Arizona republican., 1920-07-11
LAY FOUNDATION
 FUR 3RD PARTY:
 PROGRESS SLOW
Many Factions Present Views and Leaders Have Difficulty Maintaining Order = Seek Support of Labor and Single Taxers To Platform-Nominee
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 CHICAGO, July 1o-F'oundation stones were laid today for new party on which to unite all third party move ments when the Committee of Forty eight and the Single Tax party joined in their first national convention to draft platform and pick nominees, who, they hope, will win the support or ten or a dozen liberal organizations. The first days session, devoted to keynote speeches and organization work, developed as many different views as there were factions repre- Sented- Ruless resolutions and nom nations for permanent officials were debated step by step, and at times acriminiously. Allen McCurdy of New York. temporary chairman. and J. A H. Hopkins, head of the Commit tee of Forty eight, maintained order with difficulty.
 Liberals Outnumber Radicals.
 Division between the liberal and radical elements was brought out in the rules debate when Swinbourne Hale of New York said the state dele gations were divided tfifty-one per cent liberal and 49 percent radical" He was pleading for change in the rules that would prevent the radicals being out voted by the majority liD- erals, but the majority ruled and his plea was lost.
 Participation of the Single Taxers in today's convention followed an earlier session. at which they decided to present their platform demands and views on candidates. They are under stood to be willing to accept either Charles H. Ingersoll, watch manufac- turer, or Amos Pinchot, one of the leaders of the Committee of Forty eight, for presidential nominee.
 They are opposed, their leaders say to accepting Robert M. La Toilette the favorire presidential candidate of the forty-eighters. and may bolt the convention and select their own ticket if La Toilette is nominated.
 Determination of the Single Taxers' course was deelared to be contingent upon three things:
 First, the platform. which they said must include a single tax plank; sec ond, the candidate. and third, the name of the party.
 The party name promises to precipi- tate a fight. Members of the Single Tax group want some reference to their name incorporated in the party name The labor party of the United States, whose convention gets under way tomorrow, is willing to join the third party movement and probably will accept La Toilette as a candidate, but demands the word Tabor be in- cluded in the party designation.
 Many Factions Represented.
 As organized today, the Committee of Forty-eight convention numbered 539 accredited delegates with a ma jority of 270 required to nominate. The 539 include, in addition to the forty eighters and Single Taxers, fraternal delegates from the Non-Partisan league, Triple Alliance of the North west, Farmers National council, Peo- rleS Money league, the Producers league and Consumers league. The Committee of Forty eight embraces a number of well known liberal leaders. some of whom were prominent in the Bull Moose" movement eight years ago. The committee was formed last year at St. Louis with a member for each state.
 While delegates debated rules and resolutions today, their committee con- tinued negotiations with the labor party. Both conventions expect to be ready Monday to take up and complete in one days session their platform which. it is expected. will be almost identical.
 Only two names. so far as known will be presented to the labor party for consideration for presidential nom- inees. Senator La Toilette and Frank F. Walsh of Kansas City, former chairman of the United States indus trial relations commission and leader of the Friends of Irish freedom.
 Developments of the convention arc being watched with interest by mum ber of labor. liberal and radical leaders
  Robert La Toilette, Jr.. attended thu opening session on behalf of his fathel but refused to comment on the elder La Policies probable course if ten dered the presidential nomination.
 Labor Leaders Present.
 w. z. Foster. secretary of the gen eral committee, which conducted th' strike in the steel industry a year agt and who figured in the senate inves. tigation of the strike, watched pro ceedings from gallery.
 James Duncan of Seattle. leader il the shipyards strike there during tn spring of 1919 and later labor candI date for mayor of that city, ~enteret the convention as a delegate. He wa elected chairman of the Washington state delegation and took an activ' part in the proceedings.
 w. G. Calderwood. formerly an of ficiaI of the national prohibition part and several times a candidate for fed eraI office on that ticket, sat in tn Minnesota delegation.
 George l.. Record of New Jersey wa elected chairman of the platform com mittee and H. F. Wilkie of Marylan chairman of the committee on politi cal procedure. Both bodies held eN ecutive sessions lasting well into tn night. but arranged to carry on thel work with the assistance of outsider tomorrow