The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-14
The Little Mussolini of Pittsburgh
ny BURCK

1t is significant that the Blue
Shirts News quotes E. G. Grace,
head of the Bethlehem Steel Co.
favorably where he Says-"taxeS
must come down. The burden of
governmental costs must be light
ened, and budgets must be bal
anced." We see hidden in this pro-
gram for the middle class, the pro-
gram of big business and the pro-
gram of the bankers. The pro-
gram for initiation, for getting off
the gold standard The program
lists with less taxes, less restrictions
on their exploitation Of the workers.
We see in this program of putting
the banks directly in the hands of
the government program of more
power to the federal government
(of course, on behalf of big business)
Demagogic Slogans
OF course, Father Cox has enlist
ed in his organization masses of
workers not under these slogans,
appealing to the middle class, but
demagogic slogans which in gen.
eral way play upon the needs of the
workers. A headline states-"Wage
Slavery Grips Land"-the Blue
Shirts demand a five billion dollar
appropriation from the National
Government for unemployment re-
lief-"Jobs for AlP'-the "Immedi-
ate Payment of the Bonus
Increase on the Surtaxes of Large
Incomes" a statement by
Father Coughlin reprinted In the
Blue Shirt News ,and which is en-
dorsed by both Father Cox and
Coin" Harvey, shows the real pur-
pose of the Cox movement.
The Cox movement is ready at
all times to act as an agent of the
steel and coal trusts of the Pitts
burgh district; it is an agent of the
bankers and big business and the
bosses government. The statement
says-"Unless Catholics make
genuine effort to establish a just
society, we shall lose by far the
great amount of laboring classes.
They will desert definitely, as they
are doing already, over the world,
to the socialist and Communist
camps" The statement further says
IF the Catholics continue to sup
port the capitalist system without
practicing demagogy and coming
out with denagogic movement,
they will be smashed by the revolu-
tionary forces of the working class
es who are moving today en- masse
against the injustice of capitalism"
Father Cox's convention takes
place in st. Louis on August 18th.
On August 10th in the city of Pitts
burgh, will be held the Allegheny
County Hunger March, called by
the Unemployed Councils, the NM.
U. and the MWI.L. For this hun
ger march the workers of the Pitts
burgh district will gather at West
Park at II o'clock and will march
on the County Commissioners Of
flee and if necessary on tbs City
Council OF Pittsburgh and will de-
mand Immediately cash unemploy-
ment relief, no more evictions, no
determinations against young and
single workers, and will advocate
immediate unemployment insur-
ance. .,
Cox Challenged
Cox has been challenged to ap-
pear before the workers on this day
and explain to them why he opposes
these demands, why he is trying to
get the workers away from a fight
for relief from the city government
of the city Of Pittsburgh, and the
government of Allegheny County
and the State Government at Har-
risburgh. This is one steps in the
exposure of Cox in the present
Communist Party Election Cam
paign.
Conclusion II
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