The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-13
| Hunger March and Father Cox's Belly Craw
BY BURCK.

guarantee that it would not endan-
ger the security, comfort and priv
ilege Of the robbers and mlurderers
in whose behalf the government rules.
The fact that this priest Of the
church Of darkness had record as
a Strike-breaker and announced open
ly chat he intended to offset the ef-
feet Of the great National Hunger
March, made the bosses feel doubly
secure. This army, they knew, was
their army.
The masters have never felt fear
Of the slave who came to kneel at
their feet. They never felt for that
slave who was willing to kiss the
rod and whip which flogged him.
This is precisely what the fascist
demagogue Cox led the unemployed
who followed him to do.
Cox led the unemployed in his
army to pledge their loyalty to the
very government and institutions
which are responsible for their mis-
cry. Whereas, tilo National Hunger
March expressed the growing deter
mination Of the masses to smash all
institutions that are based upon and
serve as instruments for the exploit
alton, robbery, impoverishment and
murder Of the masses. Cox led the
unemployed to a cemetary, and in
fact caused the death Of at least three
workers, thus proving that ne is at
one with the policy Of the ruling class
which drives the workers to prena-
ture death. Cox led the workers to
pay homage to the symbol OF the last
imperialist war. AT the tomb OF the
Unknown Soldier" he pledged his
nisled followers to again sacrifice
their blood and their lives for the
preservation and profit of tho sys-
tenn and rulers who force misery,
starvation and wholesale death upon
the masses.
Father Cox's Jobless Army" pro-
vides classical example of the man
ner in which demagogues mislead,
disorganize and defeat the masses.
The workers will never be able to win
| their demands and advance their
aims unless we learn how to fight
against these, the most treacherous
and dangerous Of our enemies. Fa-
ther Cox is not alone.
In every city and town, In every
state and in every capitalist country
his kind are to be found. Pittsburgh
has its Cox. Detroit has its Murphy
Boston has its Curley. Wisconsin
La Toilette. Milwaukee, Hoan and
his whole treacherous socialist party
Norman Thomas, A. J. Music, the
Lovestoneites and yrotskyites, the
Farmer Laborites" Of Minnesota and
all their neutenants and agents
these are all, each in his own way
agents OF the bosses whose role and
aim IS to devitalize the struggles OF
the working class and leave us help
less in the face OF the growing at
tacks of the ruling class.
Certainly, our movement has failed
to conduct a sufficiently effective and
sustained struggle against these most
dangerous enemies OF the masses. We
must assume responsibility when
workers are betrayed and misled by
these dernagogic takers. We must in
tensify our struggle, we must mani
fold our efforts to provide leadership
and organization for the millions who
are eager to enter the struggle
against starvation. We must rally
millions in mass demonstration OF,
February educational Unemploy-
ment Insurance Day to offset and
defeat the treachery of the Father
Cox and his like and to advance our
struggle for the right to live.
lin further articles, the writer
will deal With the program OF Faith
err Cor and with the mistakes OF
our fight ags&nas thk and other
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