The Redwood gazette., 1936-06-18
Republican
Platform
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i I've approve a pay-as-you-go
policy, which requires Of each gen.
Grafton the support of the aged
and the determination of what is
just and adequate.
2@Every American citizen over
65 should receive the supplement
tary payment necessary to provide
a minimum income sufficient to
protect him or her from want.
Each state and territory, up
on complying with simple and gen.
eral minimum standards, should
receive from the federal govern
ment a graduated contribution in
proportion to its own, up to a fix
ed maximum.
4-To make this program con-
sistent with sound fiscal policy the
federal revenues for this purpose
must be provided from the pro-
ceeds of a direct tax widely distri-
| buted. All will be benefited and
all should contribute.
We propose to encourage adop-
tion by the states and territories
of honest and practical measures
for meeting the problems of un-
employment insurance.
The unemployment insurance
and old age annuity sections of
the present social security act are
unworkable and deny benefits to
about two-thirds of our adult pop
ulation, including professional men
and women and all those engaged
in agriculture and domestic service
and the self employed while i'm
posing heavy tax burdens upon all.
The so-called reserve fund estima-
ted at $47,000,O00,OOO for old age
insurance is no reserve at all, be-
cause the fund will contain moth
ing but the governments promise
to pay, while the taxes collected in
the ruse Of premiums will be was
ted by the government in reckless
and extravagant political schemes.
Labor
The welfare of labor rests upon
increased production and the pre-
vention of exploitation. We pledge
ourselves to-:
Protect the right of labor to or
ganize and to bargain collectively
through representatives of it's own
choosing without interference from
any source.
Prevent governmental job hold
ers from exercising autocratic
powers over labor.
Support the adoption of state
laws and interstate compacts to
abolish sweatshops and child la
bor, and to protect women and
children with respect to maximum
hours, minimum wages and work
ing conditions. We believe that
this can be done with the constitu-
tion as it now stands.
Agriculture
The farm problem is an econom-
ic and social, not a partisan prob
lem, and we propose to treat il
accordingly. Following the wreck
of the restrictive and coercive
| AAA, the New Deal .administra
, tion has taken to itself the princi
Piles of the Republican policy Of
soil conservation and land retire
F ment. This action opens the wa!
for a non-political and permanent
, solution. Such a solution canno
be had under a New Deal admins
, tration which misuses the program
to serve partisan ends, to promot,
scarcity and to limit by coerciv
, methods the farmers control owe
his own farm.
: Our paramount object is t.
t protect and foster the family typ
4 of farm, traditional in American
life, and to promote policies whicl
S will bring about an adjustment o
K agriculture to meet the needs O
f domestic and foreign markets. A
e an emergency measure, during tn
n agricultural depression, fedora
benefit payments or grants-in-ai
n when administered within tn
h means of the federal governmen
are consistent with balance
d budget.
We propose:
n Ito facilitate economical pro
J. QucClOn ana increased cOnSumpt10
e on basis of abundance instea
of scarcity.
: "A national land-use program
f including the acquisition of aban
t doned and non-productive farr
lands by voluntary sale or lease
d subject to approval of the legisla
e tive and executive branches of tn
a states concerned, and the devotio
of such land to appropriate publ
7, use, such as watershed protection
|, and flood prevention, reforesta
f tion, recreation, and conservatio
|, of wild life.
) 3-That an agricultural polio
:. be pursued for the protection an
: restoration of the land resources
5. designed to bring about such
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