Arizona republican., 1920-06-10
Labor Plank completsd

Labor Plank Completed
 The labor plank contains no anti strike or compulsory arbitration fea- ture and does not indorse the Kansas industrial court or any similar propo sition.
 It would provide against strikes against the government and for the setting up of tribunals for the volun- tary arbitration of disputes in private industries.
 T am not entirely satisfied with the plank as it is too general said Sena- tors Borah.
 Senator Borah said there was no in- dication of an immediate agreement on the league of nations plank
 Senator Shoot, urging a compromise proposal of his own, drew Senators Borah and Mccormick out of tho room into a hallway. where a heated discus sion took place. As the Utah senator ! finished reading his draft Senator Mc- Cormick shouted ''No, no, mo- and rushed back into the conference. Senator Borah said another effort to continue the conference through the night was afoot, which he opposed. The conference adjourned at 1.05 o'clock, Senators BOrah and McCor- mick not returning and Senator Smoot going to another hotel for a confer enee with Senator Lodge on the for eign relations plank.
 Senators Borah of Idaho, Brandegee of Connecticut and Mccormick Of IT, linois represented the irreconcilables at | the conference, and former Senator w. Murray Crane of Massachusetts, in past conventions national leader spoke for the group demanding a plank for a league with reservations. Sena- tor Watson of Indiana, chairman of the | resolutions committee, who was pres ent to represent the party organization, took the role of peace maker.
 Situation Grave | Tonight the leaders were only haI heartedly attempting to conceal their apprehensions over the situation. Most of them grimly predicted an agree ment, but none appeared too sure or his ground. Tn a session which prom ised to last through the night, reso- lutions sub- committee, headed by Sem ator Watson, sought to find a middle course which would hold the party to- gether.
 | Senator Crane, coming unexpectedly ! into the swim of convention affairs, after several days of quiet confer ences prefaced the irreconcilable ultl- matum by laying on the council table 1 a proposal that the party declare af- firmatively for ratification of a league l of nations covenant with safeguarding i reservations. Backed he said. by the group of mild reservation senators, he i Indicated that unless such a plank were adopted, all the dynamite of ths league of nations question would be Ioosed on the convention floor The reply of the frreconRilables came at once phrased in terms which mo one misunderstood. With consid- erable heat Senator Borah told the 1 conference that he and his colleagues never could support any plank declar- ing affirmatively for any ratification of the treaty, reservations or no reSer- vations. Should the party adopt such plank they declared, they would inn mediately and finally part company with it.
 Seek Harmony Out of Chaos
 In a desperate effort to bBing har- mony, Senator Watson pleaded that the rising animosities of the conferees be forgotten and that both sides app proach the subject with a determina- ton to avoid repetition of the dis ,astrous break of 1912. But neither side receded and the meeting ended in an iatmosphere of solemn defiance. l So it stood tonight as the resolutions sub committee of l3 sought to sweat out a solution. In the committee room | besides Senator Watson were Senators Borah and Mccormick for the irrecOn- cilables, Senator Shoot of Utah and nine men of varying shades of opinion.
 Outside the committee room, too, there were series of teVerish con ferences as each side sought to assess how much of the attitude of its adNer- sary was bluff and how much genuine.
 After several hours work tonight, 1 Senator Watson announced that he did not believe the platform could be finished in time for presentation to the convention before 8 o'clock tomor- row afternoon. Upon converting at III, Senator Watson said the convention probably would have to determine upon a recess until after noon for other business.
 The irreconcilable group solemnly assured their party leaders there was not a single element of bluff in their program. and one of them is under stood to have declared that should the party stand for any sort of ratifica- ton he would resign from the senate in order to be free to carry on the fight.
 Johnson Position Unknown
 What connection Senator Johnson