The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-15
THIRD PARTY FALLS
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from the programme of the forty eight organizers. But on the economic is- sues LaFollettes platform agreed with that of the forty-eight.
 Roe, for LaFollette, obpjected not only to the socialistic tendencies of the labor platform, but also to the language in which it was expressed.
 The labor platform had been writ ten by Robert Buck, editor of the so cialistic paper the New Majority, and it was full of the revolutionary Ian guage which the socialists affect
 LaFolette's friends criticized the document as being "psychologically bad" They felt that it marked the whole movement as being more closely related to the revolutionary parties than to liberalism.
 ALL THEIR OWN WAY
 Up to the moment when they en- countered LaFollettes objections to their platform the labor party leaders had been having everything their own way. They-had stolen the forty eight convention away from Pinchot and Record.
 They simply threatened to make an independent nomination at 2 o'clock yesterday unless the two conventions reached an agreement before that time and that was enough to induce the
 forty eight delegates to move in a body over to Carmens hall and merge themselves with the labor convention
 Once the forty eight delegates were in the same hall with the labor con vention they disappeared like drops of rain falling upon the surface of the sea They were unorganized and they were not conscious of themselves as party
 The convention became to all intents and purposes an enlarged labor party convention. The labor leaders went right on with their programme as If they were just continuing the work of the day before passing resolutions, re- ported by the labor party's committee on resolutions, which the forty eight delegates had never seen. The labor party simply swallowed up the forty eight.
 labor forces are the only forces here which are organized and which have a definite purpose. Record and Pinchot wanted to found liberal party, but to do so they brought together not liberals but lot of radicals over whom they had no control
 The labor party, on the other hand, is one of the best disciplined and best controlled organizations in the field The organized movement absorbed the unorganized movement, leaving Record Pinchot and their associates utterly alone.
 NHARD BLOW TO LEADERS | The knowledge that LaFollette would not run upon their platform was a hard blow to the labor leaders who dreaded to face the united convention with this information. For this reason 1 they delayed the convention last night and sought to adjust their platform tc LaFollette's views. But they have ar aim which is utterly inconsistent witt
 the aims of LaFollette and of the forty. eight organizers. This is to create { | labor party like the British labor party | When the leaders of the forty-eigh
 protested that the leaders of the labor party here were wrecking the prospects of third party which would appea 1 largely to liberals throughout the coun- | try, they answered that they were build | ing for the future. Many of them care nothing about success this time. | Internal American Federation of Labor politics influence them. They feel tha they can fight President Samuel Gomper' effectively only through the establish ment of a party of labor and througi the conversion of the labor movement il | this country into political movement ! Merely to associate themselves with | liberal party would not accomplish thi purpose.
 For this reason they have insisted upol the name labor for the third party l and they have insisted upon radica lprogramme in order to attract into tn, independent political movement of labo the powe erful railroad brotherhoods ant
 the United Mine Workers.
 The present indications are that tn third party movement will not be impor n tant To have cut a figure in the cam 7. paign it had to attract the support of tn