Evening star., 1920-07-13
Committee of 48, Labor and
Single Conventions
Combine for Battle.
FARMERS SAY INTERESTS
IDENTICAL WITH LABOR'S
Nomination of Presidential Candi-
dates Is Made Special Order
for Tonight.
BY the Associat ted Press.

! CHICAGO, July 13-Amalgamatior
of the principal groups attempting
to form new party was effected here
today. The committee of forty-eight
voted to join the national labor party
A large Non-Partisan League grour
and delegation of single takers
marched into the labor convention
and announced they also had decided
to amalgamate.
| The committee of conferees yielded
to the labor party on the question OF
| nationa liZation of banks and credit
facilities and the democratic con-
| troll of essential industries
The convention of the labor party
| was thrown into an uproar when
| Robert NJ. Buck. Chicago. chairman of
| the labor resolutions committee.
made motion that credentials of
| the forty-eighters be honored and
the hall prepared for joint conven-
| tion. The motion carried amid cheers
and on it's heels half hundred
eight convention arrived and were
| seated after a tumultous demonstra-
| ton The farmer delegates raised a
! Non-Partisan League standard above
their seats.
William Renter. Non-Partisan
Lacquer from South Dakota. announced
| the farmers. after spending five days
looking over all the conventions in
session here, had decided their in
terests were identical with labor
Single Takers Arrive.
| "We have decided to come over and
stand with labor. fight with labor and
organize with labor" Renter said,
amidst cheers
ha nc fo orr{xya
heels of the farmers and indorsed the
| amalgamation movement On motion
| of Max S. Hayes. Cleveland. chairman
OF the labor party national commit
tee, nomination of presidential candi-
dates of the united new party" was
made special order of business for
| $3.50 o'clock tonight.
The committee of forty-eight con-
vention then voted to meet this after
noon in joint session with the labor
party.
The joint conference to reconcile
differences between the committee of
forty-eight and the labor party broke
lup shortly before the amalgamation
was completed, with decision to place
all the disputed points before the
delegates of both conventions in open
| sessions.
Labor Was More Radical.
| The conferees say the disagree
ments principally were about a name
for the proposed party and over the
degree of naturalization of industry
to be recommended in the platforms
Labor party representatives favored
| carrying naturalization further than
did the committee of forty eight
The Rev. George c. Richmond of St
] Louis opened the forty-eighters' con-
vention with prayer that was re-
| ceived with cheers.
I'VE are not concerned about heaven
and hell" he said. 1T is this world in
which we are interested. AS Jesus
| failed, SO do we"
The prayer charged that republican
candidates take orders not from
Jesus. but from Wall street." that the
democratic party has sold out to
those forces which face moral ruin
and spiritual desolation." In illinois,
he said, 1.-The governor and his para
sites are cursed by plutocratic selfish
ness" He added: I'VE are corrupt
mean, Nw-visioned and selfish. For
give US, o God. and in the great revo-
| luton now coming save us from ma
| tional dissolution
Asks Blessings for Debs.
DR.. Richmond specifically gave
thanks for the revolution in Russia
for the new spirit of self-assertive-
ness among negroes" and in Ireland
! He asked for the destruction "of
| iPalmerism, Penrosism and all other
kinds Of paganism." He also blessed
Eugene Debs ''in his prison cell y
| This reference was INTERRUPTED hv
| cheers.
The labor party of the United States.
in an ultimatum adopted last night
after fifty hours of conferences. had
| failed to bring the party and the COM
mittee of forty-eight together, voted
to proceed to the adoption of a plat
form and selection of candidates A
conference report was not ready by
10 o'clock this morning.
| At midnight the conferees. sent
back into session by their conven-
| tions, reopened their discussion in a
| final effort to reach an agre ement sat :
| isfactory to both groups. and avert an
open breach. The conference commit
| tee resumed it's work. prepared and
willing to go the limit in conce ssions
principles to which the respective
| conventions were committed.
| Ultfmatum Compromise.
| The radical faction in the la bor con-
vention threatened for several hours
last night to break off negotiations
with the forty-eighters Immediately.
| More conservative delegates now
ever. STAYED off the impending split
| by throwing their support behind the
ultimatum which postponed decision
Until today and gave the conferees
another opportunity. The ultimatum
was in the nature of compromise
| between the widely divergent views
| of the extreme left and the right
wing, one favoring an immediate
break and the other indefinite con-
] tinuation of the negotiations
| Dramatic appeals for unity by Fran
| els Dillon 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 has
| tily summoned to the hall when the
radical group threatened to force the
split, and in a final appeal placated
1.-THE more reStive ones with q promise
that the rank and file of the fortv-
Fighters would back the labor branch
if amalgamation proved impossible.
"Plutes" Are Ignored.
| Speaker after speaker, in two hours
| of hectic debate, asserted that the
"intellectuals" leading the forty
Fighters had no real control over the
| mass of their followers, and that an
appeal from the labor party would
bring the privates of the forty-eight
movement into the labor ranks.
Delegates freely urged that the la
Dor party forget all about the forty
! eight leaders and go after the farm
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