Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-13
Committee of 48 conferees
Yielded to Labor Party on
Naturalization of Banks.
THREE PROPOSALS MADE
Include Plumb Plan Capita
Tax and Like Action Re-
garding Different Mines.

By The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 13:-Amaiean1a-
ton OF the principal group atfemp<-
ing to form a new party was effect
ed here today The COMMITTEES 0f
forty-eight voted to join the IA
tional labor party, a large non-par-
tisan league group and a Delegates
of "singe takers" marched into fi1<
labor convention and announced
they also had decided to amalga-
mate.
On motion tof Max 8. Hayes.
Cleveland, chairman Of the Labor
Party National Committee. non11n4-
ton Of presidential Candidates Of
the United New Party was made
a special order of business for 1.10
o'clock tonight. The platform COM
mitfee brought in a partial report
containing one plank
Public ownership and democr4~
tic control OF transportation. fn~
grain elevators, terminal ware
houses. pipe lines and tanIg wsre
urged in this plank
Chairman Farley p. Christensen
asserted that the words "democratic
controf represented the demands
OF the labor party.
Speaker after speaker in two
hours of hectic debate asserted that
the 'intellectuals'' leading fhs
forty-eighters had no real control
over the mass of their followers and
If the labor party would bring fhs
tide of the for4y-eigi1t moVeroenf
into the labor ranks.
Delegates freely urged that tbs
labor party" forget all about the
forty-eight leaders and 60 after the
farmers in their convention. They
said the farmer strength has ne real
affinity with the s'plutesr and snbtis
lawyers who they asserted compro-
missed the leadership of the forty
eight group.
After the height of the vifriolic
arraignments of the rival parties,
Chairman John H Walker. president
of the Illinois Federation of Labor
took the floor to voice his "deap-
anthropists. lawyers and profesaionaj
men who endeaSored to solve tho
problems of the working people
without themselves being mem ttf<
of that class"
The committee OF forty-eigl,t
conferees yielded to the labor party
on the question of naturalization o.
banks and credits securities and the
democratic control of essential in
dustrieS.
Three proposals of the labor
group in the way of an agreeaieni
on party principles They were
Proposal for a capital tax. the ma
tionalization Of mines and inciaslen
of the Plumb plan for t-i-raftze
railroad control of the new rarz
platform.
The radical faction in the Iabai
convention threatened 10 break OF
negotiations with the fo-fy-eigater<
Immediately. More coa1erEat
delegates STAYED off the isnren5ir~
split by throwing their supoo-t to
meeting and gave the ccaEcree9
another chance
The rltimctCnl was in the nat;yfe
of compromise between the Ei1es-f
diversant views of the extreme 4 4
and right wing. one faToring "a
immediate break and the other hi-
definite continuation of nes9s *
tions
Dramatic appeals for Unity b.
Francis Dillon OF Indiana. and Dnd-
ley Field Malone of New York
were credited with having turned :
the tide against the radicals. Ma
lone, one of the forty-eight leaders
and also a member of the labor
party was hastily summoned when
the radical group threatened to
force the split and in a final appeal
placated the more restive ones with
a promise that the rank and file OF
the forIy-eighters would back the
labor branch if amalgamation prov
ed impossible.
Evidence of the labor conven-
tons conciliatory mood was given
by several motions to give the con-
= - =
to spend every effort in the direc-
ton of agreement Leaders argued
it would do no harm TO continue Ia
negotiations since the forty-eighterz
had shown a genuine disposition to
get together.
A movement to instruct the con-
ference COMMITTEES on the three
planks in dispute was blocked. leev-
ing the way open for eompromize.