Evening star., 1960-07-28

public facilities and all areas
Of community life.
Both platforms would try to
remove congressional obstacles
to majority rule.
Labor
The Republican platform
champions free collective bar
gaining and holds that even in
emergency situations imperll-
ing national safety ways must
be found to enhance and not
impede that process. 1t favorS
an increased Federal minimum
wage, assurance of equal pay
for equal work regardless CT
sex, and the right of union
members to full participation
in affairs of their unions and
freedom from racketeering and
gangster interference by labor
or management.
The Democratic platform
supports full employment as a
paramount objective of ma
tional policy" 1t seeks repeal
OF the "anti-labor eXcesses" It
says have been written into
labor laws. 1t would repeal
authorization for right-to-work
laws and would raise the Fed
eral minimum wage from 81 to
SIPS an hour.
Agriculture
The Republican platforms
main plan is for a greatly in
creased land retirement pro-
gram to end overproduction
and improve prices paid 10
farmers. 1t would retain price
supports best fitted to specific
commodities" in order to widen
markets, ease production con-
trolls and help improve farm
family income. 1t denounceS as
cruel deception" any prom
iSeS Of specific levels of price
supports or a single type of
program for all agriculture.
The Democratic platform IS
for price supports at 90 per
cent of parity on basic crops.
1t resembles the Republican
plank in a pledge to expand
food -for-peace" progfam
abroad but it also suggests a
food stamp arrangement TO
help the needy in this country.
Other PlankS
Republicans advocate Federal
aid 10 States for school con-
struction, whereas the Dem
ocrats would also include Fed
eral tunCs for teachers salaries.
Republicans recon- me Id
health care legislation for aged
persons needing it" through a
contributory system and Fed
eral-State participation, where
as the Democrats would finance
such a system through the So
cial security system.
Republicans propose to create
two top-level positions to as
siSt the President in national
security and governmental
management and planning.
Democrats recommend sub
Stantial low-rent public hous-
ing and the Republicans en-
courage private enterprise in
the housing field.
Democrats would adjust the
immigration laws to prevent
discrimination and separation
of families while the Repub-
licans suggest doubling the
number admitted annually into
the United States and would
base national origins quotas on
the 1860 instead of 1920 census.
Both plankS ask support OF
the constitutional amendment
to let District citizens vote for
President and Vice President.
They also urge congressional
representation and self-govern-
ment for the District. The Re-
publican platform supports the
right of Puerto Ricans to.
achieve statehood and national
suffrage and suffrage for the
Virgin Islands. 1t proposes
changing the Electoral College
system to give every voter a
fair voice "in presidential cleo
tions.
Other Democratic planks pro-
pose a Cabinet office to speak
for city dwellers. criticize Pres
ident Eisenhower for vetoing
Federal employe pay raises. and
call for closing tax loopholes.