Norman Thomas vs Newton D. Baker

Remove children 'of tender age' from mills and factories, particularly in the South, and give them schooling.

Federal appropriation of $5,000,000,000 for immediate relief to supplement state and local appropriations.

Health insurance alongside improved workmen's compensation and accident insurance.

Constitutional changes: a 'Workers' Rights Amendment' removing legal obstacles to nationalization and social insurance; limit the Supreme Court's power to void congressional legislation; proportional representation; direct popular election of the President.

Legislate a six-hour day and five-day week with no wage reduction, plus a comprehensive system of public employment agencies.

Enter the League of Nations and World Court; take the initiative for disarmament by international agreement and reduce American arms 'progressively and drastically to the point of complete disarmament'; grant immediate and full Philippine independence; withdraw armed forces from all foreign countrie

Having long advocated American membership in the League, Baker declared (January 26, 1932) that he would not favor a League plank and would not put the United States in the League until convinced a majority approved.

Governmental aid to farmers and small home-owners to protect them against foreclosures and non-payment of taxes (the 11th plank); a proposed moratorium on all interest charges was referred to the executive committee.

Old-age pensions beginning at sixty; health insurance; improved workmen's compensation and accident insurance.

Platform plank for repeal (carried 81–71, then 84–77); Thomas personally favored a national referendum to which parties would pledge themselves, and would vote for repeal in it; a Hoan–Broun–Ameringer proposal for government ownership of the liquor industry with state local option was also offered.

Federal appropriation of $5,000,000,000 for public work and roads, reforestation, slum clearance and decent homes for workers, with states and cities; legislation turning over idle land, factories and equipment to unemployed workers to produce food, fuel and clothing (Hoopes amendment, carried 78–62

Full equality for Black Americans and an anti-lynching law; federal legislation to enforce free speech, press and assembly; full civil and political rights for all creeds.

'Transfer of the principal industries of the country from private ownership and autocratic management to social ownership and democratic control,' industry by industry, with planned and steady production; socialize banking, natural resources, basic industries and public utilities. The convention rej

Raise income and inheritance taxes steeply, both for revenue and to fund unemployment insurance.

An effective system of compulsory unemployment insurance with funds partly contributed by employers and partly raised from increased income and inheritance taxes (the convention debated insurance versus compensation and the funding basis).

Cancel all war debts of foreign governments conditional on cancellation of reparations; 'the razing of the dangerous and preposterous tariff wall.'

American adherence to the League Court and cancellation of the European war debts, positions Baker had advocated publicly before 1932.