The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-24
SOME DISPUTES
 DISTURB PLANS
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ran an hour or so behind time. Forty-five minutes after the gavel should have sounded at noon, Far- ley was strolling the crowded aisles. There was music but no formal poe litical business, Fewer than Q fifth of the gallery seats were occupied.
 Today's schedule was light, point ing toward this evening when Sen, Joseph T. Robinson will be elected permanent chairman and resume the attack on Gov. Ali M. Landon and the republican party.
 of stage committees are compos- ing most convention differences and leaders hope to avoid floor contro- versy on all issues except abroga- ton of the two-thirds rule. The south defends 1t because it long has given minority coalition power to veto democratic presidential nor1- nations.
 Mrs. Roosevelt HOnOred
 The women delegates paid tribute to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 T want to speak for a moment of @ woman democrat who is not here, who is kept away by conventions, said Miss Perkins. "She is kept away, not by political conventions, but by social conventions, although she is @ woman who has not been bound by conventions.
 Recognizing that she had @ great talent, she also realized that she had @ responsibility to use 1t for the peo- pie. Her genius is an unusual capac- ity to love human beings, and to hear and understand their misery, their want, and their aspirations.
 "she gallantly and courageously went out in the face of unfavorable criticism not only to meet the peo- pie as @ friend, but to utilize that contact to make of herself 8 chan. nel through which their need and their hopes and their desires could be directed to places where solu- tions could be found"
 Labor Seeks Plank
 President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation today called upon Democratic platform builders to pledge Q second New Deal, embracing controlled agricul- ture, managed currency and cur- tailment of U. s. Supreme Court powers.
 Green and O'Neal submitted their demands in behalf of some 20,0oO,- 900 farm and labor voters whose desires they said the platform pro- posals represented.
 Their views were placed before the initial meeting of the resolu- tions committee headed by Sen Robert Wagner, D., N. Y.
 The committee is embroiled ir dispute between liberal and conser- vative factions over platform pro- posals akin to those outlined by the farm and labor spokesmen. Outlines Broad Plan
 Green outlined @ broad program, of labor demands, including the 30- hour week, continued federal pub lie works, higher wages and provi. sion of adequate annual working wages, guarantee of the right of la. bor to organize and bargain collec- lively and continuation of New Dea social security plans.
 He emphasized his view that pow CTS of the supreme court must bt curbed and suggested that 1t be prohibited from invalidating any act of Congress except by two. thirds vote.
 He added that there might bt some hope that the court could bt rebuilt and reconstructed" in whlcf case the constitution twill take or a new meaning"
 He was applauded by Sen. Jame; P. Pope, D., Oda., Q frequent critic of the courts decisions invalidatinr New Deal proposals.
 Both Green and O'Neal endorsed New Deal efforts to curb what they characterized as economic evils anC urged the party to go forward witt news experimentation in this field.