Refined and adopted at the first Students for Democratic Society (SDS) convention in June 1962, the "Port Huron Statement" called for a "new left" committed, in the spirit of participatory democracy, to "deliberativeness, honesty reflection." The sponsoring League for Industrial Democracy (LID) took immediate issue. Although The Statement did express regret at the "perversion of the older left by Stalinism," it omitted the LID's standard denunciation of communism. Hayden was called to a meeting where, refusing any further concession, he clashed with Michael Harrington, as he later would with Irving Howe.