Philadelphia, June 22.
The Republican Party appeared ready yesterday to bid for labour and farm votes in the 1940 Presidential campaign by pledging the party's efforts to provide jobs for 10,000,000 unemployed and to guarantee the continuance of farm subsidy payments until parity is reached.
Observers here yesterday declared the party will say that only the G.O.P. is able to stimulate business enough to absord the nation's unemployed and will capitalize on the unusual unanimity among leaders of the American Federation of Labour, the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the National Association of Manufacturers that unemployment will be solved only by persuading idle capital to provide new production—Untited Press.
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