The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11
FIRST CONVENTION
 OF As AND SINGLE
 TAKERS UNDER WAY
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 read amidst cheers and adopted by a rising vote.
 IDEALS IDENTICAL
 We realHe that there Is no material difference either In purpose or ideal between us" 1t said In part.
 We feel deeply the obligation rest ing upon us both to compromise any slight differences which nigh. keep us from unifying Into one great. success ful political movement
 Shall we give our common enemy the unutterable joy which would follow our failure to unite in solid phalanx?
 With these thoughts which we know are your thoughts we suggest that convention provide for a sub committee selected from your platform committee to confer with the b-committee se- lected from our platform comnittee; that these two committees meet with a firm determination to attain a platform of fundamentals upon which we can both unite. method for concerted po- litical action and common candidates
 We further suggest that all through the proceedings of our two conventions. such joint conference committees be ap- pointed from time to time, so that we may work in mutual harmony to the end that our two conventions may come together in one great body and present such a challenge to the autocracy of America, that this movement will go down in history"
 Delegates proceeded to the election of standing committees and some de- bate developed over the method of Sc lecting members of the conference committed
 CONVENTION ADJOURNED Committees on platform and political procedure were instructed to meet at
 S:S0 D. m. but the convention itself adjourned it's business session until 9 a. m. Monday.
 The chairman was authorized to ap- point subcommittee of five to con I fer with representatives of the Non Partisan League.
 Developments of the convention are being watched with interest by num-
 Der of labor, liberal and radical lead CTS who are not directly participating. Robert LaFollette, Jr., attended the opening session on behalf of his father, but refused to comment on the elder LaFollette's probable course if ten dered the presidential nomination. W. z. Foster, secretary of the genera committee. which conducted the strike in the steel industry a year ago, and who figured in the Senate investiga- tion of the strike, watched proceed ings from a gallery.
 James Duncan of Seattle. a leader in the ship yards strike there during the spring of 1919, and later a labor candidate for mayor of that city, en. tered the convention as a delegate. He was elected chairman of the Washington delegation and took an ac. tive part in the proceedings. ". G. Calderwood, formerly an of- ficia1 of the national prohibition party, and several times a candidate for fed eral office on that ticket, sat in the Minnesota delegation
 George l.. Record of New Jersey was elected chairman of the platform com mittee and H. F. Willie of Maryland chairman of the committee on pilitical procedure. Both bodies held executive sessions lasting we'll into the night, but arranged to carry on their work with the assistance of outsiders on Sunday. DRAFT TENTATIVE PLAN The procedure committee devoted it's efforts to drafting a tentative plan under which the various groups may lend their support to a single presidential candi- date. while carrying on independent work in the interest of their particular sets of ideas, or local requirements. Group autonomy was the objective to be worked for, participants in the discus sion stated.
 The platform committee, while loaded down with blanks from many sources, also had as basis for conference the provisional platform adopted by the com mittee of forty-eight in calling the con- vention.
 | Robert C. MacAuley of Philadelphia, national chairman of the single tax party, was chosen chairman of the party's con- vention tonight. James A. Robinson of Philadelphia was named chairman of a committee to meet with representatives | of the committee of forty -eight. Single 1 tax delegates will meet tomorrow to hear 1 the committees report.
 l MT. MacAuley said the present was "a l crucial moment and meant the life or death of the party as political or ganization. He urged the delegates to stand firm for single tax above all other blanks"