The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-13
Father Cox's Blue Shirts Modelled After Italian
and German Fascists

didate for Governor of Kansas.
Burr Mcintosh is campaigning for
the Jobless Liberty Party in Cali
fornia, where a state committee
has been set up. A state committee
has also been set up in the state
of washington.
This is the information which Is
printed in the Father Cox's Blue
Shirt News" the weekly 12-page
newspaper of the Cox organization.
The alliance of Cox and Harvey
gives the organization national
character and amalgamates the
western Liberty Party with the job
less Party of Father Cox. The
Liberty Bell' becomes the official
organ of the Jobless Liberty Party
in the West. Arrangements have
already been made for the running
of excursion trains from all points
of the country to the St Louis con-
vention on August IT.
Underestimation by Our Party
The Pittsburgh District in its agi-
rational work and in its unemployed
work and work for the election
campaign has not sufficiently
studied or exposed before the work
ers the Cox movement. This can
also be said of the Party nationally.
The main speeches of the Party
leaders in the Chicago Nominating
Convention did not say a single
word about the Cox movement nor
did the platform of the Party. Even
at this date the treatment of the
Cox movement in the Daily Worker
is entirely inadequate. In the Daily
Worker Of this week, on a page
giving the characterizations of the
parties, party by party, no mention
was made of the Cox movement. It
is now time for the distriot end
the Party nationally, in entering
the final stage of the Election Cam
paign to study the movement deep
ly and in all phases OF its work to
carry out a concrete exposure of
the Cox movement.
Program Of Father Cox.
The fascist character of the
movement has come more into the
open in recent weeks. Cox's state
ments in Europe-that his Blue
Shirts are modelled after the Italian
and German fascists, has opened
the eyes Of many workers and the
significance of this statement must
be fully explained. 1t is significant
that Father Cox does not admit
foreign-born workers to his organi-
zation unless they are naturalized
citizens and his literature states
that in order to become a member
of the Father Cox Blue Shirts
"he or she must be a citizen of
the United States of America,
pledge allegiance to the American
flag. While the Cox movement
has enlisted many honest workers
who do not understand where Cox
is leading them, a number of his
officers and most active Blue Shirts
are recruited from the gangsters,
speakeasy frequenters and profess
sional gun-men. The true purpose
Of the Cox movement is seen in the
activities of this element, in at
tacks on the Communist Party
Election meetings in the City of
Pittsburgh. Several meetings of the
Communist Party were broken up
by the Cox Blue Shirts in past
weeks. The struggle for the right
to hold meetings at the corner of
Boggs and Buhl continues. The
Communist Party last week by or
| ganizing militant defense corp
succeeded in driving away the Blue
Shirts who had come in trucks and
prowled the neighborhood for sew
eral hours and stationed cars
around the Party office looking Tor
| Party speaker