions ReplacedbyNaziUnits Move Strengthens Dictators' Grip l JVorker»* sports in Germany and what has, become of this ppjpe powerful movement under the iron fist of Nazism is fail i sring-h" described in the October issue of the ''Germany Sports'' issued by the headquarter* af the German SociaJllisaocracy now in exile in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...If a way can he found, or suggested, by which the money paid to Schmeling can bo invested and kept invested in this country wo should not be interested in tha situation...
...The committee is also said to feel that it would be best to authorize Finland to organize the summer games of 1940 while the winter games will be held in Norway...
...Similarly, the track and field committee's recommendation to use starting blocks was adopted...
...The decision, he said, was based on Nazi discrimination against Jews and other minority groups, which had 'become "far worse than in the years preceding the 1936 games...
...Mass Sports In Mexico The State of Durango, Mexico, is vigorously supporting mass sports, and considerable amounts of the State's funds are used for this purpose...
...What kind of sports ideas are brewing in your part of the hinterland ? Ail the news you have tucked away about your union, workers sports or fraternal organizations should be told to the rest of the young and o!d males and females climbing onto the labor sports bandwagon...
...The 1940 Olympics can easily be moved to another country...
...has come to an end...
...This time we do not intend to be caught in the same trap again...
...Again jnd again new organizational forms Mrs being devised in order to pene§Mte into da* masses.and make them jejnfiiiin to...
...Japan has forfeited its rights and membership in civilized society...
...No training quarters and camps are placed at their disposal...
...not to send a track team to Germany...
...A preliminary call has been issued to all interested and sympathetic organizations asking them to "leave nothing undone to take away the games from Japan...
...In 1936," the statement says, "the main argument was that it was too late to shift the arrangement of the games (roes Germany...
...There were, af course, such sections and workers* sports associations long before the Nazi regime...
...The report Ms)—:— many revealing deta&s and shows the tremendous Importance Nazism attaches to sports in its efforts to overcome &e hostility of the German working...
...This decision is subject to the final approval by the International Amateur Athletic Federation which will meet in London in March...
...L'nder the pretense of overcoming division" in German sports life, the last remnants of free and democratic club life have been done away with...
Vol. 20 • November 1937 • No. 68
