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Evening star., 1944-06-28
Security

Our goal is to prevent hardship
and poverty in America. That goal
is attainable by reason of the pro-
ductive ability of free American la
Dor, industry and agriculture. If sup
plemented by a system of social Sc
curity on sound principles.
Five Point Program.
We pledge our support of the
following:
/. Extension of the existing old
age insurance and unemployment
insurance systems to all employees
not already covered,
2. The return of the public en-
ployment- office system to the States
at the earliest possible time financed
as before Pearl Harbor.
8. A careful study of Federal
State programs for maternal and
child health dependent children and
assistance to the blind with a view
to strengthening these programs.
4. The continuation of these and
other programs relating to health,
and the stimulation by Federal aid
of State plans to make medical
and hospital service available to
those in need without disturbing
doctor-patient relationship or social
izing medicine.
S. The stimulation of State and
local plans to provide decent low
cost housing properly financed by
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton, or otherwise, when such hous-
ing cannot be supplied or financed
by private sources.
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Wage Rote Freezing
Condemned

We condemn the conversion of
administrative boards, ostensibly set
up to settle industrial disputes, into
instruments for putting into eff
feet the financial and economic
theories of the New Deal.
We condemn the freezing of wage
rates at arbitrary levels and the
binding of men to their jobs as de-
structive to the advancement of a
free people. We condemn the repeal
by executive order of the laws Sc
cured by the Republican party to
abolish contract labor" and peon-
age. We condemn the gradual but
effective creation of a labor front
as but cne of the New Deals steps
toward totalitarian state.
We pledge an end to political
trickery in the administration OF
labor laws and the handling of labor
disputes; and equal benefits on the
basis Of equality to all labor in the
administration of labor controls and
laws, regardless of political affilia-
ton.
The Department of Labor has
been emasculated by the New Deal
Labor bureaus, agencies and com
mlttees are scattered far and wide
in Washington and throughout the
country, and have no semblance Of
systematic or responsible organiza
ton. All Governmental labor actiyi.
ties must be placed under the direct
authority and responsibility of the
Secretary of Labor. Such labor bu.
reaus as are not performing a sub.
stantial and definite service in thu
interests Of labor must be abolished
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Problems of the WestI

We favor comprehensive pro-
gram of reclamation projects for our
arid and semiarid States, with recog-
milton and full protection of the
rights and interests of those States
in the use and control of water for
present and future irrigation and
other beneficial consumptive uses.
We favor fa) exclusion from this
country of livestock and fresh and
chilled meat from countries har-
boring foot and mouth disease or
rinderpest; (b) full protection of our
fisheries, whether by domestic reg
ulation or treaties; tc) consistent
with military needs the prompt re-
turn to private ownership of lands
acquired for war purposes, Id
withdrawal or acquisition of lands
for establishment Of national parks,
monuments and wild life refugees,
only after due regard to local prob
lens and under closer controls to
be established by the Congress: (e)
restoration of the long established
public land policy which provides
opportunity of ownership by citizens
to promote the highest land use:
CD full development of our forests
on the basis of cropping and sus-
tanned yield; cooperation with pri-
vate owners for conservation and
flre protection; (g) the prompt re-
opening of mines which can be
operated by miners and workers
not subject to military service and
which have been closed by bureau
cratic denial of labor or material; :;
(h) adequate stock-piling of war
minerals and metals for possible fu-
ture emergencies; CD continuance,
for tax purposes, of adequate deple-
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Bureaucracy

The national administration has
become sprawling, overlapping bu-
reaucracy. 1t is undermined by ex-
ecutive abuse of power, confused
lines of authority, duplication of ef-
fort, inadequate fiscal controls, loose
personnel practices and an attitude
of arrogance previously unknown in
our history.
The times cry out for the restora-
ton of harmony in Government, for
a balance Of legislative and execu-
tive responsibility, for efficiency and
economy, for pruning and abolish
ing unnecessary agencies and per-
sonnel, for effective fiscal and per-
sonnel controls, and for an entirely
new spirit in our Federal Govern
ment.
We pledge an administration
wherein the President, acting in
harmony with Congress, will effect
these necessary reforms and raise
the Federal service to a high level
of efficiency and competence.
We insist that limitations must
be placed upon spending by Gov
ernment corporations of vast sums
never appropriated by Congress, but
made available by directives, and
that their accounts should be sub
Ject to audit by the General Ac-
counting Ofiice. 49,. .,,-e,
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Labor

The Republican party is the his
torfcal champion of free labor. Un-
der Republican administrations
American manufacturing developed
and American workers attained the
most progressive standards of liv-
ing of any workers in the world
Now the Nation owes those workers
a debt of gratitude for their mag
niflcent productive effort in support
of the war.
Regardless of the professed
friendship of the New Deal for the
workingman, the fact remains that
under the New Deal American eco
nomic life is being destroyed.
The New Deal has usurped selfish
and partisan control over the func-
tions Of Government agencies where
labor relationships are concerned.
The continued perversion of the
Wagner Act by the New Deal men
aces the purposes of the law and
threatens to destroy collective bar
gaining completely and perrna-
nently
The long series of executive orders
and bureaucratic deerees reveal a
deliberate purpose to substitute for
contractual. agreements of employ
ers and employees the political edicts
OF New Deal bureaucracy. Labor
would thus remain organized only
for the conveniencesof the New Deal
in enforcing its orders and inflicting
its whims upon labor and industry.
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Secretary Disregorded|

The Secretary of Labor should be
a representative of labor. The Office
of the Secretary of Labor was Great
ed under a Republican President,
William Howard Taft. 1t was in
tended that a representative of
labor should occupy this cabinet
office, The present administrator is
the first to disregard this intention.
The Republican party accepts the
purposes of the National Labor Re-
lations Act the Wage and Hour Act,
the Social Security Act and all other
Federal statutes designed to pro-
mote and protect the welfare Of
American working men and women
and we promise fair and just ad-
ministration Of these laws
American well-being is indivisible
Any national program which Injuries
the national economy inevitably in
jureS the Wage-earner. The Amer
ican labor movement and the Re-
publican party, while continuously
striving for the betterment of labor's
status, reject the communistic and
New Deal concept that a single
group can benefit while the general
economy suffers.
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Business and Industry

We give assurance now to restore
peacetime industry at the earliest
possible time, using every care to
avoid discrimination between diff
ferent sections of the country, (a)
by prompt settlement of war con-
tracts with early payment of Gov
eminent obligations and disposal of
surplus inventories. and CD by dis
posal of surplus Government plants,
equipment and supplies. with due
consideration to small buyers and
with care to prevent monopoly and
injury to existing agriculture and
industry.
Small business is the basis of
American enterprise. It must be
preserved. If protected against dis
elimination and afforded equality
of opportunity throughout the Ma
ton, it will become the most potent
factor in providing employment. 1t
must also be aided by changes In
taxation, by eliminating excessive
and repressive regulation and Gov
ernment competition, by the en-
forcement of laws against monop-
oily and unfair competition, and by
providing simpler and cheaper
methods for obtaining venture CAPT.
tai necessary for growth and ex-
pansion.
For the protection of the public.
and for the security of millions OF
holders of policies of insurance in
mutual and private companies, we
insist upon strict and exclusive
regulation and supervision of the
business OF insurance by the several
States where local conditions are
best known and where local needs
can best be met.
Private Merchant Marine.
We favor the establishment
and maintenance, as early as mill
tary considerations will permit, of a
sound and adequate American mer-
chant marine under private owner
ship and management.
The Republican party pledges it
self to foster the development of
such strong privately owned air
transportation systems and COM
munications systems as will best
serve the interests of the American
people.
The Federal Government should
plan a program for flood control,
inland waterways and other eco
nomically justif1able public works,
and prepare the necessary plans in
advance so that construction may
proceed rapidly in emergency and
In times OF reduced employment
We urge that States and local gov
ernments pursue the same policy
with reference to highways and
other public works within their
| jurisdiction.
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7 uxution and Finonce|

AS soon as the war ends the pres
ent rates of taxation on individual
incomes, on corporations and on
consumption should be reduced as
far as is consistent with the pay
ment of the normal expenditures of
Government in the postwar period
We reject the theory of restoring
prosperity through Government
spending and deficit financing.
We shall eliminate from the budget
all wasteful and unnecessary expen-
ditures and exercise the most rigid
economy.
1t is essential that Federal and
State tax structures be more effec-
lively co-ordinated to the end that
State tax sources be not unduly i'm
paired.
We shall maintain the value of
the American dollar and regard the
payment of Government debt as an
obligation of honor which prohibits
any policy leading to the deprecia-
tion Of the currency. We shall re-
duce that debt as soon as economic
conditions make such reduction pos
sible.
Control OF the currency must be
restored to Congress by repeal of
existing legislation which gives the
President unnecessary and danger
Gus powers over our currency,
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Palestine

In order to give refuge to millions
of distressed Jewish men,. women
and children driven from their
homes by tyranny, we call for the
opening Of Palestine to their unre-
stricted immigration and land own
ership, so that in accordance with
the full intent and purpose Of the
Balfour declaration of 1917 and the
resolution Of a Republican Congress
in 1922, Palestine may be constitut-
ed as a free and democratic COM
monwealth. We condemn the fail
ure of the President to insist that
the mandatory Of Palestine carry
out the provisions of the Balfour
declaration and of the mandate
while he pretends to support them.
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Veterans

The Republican party has always
supported suitable measures to re-
t1ect the Nations gratitude and to
discharge its duty toward the vet
Grams of all wars.
We approve, have supported and
nave aided in the enactment of laws
which provide for unemployment of
veterans of this war in their old
positions, for mastering -out pay. for
pensions for widows and orphans of
such veterans killed or disabled. for
rehabilitation of disabled veterans
for temporary unemployment bene-
hts, for education and vocational
training and for assisting veterans
IN acquiring homes and farms and
in establishing themselves in busi-
ness.
We shall be diligent in remedying
defects in veterans legislation and
shall insist upon efficient admins
tration of all measures for the vet
Grams benefit.
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Domestic Policy

We shall devote ourselves to re-
establishing liberty at home.
We shall adopt a program to put
men TO work in peace industry as
promptly as possible and with spe-
ctal attention to those who have
made sacrifice by serving in the
armed forces. We shall take Gov
ernment out of competition with
private industry and terminate ra-
tioning. price fixing and all other
emergency powers. We shall pro-
mote the fullest stable employment
through private enterprise.
The measures we propose shall
avoid liberalization of Government
activities, to the end that our States,
schools and cities shall be free, shall
avoid delegation of legislative and
judicial power to administrative
agencies, to the end that the people S
representatives in Congress shall be
Independent and in full control of
legislative policy; and shall avoid,
subject to war necessities. detailed
regulation OF farmers, workers, busi-
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named Farrell. He was the focal
point of one of the remarkable
stories OF the war in this part OF
France.
Calls for Naval Gunfire.
Over portable radio he called
for naval gunfire support. Out in
the Bay of Seine, about 8 miles
away, was the United States cruiser
Quincy, a new ship. It. Farrell
directed the gunfire from the ship,
which blasted out the 8Ss and the
machine gunners and enabled the
colonel and his men to advance to
their objective.
| The naval gunfire was devastat.
ing. Those big 8-inchers tore every.
thing to shreds. Nothing could live
under their hail of steel. The re-
markable part of 1t was that the
Quincy, we'll OF the beach, was
firing over hills and hedgerows at
target far out Of sight. But she
did the job, as she did other jobs
elsewhere.
Maj. Richard G. Allen Of Atlanta.
Ga, was sitting near the door Of
the farmhouse when an SO shell hit
corner of the stone wall, tearing
of the door and wounding three
men in the room. Allen escaped
unhurt.
At another nearby farm = first
lieutenant volunteered to gather up
wounded under intense enemy fire.
He came back with the wounded,
but he was killed three days later
in the fight for Carentan. His
father is an officer in the 29th
American Division. He visited the
spot of his sons heroism q few days
ago.
Not Much Rest for the Men.
The men came back for day
or two of rest, but there wasn't
much rest for them after Hell Farm.
The Germans were counterattack-
ing southwest of Carentan. They
tried to recapture Carentan the
night OF June 1918. They didn't;
that the counterattack of fanatical
Nazi paratroopers didn't succeed is
due in large part to this outfit and
to the two battalions of tanks and
armored infantry which backed
them up.
Riding in the lead tank was the
colonel. with armored infantry
moving through the fields, along
with his own outfit, on either side.
He gave the commands which CO.
ordinated the operation through
the radio Of his tank and the
ferries soon were driven out.
The men who gathered around
their colonel will always remember
Hell Farm. I saw an American
bayonet or two, topped by the
helmet of its dead owner, standing
in the fields, but saw many times
the number of German rides and
bayonets stuck in the ground.
The ferries took bad beating
at Hell Farm, a licking they won't
forget, and the men who licked
them were boys from the District
Of Columbia, Georgia, Virginia,
Iowa, California and everywhere
else in the United States.
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Free Press and Radio

In times like these, when whole
peoples have found themselves
shackled by governments which de-
MED the truth, or, worse, dealt in
half truths or withheld the facts
from the public, it is imperative to
the maintenance of a free America
that the press and radio be free and
that full and complete information
be available to Americans. There
must be no censorship except to the
extent required by war necessity.
We insistently condemn any tend
ency to regard the press or the
radio as instruments of the admin
istration and the use of Govern
ment publicity agences for partisan
ends. We need a new radio law
which will define, in clear and un-
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Relief and
Rehabilitation

We favor the prompt extension of
relief and emergency assistance to
the peoples of the liberated coun-
tries without duplication and con-
f1ict between Government agencies.
We favor immediate feeding OF
the starving children OF our Allies
and friends in the Nazi-dominated
countries and we condemn the New
Deal administration for its failure,
in the face of humanitarian de-
mands, to make any effort to do
this.
We favor assistance by direct
credits in reasonable amounts to lib
Grated countries to enable them to
buy from this country the goods
necessary to revive their economic
systems.
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Republican Platform Shows Emphasis Placed on Domestic Issues

CHICAGO, June 27.-Follo,Uino is
the tert OF the Republican platform,
as adopted By the national conUen-
ton
The tragedy of wars is upon our
country as we meet to consider the
problems of government and our
people. We take this opportunity to
render homage and enduring grati-
tude to those brave members of our
armed forces who have already
made the supreme sacrifice. and to
those who stand ready to make the
same sacrifice, that the American
course of life may be secure. Mind
ful of the solemn hours and humbly
conscious of our heavy responsible
ties, the Republican party in con-
vention assembled presents herewith
its principles and makes these cove
nants with the people of our Nation:
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confused, unreliable, impractical
price and production administra-
tion.
Abundant production is the best
security against imitation. Govern
mental policies in war and in peace
must be practical and efficient, with
freedom from RECOMMENDATION by an
impractical Washington bureau
cracy in order to assure independ-
ence of operation and bountiful
production, fair and equitable mar
ket prices for farm products and a
sound program for conservation and
use of our soil and natural re-
sources. Educational progress and
the social and economic stability
and well-being of the farm family
must be a prime national purpose.
For the establishment of such a
program we propose the following
/. A Department of Agriculture
under practical and experienced ad-
ministrations free from regimenta-
tion and confusing Government
manipulation and control of farm
programs.
Market Prices.
2. An American market price to
the American farmer and the pro-
lection of such price by means of
support prices, commodity loans or
combination thereof, together
with such other economic means as
will assure an income to agriculture
that is fair and equitable in COM
parison with labor, business and in
dustry. We oppose subsidies as a
substitute for fair markets.
3. Disposition of surplus war COM
modities in an orderly manner
without destroying markets or con-
tinued production and without
benefit to speculative profiteers.
4. The control and disposition of
future surpluses by means of (a)
new uses developed through con-
slant research. CD vigorous develop
ment of foreign markets, Co eff
cient domestic distribution to meet
all domestic requirements. and I'D
arrangements which will enable
farmers to make necessary adjust
ments in production of any given
basic crop only If domestic sur
pluses should become abnormal and
exceed manageable proportions.
S. Intensified research to discover
new crops, and new and profitable
uses for existing crops.
6. Support of the principle of
bona f1de farmer-owner and farmer
operated co-operatives.
7. Consolidation of all Govern
ment farm credit under a nonparti-
san board.
8. To make life more attractive on
the family-type farm through de-
velopnlent of rural roads, sound ex-
tension of rural electrification serv-
ice to the farm and elimination of
basic evils of tenancy wherever they
exist.
9. Serious study of and search for a
sound program Of crop insurance
with emphasis upon establishing a
self-supporting program.
10. A comprehensive program of
soil, forest, water and wildlife con-
servation and development and
sound irrigation projects, adminis-
tered as far as possible at State and
regional levels,
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Conclusion

The essential question at trial in
this Nation is whether men can
together in highly indus
trialized society, succeed and still
be free. That is the essential ques-
ton at trial throughout the world
today.
In this time of confusion and
strife, when moral values are being
crushed on every side. we pledge
ourselves to uphold with all our
strength the Bill of Rights, the Con-
stitution and the law of the land.
We so pledge ourselves that the
American tradition may stand
forever as the beacon light Of civ
iliZation.
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nessmen and consumers, to the end
that the individual shall be free.
Federal Cash Not solution.
The remedies we propose shall be
based on intelligent cooperation be-
tween the Federal Government, the
States and local government and
the initiative of civic groups, not
on the panacea of Federal cash.
Four years more of New Deal
policy would centralize all power in
the President and would daily sub
ject every act of every citizen to
regulation by his henchmen: and
this country could remain republic
only in name. No problem exists
which cannot be solved by American
methods. We have no need of either
the Communistic or the Fascist
technique,
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Western Hemisphere
Relations

We shall develop American
solidarity, The citizens of our
neighboring nations in the Western
Hemisphere are, like ourselves,
Americans. Cooperation with them
shall be achieved through mutual
agreement and without interference
IN the internal affairs of any ma
ton. Our policy should be a gen.
uine good neighbor policy COM
manding their respect, and not one
based on the reckless squandering
of American funds by overlapping
agencies.
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Racial and Religious
Intolerance
We llnresnrund1u eaaaa

We unreservedly condemn the in
lection into American life of appeals
TO racial or religious prejudice.
We pledge an immediate congress
sional inquiry to ascertain the ex-
tent to which mistreatment, segre-
cation and discrimination against
Negroes who are in our armed forces
are lmpairing morale and efficiency
and the adoption of corrective legis-
lation.
We pledge the establishment bv
Federal legislation of a permanent
Fair Employment Practice Commits
sion