Merchant Marine

The National defense and our foreign commerce require a merchant marine of the best type of modern ship, flying the American flag, and manned by American seamen, owned by private capital, and operated by private energy. We endorse the sound legislation recently enacted by the Republican Congress that will insure the promotion and maintenance of the American Merchant Marine.

We favor the application of the workmen’s compensation act to the Merchant Marine.

We recommend that all ships engaged in coastwise trade and all vessels of the American Merchant Marine shall pass through the Panama Canal without payment of tolls.

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Chicago: "Merchant Marine," Republican Party Platform of 1920 in Donald B. Johnson, Ed. National Party Platforms, 1840–1976. Supplement 1980. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois), P.235 Original Sources, accessed December 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UTLGEZJLXMXWEY7.

MLA: . "Merchant Marine." Republican Party Platform of 1920, in Donald B. Johnson, Ed. National Party Platforms, 1840–1976. Supplement 1980. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois), P.235, Original Sources. 4 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UTLGEZJLXMXWEY7.

Harvard: , 'Merchant Marine' in Republican Party Platform of 1920. cited in , Donald B. Johnson, Ed. National Party Platforms, 1840–1976. Supplement 1980. (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois), P.235. Original Sources, retrieved 4 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=UTLGEZJLXMXWEY7.