The New York herald., 1922-07-16
NEW LABOR PARTY
BARS COMMUNISTS
Vote Comes After Sharp De-
bate-Precautions Taken to
Prevent Red Stampede.
I A. LESSON FROM EUROPE
Speaker Says Their Methods
Would Ruin Any Labor
Party in u. 8. A.

. In Beethoven Hall. 40 East Fifth
{ street yesterday. were taken the initial
steps of what was hailed by the speak
: -ers as being the first hopeful move
ment to unite all the workingrnen In the
! country in a political party.
It was an informal convention OF rep
resentatives of the Socialists and the
Farmer Labor parties and OF union la
bor. There was harmony on the OBJ
jects of the meeting. the only division
being over the question OF extending an
Invitation to participate to the Social
Labor Party and to the Workers Par
ty, which comprises the Left Wingers
of the Socialists or the Communists.
The delegates voted 20f to % to ex-
clude the Communists. The decision 10
bar the Social Labor party was by a
viva voce vote. At the second session
of the convention to-day the delegates
Will agree on candidates IN this city for
Congress-, the State Legislature and
Judges As the delegates represent
only the city the question OF selecting
a coalition State ticket will be lett 10
the State committees OF the two par
ties and labor representatives, who VIII
w
Certain members OF the State dcket
recently selected by the Socialists Will
give way to representatives OF the
Farmer-Labor party and OF LABOR
unions 1t is understood. however, that
Charles p Steinmetz. the international
authority on matters electrical, connect
ed with the General Electric Company.
will remain on the ticket as candidate
for State Engineer, as Will EDWARD r.
n "a Grf-t icf
for Governor The Rev. John Haynes
Holmes of the Farmer Labor party Will
he substituted as the candidate for the
United States Senate In place OF John
w. Dennis, Socialist. from Rochester.
A committee will be empowered, It Is
understood, to extend the organisation
of the new party throughout the state
and later throughout the nation. Former
Alderman Algernon Lee, Socialist, -
permanent chairman. and the vlce-chair-
men are Jerome T. de Hunt, Farme--
Labor ard Abraham Shiplakoff, Labor
Union. The secretaries are Julius Ger
ber. Socialist, and Ernest Boehm.
Farmer-Labor.
Resolutions were adopted asking
President Harding and Gov. Miller TO
free all political and Industrial
prisoners Greetings were sent to Eugene
". Debs and various speakers condemned
the Lusk anti-sedition laws and the de-
cision of the courts against the Rand
School. Among the speakers were Rep
resentative Meyer London. who said the
millions of workers should be organ
ized as now they were sapping one
another's strength, and Charles W.
Erwin, editor of the CdH. who declared
1T is a good thing to have coalition
between two political parties who want
something right now. and labor unions
who know how to get 1t II you stick
together we will create a real workers
class party"
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch said she
had made a careful study OF labor con-
ditions in Europe for eight months. You
lust voted more wisely than you knew
she declared, referring to the-exclus1on
of the Communists. There Is such a
thing as being too generous In taking
an enemy into your bosom" Her word
to the Communists here was that Eu-
rope was tired OF violence and they
could never. hope to succeed there
through revolutionary means.