Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-13
NEW PARTY MERGER
BEING WORKED OUT
IN SECRET SESSION
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son, of Minneapolis, national lecturer
for the Nonpartisan league.
Victor Berger strolled in and took
a seat at the press table "as a
friendly spectator he said.
Amalgamation of the labor party
] of the United States and the
committee of forty-eight in h
new political movement with a
| single party name, one platform
and acne presidential ticket, are
! included in the recommendations
| adopted by the labor and forty
eight conventions when they recon-
vened today.
Fusion Plans
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of
Wisconsin, 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>if he
would accept the nomination should
| it be rendered him..
Conference committees appointed
yesterday by the labor convention
and Saturday by the Fighters
smoothed out objections to amalga-
IIldIlOn III q pl oCSSIOll ldoI
night and adopted a series of recon-
mendations to be offered to the two
conventions today. Besides urging
the combining of forces under a COM
| mon standard with a common name
they also proposed appointment of a
| special subcommittee to draft the
machinery under which the~combine
will work and to prepare joint
| platform.
The recommendations, if approved
today. as the leaders confidently ex-
pect, mean that the two conventions
will preserve their separate identity
and continue to function in separate
sessios. with subcommittee report
ing identical measures to each for
discussion and action.
LaFo11ette Is Leading
What reception the amalgamation
proposal will receiKe from other lib
eral and radical groups now meet
ing here only time can show. The
single tax party, also in national
convention assembled, is divided, &C
leaders, on the availability of Sem
ator LaFollette as presidential nom
inee. One group Of single takers
has announced it will bolt the pro-
posed com bine rather than stand for
LaFollette, while another faction has
declared it will accept any presiden-
tial nominee so long as a single tax
plank is incorporated in the plat
form.
If LaFollette wants the third par
ty nomination he can have 1t, both
: laborites and forty-eighters agree.
choice of the forty-eighters, a mail
referendum has shown. While other
candidates will be placed in nomi-
nation in the labor convention, and
probably in the forty-eight meeting,
too, the senator's friends say both
tn n O i'm
Frank P. Walsh, Kansas City;
Charles H. Ingersoll, watch manu-
facturer, and Henry Ford have been
mentioned for the nomination, but
there is no apparent concerted &C
ton to further the prospects of any
| one of them. Walsh is also being
| discussed for vice president.
Yesterday was given over to the
opening session of the labor conVen-
ton, with delegates from sixty trade
union groups and other organiza-
lions represented. The forty-eight-
| ton opened Saturday, had recessed
| for the day, and practically their
| entire membership attended the Ia
| Dor convention, many participating
as active delegates.
Cheers for Soviet
Prominent among those asSum1n 6
| a dual delegate role was James Dun
| can, one of the leaders Of the gen
eral strike in Seattle last year. Dun
can on Saturday was elected chair
man of the Washington delegation to
! the convention of the committee of
vice chairman of the labor conven-
ton.
The radical groups who, accord
| ing to Swinburne Hale, one of their
leaders. were in the minority in the
forty-eight convention Saturday,
were in the ascendency yesterday,
and vigorously applauded when their
| leaders prayed for the day when the
workers of America would follow the
example set by the workers of Rus
| STA.
Every reference to Russia aNd to
ireland, too, was applauded with a
will, and when John Fitzpatrick, the
! labor keynoter, praised the Russian
revolution, three cheers for soviet
| Russia were called for and given.
| Sitting late last night, the commit
| tee in conference over the amalgama-
ton proposals, found the selection of
a name for their new political party
| to be more than minor problem.
| Combinations upon the word labor
were in disfavor among the Commit
| tee Of Forty-eight representatives
but American Party" was presented
! by several spokesman. 1.-The Union
! Party" was likewise a title presented,
| but no decision was reached.
| Amalgamation proposals halted
real work in platform committees of
all gatherings, since they involved
ali arrangement for direct co-opera-
| ton between all groups concerned.
| The conference also considered a
proposal to bring all of the delegates
assembled in the two conventions
! irto a single session for Platform
adoption and presidential combina-
| tionS.
| More Amalgamation Efforts
| Amalgamation efforts were carried
| further today under the direction of
the Committee of Forty-Eight. a
special subcommittee headed by Mrs.
/ Ina P. Williams, of Washington
state, carried invitations to repre-
sentatives of the Nonpartisan league,
! the Single Tax convention, the World
War Veterans association and the
! American Constitutional party that
| delegates attend the Committee of
Forty-Eight convention. All agreed
to go that far, it was said, on. the
understanding that they were not
bound to remain in the sessions and
support the decisions.
The question of a name for the
| fusionist organization projected Wor-