Arizona republican., 1920-08-06
COMMITTEE IF %
 WILL NOT SUPPORT
 p. p. CHRISTENSEN
TRepubIIcan A. p. Leased WIrel

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.--Announcement that the Committee of 4s was preparing to withdraw formally from all connec- tion with the Farmer-Labor party, of which Farley P. Christensen is the presidential nominee. today followed closely charges by Fl. A. McCoilem and Charles A. Weaver. who in resigning as officials and members of the Utah Farmer-L4 Labor organization charged that party was controlled by the Indus tried Workers of the World.
 Reorganization of the Committee of 4S along original lines of the party will be undertaken at a meeting of the executive committee Monday, according to Allen McCurdy. secretary of the Forty eighters. In a statement today he said the Farmer-Lapor eart is a radical organization and does not adhere to the principles on which the Committee of 4S attempted to build a national party.
 Replying to the charges of McCollern and Weaver, Mir. Christensen declared the Farmer Labor party is not under I. w. w control, but is composed of everyday Americans seeking relief from the intolerable economic autocracy obtaining"
 In statement MT. Christensen chaa- lenged the political integrity of McCol- lem and Weaver.
 Mir. McCurdy delivered the keynote address at the Chicago convention last month when the Committee of 4s at- tempted through amalgamation with the Labor and Single Tax parties and adherents of other political creeds to form a third party.
 "The labor party" Mir McCurdy said started out to create a class party which should appeal only to organized workers to the end that control of the American Federation of Labor should pass from It's present leadership into | that of the inSurgent and to introduce guild socialism into American life.
 Tt is plain that 1t is impossible for these two to meet, join, merger. anal gamate. Oil and water do not mix MT. McCurdy asserted that while the | Committee of AS had been nominaliy 1 represented at the convention which nominated Mir. Christensen, most lead CTS and delegates had gone home wher they "saw that the principles of the ! Forty -eighters had been swallowed by | the radicalism of the laborites" | Except the Maryland organization and certain individuals. including Dud | ley Field Malone. who have subscribed to the Farmer-Labor platform, tho l Committee of 48 is still intact, MT. Me. | Curdy said.
 Late today the following telegram signed by H. A. McCuliom was received at Forty eight headquarters from Sal Lake City:
 ''The Utah Committee of AS intact | Organized labor resents attitude of tn, l Farmer Labor party. Utah voters de sire new liberal party not controlled b, ra'bid radicals.''
 Before starting for Nashville, Tenn. late today, MT. Christensen sent tele grams to Senator Harding and Gov. ernor Cox urging that they go to Ten. nessee to urge passage of the suffrag, amendment by the Tennessee iegisia. | ture.
 Christensen for Suffraae ! T have received the appalling infor nation that ratification by Tennesse, 1 is in grave doubt" the message de clares. r. then calls attention to tn, 1 fact that Harding and Cox are leader, | of the Republican and Democrat, party, respectively. and says:
 As the chosen leader of one of thest | parties you cannot avoid being respon
 sible for what happened to the surf rage amendment in that state. Ther'
 is one way in which you can demon strate your sincerity in the matter That is by proceeding at once to Nash i vile and exerting your powerful inf1u ence upon your adherents there in be
 half of ratification"