New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
Seven Parties
Join Forces:
Labor Balks
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ferees have reached definite conclu-
sions
Appearance of Eamon de Valera, in
troduced as the "Presl0ent Of the Irish
Republic" furnished the high spot in
the feast of oratory furnished the COM
mittee of y-eight delegates.
Swinburne Hale, of New York, was
in the midst of an attack on Attorney
General Palmer and the deportation Of
aliens when De Valera appeared Cheer
, ing and applause, which drowned the
voice of the speaker on the platform,
greeted the arrival of the Irish leader,
and Hale Immediately cut short his
talk.
De Valera was warmly applauded
when he said the Irish question is an
American question. He asked for rec
ognition of the Irish government" in
Ireland. He was greeted with cheers
and applause from all parts of the
room.
The conference of the Labor party
marked time at the morning session,
while the Platform Committee labored
over mass of proposed planks and
negotiations with the Committee of
Forty eight.
Chairman Walker complained that
the convention was breaking it's six
hour work day rule by starting on the
delegates home town time and quitting
on Chicago daylight saving time.
The convention devoted the session
to hearing the platform projects of it's
Iraternal delegates.
Claims of the migratory workers for
changes in the general election laws
were presented by John H. Kelly, rep
resenting the Brotherhood Welfare
KoI1 i
who follow their jobs" are disfran-
chlsed through operation Of local
election statutes.
Lester Barlow, of the World War
Veterans, also spoke, and a communi
cation from the Woman's Peace So
clety urging universal disarmament
was read. The zone big union" group
appeared at to-day's session and dis,
tributed propaganda.
The single tax party is dividved, ac-
cordlng to expressions of various lead
ers, 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
another faction has declared it will
accept any presidential nominee so
long as single tax plank is incor-
porated in the platform.
If Senator La Toilette wants the
third party nomination he can have
it, both 4Sers and Laborites agree. He
is already the overwhelming choice of
the 4Sers, a mail referendum has
shown. While other candidates will be
placed in nomination IN the labor con-
vention and probably in the 48 meeting
too. the Senator's friends say both
groups are ready to nominate him.
Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas City;
Charles H. 1ngersoll, watch manufac-
toned for the nomination, but their is
nr apparent concerted action to fur
tier the prospects of any one of them.
Walsh also is being discussed for Vice
president.
Walsh, addressing the Labor party,
spoke In behalf of freedom for Ireland.
He denounced the. Republican and Dem
ocratlc parties, saying nobody chad ex-
rected anything from either party con-
vention-and nobody was disappoint-
ed"
He said that at the last election
he had voted the Democratic ticket.
Referring to the work of the Admins
tration he said: along with thou
sands of others | expected more. We
had right to expect something and
we got nothing but hypocrisy"
He declared the Republican platform
as drafted was up to advance adver-
tisement" in that it was "a platform
of evasion that isn't worth considers
ton"
But the Democratic platform is the
blacklist and most .sinister pronounce
ment that was ever unloaded on the
even makes every crime Of the pres
ent Administration the crime of the
whole Dem ocratic party; it makes the
party of jefferson only masquerader
as the party of the people"
Representatives of the Labor party
visited the convention Of the Forty
eighters and Duncan Mcdonald, chair
man of the Labor party of Illinois,
raade an address. He said:
THE Republican party knew what
they were talking about when they
accused Attorney General Palmer of
not prosecuting the proiteers. "I doubt
gathered together as were housed in
the Coliseum during the Republican
convention.
we have a program; you have a
program. Put them side by side, and l
think you could clip them in two and
paste them together again with your
eyes shut.
Now, if we can agree on principles,
surely no one will be small enough to
stop at technicalities. The time has
come to stand together"
Nonpartisan League representatives
appealed for the financial support of
the Labor party members in moving
the league farmers crops.
Carl D. Thompson asked that "work
ing people" transfer their savings de-
posted in Capitalist banks" to- league
institutions. He said the grain farm
ers of the Northwest needed s25, 900 900
and that through the proposed transfer
their needs could be met at low rate
of interest