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...Mackinac Conference...
Unity of Party. "There are those who are striving to prove that 'somebody' got 'plowed under' at Mackinac-either the so-called 'interventionists' or the so-called 'noninterventionists' of yesterday. The answer is that nobody got plowed under. There was a rational, tolerant meeting of patriotic minds upon wholly compatible philosophies of action which complement each other. That spells unity...
Middle Course. "The Mackinac Charter . . . charts the great middle course of sanity and reason to which 95% of our people can subscribe...
...Some say that the Mackinac Charter is too indefinite in details. Let them hunt for details in the so-called Atlantic Charter. Let them hunt for details in the able exposition of the Secretary of State one week ago. Let them hunt for details in the well-known Fulbright Resolution (see col. one). Let them hunt for greater details in any pronouncement by any other great political party. They will hunt in vain...
...labor and lower-income vote back. He summarizes: > "Rapidly growing organized labor, voting the Democratic ticket almost 3-to-1, will not be impressed by cautiously phrased platform planks perfunctorily approving collective bargaining." (This advice went unheeded at the recent G. O. P. conferences in Mackinac.) > "It is one of the tragedies of the Republican Party today that despite its origin as the champion of free labor, despite the fact that Republican legislators in normally Republican states were pioneers in labor legislation . . . the party has permitted itself in the last generation to be maneuvered persistently into an anti-labor position...