Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-25 | Page 8 | Farmer-Labor Party for Utah

FARMER-LABOR ! PARTYFOR UTAH Convention Held in Sait Lake; Socialists Decline to Join Group SALT LAKE. July 24. Various la-I la-I bor bodies of Utah cities and counties, the Labor party of the state of L tah, 1 the Committee of forty-Eight organization organ-ization in this slate and a number of I representatU es of farming interests I early tonight completed organisation of the Farmer-Labor part of I'tah.j which then proceeded to hold Its first J state convention here. L'tah Socialists Social-ists refused to amalgamate with the new party. The Socialists stand was that they j could not consistently Join with any! I political group unless the members of 1 that group Joined the Socialist party. The other elements declined to do this and, after considerable discus-1 discus-1 slon, the Socialist representatives' 1 withdrew from the meeting and held' 1 a conxrntlon of their own Both the Socialist group and the Farmer-Labor party adopted platforms plat-forms and the Socialist. In addition named an entire state ticket 1 The Farmer-Labor platform was I devoted almost wholly to an endorse- ment of the national platform adopted adopt-ed by the new third party In Its Chicago, Chi-cago, convention. The Farmer-Labor group recessed shortly before 10 o clock without hav-, hav-, lng named a state ticket, but with I plans made to name one before ad-I ad-I Journlng.