 After the Debs speech, those delegates favoring establishment of a new political party were then reconvened, with the opponents of an independent political party departing.The reconvened Founding Convention found itself split between adherents of a non-class Progressive Party based upon individual memberships as opposed to the Socialists' conception of a class-conscious Labor Party employing "direct affiliation" of "organizations of workers and farmers and of progressive political and educational groups who fully accept its program and principles.