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1932 › Norman Thomas (Socialist) › Old-age pensions and social insurance
Old-age pensions for men and women sixty and over
pledge_forwardspecific_pledgeparty_platformevidence B Relief, Welfare & Social Insurance similar solutions · similar reasoning
Solution
Old-age pensions beginning at sixty; health insurance; improved workmen's compensation and accident insurance.
Rationale
The aged 'should not be coldly discarded by a heartless community and left to their own resources to beg or die.'
Evidence B: the platform text is archived only as contemporary newspaper OCR (Milwaukee Leader, the Socialist daily) and Levinson's New Leader summary, not the official platform document.
Statements (2)
We demand an adequate retire ment pension for aged and disabled workers.
the convention 0 K'd without discus sion the planks declaring for old age pensions for men and women GO years old and older; for health insurance; improved systems of workmen's compensation and acci dent insurance and for the aboli tion of child labor.
'GO' is OCR for '60'.
Follow-through
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Thomas received 2.2 percent of the vote; the Socialist program could not be tested in office. Federal old-age insurance and assistance came in 1935, at sixty-five rather than sixty.
Enacted by others
| 1935-08-14 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | statute Social Security Act Titles I and II | source |
Other positions on this issue
- Old-age insurance under state laws — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance
- Build on the Social Security Act toward economic security for all — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 directional_stance
- The Townsend $200-a-month pension as a plank of the Union coalition — William Lemke, 1936 vague_gesture
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