 The CPPA was originally intended to be an umbrella organization uniting various elements of the Farmer-Labor political movement around a common program for joint independent political action.In practice, however, invitations to the group's founding conference were issued to members of a wide variety of "progressive" organizations, including those who did not seek a new political organization.As a result, the body was quite heterogeneous and unable to agree on a program or even a declaration of principles at its initial gathering.