Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region Volume 4 Article 3 2016 Playing for the People: Labor Sport Union Athletic Clubs in the Lake Superior/Iron Range 1927-1936 Gabe Logan Northern Michigan University,
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[email protected]. Logan: Playing for the People the Labor Sport Union 1927-1936 Playing for the People: Labor Sport Union Athletic Clubs in the Lake Superior/Iron Range 1927-1936 Gabe Logan Ph.D. From 1927 through 1936 the Labor Sport Union, a U.S. communist sport organization, united left wing politics and athletics in what historian William Baker termed an “alternative vision of sport and society.” They considered most U.S. sports as overly patriotic, religious, or capitalistic. Frequent targets included the Amateur Athletic Union, Young Men’s Christian Association, Young Women’s Christian Association, and paternalistic industrial sport programs.