Evening star., 1920-07-12
BUILDERS Of THIRD
PARTY KEPT BUSY
IN SECRET SESSION
Conventions Wait While Con-
ferees Weld Various EIe-
ments Represented.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 12.-Work on ANAL
| gamating the various elements as.
| sembled here for the formation of a
new party continued behind closed
doors this morning while the conven-
tions of the committee of forty-eigh,
and the national labor party mark ed
| time.
Everything appeared to be pro-
ceeding on schedule. with the single
| note of excitement provided by ?
platform fight over the Irish questio
The negro question was brought
( before the convention by the Rev
| w. r. Basnall, colored minister OF
| Detroit. He was introduced as a
| speaker for the National Association
| for the Advancement of Colored
| People.
! O. w Thomason, a lecturer for the
| National Non-Partisan League, told
| the forty eight convention delegates
| of state enterprises initiated by the
| league administration in North Da-
kota. He said the league had given
union labor all it had asked and some
J more.
| Palmer Slap Applauded.
| During the long wait for conference
reports Swinburne Hale of New York.
telling of deportation proceedings of
the federal government, attacked At
torney General Palmer and won ap-
plause. Hale told his audience that
! Farley z. Christensen of Utah, per-
manent chairman of the convention.
was one ''of the first defenders of
| the T. W. w" The delegates cheered
at this until Chairman Christensen
was forced to acknowledge by bowling.
Hale referred to himself casually
| sa,, n16 fgc
American, and asserted that Attorney
General Palmer has the highest
ideals and the lowest practices of any
! official in our history"
/ Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette 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-eighters. 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 forty-eighters
nation in protracted session last
night and adopted series of recon-
mendations to be offered to the two
| conventions today. Besides urging
| the com mblnlnS OF 1OrcCS under a COM
| mon standard with common name.
! they also proposed appointment of
! special subcommittee to draft the
ma chinery under which the combine
will work and to prepare a joint plat
i form.
| May Function Separately.
The recommendations if approved
| today. as the leaders confidently ex-
pect, mean that the two conventions
will preserve their separate identity
| nd continue to function in separate
sessions. with subcommittee report-
| ing Identical measures to each for
discussion and action.
What reception the amalgamation
proposal will receive from other ljh-
| eral and radical groups now meeting
| here only time can show. The single
| tax party. also in national convention
assembled. is divided according to
expressions of various leaders, on the
availability of Senator La Toilette as
presidential nominee. One group of
single takers has announced that it
will bolt the proposed combine rather
than stand for La Toilette, while an
other faction has declared it will ac-
cept any presidential nominee so long
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