The practical implementation of this orientation became the burning task of the day. In Chicago, on February 20 and 21, 1922, hundreds of delegates met at the “Conference for Progressive Political Action”, representing over fifty national and international unions, all the main farmer organizations, the FLP, the Socialist Party, the Non-Partisan league, as well as dozens of middle-class organizations. The conference, which was “the most significant gathering of representatives of American mass movements in decades,”[20] was organized on the initiative of the relatively conservative railroad brotherhoods. johnriddell.wordpress/2014/09/10/defying-the-democrats-marxists-and-the-lost-labor-party-of-1923/
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