The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-26
PROGRESSIVE pARTyNAMES
 TICKET HEADS
Wallace for President- Sen. Taylor for V. P.-
 Platform Adopted

PHILADELPHIA, July 26.-IR- Henry A. Wallace rolled his new Progressive Party today down a road he and his followers promised leads to a give-and-take peace with Russia.
 With an assertion that we've just begun to roll" the third party Presidential nominee set out to plant in every state what he call cd a new political crusade.
 It was born here in boisterous, singing, shouting convention, that ended last night in seven and one half hours of free-to-all debate over party platform.
 Wallace, glued to a television set while his friends were adopting a platform placing joint responsi- bility" on the United States and Russia to keep the peace, then whirled off to Youth-for-Wallace meeting.
 As teen-agers packed into jam med hotel ballroom cheered Justify, the former Vice President grinned widely. showed back an unruly forelock and said:
 Gosh. it's swell to meet with folks who are now playing 1t safe"
 That was a keynote of this first Progressive party convention, which picked Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho as No. man on the third party presidential ticket head ed by Wallace.
 Party Platform
 The Henry Wallace Progressive Party adopted platform change {, placing joint responsibility for world peace on the United States Sand Russia.
 The amendmenu sala War be- tween the East and West will mean Fascism and death for all" It called for enforcement of world federal law enacted by world legislature. It proposed that such a legislature have, limited but adequate powers to safeguard the common defense and the general welfare of all mankind" The platform adopted calls for peace with Russia, repeal of Amer ica's draft law. destruction of all atomic bombs, full equality for all minority Americans, and repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. The Pro- ,gressive Party's publicity depart ment made public platform stand on housing today and said it was omitted from previous drafts by error.
 Housing Plank
 The housing plank said:
 We pledge that as part of our general program of economic plan ming, the building industry will be reorganized and industralized, the capacity to produce presently scarce materials will be expanded, and year-round employment will be guaranteed to workers in the build ing trades"
 Platform By Tugwell
 In formally presenting the plat form to the convention, Dr. Rex ford Guy Tugwell said that if Franklin D. Roosevelt were alive. he would have led a movement like Wallace's.
 The one-time Roosevelt brain- truster made statement which some interpret as indirect approv- al of Communist support of the Wallace Taylor ticket Said Tug we'll Tt is better to fight the enemy than to fight your friends. And anyone is your friend who shares your objectives and will work with you in mutual toler- ance."
 Party Funds
 The party publicity director, Ralph Shikes, told newsnlen that receipts at the party rally totaled about $80,000. He said it cost the party $30,000 for park rent and other expenses-leaving about $50,- 900 to buy campaign radio time for Wallace and Taylor. He said the $5O,0OO represented gifts in fund.- raising drive during the rally.