The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-12
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Chicago, July 12.-Amalgamation of
the Labor Party of the United States
and the Committee of As in a new
political movement with single
party name, one plat orm and one
presidential ticket. are included in the
accommodations submitted to the La.
Dor and 4S conventions when they
reconvened today.
LaFollette the Logical One
Senator Robert NJ. LaFolette of Wis.
consin, remained the most talked OF
candidate in the presidential race. The
terms of the proposed combine are
understood by the party leaders TO
meet his views as expressed last week
to Amos Pinchot and George l..
Record, leading Forty Fighters" who
called on the senator to ask II he
would accept the nomination should il
be rendered him.
Conference committees appointed yes
terday by the labor convention ana
Saturday by the forty-eight smothered
out action 10 an amalgamation in a
protracted session last night and
adopted a series of resolutions to De
presented today.
Separate Conventions
The recommendations if approved to-
day as the leaders confidently expect.
mean that the two conventions will
preserve their separate identity ana
continue to function in separate ses-
sions with subcommittee represent
ing identical measures to each for dis
cussion and action.
What reception the amalgamation
proposal will receive from other liberia;
and radical groups now meeting here
only time can show. The single tax
party, also in national convention as
sembled, Is divided according to eX-
pressions of various ieaGers, on the
availability Of Senator LaF'ollette as
presidential nominee. The group 2t
single takers has announced that il
will bolt the proposed combine rather
than stand for LaFollette, while an.
other faction has declared it will ac.
cept any presidential nominee so long
as a single tax plank is Incorporated
in the platform.
Walsh for Vice President
If Senator LaFollette wants the
third party nomination he can have
1t, both forty-eighters and laborites
agree.
Frank p, Walsh, Kansas City;
Charles II. Ingersoll, watch manu-.
facturer, and Henry Ford have been
mentioned. but there is no appar
ent concerted action to further the
prospects of any one Of them. Walsh
is also being discussed for vice pres
ident.
Yesterday was given over to thd
opening session OF the labor conven.
ton, with delegates from 60 trade
union groups and other organizations
reported. The forty.eighters and single
takers, whosr conventions opened Sat.
urday, had recessed for the day anc
practically their entire membership
attended the labor convention, many
participating as active delegates.
Prominent among those assuming
duel delegate roll was James Dun.
can, one Of the leaders of the gener-
al strike In Seattle last year Duncan
on Saturday was elected chairman of
the Washington Labor Party to rNc
convention of the Committee of 4S ana
was yesterday chosen vice chairman
Of the labor convention.
Radicals in Ascendency
The radical groups who, according to
Swinburne Hale, one Of their leaders,
were in the minority in the As con.
vention Saturday. were in the as.
tendency yesterday and vigorously
applauded when their leaders prayed
America would follow the example Sc,
by the workers Of Russia.
Every reference to Russia and Ire
land, too, was applauded with will,