The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-13
AMALCAMATE.
AFTER STORM
or DISCUSSION
Third Parties Throw Strength
Into Single Effort Radi-
Gals in All Try to Break
Away.
MARCH into MEETING
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July 13-Amalgama-
t1on Of the principal groups was af.
1ected here today. The committee Of
AZ voted to join the national labor
party.
A large Non-partisan league group
and a delegation of single takers
marched into the convention and an
nounced they also had decided to
amalgamate
The committee of 4S conferrees
yielded to the labor party on the
question of naturalization of banks
end credit facilities and the demo
cratic control" of essential industries.
The convention was thrown into
an uproar when Robert NJ Buck, Chi
cago, chairman of the Labor resolu-
tons committee, made a motion that
credentials Of the 4Sers be honored
and the hall prepared for a joint con-
vention.
The motion carried amid cheers and
on its heels a half hundred farmer
delegates from the 48 convention ar
rived and were seated after a tumui-
tuouS demonstration. The farmer del.
egates raised a Nonpartisan League
SIduudTU ABOVE Llelr seats.
Radical Minister Prays
The Rev. George C. Richmond of St.
Louis opened the Forty-eighters con-
vent1on with prayer that was re.
ce1ved with cheers
I'VE are not concerned about heaven
and hell" he said. ''It is this world
in which we are interested. AS Jesus
failed, SO do We"
The prayer charged that Republi.
can 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 Illir ois,
he said, the governor and his para.
sites are cursed by plutocratic self
1shness." TIE added:
we are corrupt, mean, low visioned
and selfish. Forgive us, o God, and
IN the great revolution now coming
save us from national dissolution"
The Labor party of the United
States, in an ultimatum adopted last
night after SO hours of conferences
had failed to bring the party and the
committee Of 4s together, voted to pro
ceed to the adoption of a platform and
selection Of candidates, if a conference
report was not ready by 10 o'clock this
morning.
At midnight, the conferees, sent
back into session by their conventions
reopened their discussion in a final
effort to reach an agreement salts
factory to both groups and avert an
open breach. The conference com
mittees resumed their work, prepared
and willing to go the limit in conces
sions which would not impair the basic
principles to which their respective
conventions were committed
The radical faction in the labor con
vent1on threatened for several hours
last night to break off negotiations
with the 48rs imm mediately.
More conservative delegates, how
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 u1timatum was in the nature
of compromise between the widely
divergent views of the extreme left
and the right wing, one favoring ar
immediate break and other indefinite
continuation of the negotiations
Dramatic appeals for unity by Fran
els Dillon Of Indiana, and Dudley Fielt
Malone of New York, were credited
with having turned the tide against
the radical element.
Malone, one Of the 4Srs, and also 6
member Of the Labor party, was hast
lily summoned to the hall when the
radical group threatened to force the
split, and in final appeal placatet
the more restive ones with a promise
that the rank and file Of the 4Srs would
back the labor branch if amalgamatior
proved impossible.
Assert They're Too Brainy
Speaker after speaker In two hour!
of hectic debate asserted that the in
tellectuals leading the 4Srs had NJ
real control over the mass Of thei
followers and that an appeal from the
Labor party would bring the private!
of the 4S movement into the labo
ranks.
Delegates freely urged that thu
Labor party forget all about the A
leaders and go after the farmers il
their convention. They said that th'
farmer strength in the other meeting
had no real affinity with the "plute
and subtle, slick lawyers" who the,
asserted, comprise the leadership o
| the As group.
Opposition of the conference com
mittee of forty-eighters to the use o
| the name Farmer-Labor as the part.
| designation proved the first big stun
bling block in the way of amalgama
ton, but they are understood today Il
be in a conciliatory mood on tn,
question. Differences on the defini
ton of democratic management" o
| railroads and essential industries gov
ernmental operation of which bot
parties favor, were not so easily com
promised.
| Wide Variance In Views.
| The views of the 4Sers on the on
hand and the trade union attitude OF
the other, were at wide variance an
may ultimately be the cause of
break. The labor party plan of opera
ton of the roads by officials chosel
from the ranks of employees, proved
in the conferences already held, a.
insurmountable obstacle.
While the labor convention Tough