Washington, Apr. 8.
The Socialist Party yesterday nominated Mr. Norman Thomas as its candidate for the President for the fourth. successive. time.
Mr. Maynard Krueger, of the University of Chicago, was nominated Socialist candidate for the Vice Presidency.
The Socialist convention here adopted a nine-point programme yesterday in which the delegates opposed. war and dictatorships.
The programme alleged that President Roosevelts huge defence expenditure were designed to prepare the United States for war. The convention rejected a minority committee report favouring economic aid to the Allied Powers.
The convention also opposed the imposition of an economic embargo against Japan on the grounds that it might prove to be a cause for war between the United States and Japan.
The convention programme bitterly criticized the Roosevelt Administration for its failure to invoke the Neutrality Act in the Far East during the Sino-Japanese war. The convention, however, favoured the continuation of "independent working class action against Japan through the medium of a workers' boycott of Japanese and German goo.
The programme said the Roosevelt Administration had deliberately chosen to ignore the Neutrality Act with a view to profiting from the Far Eastern war. The United States, the bro-gramme said, had become the virtual partner of Japan in the latter's attack on China.
At the same time, the programme said, the Roosevelt Administration
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