The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-12
EFFORTS TO UNITE
RADICAL FACTIONS
CO ON IN SECRET
Irish Problem Promises Ex-
Citement in Convention of
-'' "48'erS," With Race Ques-
tion Put Forward by Negro.

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CHICAGO, July 12.-work Of ANAL
gamatlng the various elements assem-
bled here for. the formation of a new
party continued behind closed doors
this morning while the convention of
the committee of 4S and the National
Labor party marked time.
Everything appeared to be proceed
ing on schedule with the single note of
excitement provided by a platform fight
over the Irish question.
The race question was brought before
the convention by Rev. w. r. Bagnau,
negro minister, of Detroit. He was in
troduced as a speaker for the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.
%, w. Thomson, lecturer for the
National Nonpartisan league, enter
tanned the AS" convention delegates
with a recital of state enterprises ini-
tiated by the league administration in
North Dakota. He said the league had
given union labor all 1t had asked and
some more.
During the long wait for conference
reports, Swinburne Hale, of New York,
telling of deportation proceedings of
the federal government, attacked Attor-
ney-General Palmer and won applause.
Hale told his audience that Harley p.
Christensen, of Utah, permanent chair
man of the convention, was lone of
the first defenders of the I. w. W"
The delegates cheered at this until
Chairman Christensen was forced to
acknowledge by bowing.
THE department of labor has since
become emancipated," Hale said deal
ing with Palmer, "by the courage of
Louis POST
Here the delegates, number of them
rising, gave three cheers for the assist
ant secretary of labor whose impeach
ment has been urged by Attorney PAL
mer.
Eamon de Valera got a rousing re-
ceptlon as he entered the hall, cutting
snort Hale's talk
oS%h1a Senator Robert M. La Toilette of Wis
consln, remained the most talked of
tanoidate in the presidential race. The
terms of the proposed combine are un-
derstood by the party leaders to meet
MS views as expressed last week to
lines iS Fmchot and George l.. Record,
the senator to ask If he would accent
the nomination should it be rendered
him.
Conference committees appointed yes
sesruay by the labor convention and
smoothed out objections to amaIgas %
nation in a protracted session last
night and adapted a series of recon-
mendations to be offered to the two
conventions today. Besides urging the
comDlnlng OF forces under a common
standard with a common name they
Slso proposed appointment of a spe-
sial subcommittee to draft the machin-
Dry under which the combine will work
1nd TO prepare a joint platform.
y The recommendat tions, II approved to-
AayEeas the leaders confidently expect,
mean that the two conventions will pre-
serve their separate identity and con-
tue 10 junction In separate sessions
With subcommittee reporting identical
measures to each for discussion and
action.
What reception the amalgamation
proposal will receive from other liberal
and radical groups now meeting here
party, also in national convention as
sembled is divided according to ex-
pressions of various leaders, on the
availability of Senator La Toilette as
presidential nominee, One group of
single takers has announced 1t will bolt
the proposed combine rather than stand
for La Toilette, while another faction
has declared it will accept any presi-
dental nominee so long as a single
tax plank is incorporated in the plat
form.
Frank P. Walsh, Kansas City; Charles
H. Ingorsoll, matchmaker, and Henry
Ford have been mentioned for the nom
ination, but there is no apparent con-
=eerted action. to further the prospects
of any one of them. Walsh is also be-
ing discussed for vice-president
Yesterday was given over to the open
ing session Of the labor convention with
delegates from 60 trade union groups
and other organizations represented
The Forey Fighters and single takers,
whose convention opened Saturday, had
recessed for the day, and practically
their entire membership attended the
labor convention, many participating as
active delegates
The radical groups, who, according
to Swnburne Hale. one of their leaders,
were in the minority in the "4S" con-
vention Saturday were in the ascend
ancy yesterday and vigorously ap-
plauded when their leaders prayed for
the day when the workers of America
would follow the example set by the
workers of Russia.
Every reference to Russia and to
Ireland too, was applauded with a will
and when John Fitzpatrick, the labor
keynoter, praised the Russian revolu-
tion three cheers for soviet Russia were
called for and given.
Amalgamation efforts were carried
further today under the direction of
the committee of 48. A special subcom-
mittee headed by Mrs. Ina p. Williams
of Washington state; carried invitations
to representatives of the Nonpartisan
league, the single tax convention, the