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Show La Foilette May Head New Bloc Washington. The purposes of the new "progressive movement inaugurated inaug-urated by the organization of the "progressive bloc" in congress were declared formally to be legislative and not political in resolutions adopted Saturday at a general public conference. confer-ence. Senator Lafollette, Republican, Wisconsin, who with Representative Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama, called the conference under the auspices au-spices of the people's legislative service, ser-vice, presided over the general public gathering which was attended by more than 100 members of congress, governors gov-ernors and other leaders. Representative Represent-ative Woodruff, Republican, Michigan was 'elected secretary. The first resolution reso-lution adopted declared that the movement move-ment was "non-partisan" and would devote itself to "consideration of devising de-vising methods and means for cooperation coop-eration and support" of the general legislative program adopted by the new progressive congressional bloc. At the suggestion of President Gomp-ers Gomp-ers of thej American Federation of Labor, the resolutions had been amended to declare the movement "nonpartisan" Instead of "nonpoliti-cal." |