The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-12
MANY HITCHES
TO PARTY UNION
Labor Delegates and the
"48-ers" Are Bickering
Over a Name
SEN. LA TOILETTE
LEADING CANDIDATE
Two Separate Conventions
Assembled in Chi
cago To-day

Chicago, July l2.-Amalgamation Of
the labor party of the United States
and the committee of As in new po-
litical movement with a single party
name, one platform and one presiden
tial ticket, are included in the recon-
mendations submitted TO the LABOR and
as convention when they reo ,nvened
to-day.
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette Of Wis.
consin remained the most talked of
candidate in the presidential race. The
terms of the proposed combine are
understood by the party leaders to
meet his views as expressed last week
to Amos Pinchot and George L. Record,
leading forty Fighters, who called on
the senator to ask if he will accept the
nomination should il be rendered to
| him.
Conference committees appointed yes
! terday by the labor convention end
Saturday by the forty Fighters,
smoothed out objections TO amalgama-
tion in a protracted session last night
and adopted series of recommenda-
tions to be offered to the two conYen-
tions to-day Besides urging the com
| bining of forces under a common name
they also proposed appointment of spe-
cial subcommittee to draft the ma
chinery under which the combine will
work and to prepare joint plat
| form.
! The recommendations, if approved to-
day, as the leaders confidently expect,
mean that the two conventions will
preserve their separate identity and
continue to function in separate ses-
sions. with committees reporting
identical measures to each for discus
sion and action.
What reception the amslgamation
proposal will receive from other liberal
and radical groups now meeting here
only time can show. The single tax
party. also in national convention as
sembled, is divided, according to the
expressions of various leaders, on the
availability of Senator LaFollette as
presidential nominee. One group OF
single takers has announced that II will
bolt the proposed combine rather than
stand for LaFollette, while another
! faction has declared it will accept any
presidential nominee so long as sin
gle tax plank is Incorporated in the
platform.
If Senator LaFollette wants the third
party nomination he can have il, both
forty Fighters and laborites agree. He
il already the overwhelming choice Of
the forty-eighters, a mail referendum
has shown. While other candidates will
be placed in nomination in the labor
convention and probably in the forty
eight meeting. too, the senator's
, friends say both groups are ready to
nominate him.
Frank p. Walsh, Kansas City, Charles
II. Ingersoll, manufacturer. and Henry
Ford, have been mentioned for the
nomination, but there is no apparent
concerted action TO further the pros
poets of any one Of them. Walsh is al
SO being discussed for vice president.
Yesterday was given over to the
opening session of the labor convention
with delegates from 80 trade union
groups and other organizations repre-
sented. The forty Fighters and single
takers. whose convention opened Satur-
day had recessed for the day and prac-
italy their entire membership attend
ed the lebor convention, many partici-
pating as active delegates.
Prominent among those assuming a
dual delegate role was James Duncan
one of the leaders of the general strike
in Seattle last year. Duncan on Satur.
dav was elected chairman of the Wash
inCton delegation to the convention Of
the committee Of IS and yesterday was
chosen vice-chairman Of the labor con
vention.
, The radical groups who. according q
Swinburne Hale. one Of their leaders
were in the minority in the 4s conyen
tion Saturday. were in the ascendency
Yesterday. and vigorously applauded
when their leaders prayed for the day
2 when the workers Of America would
follow the example set by the work
ers Of Russia
Every reference TO Russia. and q
ireland. too. was spplsnded with Z
= will. and when John Fitzpatrick. th'
labor kcynoter. praised the Russian
. revolution three cheers for soviet Rus
sia we're called and given.
Sitting late last Right the commit
tee in conference over the amalgsma
tion proposals found the selection Of {
name for their mem political party
10 be more than a minor problem. Com
binations upon the word labor were d
diSfavor among the committee cf q
representative. but American party
was presented BY several spoSesmen
:, "The Union psrty" was likewise q
!. 10 presented. but no deeision va
reached
Amalgsmsticn proposals halted res
work in platform committees 81 q.
ratheriuCs since they involved an Ar
-e ranzemenf for dire-f cooperation Be-
u twcen al Cr8uP~ concerned be con
y ference also considered proposal 9
bring an e the delegates assembled d
T. tho tua aenNeaf urs into -smgc 81
b sfcn for platform adoption and ptes.
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