The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-13
COMMITTEE or IS AND
LABOR BODIES MEET IN
JOINT THIRD PARTY CON
VENTION; DIFFICULTY IN
CHOOSING \ NAME


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ferees another opportunity. The ulti-
matum was in the nature Of com
promise between the widely divergent
views Of the extreme left and the
right wing, one favorng an immedi-
ate break and the other indefinite
continuation Of the negotiations.
Dramatic appeals for unity by
Francis Dillcn Of Indiana, and Dudley
Field Malone of New York, were
credited with having turned the tide
against the radical element. Malone,
one of the forty-eight leaders, and
also a member of the labor party,
was hastily summoned to the hall
when the radical group threatened to
force the split, and in a final appeal
placated the more restive ones with
promise that the rank and file OF
the forty-eighters would oack the
labor branch, if amalgamation proved
| Impossible.
Speaker after speaker in two hours
Of hectic debate asserted that the
"intellectuals' leading the forty-eight'
1
mass OF their followers and that an
appeal from the labor party would
Lring the privates of the As movement
into the labor ranks.
| Delegates freely urged that the labor
party forget all about the 4S leaders
and 20 after the farmers in their con-
vontion." They said that the farmer
strength in the other meeting had no
real affinity with the plutes and sub
tie, slick lawyers, vino, they asserted,
comprise the leaders of the greater
part Of the As group.
At the height of the vitrolic arraign-
ment of the rival party, Chairman
John f. Walker. president Of the Illi-
nois Federation of Labor, took the
| floor to voice d doep.seated distrust
of plutocratic philanthropists, lawyers
and professional men who endeavor
to solve the problems of the working
people without themselves being mem
bers of that class. He said he didn't
really believe it Was worth while to
| try to go any further with the forty
Fighters and that the labor delegates,
already restive under prolongated ora
| tory, might be kept here for three
weeks waiting for the lawyer-leaders
Of the other party tc prepare some
thing legal and technical and with
phraseology which covered up its real
meaning"
The labor delegates, Walker de-
cared, were unable to stand the eX-
pense Of staying hete to wait for an
agreement at the present rate Of
progress.
! Opposition of the conference COM
mittee of forty-eighters to the use OF
the name of the farmer-labor as the
party designation, proved the first
big stumbling block in the way Of
amalgamation, but they are under
stood today to be in a concilatory
mood on this question. Differences
on the definition of Democratic man.
agement." of railroads and essential
| Industries, governmental operation OF
which both parties favor, were not
so easily compromised. The views
Of the forty-eight leadership on the
one hand and the trade union attitude
on the other. were at wide variance
and may, ultimately be the direct
cause of Il break.
! The labor party plan of operation
Of the roads by officials chosen from
the ranks of employees proved in the
conferences already presented, an in
surmountaDle obstacle.
Meanwhile in a third hall, the single
tax party was framing an appeal to
Premier Lloyd George of Great Brit
ain urging that his government adopt
81 single tax policy for Palestine.