Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-07-13

I6oin the national labor
party. A large number
of non-partisan league
group and a delegation Of single tax.
ers marched into the labor conven-
ton and announced they had decided
to amalgamate.
The committee of As delegates vOt-
ed to amalgamate before they had
heard the report OF their conference
committee Oh the stumbling block to
the proposed union. These points
| were the Plumb plan and imposition
Of capital tax. During its separate
session the committee voted to rec
Ommend a platform plank for public
ownership OF the democratic control
Of transportation. including ware
houses. stock yards, railway termin.
ais. pipe lines and tanks.
| The democratic control by workers
and their representatives was a labor
| party demand.
Harry Neuberger of New York, dis
cussing this plank in the 'forty-eight'
| convention said: I'VE may not be
! able to grab the entire earth at this
| time, but We can take step in that
direction"
| With the forty-eight convention on
| record as agreeing to amalgamate the
| labor party convention with the non
partisan leaguers and some single tax
ers officially participating, went ahead
| hearing reports for short time ana
then adjourned until this afternoon, TO
/ hold the first Joint meeting with the
/ forty y-eiehters, VINO wound up their
! convention this afternoon. Before
| adjOurning the labor party indicated
! the new party would nominate pres
idental candidate tonight and there
may be state tickeas in some sec.
tiOnS. ..
Hays Greets Forty-e lighters.
The labor party committee headed
by Max Hays entered the hall while
the tOrty-eighterS were making their
plans and was warmly welcomed.
Hays called the forty-eighters fellow
partyites' dnd they cheered him up
roariously He told them all would
be seated in the labor conventions.
/ Hays also told them they could win
in 1924. Delegates yelled back 1920"
Prepare For Joint Circus.
The labor convention was thrown
into an uproar when Robert Buck,
Chicago chairman of the resolutions
committee. moved that credentials OF
the forty Fighters be honored and the
ini
The motion carried amid cheers, and
on its heels a half hundred farmer
delegates from the forty-eight conven.
ton arrived and were seated after
tumultuougs. demonstration.
Prevent Big Split.
! Chicago, July l3.--Proposed anal
gamatIon Of the minority political
groups in one new party hinged today
on two joint conferences. The labor
| party OF the United States, in an ulti-
matum adopted last night after fifty
| hours OF conferences had failed to
| bring the party and the committee OF
| iOrty-eight together, voted to proceed
/ to the adoption of a platform and Sc
( lection Of candidates if a conference
report was not ready by 10 O'Clock this
morning.
At midnight the conferees, sent
| back into session by their conventions,
reorened their discussion in a final eff
! fort to reach an agreement satsfac-
! tory to both groups and avert an open
! breach.
The radical faction in the labor con
ven'iOn threatened for several hours
! last night to break off negotiations
With the forty-eighters Immediately.
Dramatic appeals for unity by Fran.
els Dillon OF Indiana and Dudley Field
Malone forty-eight leader of New
York. were credited with having turn.
ed the tide against the radical ele
ment.
Speaker after speaker in two hours
of hectic debate asserted that the in
telocuals' leading the forty-eighters
had no real control over the mass OF
their followers and freely urged thar
the labor party forget all about the
tortyeieht leaders and go after the
farmers in their convention"
At the height of the vitrolc ar
raignmont of the rival party Chair
man John H. Walker, president Of the
IllliOis Federation Of Labor, took the
floor to voice IA deep seated dstrust'
Of plutocratic philanthropsts, lawyers
and professional men who endeayor to
solve the problems of the working peo-
pie without themselves being mem.
Der Of that class.
While the labor convention fought
on. the question whether the hour had
arrived for a definite break, the forty
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