The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-08
WORKERS ARE
BETRAYED BY
COX MARCH
CONTINUED FROM FACE ONEl

arrived late last night had not
eaten since 2 o'clock the day
before.
Father Cox, visibiy disturbed and
trying to rid himself OF the response
bility, called a hurried march to the
capitol without informing the march
ers. Only about 300 or 1000 showed
up there, and the demonstration" Of
prayer lasted about IL minutes.
Three Die Of Exposure.
Three workers have died from ex-
posture, directly due to the fact that
no provision was made for feeding
or housing the unemployed as Fa-
Their Cox had promised.
The rank and file committee in
the hunger march issued a leaflet to
the marchers. Two workers are now
in Jail for distributing this leaflet.
The leaflet called upon the unem-
ployed to organize and fight for un-
employment insurance. 1t pointed
out that relief would not come
through prayers but only through
the organized might OF the workers,
After the capitol demonstration, +"
the marchers followed the fat priest
Father Cox to Arlington cemetery
where prayers we're offered at the
grave of the Unknown Soldier, and
where father Cox glorified imperial
ist war and slaughter.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. Thou
sands Of hungry unemployed workers
who were lured out onto the high
ways and in the hunger march or
ganized by Father Cox, strikebreaker,
by promises of food and trucks to
Washington, have returned te Pitts
burgh; and hundreds more linlped
through the mountains cold and
hungry.
There was no leadership or organ
ization whatever from the start.
There was discrimination in the dis
tribution Of food and as to who should
ride.
Go Without Food.
Hundreds walked all Tuesday, day
and night, without food. Many COL
lapsed by the roadside. The newspa-
pers reported that all marchers re-
ceived six days rationS-a complete
| lie.
The thousands that walked and
many that rode received nothing. No
sleeping accommodations were made.
Mass pressure and great rnilitancy
forced the authorities of Blairsville
to turn over the school, city hall and
Moose temple to the marchers who
elected their own committee.
Refuse to Pick Up Marchers.
The desperate marchers tore up
picket fences and blocked roads Tues
day night to get rides. Cars and
trucks bearing Father Cox's name
passed empty and half empty refus-
ing to help the marchers. Some Of
Father Cox's drivers demanded
money to carry penniless and stsrv-
ing workers.
A bakery truck was raided for
food. In Johnstown 20 we're taken
from freight trains and thrown in
jail for a month. Railway bulls
raided freight trains at Altoona,
threatening the unemployed with
guns and blackjacks, and forcing
workers to the highway.
Father Cox, saying mass at the
Huntintong Cathedral, told the
marchers that from Washington on
he had no responsibility He left the
marchers to stare and shift for them
selves after leading them into the
swamp. Many quit the march here.
Rumors are spread that two
young workers were frozen stiff In
a box car in the mountains. Several
OF the marchers were killed on the
highway, while the death toll in
directly through exhaustion, star
walton and sickness will be great,
Father Cox is exposed before thou
sands as demagogic faker who cares
nothing for the misery of the I'M
employed.