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Show NONPARTISANS ; EMEU RANKS League Aims to Organize ! California People Into Nino Groups MODESTO. Ca!., Jan. IP The Nonpartisan league no longer intends to confine its activities to formers, It announced Friday at the first state j convention of the body in California, i at which it was organised as a poiltl-cal poiltl-cal party In this state. The announcement announce-ment came from Thomas Mills, state campaign manager for tho league, who acted as temporary chairman of the convention. Mr Mills said the league planned to organize nine groups of citizens in this state housekeepers farmers, norsons engaged in transportation, factory workers, commercial workers, professional men and women, members mem-bers of tho building trades crafts, miners (including oil workers! and a miscellaneous group. In outlining the league proposals ho said an educational campaign si eking to enroll r;t b ast 100, 0U" families, fami-lies, with o minimum payment of $lf from each family in ths league, would be commenced soon. Among those attending the convention conven-tion are D. P Dorman of -Minneapolis, national organizer of the league; Cameron Cam-eron King, a Socialist bailer; Waldo D. Summers, formerly xecutivo officer offi-cer of tho Progressive party of Canada, Can-ada, and "Alexander Horr. once associated asso-ciated with Emma Goldman In lecture lec-ture work- The attendance of spectators was not largo, owing, league' officials said, to a change in the meeting plaCo or caslohed by a conflict in arrangements. |