 The railway unions, whose efforts who had originally brought the CPPA into existence, were fairly solidly united against the third-party tactic, instead favoring continuation of the CPPA as a sort of pressure group for progressive change within the structure of the Democratic and Republican Parties.The February 1925 Convention was attended by "several hundred delegates"—a number that will never be known precisely since the body voted for "sine die" adjournment before the report of the Credentials Committee was delivered.L.