The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-10-23
By LEFT ERICKSON

ALBUQUERQUE, NM. R-Sen-
ate minority leader Lyndon John
son (D-Tex) disclosed here a seven
-planked program for the next con-
gress, which he confidently
claimed would be Democratic con-
trolled.
Johnson, predicting a five-seat
Senate margin and wider in the
House, listed first in his program
for the saith Congress pledge Of
complete cooperation with Presi-
dent Eisenhower on a united for
eign policy.
It will be, he told a press con-
ference yesterday, . foreign policy
with single voice for all Amer
ica-the Presidents
Johnson, who flew last night to
Minnesota, said the II Democratic
Senate committe chairmen would
be a "Cabinet" to organize and
carry through the programs OBJ
jectives. Fourteen of these chair
men, he said, will be from the
South and West. Democratic vic
tory, he declared, will be a "re-
volt against the industrial East"
A "most thorough ventilation of
the Nixon Dixon Yates deal"
viii be made, he said, under di-
rection Of Sen. Clinton P. Ander-
son (D-NM), who would head the
Atomic Energy Committee in a
Democratic c ongres S. Nixon's
name, as a symbol, joins Dixon
Yates because of his defense of
the TVA-atomic power contract,
Johnson said.
The five other program objec-
tives, on which Johnson proposed
the Democrats should get run
ming start in the special Mccarthy
session starting Nov. 8, were:
Launching Of Gigantic de-
velopment program of our natural
resources including huge reclama-
ton and conservation projects in
the West" to provide water for
expansion of Western industry and
population.
Full support for President Eisen-
hover and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
to provide an adequate defense
against all would-be aggressors.
A revised and improved farm
program insuring the farmer and
rancher a greater share in the to-
tai national income.
Modification and improvement
Of labor standards giving ''both
employee and employer the dignity,
to which they are entitled"
Permit the fullest utilization Of
all the great facilities of free and
private enterprise without permit
ting a payoH to a shirt tail full
Of campaign contributors. !"
House Democratic Leader Sam
Rayburn (D-Tex) fully concurs in
the program and a plan to start
work on in the special session one
week after election on the Sen.
Mccarthy (R-Wis) censure report.
If approved by the Democratic
Policy Committee and the II CON-
mittee chairmen, task forces will
be assigned to work and draft the
programs bills before the 84th
congress opens in January, he
said.
johnson said he believed Presi-
dent Eisenhower would get along
with a Democratic Congress be-
cause che got along very well with
Democrats, from second lieutenant
to COP general.
Investigation Of the Dixon Yates
power contract conceived in the
dark Of the moon"~but certain to
be Exposed in the bright January
sunlight" by a Democratic Con-
gress-will make Anderson zone
Of the most important men in the
Senate" he said.
81 would not be surprised if Sen.
ator Anderson has place on the
ticket in 49," Newsmen asked
which place he meant for Ander-
son on a national ticket, Johnson
replied, che would suit me for eli.
Their"
Johnson said the Dixon Yates
inquiry may make Teapot Dome
look like kindergarten class"
Johnson said his analysis for the
Nov. 2 voting shows the Demo.
Gratis viii win four new Senate