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5 unusual facts about Conference for Progressive Political Action


Conference for Progressive Political Action

L.E. Sheppard, President of the Order of Railway Conductors, presented a resolution calling for a continuation of the CPPA on non-partisan lines as a political pressure group.

This proposal was met by an amendment by Morris Hillquit of the Socialist Party, who called the 5 million votes cast for LaFollette an encouraging beginning and urged action for establishment of an American Labor Party on the British model—in which constituent groups retained their organizational autonomy within the larger umbrella organization.

The Workers Party of America decided to send four delegates to the meeting at the Dec. 5, 1922, meeting of its governing Administrative Council.

William F. Dunne, Caleb Harrison, Ludwig Lore, and C.E. Ruthenberg were elected as representatives of the party, with J. Louis Engdahl, the 5th place vote-getter, named as alternate.

J. B. S. Hardman

This same year saw his expulsion from the Workers Party for refusing intervene on behalf of the WP at the Conference for Progressive Political Action in Cleveland 1922 and for refusing to submit the American Labor Monthly to party control.



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