‘Pittsburgh Organizes a Workers’ Soccer League’ from Young Worker. Vol. 9 No. 21. September 28, 1931.

Pittsburgh has set an example to all other Districts in organizing a Workers’ Soccer League. The League is called the Allegheny County Soccer League. Thus far, six teams belong to the League, and two more are expected to join in.

Those teams making up the Soccer League are: Coverdale Rovers, Library Celtics, Carnegie Vagabonds, Hil A.C. (Pittsburgh), the Hungry Eleven, and the Bridgeville White Wings, both of them being in Bridgeville. The two teams expected soon to join are the Horning S.C. and the Mollimaur S.C.

At an organizational meeting recently held an executive committee was elected. A League Council was also elected. A referee committee will be formed on the basis of the tests sent out by the National Office of the Labor Sports Union. All protests of any occurrences at the games must be made to the Council of the League. Grievances of players can be appealed to the next higher committee of the Council, if a decision is not considered to be satisfactory. Final appeal can be made with the National Soccer Committee of the L.S.U.

A temporary schedule has been drawn up and the teams will play according to that schedule until a regular one is drawn up.  Medals will be given out at the end of the season to the winning team.

The Allegheny Soccer League is. an organization of worker athletes and is in the interests of the workers. It fights for the interests of workers, and against the bosses and their racketeering sports. It fights against the boss-controlled soccer league in that territory, the Panhandle League.

All worker sportsmen and sport clubs in Allegheny County should join the Soccer League of Workers, and help build up a large soccer movement.

The Young Worker was produced by the Young Workers League of America beginning in 1922. The name of the Workers Party youth league followed the name of the adult party, changing to the Young Workers (Communist) League when the Workers Party became the Workers (Communist) Party in 1926. The journal was published monthly in Chicago and continued until 1927. Editors included Oliver Carlson, Martin Abern, Max Schachtman, Nat Kaplan, and Harry Gannes.

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