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Brochure
Political Memo from COPE (Committee On
Political Education): No. 11-62. 4 pages.
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05/07/1962
Brochure
Political Memo from COPE (Committee On
Political Education): No. 10-62. 4 pages.
54
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04/09/1962
Memo
From Haldeman to Alan Nichols, re: COPE
(Committee On Political Education). 1 page.
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Questionnaire should be completed. 4 pages
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Political Memo
FEDERATION OF LABOR &
COMMITTEE ON. POLITICAL
EDUCATION, AFL-CIO
CONGRESS AFL OF INDUSTRIAL
815 16th STREET, N.W.
from COPE
WASHINGTON 6, D. C.
No. 11-62
May 21, 1962
PRIMARY ROUND-UP-COPE SCORES WELL
May 8 primary election excitement centered in Texas where COPE-supported Don Yar-
borough won a place in June 2 run-off for Democratic gubernatorial nomination against John
Connally.
Also in Texas, COPE-backed Benton Musslewhite may yet win 7th District Demo-
cratic Congressional nomination over incumbent ultra-conservative John Dowdy
recount
showed Dowdy ahead by 41 votes, but there's a question if election laws were compiled with
Texas Attorney-General has been asked to impound ballots
if he fails to act, the case may be
taken to court.
In OHIO, Gov. Mike DiSalle squeaked through to nomination for second term, may hit
rough sledding against GOP's James Rhodes, State Auditor
little known Richard D. Kennedy
(D.) nominated to face Bob Taft Jr. for new Congressman-at-Large seat
COPE-backed State
Sen. Oliver Ocasek easily won 14th District Democratic nomination, will face conservative Re-
publican William Ayres.
In FLORIDA, encouraging success for COPE-supported liberal, former Senator Claude
Pepper, who won handily in bid for 3rd District Democratic nomination
Incumbent Congress-
man Dante Fascell, with COPE support, walloped segregationist David Eldredge for renomination
to 4th District seat.
In NEW MEXICO, COPE's special effort in behalf of incumbent Rep. Joseph M. Montoya
helped him to Democratic renomination over Joseph E. Montoya (no relation).
In ALABAMA, COPE rang up a perfect 1.000 batting average. All candidates with
COPE support won nomination.
In MARYLAND, May 15, COPE-backed liberal, Carlton Sickles, edged by to win Dem-
ocratic Congressman-at-Large nomination.
WORD OF CAUTION
As Gen. Edwin A. Walker dissolves into the twilight of a brief political career, it would
be a mistake to scorn the right wing's political influence. True, it flopped with its own candidate.
It often flops when it goes directly to the voters. But Walker picked up 130,000 of the more than
1.3 million votes cast in the Texas Democratic gubernatorial primary, nearly 10 percent. Figures
that large still represent a force to be reckoned with, even if the "Man on a White Horse" has
been dumped on his saddle sores.
GEORGE MEANY, Chairman
WM. F. SCHNITZLER, Secy.-Treas.
JAMES L. McDEVITT, National Director
THE DOCTOR'S OATH-A REFRESHER COURSE
A group of New Jersey doctors has started a snowball of political blackmail against the
health care bill. They've been joined by medical men elsewhere, and some state medical socie-
ties. The AMA has failed to condemn their threat to boycott the plan. Maybe they all should
be reminded of these words from the Hippocratic Oath taken by all medical students upon
graduation:
"You do solemnly swear
that you will lead your lives and practice your art in upright-
eousness and honor; that into whatsoever house you shall enter, it shall be for the good of the sick
(that) you hold yourself far aloof from wrong, from corruption, from the tempting of others
to vice.
OH, WE DON'T MEAN THAT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE
The Hill-Burton Act was passed in 1946. It authorizes federal funds to help build hospitals,
health centers and nursing homes. First appropriations under the act came in 1948. Since that
time $1.8 billion has been appropriated. All that federal money without a whisper of "socialized
medicine" from the American Medical Association or from the doctors and state medical socie-
ties presently threatening refusal to participate in President Kennedy's health care proposal if
it's passed. As Health Secretary Ribicoff said, "These doctors apparently believe it is all right
for the federal government to help build the hospitals in which they practice, but that an insur-
ance plan that would help their patients pay their hospital bills would not be good."
BUT THE AMA STICKS TO ITS GUNS
ITEM: Census Bureau reports half the families whose head of household is over 65 can
scrape up less than $200 in assets convertible to cash.
ITEM: More than 52 percent of the aged receive less than $1,000 a year in money income.
ITEM: Over-65s are hit with twice as many chronic illnesses as younger persons.
ITEM: From 1950-1960 medical costs soared 47 percent.
ITEM: Hospital charges average nearly $35 a day, so high they are not a problem only
for the very poor among the elderly, but for persons of moderate means as well. Hospital costs
are expected to continue to sky-rocket at the rate of 8-10 percent a year.
ITEM: In the face of these facts, and many others showing the need for medical care
for the aged under social security, the AMA still sings its sad old tune of opposition.
AMA THROWBACK TO MIDDLE AGES, PROFESSOR CHARGES
The AMA is like a "medieval guild," according to Dr. James Howard Means, former Har-
vard professor of clinical medicine. He told the Group Health Association-which expressed
support of health care under social security-the AMA strives to preserve the status quo in medi-
cal affairs and has done "very little toward the improvement of medical care."
GOLDWATER KEYNOTES CONSERVATIVE ELECTION DRIVE
Conservatives are digging in for a no-holds-barred battle in the coming elections to
cement control of Congress and hobble progressive legislation. Keynote for the effort was sound-
ed by Sen. Barry Goldwater in a recent speech to Republican women in Washington. Said Gold-
water:
11 this is not just another off-year election. This is an all-out drive to recapture control
of the House of Representatives.
"
They have two big weapons in their arsenal: money and tradition. All but once in this
century, the party in the White House has lost strength in Congress in off-year elections. The fol-
lowing chart shows how the off-year tradition has worked since 1934:
Election
Elected
Gains/Losses
Year
Dems.
Reps.
Dems.
Reps.
1934
322
103
+ 9
-14
1938
262
169
-71
+80
1942
222
209
-45
+47
1946
188
246
-55
+56
1950
234
199
-29
+28
1954
232
203
+19
-18
1958
283
154
+49
-47
History does not have to repeat itself. Labor's tools in the struggle to elect 20-30 more
liberal Congressmen, thus assuring passage of good legislation, are COPE dollars and hard work.
Don't forget to "Give a Buck to COPE-Register and Vote."
FOR SOME PEOPLE, IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR
In 1961, 25 top corporate officers were paid $300,000 or more, 47 drew $200,000 to
$300,000, 338 received $100,000 to $200,000.
In 1961, 53 percent of all American families had incomes below $6,000, 12 percent below
$2,000.
In 1961, according to the Heller Budget, a reliable yardstick, it cost a family of four
$6,777.59 to live in a typical American large city.
39 LOCALS CONTRIBUTE 100 PERCENT TO COPE
Thirty-nine more local unions have received 1962 COPE honor awards for collecting the equivalent of $1 or
more from each of their members. Listed by states they are: Colo.-Denver, Railroad Signalmen 119. Ga.-
Atlanta, CTU 47 and OCAW 3-670; Rome, CWA 3219. Ill.-Amalgamated, OCAW 7-670; Chicago, Typographical
330; Joliet, OCAW 7-119. Iowa-Fort Dodge, OCAW 6-503. Kan.-Council Grove, CWA 6472. Mass.Haverhill,
IATSE 381; Williamansett, Lathers 31. Mich.-Lake Linden, CWA 4024; Port Huron, CWA 4107. Mont.-Great
Falls, Brewery 200. N.J.-Alpha, IBEW 1940; Camden, CWA 1013; Garfield, OCAW 8-566; Trenton, CWA 1000;
West Orange, IBEW 1917, N.Y.-Jordan, Lathers 151; Niagara Falls, IBEW 237. N.C.-High Point, IATSE 797.
Ohio-Utility 434; East Palestine, Upholsterers 80; Pequa, CWA 4324; Portsmouth, CWA 4372; Toledo, CWA 4315.
Okla.-Poteau, OCAW 5-472. Ore.-St. Helena, CWA 9215; Salem, IATSE 613. Pa.-Allentown, IATSE 585. S.D.-
Watertown, Meat Cutters 52. Tenn.-Knoxville, Lathers 255. Utah-Provo, CWA 8306. Wash.-Everett, Stove Mounters
71. W. Va.-Huntington, Brewery 315. Wis.-Black River Falls, CWA 5576; Jamesville, IATSE 493; Kewaskum,
Brewery 900-3.
THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S ALL IN OUR IMAGINATION
Touring Texas at the expense of Blue Cross-Blue Shield in a series of attacks on health care
under social security, right-wing Sen. John Tower (R.-Tex.) came up with the following, as quoted
in a United Press-International story, May 14, datelined Houston: "The need for such a medical
program is getting less and less, but the needs medicare is based on were manufactured by the
AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education."
MAN WITH ANTILABOR CONVICTIONS CONVICTED
One of the endorsers of right-winger Clarence Manion's drive to clamp unions under anti-
trust laws (Political Memo, April 23, 1962) had a brush with the law himself recently. He lost.
Thurston Cooke of Louisville, Ky., is now occupying quarters in jail on charges of fraud involving
more than $11/2 million.
THE "YOU-CAN-SAY-THAT-AGAIN DEPARTMENT
When a corporation enters politics "it does so for only one reason-because it has an
axe to grind. The axe is the wish to advance the business ideology. And while this is understand-
able, it is a thoroughly perverse reason. It's not good for the corporation and it's certainly not
good for the country."-Industrialist Arnold Maremont, chairman of the board, Allied Paper
Products.
BANKS, CORPORATIONS CLOUD TAX ISSUE
Created by banks and some large corporations, a cloud of confusion surrounds President
Kennedy's proposal to withhold at the source taxes on dividends and interest. Reason for the
withholding provision is to corral some $650-$800 million in legitimate revenue which the gov-
ernment loses annually. This is not a new tax. Taxpayers already must declare dividend and in-
terest income. Many forget to do so; many deliberately cheat. Some Americans have been led
to believe by phony claims of the bill's opponents that this is a tax on savings. It is not. It is a tax
on interest from bank savings.
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Political Memo
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL
CONGRESS AFL OF INDUSTRIAL
EDUCATION, AFL-CIO
815 16th STREET, N.W.
from COPE
WASHINGTON 6, D. C.
No. 10-62
May 7, 1962
IT'S COPE DOLLAR DRIVE MONTH-GIVE YOUR BUCK
It's May, COPE Dollar Drive Month, and the outcome of the important November Con-
gressional elections may well be decided now, six months in advance. As COPE Director James
McDevitt says, "The extent of our participation in the elections will be determined by the amount
of voluntary dollars our members contribute to COPE."
At stake this year are 38 Senate seats, all seats in the House and 35 governorships. But
what is really at stake "is the kind of government we get for the next two years at least," according
to Director McDevitt. Whether it is to be good, progressive government favorable to working
people-or stand-pat, don't budge, indifferent government opposed to the interests of working
people-will depend in large part on the COPE Dollar Drive, whose success rests squarely on the
shoulders of union members.
Simple arithmetic illustrates the importance of COPE dollars. Right now, the Dixiecrat-
conservative Republican Coalition in the House numbers 285 at full strength, 65 percent of House
membership. The Coalition doesn't always vote at full strength, but even with the balance as it is
today, good legislation has a rough road getting through Congress. Any addition to Coalition
strength will spell doom for progressive laws.
COPE dollars will be used to help elect good candidates who will pass good laws, which in
turn will advance the standard of living of all working people. Thus, COPE dollars invested by
union members in May could reap big dividends in the near future in the form of more job security,
better schools, a higher minimum wage, better housing programs and more protection for the
unemployed.
Will anyone else be contributing political dollars this year? You can bet on it. The
DuPonts and Rockefellers will be contributing. So will the Mellons and Fords, the Pews and the
Vanderbilts. So will the Boulwares and Kohlers and Bloughs and Cordiners. They give in terms of
thousands that add up to millions, and you can bet on it, too, they don't give to help elect labor's
friends! In 1960, it took only 3,400 of them to kick in more than $5 million in chunks $500 and
bigger to help elect labor's foes.
They'll be doing it again!
Have you contributed your dollar to COPE?
GEORGE MEANY, Chairman
WM. F. SCHNITZLER, Secy.-Treas.
JAMES L. McDEVITT, National Director
REGISTRATION MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY-MEANY
Labor's 1962, all-out registration drive is under way following COPE's Big Cities Confer-
ence in Washington, kicked off by AFL-CIO President George Meany's statement that "registra-
tion is the most important activity of the trade union movement at this time." About 100 union
leaders and COPE representatives from 21 states and 30 major cities attended the 2½ day
meeting. The registration drive was authorized by the AFL-CIO Executive Council at its February
meeting. Goal of the effort is to assure maximum participation by union members, their families
and friends in the important Fall Congressional elections.
Roy Reuther, director of the registration campaign, pointed out that more than 75 percent
of voting age persons, and an even higher percentage of union members, live in urban areas, the
main targets of the drive. He urged creation of city-wide registration committees with subcom-
mittees to reach into zones, wards and precincts.
THE SIZE OF THE JOB TO BE DONE
The following breakdown shows the size of the job that must be done if labor's register-
and-vote campaign is to be successful. The figures show that while working people made up 37
percent of voting age population, they comprised only 26 percent of those who voted in 1960.
"Voting Performance" indicates the difference between a group's percentage of voting age pop-
ulation and percentage of the actual total vote.
% who voted
% voting age
% of those
Voting
Democratic
population
who voted
Performance
PROFESSIONAL,
40
18
26
+8
EXECUTIVE
WHITE COLLAR
52
26
26
even
LABOR
63
37
26
-II
SKILLED
59
13
10
- 3
UNSKILLED
66
24
16
- 8
FARMER
40
9
II
+2
RETIRED
55
6
8
+2
OTHER
48
4
3
- I
$10 MILLION FOR THE RIGHT WING
"A cautious estimate
would show that the business community contributed about
$10 million to the Radical Right last year."-Prof. Alan F. Westin, writing in April Harper's
Magazine.
COPE DOLLARS HELP GOOD CANDIDATES IN UPHILL FIGHT
For a liberal candidate, campaign dollars come hard. The financial cards are stacked in
favor of his conservative opponent who turns on a faucet and watches the money pour in. John
M. Redding, treasurer of the Democratic National Congressional Committee, estimates a cam-
paign in a big city congressional district will cost a liberal candidate from $25,000 to $50,000.
It's $15,000 to $25,000 in a small city-rural district.
Few liberals can count on such solid financing. That's where COPE dollars come in. Vol-
untary COPE dollars aid good candidates, for COPE's primary purpose is to help elect candi-
dates friendly to the interests of working people. COPE dollars help pay for campaign literature,
TV and radio time, billboard and newspaper advertising and other campaign expenses.
This year, with an administration friendly to labor, it's doubly important to elect a liberal
Congress which will enact progressive legislation. Have you contributed your COPE dollar?
HEALTH CARE DRIVE PICKS UP STEAM
More than 150,000 senior citizens and other Americans who support health care under
social security will rally nationwide May 20 in a demonstration that could shake loose the King-
Anderson bill from the House Ways and Means Committee. President Kennedy's address to
the New York rally will be piped to meetings in 28 other cities and will be carried on network
television to millions of American homes.
The rallies will be held against a background of facts showing the complete inadequacy
of Kerr-Mills legislation passed in 1960. Only 78,400 persons over 65 out of nearly 17 million
in the nation received payments under Kerr-Mills during the latest month for which figures are
available.
MEDICAL COSTS SOAR
Meanwhile, the cost of medical care is going up, up, up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports the medical care index shot up three percent from March, 1961 to March, 1962 "mainly
because of higher prices for all medical services." Said BLS: "Prices advanced significantly for
prescriptions and drugs and for medical care services. Among the more important increases
were higher prices for vitamins, hospitalization insurance and professional medical fees."
SLIGHT DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
The American Medical Association says the people reject health care under social se-
curity. Pollster Lou Harris, who makes it his business to know, says otherwise. He cites these
percentages of support for health care in major states, according to his polls: New York 84; New
Jersey, 77; Ohio, 76; Minnesota, 73; Texas, 68.
WELL, WE CAN'T BE RIGHT ALL THE TIME
"A free market provides a public offering of goods and services competing freely for
public patronage.' -George Koether, public relations department, U.S. Steel, quoted in Wall
Street Journal, April 23, 1962.
"In a competitive economy such as ours there is one basic rule which every company
must follow: the business that doesn't remain competitive doesn't remain in business."-L. B.
Worthington, President, U.S. Steel, U.S. Steel News, April, 1962.
"U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Indicted as Price Fixers."-Headline, New York Times, April
27, 1962.
THAT'S TRUE, BUT WHY NOT SOME OF THE TIME?
"Profits in the American steel industry are caught in a vise."-U.S. Steel News, April 1962.
"U.S. Steel Shows Rise in Earnings."-Headline, New York Times, April 25, 1962.
LIFE ON THE HARDSHIP FRONT
Big business executives are tightening their belts. General Motors Chairman Frederick
Donner took a pay slash of $1,270 that knocked him all the way down to $696,830 a year. Ford
President John Dykstra suffered a $20,000 cut down to $405,000, and Board Chairman Henry
Ford Il lost $15,000, tumbling to bare subsistence level of $406,000. Anyone interested in tak-
ing up a collection?
BACK TO THE CANDY SHOP, BOB
Robert Welch, John Birch Society fuehrer, should stop trying to save the nation by killing
democracy and return to mixing candy recipes. The Food and Drug Administration recently
cracked down on his old candy firm for labelling violations.
COPE Memo is published every two weeks
by the Committee on Political Education,
Second class
815 16th Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
Subscription price $1.00 per year.
postage paid at
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Washington, D. c.
lisher Form 3579 should be sent to C.O.P.E.,
815 - 16th Street, N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
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Enclosed is $
Please send
subscriptions at $1 a
year (25 cents a year for 10 or more subscriptions mailed to one
address) of the "POLITICAL MEMO FROM COPE" to:
Name
Address
City
State
H R HALDEMAN
Signed
Union
6505 WILSHIRE BLVD
New ?
Renewall
LOS ANGELES 48 CALIF
Mail to: COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION
815 16th St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C.
05 4530 48 0808 6505 62
Alsa Nichols
4-9-62
Bob Haldsman
COPE
Dear Alam:
I am sure you have had a verbal report from
Alice Leopold and Cap Weinberger regarding the COPE
situation, but I did want you to know that your thinking had
not gone unheeded in spite of the fact that your recommendation
was not followed.
X - date
The general decision was that it would be
unwise in the primary for Dick to seek the COPE endorsement
or to address the convention. A decision on how to approach
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File: Cand. - Endorsements
this group, If at all, in the general campaign will be carefully
studied since it obviously has great strategic significance.
Thanks very much for your thoughts. Keep
them coming.
3 on
Fail should thing dont. avenue H NO
BOB HALDEMAN
3/16/62
Bob:
answered? Before I TD, is questionnaire going to be
Joanne
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San Francisco Labor Council
AFLO
2940 SIXTEENTH STREET
SAN FRANCISCO 3, CALIFORNIA
UNderhill 3-7011
PRESIDENT
March 15, 1962
CLAUDE JINKERSON
Grocery Clerks, No. 648
JOSEPH BELARDI
Cooks, No. 44
TO CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE
DESIRING TO APPEAR BEFORE THE
Send All Communications to
SAN FRANCISCO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION, AFL-CIO
SECRETARY-TREASURER
GEORGE W. JOHNS
The San Francisco labor movement's important pre-
primary political meeting will take place at 8:00 p.m.,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Wednesday, March 28, 1962 in Memorial Auditorium of the
CHRIS AMADIO
Production Machinists, No. 1327
Labor Temple, 2940 - 16th Street.
JOSEPH BELARDI
Cooks, No. 44
This will be the endorsing convention of the San Fran-
ROBERT CALLAHAN
cisco Committee on Political Education which has the respon-
Fire Fighters, No. 798
sibility for recommending and endorsing candidates in the
JOHN CROWLEY
Professional Embalmers, No. 9049
June 5 primary election.
ARTHUR DOUGHERTY
Bartenders, No. 41
The convention will be preceded at 10:00 a.m. on Monday,
HERMAN EIMERS
March 26 and Tuesday, March 27 by meetings of the S.F.-COPE
Building Service Employes, No. 87
Executive Committee which will interview candidates seeking
GUS KATSARSKY
Plumbers & Pipe Fitters, No. 38
labor's endorsement, and whose recommendations will be acted
TOM KELLY
on by the Convention.
Hospital & Institutional
Workers, No. 250
Since you are a candidate for public office, it is our
EDWARD KEMMITT
Bakers, No. 24
desire to invite you to attend the Executive Committee meeting
CHARLES "POP" KENNEDY
on either Monday or Tuesday. Enclosed is a copy of questions
Musicians, No. 6
of interest to working people which we respectfully request
SAM KRIPS
you fill in, sign and return by March 26.
Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, No. 42
If you will call the office of the Labor Council,
THOMAS A. ROTELL
Molders, No. 164
UN 3-7011, we will be happy to make an appointment for your
HERBERT SIMS
appearance before our Executive Committee. Preference will
Operating Engineers, No. 3
be given as calls are received.
FRED STEFAN
United Furniture Workers
No. 262
Sincerely yours,
ED WILSON
Sailors Union of the Pacific
George W. (Tins
George W. Johns, Secretary .
Executive Committee meets
SAN FRANCISCO COMMITTEE ON
each Monday at 8 p.m.
POLITICAL EDUCATION
Labor Council meets each
Friday at 8 p.m.
John L Hogg
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John L. Hogg, Acting Secretary
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BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION TRADES
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COUNCIL
S.F. - COPE 1962 QUESTIONNAIRE
It is an objective of San Francisco COPE to determine our political
decisions and activities on the basis of issues. This questionnaire is intended
to demonstrate how candidates reveal themselves in facing the great questions of
the day.
As our nation seeks to unite its many forces for the forthcoming phases
of the economic war, the issues of the day become vital, In a shooting war, im-
posed controls on prices, profits, labor and manpower, by tri-partite determina-
tion, have been within our experience.
In the economic war we now face, our people will be tested in many as-
pects of voluntarism; mutual cooperation for the common good; recognition of the
well-being and rights of all; maintenance of our free and democratic standards;
and mutuality of necessary sacrifices.
Because, as never before, a joint, cooperative, coordinated effort will
be required, this questionnaire attempts to analyze the individual candidate with
Labor's viewpoint in mind and against the backdrop of national and local issues.
Of necessity many issues could not be covered. We hope the following questions
will give us basic answers:
Answer
Yes or No
1. Do you oppose all forms of totalitarianism whether it be
Birchers on the right or Communists on the left?
2. Do you stand for support of the United Nations and its
agencies and expansion of its resources, activities and
authorities?
3. (a) Would you liberalize foreign trade policies, includ-
ing reduction of tariffs?
(b) Would you favor adjustment assistance to economically
injured workers and industries and development of inter-
national fair labor standards?
4. Do you favor joint planning by government, labor and man-
agement to assure that economic and social changes produced
by automation and other economic forces take place and
remedial steps are planned in a manner fair to working people?
5. Will you support programs designed to attain a 5% economic
growth rate annually as necessary for full employment by
means of both government efforts and private industry's efforts?
6. Do you favor repeal of the punitive Landrum-Griffin prov-
isions and elimination of Taft-Hartley's evils by enacting
a national labor relations law fair to Labor?
7. Do you favor health care for the aged under Social Security
and will you support the King-Anderson Bill?
8. Would you liberalize Workmen's Compensation Laws on a modern
concept of a Division with separate functions from the In-
dustrial Accident Commission and which would supervise and
assure the adequacy of medical care and rehabilitation and
audit the promptness and accuracy of benefit payments?
9. Would you liberalize and modernize unemployment insurance and
disability insurance programs so that all workers may benefit
equally as a matter of right; and include the cooperation of
departments of government established with the primary function
of assisting and servicing needs of workers?
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Answer
Yes or No
10. Do you oppose without equivocation "Right-to-Work" laws
and the elimination of Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley law?
11. Do you favor meaningful and strengthened civil rights
legislation including voting rights, school desegregation
and the curbing of hate and violence?
12. Do you oppose "ex-parte" proceedings, determinations and
injunctions and support due process of law?
13. Do you favor equitable redistribution of the burden of
taxation by removing encroachments upon the progressive
income tax principle; by restoring corporation excess
profits taxes; by ending preferential overseas tax benefits;
and by opposing sales taxes or other congumer levies?
14. Do you support long-range, comprehensive, and non-discrimin-
atory housing programs to meet the needs of aged, minority,
low income and migrant groups to be financed by both govern-
ment and private capital?
15. Do you support maximum and integrated development of water,
power, and other natural resources, maintaining integrity
and full enforcement of federal public power and reclamation
laws including anti-monopoly provisions?
16. Do you support the right of all labor to organize and
bargain collectively, including public employees and ag-
ricultural workers, without unfair restrictions on allied
activities such as picketing?
17, Do you oppose anti-labor injunctions and use of profes-
sional strikebreakers?
18. Do you favor a maximum utilization of the matching funds
made available in the Kerr-Miles bill to create liberal
state legislation to meet fully the medical needs of the
indigent aged as supplemental to the King-Anderson bill?
19. Do you believe that the Fair Labor Standards Act should
cover the 15 million workers remaining outside the scope
of the law and should provide a seven hour day and a
thirty-five hour week?
20. Do you favor a modern and moral recognition of the serious
gaps and inequities of public assistance programs (contrary
to the "Newburg" approach to social welfare)?
21. Do you favor proposed national legislation supported by the
crafts involved which is designed to subsidize the Arts?
COMMENTS:
Signature
mcg
Date
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