bourgeoisie comprising the Committee of 48, for whom these hardened persons never had anything but the most thinly veiled contempt, melted away when the burning glass at Carmen's Hall [LP convention site] turned its fierce intensive rays toward the Hotel Morrison [48ers convention site].... "Mr. Hopkins still thinks an amalgamation possible on the basis of the [Committee of 48's] St. Louis platform. That platform has a labor plank for collective bargaining; labor laughs at it. It has a plank for government ownership of railroads and public utilities; the Socialists are already in the field and go the 48ers a lot better. It has a Single Tax plank, or a plank for the taxation of idle land to force it into use; the Single Tax Party is in the field with a full Single Tax program. The St. Louis platform is a painfully strained dilution of issues that are now before the country, presented by men who are not afraid of their convictions. The program of the 48 Committee is chiefly interesting to the disembodied ghosts of the Chartists of the early ’40s." Prominent members Herbert S. Bigelow McAlister Coleman Albert DeSilver Will Durant Zona Gale Charlotte Perkins Gilman Swinburne Hale William Hard Arthur Garfield Hays John Haynes Holmes J.A.H. Hopkins Frederic C. Howe B. W. Huebsch Rush H. Limbaugh, Sr. Robert Morss Lovett Dudley Field Malone Allen McCurdy Amos Pinchot Ordway Tead Carl D. Thompson Franklin Wentworth Ina Phillips Williams References External sources The Committee of Forty-Eight: For a Conference of Americans Who are Equally Opposed to Reaction and Violent Revolution: Its Purposes — And the Reasons for It. New York: The Committee of Forty-Eight, n.d. [1919]. Platform of the Committee of 48: Unanimously Adopted at the First National Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, Dec. 9-12, 1919: Together with Supporting Argument, Resolutions, and Methods of Political Procedure. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1919]. The Call to a National Conference of American Men and Women. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1920]. Allen McCurdy, Wanted — A Ballot Box. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1920]. —Committee of Forty-Eight Pamphlets No. 1. Frederick William Pethwick-Lawrence, Hand and Brain. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1920]. —Committee of Forty-Eight Pamphlets No. 2. J.W. McConaughy, The Bishops and Industrial Civilization. New York: The Committee of 48, n.d. [1920]. —Committee of Forty-Eight Pamphlets No. 3. Edgar Lee Masters, The New