The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-14
LABOR CAUTION
 WITH FARMERS, IS
 PLAN IN CHICAGO
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leaders here and interested in social ism. as that they want the votes of the railroad brotherhoods and of the United Mine Workers.
 ' They are likely to get a platform such as they desire against the wishes of the more moderate leaders of the forty eight" because the various farm organizations represented here seek chiefly a combination with labor and especially desire the support of the ticket to be nominated by the railroad brotherhoods and the United Mine Workers.
 The most powerful factor behind the scenes here has been Bill Lenke the chief politician of the Farmers Non partisan League. He has not shown himself openly in the convention, but he has been conferring with the labor leaders. with certain members of the "forty-eight," and with Senator La- Follette's representative Gilbert Roe. The non-partisan league will not for mally associate itself with the third party, but intends to give it full sup port and this league is especially de- sirous of an alliance with labor such as will bring the largest possible num- Der of labor votes to the third ticket.
 MODERATES ARE ISOLATED
 The more moderate leaders of the forty eight" such as Amos Pinchot Allen McCurdy, MT. Hopkins and George L. Record, have thus been badly isolated. The strong forces here who command th6 votes, the labor leaders and the farm organization leaders have sought a combination on terms much more radical than Pinchot and his as- sociates wish This intellectual group has gravitated between the progressive party and Wilson. and it sought to form party in which liberals of it's kfnl would feel at home. It had lots of re- spectability much capacity for reach ing the public through high class week lies and magazines and performed an indispensable service in bringing to- gether various elements out of which a third party could be formed, but 1t controlled no votes and has little real power in it's own conventions. More over, the men who made it up had lit- tie experience with hard politica, fighting.
 As one of them said after getting into a jam with the labor conferees. We are much too decent for those fellows" Ir all the contests over the platform, the rough-and-ready labor leaders were more than a match for the cultivated forty -eighters.'
 LABOR HAS AN INTELLECTUAL
 The labor people, moreover. had an intellectual of their own in Toscan Ben nett, lawyer. from Hartford, Conn.,, who has cast in his lot with the labor movement and who is apparently able and forceful person. MT. Bennett is a Yale graduate and accord- ing to reports here the last piece of legal work he did before devoting all his time +o lah settling the J. P Morgan. estate in Connecticut.
 He has managed the tactics of the labor conferees here and his aim has been constantly to enable labor to appeal directly to the forty eight convention over the heads of Pinchot. Record and the other organizers.
 Yesterday the aim was to do this by having the two conventions amalgamate before adopting platform, in which case the labor delegates and the radical delegates of the forty eight would have been an overwhelming majority. And that plan may be resorted to in the end, if and when the platform question goes to the "forty-eight convention and the leaders of the forty-eight' are able to prevent an acceptance or labor's position in regard to the Plumb plan and the government operation of mines The organizers of the forty eight have felt their power to keep the new party as moderate as they WlSh slipping from their hands and they have had a natural human desire to hold thelr place as controlling factor But once the third party is organized and candi- date nominated real control will pass irto the hands of the practical politicians of the farmers movement and of the labor party MT. Pinchot and his asso- ciates if they accept the radical plat form likely to be adopted, will receive honorable positions in the third party or garization, for the labor and farm lead CTS are sensible of the advantage to be found in keeping the intellectual liberals to the front One of the group not yet chosen will probably be nominated for the vice presidency
 The western farmers have been inspect ing the divorce court records Of some or these liberal associates who might be nominated for the vice presidency very much as the democrats at San Francesca considered the divorces in which three of their leading possible candidates figured Another point on which agreement has not been reached is the name for the third party This dispute is not likely to be serious.
 FARMERS LABOR PARTY
 The name will probably correspond to the realities 1t will be called. in all proba bility, the farmers-labor party. The labor party leaders are especially lnsis'- ent that the word Labor shall appear in the party name. The farmers are careless about the name, but they want labor to have it's way.
 In all the conferences MT. Roe, repre- senting Senator LaFollette, has taken part, saving little, being generally Q silent observer, reporting by long dis tance telephone to his principal. The pressure of LaFollette upon the elements here has been exerted in this way,
 Everybody has felt that he was work ing under the eyes of the senator himself and that he had to win the senator approval in order to gain the senator consent to run. The overwhelming de- sire of both the labor and the forty eight leaders for Mir. LaFollette as a candidate has done the rest.
 It is apparent what LaFollette has been seeking has been a union of the labor and the farmers groups represented here. He is likely to see in their Jnion the evidence of real and permanent third party and he is likely to be wiil- ing to become its candidate.
 LaFollette doubtless cares very little about the intellectual leaders of forty eight ." These men were either once