New-York tribune., 1920-07-14
Nine Groups Are Joined;
Convention to Receive
Platform and Choose
Its Candidates To-day
Ford Orders His
Name Withdrawn
La Toilette Is Favorite;
New Organization Will
Enter Congress Races
Specio, Dtspatch to Tho rrbu,

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, July ia third national
political party was launched here to-
day when a coalition of nine minor
groups, headed by the Committee Of
Forty eight and the Labor party Of the
United States was effected after a
long struggle.
tions, which had delayed the amalga-
nation movement for several days,
were compromised
The platform committee was unable
to report tonight and the convention
at 10:30 o'clock adjourned until 9:3O
a. m. tomorrow. 1t is expected that
the platform will be ready then and
after it is adopted nomination Of a
candidate for President will be in
order.
Robert M. La Toilette, Of Wisconsin,
was the most promising Of those who
have entered the race. Henry Ford,
who had established an office here this
morning, will not have his name placed
before the convention, according to
Charles S. Hoffman, of Florida, manager
Of the Ford boom. The proposed pub
lie ownership plank of the a,nalga-
mated group is said to be the obstacle
upon which the Ford boom was wrecked.
Parties In the Merger
The parties which have merged are
the Labor party, the Committee Of
Forty-eight, the American Party of
Texas, the Single Tax party, the Nom
partisan League, the World War Vet
erans, the Private Soldiers and Sailors
League, the American Constitutional
Party and the Chicago Federation of
Labor.
The conference committee Of the
Committee a. Forty eight finally yield
ed to the demands Of the Labor party
for compromise on platform issues
after the forty South Dakota delegates
Of the Nonpartisan League had entered
into negotiations with the labor group.
The laborites interrupted their con-
vention at Garments Hall long enough
to take the farmers into the fold. The
with the Forty-eighters, proved to be
the binding material IN bringing the
latter group and laborites together.
When it was announced that the
conference committees of the laborites
and the Forty Fighters had como to
terms the Forty Fighters and the seven
other groups which have already
Joined with them paraded to Car
mems Hall, where the labor conven-
tion was in session.
j. A. Fl. Hopkins, of New York,
chairman Of the Forty Fighters ma
tional committee, was elected joint
chairman with John W. Walker, Of She
labor party, to preside over the ANAL
gamated convention
Platform committees representing
both the Forty-eightors and the Labor
party Immediately went into confer
ence, and within two hours they were
nearing agreement.
Stumbling Blocks
: The chief stumbling block was the
Labor demand for a tax on capital, al
though the Labor demand that "demo-
cratic control" be provided in the plank
declaring for public ownership Of rail-
roads was a considerable obstacle until
the Forty-eighters yielded, after their
delegates on the convention floor de-
cided not to let "non-essentia differ
ences" interfere with the get-together
movement. The Labor plank demand
ing naturalization of the mines also
was temporary source of difference.
Evidence of the labor convention 8
conciliatory mood was given by sew
eral motions to "give the conference
committee free hand" and to "bend
every effort" in the direction Of agree
ment. Labor spokesmen argued it
could do their cause no harm to con-
tinue the negotiations, since the Forty
Fighters had shown "a genuine dispo-
sition and desire to get together"
The convention was thrown into an
uproar when Robert M. Buck, chairman n
Of the labor resolutions committee.
made a motion that credentials of the
Forty Fighters be honored and the hall
prepared for joint convention. The
motion carried amid cheers.
Prayer Is Cheered
The Rev. George C. Richmond, of St,
Louis, opened the amalgamated con
vention with a prayer that was received
with cheers.
eve are not concerned about heaven
and hell" he said. at is this world in
which we are interested. AS Jesus
failed, so do we. The world TO-DAY is
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