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- May 30, 1932THIRD PARTIESAgain, Thomas
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- Dearly would socialist Norman Thomas of New York City like
- to be the eighth Ohioan, the third Princetonian to sit in the
- White House. Last week, at the Socialist National convention in
- Milwaukee, he got his second chance with his second nomination.
- As in 1928, his running mate was chosen to be James H. Maurer,
- one-time president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A 60-
- min. ovation greeted their uncontested nominations. Candidate
- Thomas keynoted his campaign thus: "Not merely or chiefly the
- Democratic or Republican parties, but the capitalist system
- behind them stand sexposed in all its brutal stupidity. Its days
- are numbered. Its doom is written in its own failures . . . . The
- choice now confronting the world is between Socialism and
- catastrophe!"
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- President Before Platform
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- Socialists this year followed the novel party procedure of
- first nominating their presidential candidate, then building a
- platform under him. Fortnight ago, at the Socialist National
- Convention in Milwaukee, the 1932 Socialist ticket was named --
- for President, Norman Thomas of New York; for Vice President,
- James H. Maurer, onetime president of the Pennsylvania Federation
- of Labor -- same ticket which received 267,420 votes in 1928. A
- 60- minute ovation greeted these uncontested nominations. Nominee
- Thomas' keynote: "The choice now confronting the world is between
- Socialism and catastrophe!"
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- Last week the Socialists, with considerably less harmony,
- began formulating the issues on which Nominees Thomas Maurer will
- campaign. A bitter struggle resulted in what Colyumist Heywood
- Broun, defeated Socialist candidate for Congress and New York
- City aldermas, wryly called his "first political victory." The
- convention voted (81-to-71) for repeal of the 18th Amendment and
- government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of
- Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten
- billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public
- works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal
- and corporation income taxes, a two-year moratorium on
- foreclosures and tax sales of homes and farms.
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