Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-23
CONVENTION HEADoUAR

CON V EN- lNN II T. A II " L - X
TIERS. CHICAGO, July %. up
The Democratic party hopes to win
the 1914 campaign en- its record of
70 years in power during war and
peace and on a terse platform of
1900 words set against 40CO-word
Republican declaration.
The Democratic party stands on
its record in peace and in war,
the party platform, adopted by the
national convention Thursday, be-
gan. ITO speed victory, establish
and maintain peace, guarantee full
employment and provide prosperity
this is its platform. We do not
here detail scores of planks. We
cite action
That contrasted with this para
graph of the Republican platform
-Four years more of New Deal
policy would centralize all power in
the President and would daily sub
ject every act of every citizen to
regulation by his henchmen; and
this country would remain a re-
public in name only
The two platforms contained
some common pledges, some di-
vergent ones and some in sharp
conflict. Here is a comparison CT
some of the planks:
FOREIGN POLICY
DemOcratic-The party pledged
Ito join with the other United Ma
tions in the establishment of an in
ternational organization based on
the principle CT sovereign equality
of all peace-loving states To
make all necessary and effective
agreements through which the ma
tions would maintain adequate
forces TO meet the needs of prevent
ing war and of making impossible
the preparation for war and which
would have such forces available
for Joint action when necessary
Such organization must be endowed
with power to employ armed forces
when necessary TO prevent agrees
sion and preserve peace.
Republican-"We favor response
BILE participation by the United
States in postwar cooperative CT
ganization among sovereign nations
TO prevent military aggression and
TO attain permanent peace with or
ganized justice in a free world
Such organization should develop
effective cooperative means 10 d.
rect peace forces 10 prevent or repe.
military aggression
RACE PROBLEMS
Democratic-"We believe that
racial and religious minoritles have
the right TO live, develop and vote
equally with all citizens and share
the rights that are guaranteed by
our Constitution. Congress should
exercise its full constitutional pow
ers to protect those rights"
Observation-Disclosures a perma-
nent fair employment practices
committee, anti-poll tax and anti
lynching legislation and an inquiry
into discrimination in the armed
forces
AGRICULTURE
Both parties endorsed support
prices and crop insurance. The
Demo Gratis promised to foster the
success of the small. independent
farmer" and Ito aid the home own
ership of the family-sized farm.
The Republicans endorsed meas
attrantiUa'
on the family farm. The Republic
ans condemned the Roosevelt ad-
ministration for confused, unre-
liable, impractical price and pro-
duction" policy during the war and
implicitly accused il OF regimenting
farmers.
LABOR
The Democratic platform con-
tanned no specific plank on labor
but promised adequate comps nSa-
ton to demobilized war workers and
enactment of additional legislation
or the amendment or repeal Of ex-
listing laws as experience indicated
the need.
The Republicans charged the ad-
ministration with selfish and par
tisan control" over government la
Dor agencies, with pervertlng the
National Labor Relations Act, emas-
culating the labor department and
undermining collective bargaining
They accepted the purposes OF
the labor relations, wage-hour. So
cial security and ether laws tor the
protection of workers.
MISCELLANEOUS
Both parties pledged to support
submission of constitutional
amendment guaranteeing equa !