‘Labor Sports Union Program for Annual Tournament Sunday’ from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 69. March 22, 1928.

More than 260 young workers are expected to participate in the Labor Sports Union’s first annual tournament at the Finnish Hall, 15 W. 126th St., next Sunday, Jack Rubinstein, secretary, stated yesterday. The complete list of events as listed by Rubinstein includes basketball, soccer dribble, horizontal bars, parallel bars, hop, skip and jump, wrestling, swimming and pyramids.

The meet will start at 11 a.m. and will continue until midnight. The first event will be three basketball games which will be followed by soccer dribble from 1:30 to 2:05 p.m. Members of the 33 teams of the Metropolitan Workers Soccer League as well as individual soccer players have signified their intention of participating. At 2:05 two girl basketball teams, the Rosa Luxemburg and the Brooklyn Finnish Workers Sports Club, will face one another. Intermission from 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. will allow the athletes and the audience an opportunity to eat lunch.

The second part of the tournament will start at 3:30 p.m. when another half an hour will be devoted to soccer dribble. At 4 o’clock the field events will take place. The wrestling preliminaries will take place from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and the finals at 9:30. At 8:00 p.m. the pyramids work will be held followed by calisthenics at. 8:45. At 9 o’clock the horizontal bars and the parallel bars will be the center of attraction. Richard Blackshmidt, it was announced yesterday, will be chairman of the judge committee.

Half of the proceeds of the affair will be donated to the Pennsylvania- Ohio Miners Relief Committee, 799 Broadway.

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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