 About 50 people attended, with 41 accredited votes being cast.The convention unanimously named John W. Ingle, a 53-year-old Corvallis farmer who had previously served as superintendent of schools in Umatilla County as its nominee.A new electoral platform was approved by the assembled delegates which outlined the basic idea of the class struggle and declared "there is only one weapon with which the working class can successfully oppose the capitalistic system — and that is the ballot."