St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1952-08-22


and considers the qualifications of
Governor Stevenson and Senator
Sparkman, the committee recon-
mended Ito all Americans of
goodwill the election OF these two
candidates"
The full text of the resolution
follows:
Ten years ago this month the
Congress OF Industrial Organiza-
tons, recognizing the tremendous
improvements that could be eff
fected in our society by extension
of full civil rights to all Of the
American people, established the
National CLIO Committee TO
Abolish Discrimination. This COM
mittee and its members, who are
drawn entirely from the ranks of
labor and backed by national
CLIO, played large part in
establishing and formulating the
recommendations OF the Presi-
dents committee on Civil rights
set up by President Truman in
1947. The report Of the Presi-
dents committee has been extern
sively supplemented in the ranks
of CLIO.
ION November 4, 1852, citizens
OF the United States will select a
president and vice president and
a Congress to administer the af-
fairs of our nation for the ensu-
ing four years.
when political parties present
themselves for the consideration
of the voters they are required to
proclaim their policies in formal
terms and then nominate the can
didate whose obligation 1t be-
comes to put those policies into
effect. The platform and the can
didate cannot be separated. They
are one entity.
Both national parties have
now gone through these processes
which, backed by the custom and
tradition of the American people,
give them the dignity of law.
In drafting its platform on civil
rights and in selecting its can
didates the Democratic party, in
comparison with the Republican
party, gave by far the closer at
tention to the hopes and aspira-
tons of untold millions Of Ameri-
can citizens who presented their
views to both parties through
their duly accredited free repre-
sentative.
'In the field Of civil rights the
Democratic party pledged itself to
the theory that more is required
than cooperative efforts of in
diWdual citizens and action by
state and local governments" It
made the fortnight statement
that the Federal Government
must act, must live up to the
ideals OF the Declaration Of In
dependence and must exercise
the powers vested in 1t by the
Constitution.
THE Democratic party further
pledged itself TO complete the
elimination Of discrimination in
the armed forces and the civil
service. It pledged punitive ac-
ton in defense of civil rights by
the U. 8. Department of Justice.
1t met specific issues squarely in
the following language:
AT the same time we favor
federal legislation effectively to
secure these rights to everyone:
l. The right to equal opportun-
ity for employment;
2. The right TO fun and equal
participation in the nations poll
teal life free from arbitrary re-
straints."
Finally, the Democratic party
pledged itself to institute con-
gressional procedures that will
prevent filibuster and make pos
sible legislative decisions by
majority vote.
These statements are clear and
impossible Of misinterpretation.
In sharp contrast the Repub-
lican party confined itself to a
reaffirmation OF states rights
which have too often in the past
operated to deny human rights to
the individual citizen.
To carry out its pledges on
civil rights and other pledges
made in the platform, the Demo-
cratic party gave prolonged con-
sideration to the qualifications of
the potential and available can
didates. The candidates were
weighted in the terms already set
forth by the Democratic plat
form.
The convention nominated
AdIai f. Stevenson, Governor of
Illinois, for president and u. s.
Senator John ]. Sparkman Of
Alabama for vice president.
Both of these candidates have
stated publicly that they will
support the Democratic platform
and will make their campaigns