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Shorter hours, higher wages, end child labor and sweatshops — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.65	1936	Alf Landon	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Labor's right to organize in any union it prefers, free from coercion by employer, fellow employee or anyone else; organizers' lawful activity protected
0.57	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.55	1932	Herbert Hoover	Maintenance of wage levels in depression	Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service
0.51	1936	William Lemke	Minimum wages	A 'living annual wage' -- $1,800 for a family of five -- by federal law and a constitutional amendment if necessary
0.48	1932	Norman Thomas	Working hours and labor standards	The six-hour day and five-day week without reduction in wages
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A permanently sound currency stabilized against wide fluctuations
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Restore purchasing power to the farming half of the nation
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Child labor	No return to sweatshops or children working in factories
0.46	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Guard the worker's right to organize and bargain collectively
0.46	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Federal construction at three times normal and $1.5 billion of RFC loans for self-liquidating works — but no pork-barrel or non-productive projects
0.44	1932	Alfred E. Smith	European war debts and reparations	A twenty-year moratorium on the war debts, writing them off in proportion to each nation's purchases of American goods
0.44	1932	Norman Thomas	Federal responsibility for relief	A $5 billion federal appropriation for immediate relief of those in need
0.44	1936	Alf Landon	Gold standard and currency basis	Sound currency 'at all hazards'; no further devaluation; repeal the laws delegating the money power to the Executive
0.43	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Working hours and labor standards	Spread employment by substantially reducing hours of labor, starting in government service
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sickness and health insurance	Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance
0.42	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Ratify the St. Lawrence seaway treaty and complete the inland waterway system
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public ownership of electric power	Public development of hydro-electric power on the St. Lawrence model, with national control of interstate transmission
0.40	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Distribution of national income and purchasing power	A more equitable distribution of national income — higher reward to labor, lower to speculative capital
0.39	1932	Herbert Hoover	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Collective bargaining by representatives of the employees' own choice, 'without the interference of any one'
0.39	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Meet constitutional obstacles by 'clarifying amendment' -- and say nothing about the Supreme Court
0.39	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Unconditional most-favored-nation treatment; no reciprocal bargains or preferences
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	International economic and monetary conferences	Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	An "economic declaration of rights" — the right to make a living and the right to safe savings