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Show Convention Is Called to Nominate Candidate For L W. W. Head. CHICAGO. Nov. 22 Nearly one thousand thou-sand delegates, including labor leaders, eo-operatlvc association sponsors and representatives rep-resentatives of farmers' organizations and the N'on-Partisan leatnie. were here today : to attend a convention of the National , Labor party railed primarily to nomln- ate a candidate for president of tho United States. Many of the new party men went sleepy -eyed to the meeting hall tki-morning tki-morning after all night conferences, caused, they said, by conflict between radical and conservative leaders In the American Federation of Labor. The conentlon was called recently by John Fltzpatrick president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and chairman chair-man of the national steel strike committee, commit-tee, and his associates In the middle west. The two major parties would be attacked, at-tacked, Fitzpatrick said, with the intention inten-tion of rendering them impotent. Th-Democratic Th-Democratic party would be first assalbd "because of Its attitude toward un'on labor," and an assault on the Republican Repub-lican organization would follow Among resolutions, delegates sail, would be presented to the contention, were those advocating1 "free speech and the right of free assembly' removal of the allied blockade of the soviet government govern-ment of Russia and an endorsement of the Dolshelk government |