sentences:  In December 1895, Lermond issued a call for the creation of more local unions in the pages of the New York "Commonwealth" and the "Coming Nation".In the spring of that year he announced he was setting up an "organizational meeting" to create a "National Union of the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth" scheduled to be held in St. Louis on July 24–26, 1896, congruent with that year's People's Party national convention, to which he was a delegate.A formal "call" for this convention was published in "Coming Nation" July 11 and 18, and was endorsed by Henry Demarest Lloyd, Eugene Debs, Frank Parsons, William D. P. Bliss and Eltweed Pomeroy.