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Show CALL FOR BULL MOOSE CONVENTION ISSUED Acting Chairman of National Commit- j tee Wants Progressives to Meet in New York December 15. I WASHINGTON", Dec. S. A call for a conference of Progressives not in sympathy sym-pathy with former leaders of the party 1 "in "asking the .Republican old guard to give us places on the Republican executive execu-tive committee" was issued tonight by Matthew Hale of Massachusetts, acting chairman of the Progressive national committee. The step follows the overtures over-tures mado by Raymond Robins, Gifford Pincbot and others at a meeting in Chi- , cago this week. ; The Progressives are asked to meet: in New York December 15 to arrange ! plans for the conference, to be held later in St. Louis. Mr. Hale says the liberals of the nation "must organize, regardless of their past party affiliations affilia-tions and regardless of their choice for president this fail." and that it is to form a nucleus for such a new and broader liberal organization that the St. Louis conference is called. |