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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Auguit 18. 19SS Highlights of 1956 Platform Adopted at Democratic Convention Domestic Policy Plank Cites 'People's Needs' Chicago (U.R) Highlights of the 1956 Democratic platform: General Domestic Policy Republicans have reversed 20 years of Democratic accomplish ment, substituting deceptive slo gans and dismal deeds for Demo cratic progress. Republican pros perity is a myth. Hard money and GOP tax policy have fav- oied monopoly while wages lag farm income collapses, and small business failures increase. Democrats will restore funds for education and health, old age assistance, slum clearance and resource development, and other "needs of the people. They will balance the budget. under a 500 billion dollar na tional economy. Farmers will get "full parity" of income necessary school rooms will be built. "This country of ours . blessed with ever-increasing pro ductive power. The Republicans have not permitted this potential abundance to be released for the mutual benefit of all. We reject this stunted concept . . ." Human Welfare America can and must adopt measures to assure every citizen opportunity for full, healthy, happy life. Democrats will ex pand and improve great social welfare programs. Social secur ity will be broadened and strengthened, and benefits in creased. Unemployment insurance will be liberalized. Public assistance will be expanded. New aids will be provided for senior citizens. Federal aid will be provided for medical education; support will be increased for hospital build ing and public health. Public housing will be reviv ed. Democrats believe every American family is entitled to a decent home. Republicans have sabotaged that goal. "Federal aid and action should be pro vided, within the traditional framework of state and local Labor Relations Act and the Norris-LaGuardia anti-injunction law. The federal minimum wage should be raised from SI an hour to at least $1.25. Additional workers should be covered. Leg islation is needed to assure equal pay for women. Jobs must be provided for depressed areas. Atomic Energy The government must build plants for production of atomic power; under the Republican administration, this is left to private industry, and other coun tries are forging ahead. The Atomic Energy Commission must be taken out of politics. Democrats will sponsor a com prehensive survey of radiation hazards, from bomb tests and other atomic work, to see if further protection is needed. Atomic production will be step ped up to assure supplies for both peaceful and military uses. Financial Policy An expanding economy can produce enough taxes to balance the budget and at the same time support a tax cut. Democrats fav or correcting inequities in GOP tax law. They propose to increase personal tax exemptions from $600 to at least $800. Republican increases in interest rates will be reversed. Free Enterprise "We recognize monopolies and monopolistic practies as the real barriers between the people and their economic and political free dom." Republicans have fostered monopoly, stifling small business. Democrats pledge new aids 'for small business, including tax re lief. Foreign Trade Democrats always have work ed for expanding world trade. They will continue vigorous sup port for Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade agreements act. However, Republicans have failed to use the act's escape clauses as need ed, with resulting "serious econ- Stevenson Ponders Selection Of Vice Presidential Mate Chicago ;U.B Adlai E. Ste venson sought a running mate to day from a field of at least six hopefuls. A spokesman for the prospective Democratic presiden tial nominee said the race for second spot on the ticket was "still wide open." Known entries were Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee; Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minnesota; Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee; Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massa chusetts: Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey; and Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner Jr. of New York There could be others. Only Stevenson know for sure, and he was closeted in his hotel suite to day, studying the possibilities of all the contenders, and keeping his own counsel. Stevenson turned his attention to the choice of a vice presiden tial nominee after it became ob vious that he would be nomin ated for President on the first ballot tonight. His selection of a running mate almost certainly will be quickly ratified by the convention Friday afternoon. Studies Abilities Aides said Stevenson was weighing the qualifications for of the available candidates on two sets of scales, taking into account not only the question of their vote pulling power but also their competence for the na tion's second highest office, with particular reference to their abil ity to serve as a liaison with Congress. They stressed that the former Illinois governor has made "ab solutely no commitments in volving the vice presidency. Having clinched the nomination without any deals, they said, he has a free hand to pick the run ning mate he considers best for control," to build public schools. I omic injury" to hundreds of Civil Rights Democrats are committed to support and advance individual rights and liberties. All citizens are equal before the law and should enjoy equal political rights, as well as equal chance for education, economic ad vancement, decent living condi tions. "We will continue our efforts to eradicate discrimina tion based on race, religion or national origin." Recent Supreme Court rulings against race segregation in pub lic schools and elsewhere are of vast consequence to the nation and especially the South. "We reject all proposals for the use of force to interfere with the orderly determination of these matters by the courts." The party recognizes the Su preme Court as one of three branches of government, super ior to any political party, and that its decisions are part of the law of the land. Every child, re gardless of race, has full right under the Constitution and law, "without discrimination," to educational opportunity." Senate rules should be revised to let the majority work its will, so filibuster can't be used to block passage of civil rights leg islaion. k Labor Free collective bargaining is the best way to determine wages and working conditions. The Taft-Hartley Act loaded this in favor of management. President Eisenhower aggravated the prob lem by stacking the National Labor Relations Board with biased pro-management person nel. Democrats unequivocally urge repeal of Taft-Hartley. They also oppose state right-to-work laws enacted under its terms. "A new legislative approach toward the entire labor-management prob lem will be adopted, based on past experience and the prin ciples of the Wagner National1 American workers. Democrats will correct this. Foreign Policy Eisenhower administra tion policies of "bluff and blus ter" have "unnecessarily and dangerously subjected the Amer ican people to the risk of atomic war." President Eisenhower "has failed to seek peace with deter mination." Administration lead ers have been "fraternizing with the Communists and weakening (he positive Democratic policy of halting Communist expansion." Suez Canal crisis results from "inept and vacillating" GOP policy. Democrats support inter nationalization of the canal. They promise defensive wea pons" for Israel and economic aid to Arab states and Israel. They oppose admission of Red China to United Nations, and support the "great goal of en forced disarmament" and the strengthening of UN. Democrats condemn the GOP for "heartless record" of broken 1952 campaign promises to lib erate captive peoples behind the Iron Curtain. National Defense "Political considerations of budget balancing and tax reduc tions now come before the wants of our national security and the needs of our allies." Republicans "have stifled -our Air Force, starved our Army and weakened our capacity to deal with mili tary threats of any sort save by retreat or by . . . massive retal iation and global atomic war." Democrats stand for strong de fense forces "so clearly superior in modern weapons to those of any possible enemy that our armed strength will make an at tack upon the free world un thinkable." Agriculture The Eisenhower administra tion "has failed utterly to de velop any programs to meet the desperate needs of farmers . . . and has sabotaged" programs in- KV 5 Stevenson Confused By Too Many Groups Chicago (UP.) Adlai E. Ste venson has talked to so many groups at this convention that he sometimes loses track of where he is. He swept into one meeting Wednesday that had been in ses sion all. afternoon and was put immediately before the micro phone. "There is no need for me to tell you ..." Stevenson began. Then he stopped and asked: "What are you all talking about at the moment? Amid laughter, he was told he was talking to the Democratic Party's nationalities division and they were talking about foreign policy. "Oh," he said. "Well, you've all heard me on that and know where I stand. I've written books about it and I have no rea son to change what I've said." Then he dashed off to another meeting. herited from Democrats. Dem ocrats denounce President's veto of Democratic farm bill that would have junked flexible price supports and restored basic crop props at 90 per cent of parity. Democrats pledge full parity of income for farmers through 90 per cent support loans, plus subsidy payments, direct pur chases and similar measures. Democrats will support "contin ued improvements" in the soil bank program and "practical measures" to support prices of feed grains, other nonbasic crops, meats, poultry and dairy pro ducts. They favor a stamp plan for distribution of food to the needy, expansion of school lunch and milk program, strategic stock piles of farm commodities and an international food bank. They pledge easier credit at lower in terest rates to farmers and a re turn of the adminstration of farm programs to farmer-elected com mitteemen. Natural Resources Pledges "unstinting support to a full and integrated program of development, protection, man agement and conservation of all of our natural resources for all of the people." The Eisenhower administra tion "has despoiled future gen erations of their heritage by ut ter failure to safeguard natural resources." Administration pil laging symbolized by "infamous Dixon-Yates contract, Al Sarena timber 'mining' scheme and the low level Hells Canyon dams." Pledges "resumption of rapid and orderly" multiple-purpose river basin development through out the nation. Democrats will "preserve and strengthen the public power competitive yard stick" in power developments such as Tennessee Valley Auth ority, Rural Electrification ad ministration and Bonneville. Special 20-car trains with sleeping and covered platform cars for automobiles are run on British Railways for summer va cationers with connections with the ferries for the continent. the party and the country. All of the top contenders for the post can claim certain spe cial qualifications. Kefauver, the best known of the group, is well regarded in the strategic farm areas and fought hard for Ste venson after bowing out of the presidential race. Humphrey is regarded as one of the Senate's quickest minds and best campaigners. Gore and Kennedy are regarded as bright young men, and they also hap pen to be handsome, no negli gible asset in this era of tele vision campaigning. All Have Debits Meyer and Wagner also have youth going for them, and have successfully shouldered import ant administrative responsibili ties. On the debit side, Kefauver is thoroughly disliked by many powers in the South. Humphrey, a prime mover in civil rights battles in the 1948 and 1952 conventions, has also provoked some Southern opposition. Gore was not included on a list of ac ceptable candidates which, ac cording to informed sources, was compiled by a group of labor leaders. Both Kennedy and Wagner are Catholics and Democratic strategists are uncertain whether this would be a net political as set or liability. Kennedy has" opposed the Democratic program of high, rigid price supports for basic farm crops. Meyner is a bachelor. That would not normally be consid ered a great handicap. 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