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To: Dorothy From: RN re: "Attached are stories on the Prussion booklet." 1 pg. [Letter], n.d.
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner article titled "GOP Says Demos Make book an Issue." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/18/1962
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Wyman Accuses GOP on Red-Link Booklet." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Los Angeles Times article titled "Top Democrats Attack Nixon's TV Statements." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/8/1962
Los Angeles Herald Examiner articles titled "Charges Truth Distorted, Chotiner Answers Democrats," and "Wyman Charges A Hoax." 3 pgs. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/18/1962
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Blasts GOP, Demo Brand of Anti-Commie Book." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
From: Ron re: "Attached are the stories on the Democrats for Nixon CDC pamphlet." 1pg. [Letter], n.d.
Los Angeles Times article titled "Brown Picture Fakes Blamed on Nixon Aides." 2 pgs. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/19/1962
Unidentified newspaper article titled "GOP Repudiate 'Fake' Photos of Gov. Brown." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Demos Charge GOP Booklet Smears Brown." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
California Democratic Council Convention Report. 28 pgs. Only Cover Scanned. [Brochure], 3/5/1961
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. policy and Our Atomic Future --Policy Statement--." 3pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Agriculture --Policy Statement--." 3 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Water and Power -- Summary Report." 2 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference"Water and Power -- Statement of Policy." 2pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. Policy and Underdeveloped Nations -- Summary Report." 3 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. Policy and Underdeveloped Nations -- Policy Statement --." 2 pgs. [Newspaper], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Human Rights Policy Statement." 5 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Economic and Governmental Problems -- Policy Statement --." 3 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. Policy and Our Atomic Future -- Summary Report --." 5 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council Convention Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Speech. 11 pgs. [Other Document], 3/3/1961
Titled "Pat Brown and the CDC." 4 pages. [Brochure], n.d.
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To: Dorothy From: RN re: "Attached are stories on the Prussion booklet." 1 pg. [Letter], n.d.
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner article titled "GOP Says Demos Make book an Issue." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/18/1962
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Wyman Accuses GOP on Red-Link Booklet." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Los Angeles Times article titled "Top Democrats Attack Nixon's TV Statements." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/8/1962
Los Angeles Herald Examiner articles titled "Charges Truth Distorted, Chotiner Answers Democrats," and "Wyman Charges A Hoax." 3 pgs. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/18/1962
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Blasts GOP, Demo Brand of Anti-Commie Book." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
From: Ron re: "Attached are the stories on the Democrats for Nixon CDC pamphlet." 1pg. [Letter], n.d.
Los Angeles Times article titled "Brown Picture Fakes Blamed on Nixon Aides." 2 pgs. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], 10/19/1962
Unidentified newspaper article titled "GOP Repudiate 'Fake' Photos of Gov. Brown." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Demos Charge GOP Booklet Smears Brown." 1 pg. Not Scanned. [Newspaper], n.d.
California Democratic Council Convention Report. 28 pgs. Only Cover Scanned. [Brochure], 3/5/1961
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. policy and Our Atomic Future --Policy Statement--." 3pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Agriculture --Policy Statement--." 3 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Water and Power -- Summary Report." 2 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference"Water and Power -- Statement of Policy." 2pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. Policy and Underdeveloped Nations -- Summary Report." 3 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. Policy and Underdeveloped Nations -- Policy Statement --." 2 pgs. [Newspaper], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Human Rights Policy Statement." 5 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "Economic and Governmental Problems -- Policy Statement --." 3 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues Conference "U.S. Policy and Our Atomic Future -- Summary Report --." 5 pgs. [Report], n.d./n.d./1960
California Democratic Council Convention Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Speech. 11 pgs. [Other Document], 3/3/1961
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Box Number
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Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
65
11
n.d.
Letter
To: Dorothy From: RN re: "Attached are
stories on the Prussion booklet." 1 pg.
65
11
10/18/1962
Newspaper
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner article titled
"GOP Says Demos Make book an Issue." 1
pg. Not Scanned.
65
11
n.d.
Newspaper
Unidentified newspaper article titled
"Wyman Accuses GOP on Red-Link
Booklet." 1 pg. Not Scanned.
65
11
10/08/1962
Newspaper
Los Angeles Times article titled "Top
Democrats Attack Nixon's TV Statements." 1
pg. Not Scanned.
65
11
10/18/1962
Newspaper
Los Angeles Herald Examiner articles titled
"Charges Truth Distorted, Chotiner Answers
Democrats," and "Wyman Charges A Hoax."
3 pgs. Not Scanned.
65
11
n.d.
Newspaper
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Blasts
GOP, Demo Brand of Anti-Commie Book."
1 pg. Not Scanned.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Page 1 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type
Document Description
65
11
n.d.
Letter
From: Ron re: "Attached are the stories on
the Democrats for Nixon CDC pamphlet."
1pg.
65
11
10/19/1962
Newspaper
Los Angeles Times article titled "Brown
Picture Fakes Blamed on Nixon Aides." 2
pgs. Not Scanned.
65
11
n.d.
Newspaper
Unidentified newspaper article titled "GOP
Repudiate 'Fake' Photos of Gov. Brown." 1
pg. Not Scanned.
65
11
n.d.
Newspaper
Unidentified newspaper article titled "Demos
Charge GOP Booklet Smears Brown." 1 pg.
Not Scanned.
65
11
03/05/1961
Brochure
California Democratic Council Convention
Report. 28 pgs. Only Cover Scanned.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "U.S. policy and Our Atomic
Future -Policy Statement--." 3pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "Agriculture -Policy Statement--
3 pgs.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Page 2 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "Water and Power - -- Summary
Report." 2 pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference' "Water and Power - Statement of
Policy." 2pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "U.S. Policy and
Underdeveloped Nations - -- Summary
Report." 3 pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Newspaper
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "U.S. Policy and
Underdeveloped Nations - -- Policy
Statement --." 2 pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "Human Rights Policy
Statement." 5 pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "Economic and Governmental
Problems - Policy Statement --." 3 pgs.
65
11
n.d./n.d./1960
Report
California Democratic Council 1960 Issues
Conference "U.S. Policy and Our Atomic
Future Summary Report --." 5 pgs.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Page 3 of 4
Box Number Folder Number Document Date
Document Type
Document Description
65
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03/03/1961
Other Document
California Democratic Council Convention
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Speech. 11
pgs.
65
11
n.d.
Brochure
Titled "Pat Brown and the CDC." 4 pages.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Page 4 of 4
Dorothy
1
Attached are the stories on the Prussion booklet.
$21
Convention Secretary
Barbara Double
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
O
CONVENTION
REPORT
INCLUDING CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS AS AMENDED TO MARCH 5, 1961
AND
POLICY STATEMENTS ADOPTED BY THE 1961 CDC ISSUES CONFERENCE
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
U. S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE
POLICY STATEMENT-
PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS
The atomic age has brought great hopes and great fears. The
hopes center largely around the availability of vast sources of
energy and the many uses of radioactive isotopes. The major fear is
the fear of a devastating nuclear war. But even the peaceful uses
of atomic energy have inherent hazards both for persons employed in
nuclear industry and for the general public.
In the field of public health we recommend the following:
The federal government should continue to maintain control of
nuclear fuel and radioactive isotopes under its present licensing
system, and should insure adherence to safety standards. The con-
templated transfer of part of this authority to the states we do not
consider contradictory to this basic principle. Research on radio-
active waste disposal should be stepped up in anticipation of future
disposal requirements.
The US Public Health Service should be responsible for estab-
lishing radiation safety standards, in consultation with the National
Committee on Radiation Protection, and should cooperate fully with
the International Commission on Radiological Protection.
In California, a state agency should be empowered to monitor
all radiation sources and to make and enforce recommendations to
improve safety measures.
The CDC heartily approves a transfer of responsibility to the
USPHS for interpreting and reporting on radioactive fallout to the
public, with the advice and counsel of the National Advisory Com-
mittee on Radiation. In addition, we believe that all interested
groups and agencies that desire to collect or interpret data should
be encouraged to do so and to publish their findings.
U.S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE--POLICY STATEMENT
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PLANNING FOR CONVERSION TO A PEACETIME ECONOMY
The challenge that democracy must not only accept but welcome
is peace.
Billions for defense are not a prerequisite to either peace or
prosperity. It is true that thousands of jobs (for example, in San
Diego, 80% of factory workers) today depend upon defense industries.
But what of disarmament? These persons can be given gainful peace-
time employment only if America undertakes adequate and timely
planning to that end.
The American economy is capable of spectacular peacetime
achievements in elevating not only the American standard of living
but that of the whole free world. We in the California Democratic
Council assert the urgency of preparing now.
The planning should occur at all levels of government. Leader-
ship should lie with the federal government - but to date that leader-
ship has been sadly lacking under President Eisenhower. California,
on the other hand, under the leadership of Governor Brown, has al-
ready initiated serious studies of the conversion problem.
Given conversion as a planned process, the billions of dollars
now spent on defense would be freed for the advancement of peoples'
well-being at home and abroad. A lowering of taxes for low-income
groups should be an immediate goal of the program; equal in priority
should be new expenditures for public works and U.S. aid to under-
developed countries (with attention given in the latter case to the
use of the United Nations.)
MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC POLICY
To relieve world tensions, avert a nuclear war, and achieve
general accord on disarmament, the U.S. must continue to seek uni-
versal agreement on a cessation of nuclear weapons tests. Although
the public-health hazard of fallout is important, the political con-
siderations in testing are vastly more important. With the goal of
a controlled world-wide ban on nuclear tests, the U.S. should be
more flexible in the current negotiations at Geneva. Our suspen-
sion of nuclear weapons tests should be proclaimed on a year-to-year
basis as long as negotiations proceed.
These Geneva negotiations should be immediately expanded to
bring in other major powers, specifically including France and main-
land China. All nations should be invited to adhere to any sub-
sequent agreements.
U.S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE--POLICY STATEMENT
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In the unfortunate event of a deadlock in these negotiations,
the U.S. should declare an indefinite suspension of nuclear-weapons
tests, and refer the problem of achieving a world-wide ban to the
United Nations.
We strongly oppose the Administrations recent proposal to dis-
tribute nuclear weapons among our allies as an extremely dangerous
measure. It can only sharpen world tensions.
Furthermore, we believe that, rather than insuring our security,
the present U.S. strategy of deterrence pursued indefinitely will
eventually result in war. As the years go by, and more nations be-
come able to produce nuclear weapons, deterrence becomes even less
effective, and the possibility of accidental thermonuclear war grows
even greater.
There is reasonable hope that the Soviet Union is serious in
its current policy of peaceful negotiation, and for that reason, we
believe the American government would be derelict not to explore
in good faith every possibility of agreement. Unfortunately the
official position of the United States on disarmament appears div-
ided, weak and inadequate.
We believe the United States should not increase its military
appropriations; indeed, one of the most critical problems facing
every major nation today is how to reduce the staggering costs of
armaments. Further than that, the United States should now initiate
detailed total universal disarmament proposals of its own, not just
counter-proposals to those made by other nations.
But in the long run, we do not think disarmament alone will in-
sure a peaceful and stable world. International disputes will con-
tinue and political passions can always lead to violence. The world
must have an orderly way of solving conflicts among nations and peo-
ples. Ultimately, peace and stability demand that there be a rule
of law in the world. The United Nations is presently the most im-
portant organization through which such efforts can be developed.
The United Nations and The International Court of Justice could be
strengthened immediately, by our repealing the restrictive Connally
Amendment, and we ask its repeal.
We should state as our long-term aim in the quest for peace the
remolding of the United Nations into a world organization that can
enact world law, interpret it, and enforce world law upon individuals
and governments alike, in the field of universal disarmament and war
prevention. Only inspired and dedicated leadership can give us this
world. Because of our country's long tradition of representative
constitutional government, we Americans are morally obligated to assume
this role. A decent respect for posterity and loyalty to our demo-
cratic heritage allow U.S no other course.
##
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
AGRICULTURE
-POLICY STATEMENT--
American farmers, 12% of the population, receive only 4%
of the national income. Net farm income is down to the lowest
level since the 1930's, down 25% since 1952. The farmer's share
of the housewife's food dollar has fallen from 50 cents in 1952
to 37 cents today. Despite inflation, the American factory
worker, who earns about $2.12 an hour, can buy more food with
an hour's work than ever before, and he and his fellow American
are the best-fed people in the world. The average American work-
er spent 48% of his earnings for food in 1929 and only 26% in 1958.
We condemn the Eisenhower-Nixon administration's farm pro-
gram as the most costly failure in American history. Secretary
Benson has spent more than all the previous secretaries in the
last 100 years. Yet, while parity never fell below 100 during
the period from 1942 to 1952, since 1952 it has dropped steadily,
at the rate of 3% annually, from 100 to 77.
A comprehensive, long-range farm program for the 1960's must
be developed to restore and stabilize American farm income, re-
duce the cost of the Government farm program, and, at the same
time, strengthen the position of the United States throughout the
world.
The goal of such a program should be the improvement of the
living standards of all the people, including the farmer, the
working man, the consumer and the farm worker. We suggest a broad
program with four objectives:
1. A full fair share of the nation's income for the efficient
family-size farm.
2. An abundant supply of helpful common nutritious foods for
the consumer at fair and reasonable prices.
3. Wages for agricultural workers that will provide a
standard of living equal to that of workers having com-
parable responsibilities in non-agricultural industries.
AGRICULTURE--POLICY STATEMENT
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4. Using our agricultural and industrial productive cap -
acity, the source of our country's greatest strength,
to promote world peace, under the United Nations, by
establishing a world food reserve to fight want and
hunger.
To achieve these ends, we recommend at the Federal level:
1. Adjustment of supply to demand in specialities and
non-perishables.
We recognize that wasteful overproduction is not in the
public interest. A program must be developed that will stop add-
ing to surpluses. National legislation, producer-controlled,
should be passed that will give farmers the same bargaining power
as the non-agricultural sector of the economy. With a self-help
program, under the democratic process, farmers could adjust pro-
duction to meet the market demand at prices reasonable to the
consumers, and farmers could regulate quality, promote and ad-
vertise their products, and carry on production and marketing
research.
2. Credit
A long-term production credit at reasonable interest
rates is needed to protect the family-sized farm.
3. Minimum wage.
An extension of the national minimum wage law to cover
all farm workers is needed.
4. The new Democratic national administration should, and
we know will, protect and encourage farm cooperatives, and expand
agricultural markets through full utilization of the food stamp
plan, of Public Law 480, and of Section 32 funds.
We believe that our State Department of Agriculture should
seek to improve our farmers' bargaining strength and thereby raise
the level of return on the investment, management and labor con-
tributions by our efficient family farms, by the following means:
1. Encourage the formation of genuine farm cooperative to
enable farmers to share in the profits from marketing
and processing of farm products and the supplying of
farmers with goods and services.
AGRICULTURE--POLICY STATEMENT
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2.
Encourage and assist the adoption of farm marketing
orders and agreements to regulate quality and quantity,
increase consumption through research and promotion pro-
grams, and increase trade confidence by smoothing out
the flow to market of farm products.
3.
Encourage the adoption of a "Wagner Act" for agriculture
to protect the farmers' right to bargain collectively in
selling their produce.
4.
Encourage anti-trust legislation to prohibit retailers
from assuming control of the production and processing
of an agricultural product in order to drive down the
prices.
5.
Combat the expansion of top-down vertical integration by
promoting cooperatives, bargaining associations, state
and federal marketing orders and agreements, adequate
credit facilities, and anti-trust legislation.
6.
Encourage zoning legislation to prevent our agricultural
lands from being driven out of production by the impo-
sition of city-level land tax rates.
7.
Give vigorous support for adoption of a state water plan
to provide agriculture with necessary water.
8.
Assist our farmers to obtain national measures where
measures are required on a national scale to achieve
equality for agriculture.
#
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
WATER AND POWER
-SUMMARY REPORT--
There was almost unanimous agreement that a statewide water
program is necessary now.
There was virtual unanimity of opinion that the State has a
responsibility to assume leadership role in water resources
development.
The opinion was expressed that water distribution within a
service area should be locally controlled. In addition, some
concern was expressed that Federal programs might be endangered.
There was general agreement that the Burns-Porter Act will
not have a substantial effect upon fish, wildlife, and recreation,
but that much more emphasis on these aspects should be given
through separate legislative action.
The opinions expressed within the groups concerning public
power preference were not unanimous. However, it was recognized
that the project will ultimately be a net consumer of power. For
this reason, it was generally agreed that the power produced should
be sold at market value.
For this particular bond issue the existing public power
preference providing for a public agency preference in cases of
equal bids was deemed sufficient. Concern was expressed lest sale
at market value become a precedent in other projects which might
develop surplus power.
The utility concept was generally considered to be satis-
factory, as it tends to ensure that facilities will be built only
when and if the output from the facility is demanded. All groups
did not feel that they had sufficient information to determine the
adequacy of this policy.
The majority view was that the County of Origin and Watershed
Protection statutes would not be impaired by the Burns-Porter Act
and need no strengthening.
WATER AND POWER -- SUMMARY REPORT
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The majority opinion was that the Burns-Porter Act explicitly
eliminates any possibility of contract impairment which might
otherwise result from the Supreme Court decision in Mallon VS.
City of Long Beach, and that the act permits adequate additional
contracts for the purpose it contemplates.
Some felt that the Burns-Porter Act provides adequate guaran-
tees for additional water as required for satisfactory operation
of the Delta Pool. Others, however, felt additional specific
legislation is required.
There was general agreement that the program appears to be
financially feasible. Some fear that its feasibility might be
impaired unless large landowners purchase water for all their
acreage. It was pointed out, however, that ultimate purchase by
metropolitan areas will dispose of the necessity of participation
by large landowners as an element of feasibility.
All groups appear to be in general agreement that all policy
problems cannot be solved now, but expressed desire to expedite
their solution as soon as possible. This need not necessarily be
before the bond issue is passed, but statements of policy in
advance are desirable on as many matters as possible to help secure
passage of the bill.
Most groups endorse the water program, anticipating adequate
safeguards from the legislature and administration in contract and
other policy determinations. Many felt that "unjust enrichment"
was a proper subject for social and tax legislation, rather than
for legislation dealing with water alone. All groups reaffirmed
the Democratic Party's traditional stand against unjust enrichment
and land monopoly.
Two groups, after vigorous discussion, concluded that they
could not agree as to the best specific means of attacking the
problem.
A substantial minority felt strongly that legislated safe-
guards are necessary before the water program is voted upon by the
electorate, but all groups that voted on the issue endorsed the
Governor's water program.
HIF
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
WATER AND POWER
STATEMENT OF POLICY-
1960 CDC Issues Conference
1.
We believe that the future economic development of the State
of California is dependent upon adequate development of our
statewide water resources. Only immediate and positive
leadership by our Democratic Administration, supported by
the people of our State, can assure such development.
2.
We commend Governor Brown and the 1959 Legislature for their
giant step forward in the adoption of a California Water Plan,
and the Burns- Porter Act (SB 1106), thus finally ending a
decade of sectional disputes and Republican confusion over
needed water development. We urge the passage of the Burns-
Porter Act water bond issue in November.
3.
Since this statewide water development program will require
substantial power to carry water over the Tehachapis, and
since this program shall be a net consumer of power, we feel
that the electric power generated under this program, which
will be for sale, must be sold at market prices in order to
further assure the program's financial feasibility. Pre-
ference to public agencies in the sale of power under existing
State law must prevail.
4.
We reaffirm the traditional opposition of the Democratic Party
to unjust enrichment and land monopoly. We therefore approve
the price differential set forth in the Statement of Princi-
ples issued by Governor Brown, and we strongly urge continued
study to find further effective means (including social and
tax legislation) to discourage land monopolization and to pre-
vent unjust enrichment.
5.
We recognize that the present and anticipated population
growth of California demands a statewide program that is
both economically sound and financially feasible. We feel
that the Burns-Porter Act represents such a program to be put
WATER AND POWER STATEMENT OF POLICY
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into operation. The passage of the water bond issues
this November will be a fundamental step in this progress.
We urge all Democrats and all Californians to unite in
support in this crucial bond issue.
6.
We pledge ourselves to the continued search for constructive
and imaginative solutions to the complex problems of unjust
enrichment, federal participation, public power preference,
recreation development, conservation of fish and wildlife,
and the many other areas of controversy inherent in the
adequate and equitable development of our State's water
resources.
##
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
U.S. POLICY AND UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS
--SUMMARY REPORT--
We recognize the impossibility of creating a peaceful, stable
world without dealing realistically with the economic, political,
and social expectations of the underdeveloped nations. The search
for political freedom and national independence is accompanied by
vigorous struggle to achieve a better life. As Americans, proud of
our heritage, we vigorously support the aspirations of these peoples.
Our objective is to promote stability, peace and dignity of man,
and through our aid promote the economic development of underdeveloped
nations. We accept a moral obligation to assist our fellow man.
We realize that our enlightened self-interests are served by raising
others' living standards, and by creating new wealth through creat-
ing new markets and new sources of raw material. We believe that
the accomplishment of these goals will also create a climate in
which democratic institutions can develop We support the separ-
ation of military and economic aid.
While some discussants felt that the cold war added to the ur-
gency for constructive action by our country, most believed that the
development of an effective program of aid for underdeveloped nations
would ease world tensions and make possible further steps toward S
stable peace.
The issues of world peace and the armaments race cannot be sep-
arated from the creation of aid to underdeveloped nations. A dis-
armament agreement (with proper safeguards) would free funds for
economic assistance. As arms expenditures decreased, more production
could be devoted to capital goods for export to underdeveloped nations.
The problems of economic development require long-term planning.
Stop-gap programs and annual committments make impossible an ade-
quate attack on the problem and are wasteful and inefficient. Such
measures make impossible the most effective utilization of aid by
the recipient nations.
We support programs of technical assistance, training and the
interchange of technical knowledge.
We support the establishment of a United Nations University
system.
U. S. POLICY AND UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS--SUMMARY REPORT
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It was felt that our foreign-aid program should provide funds
for additional education exchange programs, as well as provide more
opportunities for peoples of the underdeveloped countries to study
in their own lands.
While assisting in the industrialization of the newly emerging
nations, in the preservation of national customs and character in
the newly emerging nations, a program of mutual cultural exchange
should be instituted, so that we may better understand the cultural
values of these nations, as well as they ours.
Capital investments is the key to closing the gap between the
high living standards of the so-called advanced nations and those
that are striving to move ahead. Massive programs of capital in-
vestment are needed. In particular, we support a program of long-
term, low-interest loans. We strongly urge the utilization of
United States food surpluses as part of crash program not only to
correct famine conditions wherever they exist, but as a means of
economic development.
Both public and private investments are necessary. Given the en-
ormity of problems faced by underdeveloped nations, we recognize
the importance of U.S. government funds for health, capital in-
vestment, and education. Concern was expressed over possible re-
actions to exploitive private investment, and there was general
agreement that government guarantees should share the risk of pri-
vate non-speculative investment.
We strongly believe that most aid programs should be channeled
through UN agencies or regional associations. The cooperation that
this would entail between industrialized and underdeveloped nations
would increase the effectiveness of the programs and would also help
remove foreign aid from the sphere of cold war competition. We also
believe that bilateral programs, effectively planned and administered,
can serve a useful function.
Increased effectiveness of UN policing functions would reduce
the need for military appropriations by emerging nations, and free
resources and man power for more essential needs. While some of
us feel a continuing need for military aid, we deplore present major
emphasis on this aspect of the total aid program.
The American people should be better informed of the importance
of foreign aid. A majority felt that getting credit for aid was
relatively unimpcrtant. While there was no general agreement on the
need for a foreign-service academy, all favored better training for
the men and women who represent our country abroad.
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The majority held that the U.S. should mainly consider human-
itarian values when giving aid, although we must develop a long-
range program which accords with the realities of international
politics, world opinion, and our own self-interest. Where our aid
can alleviate human misery, it should to a country, whatever its
form of government. A strong minority felt that no military aid
should be given dictatorships, although definition of purely mili-
tary aid was difficult.
Our aid should be accompanied by adequate supervision by trained,
capable people who can evaluate the results and assist the recipient
in making the best use of it.
It was the consensus that US tariffs should be lowered to en-
able underdeveloped countries to earn foreign exchange. The U.S.
should explore commodity stabilization agreements with those coun-
tries with one-crop economies.
We were against the "Buy America" policy and similar restrictions.
The U.S. should become a permanent member of GATT. Reciprocal
trade agreements are desirable and we should broaden the use of the
President's powers in this sphere. Tariff revisions should be down-
ward, with the ultimate objection of free trade.
A massive, intensive program of research on the economic, social
and political aspects of U.S. policy toward the underdeveloped nations
is urgent. This project should be designed to educate our policy-
makers to emerging needs and requirements.
Our discussion made us realize more fully the tremendous prob-
lems faced by the underdeveloped nations. Our country has not paid
enough attention to foreign aid. A dedication to budget balancing
has prevented adequate action. We have substituted programs of'
military expediency for those that would encourage long-term, self-
generating growth. We are confident that a Democratic Congress and
a Democratic administration will meet their responsibility to the
American people with a progress that will also meet our obligations
to humanity.
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
U.S. POLICY AND UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS
--POLICY STATEMENT-
To promote a peaceful and stable world, and to support the
aspirations of the peoples of the underdeveloped nations, we urge
the following program:
1.
Work for a disarmament program which will permit resources
now committed to armaments to go into development of the
underdeveloped nations.
2.
Plan for the long-term, not year-to-year projects.
3.
Expand our programs of technical assistance, training, and
interchange of technical knowledge, including information
and materials relating to population control where re-
quested by underdeveloped nations.
4.
Establish a United Nations University system.
5.
Increase student exchange programs, and supply some funds
for students in their own countries.
6.
Institute a cultural exchange program between the United
States and other peoples.
7.
Undertake a massive capital investment program, both
public and private, including long-term low-cost loans.
8.
Furnish U.S. surplus foods to the hungry abroad.
9.
Channel aid to underdeveloped nations primarily through
the UN and regional associations.
10.
Make government guarantees of private non-speculative
foreign investments.
11.
Increase the use of UN security forces to safeguard the
emerging nations, so as to reduce their need for armaments.
12
Reduce the emphasis on military assistance in our foreign
aid program and clearly separate military from economic aid.
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13. Promote public awareness of the necessity of foreign aid.
14. Improve the training of our career diplomats and make
the career more attractive.
15. Consider the needs of the people of a given country, and
not the character of its government, as the primary test
in granting aid.
16. Maintain adequate supervision to assure achievement of the
objectives of aid.
17. Refuse to establish any "Buy America" policy, work to
lower tariffs, and explore assisting countries with one-
crop economies by signing commodity stabilization agree-
ments with them
18. Join the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs as a per-
manent member, and broaden the reciprocal-trade agreement
powers vested in the President.
19. Establish a massive program of research on what would be
the best U.S. policy on the underdeveloped nations.
20. Elect a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President to
carry out these policies.
21. Because education is the key without which other aid can-
not have a lasting effect, primary emphasis should be
placed on measures to see that all the people of the world
have the knowledge necessary to make their own wise de-
cisions as to the political and economic forms which best
suit their needs.
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
HUMAN RIGHTS
POLICY STATEMENT
The right to vote by all citizens must be protected. To
accomplish this, civil rights legislation must be strengthened by:
A. Requiring local voting records to be preserved for three
years or more, and providing for federal inspection of such records.
B. Providing for federal registrars where local registrars
fail to perform their duties, and providing for policing of
election practices by federal referees or federal marshals.
C. Providing for uniform registration standards in all the
states and elimination of arbitrary standards based on "inter-
preting" the constitution or involved literacy tests in the Eng-
lish language.
D. Eliminating the poll tax.
E. Providing heavy criminal penalties for interfering with
registration or voting by any qualified citizen.
F. Permitting the Civil Rights Commission to apply directly
to Federal Courts for enforcement of subpoenas.
G. Restoring voting rights to felons who have completed
their sentence.
DISCRIMINATION:
All remaining vestiges of discrimination in California must
be eliminated. We favor establishment of a California Human Rights
Commission, separate from the present California Fair Employment
Commission, charged with eliminationof discrimination based on
race, creed, color, or any other factor, in the fields of housing,
public accommodations and services, education, and other areas.
The California Fair Employment Commission should have its powers
broadened to include discrimination in employment based on age,
HUMAN RIGHTS -- POLICY STATEMENT
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sex and physical handicaps. We urge the federal government to
adopt and enforce a similar non-discriminatory policy in all
areas, and in particular those areas where tax money is involved.
LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES:
The House Un-American Activities Committee should be abolished.
In order to protect the rights of individuals in all legis-
lative investigations, and to insure that due process is observed,
we recommend that all witnesses have right to counsel and cross-
examination of witnesses.
We recommend further that there should be a statute of limit-
ations governing the time during which individuals can be brought
before investigating committees for specific matters. Investi-
gations of treason and sedition should be handled by governmental
bodies other than legislative committees. Secret committee sessions
should be eliminated. Publication of names of subpoened witnesses
should be prohibited. No committee should investigate in areas
infringing freedom of thought, speech and association.
All legislation inhibiting powers of the Supreme Court in the
field of civil liberties should be defeated.
LOYALTY OATHS:
All state and federal non-disloyalty oaths should be abol-
ished, including the oath.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF OUR POLICE IN RELATION TO
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES:
Our policing agencies should not utilize wiretapping, which
is an invasion of privacy; use paid or unpaid informers without
confrontation by the accused; conduct illegal searches such as
search without warrant, or search with a warrant issued for an-
other purpose, or such practices as involuntary stomach pumping;
or rousting.
HUMAN RIGHTS -- POLICY STATEMENT
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Police powers should not be extended and individual rights
infringed even in narcotics cases, because police powers will not
solve the narcotics problem, which is basically an economic, medi-
cal and psychiatric problem.
The vagrancy code should be re-examined, and arrest records
should be expunged where arrest did not lead to conviction.
Police should not discriminate against members of minority
racial or religious groups.
Police practices should be improved by:
1. Establishing higher standards for police--including psy-
chological testing.
2. Better education of police in human relations and on the
Bill or Rights and individual freedom.
3. Full racial integration of police forces.
4. Establishing citizens committees or commissions (state
or local) to "watchdog" the police and receive complaints.
5. Extending and strengthening the Public Defender system.
6. Enacting a federal anti-lynch law.
PENAL ADMINISTRATION:
The goal of penal administration should be prevention of
crime and rehabilitation of the offender.
The money, personnel and facilities necessary for the pro-
gram should be provided. One approach to prevention of crime is
the early identification, through the schools, of disturbed
children, and the provision of the best possible treatment at
early stages.
Capital punishment should be abolished. Parole systems
should be improved, and a program of re-education and employment
provided for those offenders able to return to society. All
offenders should be kept removed from society until they are
rehabilitated - recognizing that some never are.
STANDARDS FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY, INCLUDING PUB-
LISHING, T. V. & RADIO:
Present governmental controls relating to pornography and
obscenity are adequate. Progress in development of higher stand-
ards must come about not through greater government controls and
HUMAN RIGHTS - POLICY STATEMENT
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censorship, but by the acceptance of greater responsibility by
industry and improvement of standards in the home and in the
schools. In addition, more public and private support should
be given to non-profit and educational T. V. and radio, and other
similar activities aimed at developing yardsticks of good taste
and higher standards of educational and cultural programming in
the mass media. More attention must also be given to some sex
education in the home and schools.
EDUCATION:
The improvement of our educational program at all levels
must become the highest priority goal in our society. To accom-
plish this goal, we recommend:
A. A program of federal aid to education, including finan-
cial assistance for both school construction and teachers' salaries.
B. Expansion of state and national scholarship programs, and
more emphasis on counseling and special programs for both gifted
and retarded children.
C. Elimination of practices which lead to discrimination in
educational opportunities, including quota systems based on race,
religion and origin; inadequate counseling; and gerrymandering
of school districts.
D. Expansion of junior colleges as suggested by Governor
Brown and implementation of the Governor's plan for higher edu-
cation.
E. Lowering of the percentage of vote required for passage
of school bonds.
DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION IN HOUSING:
We propose strengthening the present housing discrimination
law and making it enforceable through a commission similar to
the F. E. P. C.
Licenses of real estate agents and brokers who discriminate
in the sale of housing should be revoked. State and federal non-
discriminatory programs of low-cost housing, particularly in
connection with urban renewal and slum clearance, should be in-
creased. Direct federal loans at low interest rates for low-in-
come housing should be instituted.
HUMAN RIGHTS -- POLICY STATEMENT
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There should be increased emphasis on educational programs
for our communities aimed at combating discrimination.
HEALTH:
Every American is entitled to adequate medical and hospital
care. In order to accomplish this we recommend adoption of either
a state or federal health insurance plan available to every person
desiring such coverage. To meet the particular needs of the aged
we endorse the principles of the Forand Bill now before Congress.
We recommend repeal of the requirements that relatives be
forced to support their indigent and aged relatives.
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CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
1960 ISSUES CONFERENCE
ECONOMIC AND GOVERNMENTAL PROBLEMS
--POLICY STATEMENT--
Consumer Interest Problems
We regard the consumer as the foundation of the American ec-
onomy. We are therefore determined that a new emphasis be placed
upon the protection of his rightful interests.
In the past, the U. S. recognized the need for governmental
regulatory agencies to protect those rightful interests. We main-
tain that the effectiveness of these agencies has been subverted
by present administration's calculated indifference to their con-
sumer responsibilities. The attitudes of Republican appointees in
these agencies has consistently favored the positions of those
interests supposedly being regulated, always at the expense of the
consumer. We demand the appointment to all regulatory agencies of
persons genuinely concerned with the real goal of consumer pro-
tection.
We deplore the refusal of the administration to provide
adequate funds to enable the regulatory agencies to fulfill their
obligations to the consuming public. We demand that the Admin-
istration seek sufficient budgetary appropriations for its regu-
latory commissions to enable them to successfully carry out their
missions.
The growth of administered pricing has created abnormally high
price levels on many goods. We call for the extension of anti-
trust laws to deal with this evil practice of monopoly and near-
monopoly industries. We further call for the strict enforcement
of anti-trust laws by the Justice Department.
We believe that a reappraisal of the effect of fair trade laws
will demonstrate that they too create artificial price levels, and
that these laws should now be repealed.
The field of adequate medical care has long been neglected to
the detriment of the American public. We call for the passage of
the Forand bill at this time and look to the eventual establish-
ment of universal national health insurance.
ECONOMIC AND GOVERNMENTAL PROBLEMS--POLICY STATEMENT
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We take pride in the accomplishments of Governor Brown and
the Democratic Legislature in creating the office of Consumer Counsel
and in the passage of the Unruh Bill regulating retail credit in-
stallment sales. We urge further progress by establishing a federal
office of Consumer Counsel, and in the field of credit, the clarifi-
cation of laws regarding usury and the passage of statutes requiring
any interest bearing contract to bear its true interest rates in
plain terms.
In housing we insist on better availability of F.H.A. loans at
a reasonable rate of interest, and the elimination of hidden dis-
counts. We favor extension of state aid to supplement the fin-
ancing of private housing.
In recognizing the vast need for better consumer education for
the purpose of self-protection, we encourage and endorse the estab-
lishment of consumer associations and study groups to better pre-
pare the buyer for the marketplace.
We specifically encourage the formation of more consumer co-
operatives and we call on Democrats in California to use the ones
that exist.
Finally, we recommend to the Board of Directors of the Cali-
fornia Democratic Council that it establish a consumers' committee
to be organized in every congressional district for the purpose of
mobilizing public opinion and rendering research assistance to the
office of state Consumer Counsel and other organizations active in
the field of consumer protection.
Inflation Problems
As Democrats, we are determined that the resources of our nation
shall be used in order to advance the welfare of all Americans. This
goal can best be realized by economic growth, full employment and an
equitable distribution of the fruits of the Nation's productivity.
Preventing inflation is likewise a part of these broad economic aims,
for spiraling prices affect all consumers adversely, bearing most
harshly on the needy-aged living on savings or fixed incomes, and
low-income families. It is our contention that a combination of
specific legislation, such as increased Social Security benefits,
provision of medical care for the aged, and similar measures, along
with fiscal policies designed to stimulate the growth of the economy,
will help in minimizing these problems.
ECONOMIC AND GOVERNMENTAL PROBLEMS--POLICY STATEMENT
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The Republican Administration has, on the other hand, pursued a
policy of fiscal and monetary restraints which have impeded the
expansion of the economy. By pursuing an alleged anti-inflation
policy of high interest rates ("Tight Money") the Administration
has in reality helped enrich banks and other financial institutions
while creating hardships and insecurity for vast numbers of American
workers and small business owners. This has not only caused diffi-
culties for potential purchasers of homes, automobiles, and other
major consumer goods, but also for local and state governments in
obtaining their own necessary financing.
This Republican Administration has deliberately neglected to
provide necessary social services by falsely implying that to do so
would cause uncontrolled inflation. We maintain that the increased
productivity necessarily a part of an expanding economy can and will
create the income whereby such public services as schools, roads,
health and education can be provided. Moreover, this same increased
productivity will lay the basis for the increase in wages necessary
to absorb industry's expanding output.
Economic growth can be further stimulated by some readjustment
of the tax base; we propose the following:
1.
Avoidance of further consumer taxes.
2.
Increasing the personal income tax exemption.
3.
Raising the tax rate on capital gains.
4. Eliminating the oil depletion allowances.
5.
"Plugging "other flagrant tax loopholes.
America's economic problems today cannot be brushed aside by
such empty platitudes as "Balanced Budgets" and "Holding the Line
on Wages."
Only policies which are consciously tailored to bring about an
expanding economy will be successful in raising living standards
while holding the price level relatively stable.
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U.S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE--SUMMARY REPORT
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U. S. Policy on fallout and nuclear weapons testing
A large majority of the delegates approved the transfer of
responsibility of the USPHS for collecting and interpreting of data
on fallout and reporting the results to the public with the advice
and counsel of the National Advisory Committee on Radiation. In
addition, all interested groups, agencies and institutions that
desire to collect or interpret data should be encouraged to do so
and to publish the results so that all views may be heard. Five
per cent (5%) of votes were cast in favor of returning the predomin-
ant role in this field to the AEC, and several sections felt that
the AEC should not be removed from this field entirely.
In general, in the field of fallout data collection, interpreta-
tion, and reporting, much distrust of the AEC was expressed, chiefly
because the delegates felt that the AEC's chief function was in the
weapons field and that it had a vested interest in understating the
hazards of fallout from weapons tests.
The delegates voted unanimously that we should continue to seek
a universal agreement on the cessation of nuclear weapons tests and
that such a test ban could be the first step towards lessening of
world tensions and achievement of general disarmament. There was
almost equally strong sentiment that unrestricted testing of nuclear
weapons made a nuclear war more likely. Although important, the
public-health hazard of fallout was considered less important than
the political considerations. It is highly significant that no
delegate supported further weapons tests. Several sections said that
this should not preclude peaceful atomic explosions conducted under
international auspices. However, several delegates feared the possi-
ble hazard level of such controlled explosions.
Sixty per cent (60%) of the delegates felt that the U.S. should
be more resolute in its will to achieve a worldwide agreement and
more flexible in its negotiations for a test ban in Geneva. An
almost equal number felt we should extend a moratorium on nuclear
weapons testing on a year-to-year basis while the negotiations pro-
ceed. Forty per cent (40%) of the delegates believed we should
continue to press for "foolproof" controls in a test-ban agreement.
Five per cent (5%) favored a recess of the negotiations until the
problem of detection of small underground explosions can be solved.
U.S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE--SUMMARY REPORT
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In the event the Geneva negotiations deadlock, 65% of the dele-
gates felt that the U.S. should unilaterally suspend nuclear weapons
test indefinitely. About half of this number favored a U.S. mora-
torium on nuclear tests as long as other powers (the Soviet bloc)
do not test. Four delegates believed that the U.S. should conduct
underground tests of small strategic weapons. Thirteen delegates
(five per cent) voted in favor of the U.S. resuming tests of nuclear
weapons at our own convenience. Two sections suggested that the
entire matter be placed before the United Nations.
Planning for Conversion to a peaceful economy:
Strong convictions were expressed, with near unanimity of opinion,
that serious study and planning should be undertaken immediately to
prepare in detail for the conversion from a heavily military to a
peacetime economy. It was suggested in a number of groups that the
National Peace Agency proposed by the Democratic Advisory Council
should also assume overall responsibility for this economic planning,
and that the Democratic Party should stimulate progress toward this
goal by calling a national conference of consumer, labor, industry,
scientific, and governmental representatives to outline the steps
needed to develop a peacetime economy.
A large majority of the delegates would assign the basic res-
ponsibility for economic planning to the federal level of government,
with state, local and private agencies cooperating closely within
the national program.
Almost all delegates agreed that responsibility for such items
as studying the extent of local reliance on defense industries, pre-
paring priority lists for public projects, and planning for redevel-
opment should be shared appropriately by all levels of government.
General agreement was expressed that defense-contract awards
should be based upon competitive bidding where possible, with one of
the requirements being a demonstration of the firm's readiness to
convert to peacetime production.
All discussion sections recognized the exciting opportunity for
social progress through the freeing of the billions of dollars we
now devote annually to arms appropriation. In general, the reallo-
cation of the savings to the following programs were recommended:
Increased U.S. aid to underdeveloped nations, increased expenditures
in public works, and lowered taxes for low-income groups. In two
sections, stress was laid upon channeling of foreign aid through the
United Nations.
U.S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE--SUMMARY REPORT
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Military preparedness and national security:
A bare majority of delegates felt that our present strategy
of deterrence rather than ensuring our security, would eventually
result in war. A large minority felt that the current policy
dangerously increases -- rather than alleviates -- world tensions.
A few (32 of 242) felt that the present policies are acceptable.
Strong sentiment was expressed in some of the groups that our best
security rests upon moral and economic strength, rather than milit-
ary power.
With respect to proposed changes in the present defense programs,
more people favored reduced expenditures on both missiles and con-
ventional forces (72 to 62 respectively) than favored increased ex-
penditures on these (19 and 18). Many delegates (about 60) re-
ferred instead, to proposals for peacetime alternatives and to
the importance of competent statesmanship rather than simple re-
liance on armaments, for defense.
The "Nth Power" Problem:
An overwhelming majority of delegates registered their oppo-
sition to the President's proposals for our distributing nuclear
weapons to allied nations.
Fallout shelters and civil defense:
About half of the delegates felt that a shelter program is
virtually worthless as a measure of civil defense, with another
large minority characterizing it as undesirable. Only 41 of 204
voting found shelters to be either necessary or desirable. There
was no sentiment for a state-administered shelter program.
Disarmament proposals:
On the question of serious intent on the part of the Soviets
regarding disarmament agreements, a small majority of delegates
expressed the opinion that the Russian proposals are part serious,
part propaganda, but indicative of willingness to compromise. One-
fourth of those voting thought that there was no question that the
Russians were serious, while a few (14 in each case) felt that their
proposals were either not very serious or pure propaganda.
U.S. POLICY AND OUR ATOMIC FUTURE--SUMMARY REPORT
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A large majority of delegates indicated their belief that the
present U. S. policy on disarmament is inadequate, with a consider-
able minority opinion that our policy actually impeded efforts to-
ward world disarmament. Only one vote expressed approval of the
present policy.
With respect to nations which should be included in disarmament
or test-ban agreements, 184 of 423 felt that all nations should be
invited to adhere to any agreements; 153 voted for expanding the
present Geneva negotiations to include all major powers, including
France and China; 86 thought that all UN nations should be invited
to adhere to such an agreement after it had been reached.
A majority (171 of 250) stated that US policy should work for
total worldwide disarmament. Forty-two felt that partial reduction
in arms should be the goal while 37 thought that such efforts should
be confined to test bans and safeguards against surprise attacks.
Throughout this portion of the discussion, many groups lamented
the by-passing of the UN in these negotiations.
U.S. Policy on World Peace and its enforcement:
An overwhelming proportion of those voting indicated their fear
that there is grave and increasing danger of accidental thermo-
nuclear war.
With respect to the most important immediate steps for the U.S.
to take to lessen the likelihood of war, a majority indicated a
desire to maintain present levels of military strength but to in-
crease our emphasis upon non-military efforts; about one-third sug-
gested that we counter the Russian peace propaganda with a dramatic
gesture of slashing our military budget; while only 9 of 180 voted
for an increase in our military strength.
As to the basic policy toward world law which the U.S. should
adopt and proclaim as its long-term guiding principle in the continu-
ing search for peace, all discussion sections rejected statements in
the agenda which expressed opposition to world law or which suggested
that any nation could safely rely for national security on the mili-
tary strength of itself and allies or the UN. Sentiment was defin-
itely in favor of our supporting the creation of enforceable world
laws in the limited field of universal disarmament and war prevent-
ion.
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California Democrucie Council Convention
Sunta Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica
Friday, March 3, 1961 9:00 p. m.
FOR FLAT AM'S RELEASE, SATURDAY, MARCH 4 1961.
....
I am proud
to be here tonight. I am proud to share this head table with great
national and state leaders of our Democratic Party.
But (the deepest pride I feel tonight is in you--the officers
and members of the California Democratic Council I would say to my
friend John Bailey, whose task is to mobilize our party nationally,
that he is the guest tonight of [the{most effective grass roots party
organization in America J
Here are people of strong convictions and strong energies--
thinkers who act.
Here are people who have definite ideas about the kind of world
in which they want to live and who do something about those ideas.
These are idealists who ring doorbells.
Here are people who are Democrats 365 days a year.
CDC has been a political force in this state only since 1953.
In that year, California had 111 Republican office-holders--state
and national--against only 51 Democrats. Today, eight years later,
there are 104 Democrats in office and only 58 Republicans. That's
your kind of performance, John Bailey.
But there are still more Republican office ders than there
should be. It is my hope, and that of CDC, that after the elections
of 1962 and 1964, the ranks of Republican office-holders in Cali-
fornia will be slimmer than the Harvard faculty.
Yes, I am proud to be here tonight and grateful for your demon-
strations of support. But I also feel, as you must, a deep regret
that after this convention Joe Wyatt will step down as your presi-
dent.
CDC has had but two presidents--one of its founders, Alan
Cranston, from 1953 until 1957, and Joe Wyatt from 1957 until now.
Both have served you and the Democratic Party magnificently.
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Alan Cranston, fortunately, 13 Just across the hall
in the State Capitol. His good judgment is always available t
me. Although Joe Wyatt will be farther away, I want it to be
same with him.
(Joe
Whoever this convention chooses to succeed him will also be
more than welcome in my office and my counsels But no one can
fully replace Joe. I insist that he continue to advise me as long
as I am Governor of California. And if I know him--and I think I
do--he will always be close at hand when he's needed.
This great turnout here tonight is both a tribute to Joe
Wyatt's leadership and further dramatic proof that the Democratic
Party in this state was never more alive than it is today.
1961 is an off-year. There are no elections for partisan
office--no controversial issues on the ballot. Yet this convention,
and other Democratic events preceding it, are generating all the
enthusiasm and activity of 1958 and 1960.
This January, CDC held a legislative conference in Sacramento.
Its organizers were hopeful that as many as 150 delegates might
attend. Instead, more than 400 came to the Capitol on a cold and
rainy weekend.
Did I call this an off-year?
Just two weeks ago, the Los Angeles County Democratic Central
Committee held its annual dinner in tribute to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt. A capacity crowd of more than 1700 came to honor FDR
and John F. Kennedy, and to welcome John Bailey to California for
the first time since he became National Chairman of our Party.
1700! Instead of calling this an off-year, perhaps we should
call it the off-and-running year for Democrats in California.
Earlier today, for instance, the women's division of the
Democratic State <Central Committee held a legislative workshop
here. Carmen Warschaw and Marta Holen would have been happy with
8 crowd of 200. They had more than twice that many.
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we credit this great surge of part, activity
Foremost, of course, is our man in Washington.
John F. Fenned
has given us hope because he dares to act. He has given 18
resolution because he is not afraid to tell us the truth. Anc he
has given us direction because he knows that dead center is a
position that invites disaster both at home and abroad.
I am optimistic that under his leadership we can expect relief
from the recession that W&B his bitter inheritance from the
Republicans. I am optimistic that under his leadership we car
cope with those world tensions that darken all our lives
I am hopeful for the future and I believe that most;
Americans -- and millions abroad -- share my hope. I know
Democrats do. And that is one of the reasons this party 1s
driving ahead.
Here in California we have still another reason for resurgent
party activity. We know that the next two years will be rough,
tough ones in California politics.
Make no mistake. This state will be the opposition's prime
target not only in 1962 but in 1964.. And not just because 1t will
be the largest of the 50 states by then. We are the New Frontier.
We left dead center two years ago.
California has shown the nation that a Democratic administra-
tion can and does provide a better and more secure life for more
people and still maintains fiscal responsibility.
Let us look at the record briefly.
When we Democrats tock over the state administration just
two years and two months ago, we were the party of hope for more
than. 15 million Californians. The hopes were many and the hopes
were high.
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There was hope among our minorities that we could give thes
fair employment safeguards. We have done 1t. And now &
Republican legislator proposes that we abolish the FEP Commission
as an economy measure. I don't think we will. I think we'll move
on to reduce discrimination in housing instead.
There was hope two years ago in the thirsty areas of our
state -- north and south -- that we could end decades of wasteful
stalemate and give California a water plan equal to our destiny.
We have done 1t. And I want to thank CDC again for its endorsement
and vigorous support of that great project.
There was hope among our workers that we could increase
unemployment and disability payments to decent levels to assist
both individuals and the economy in times of national economic
distress. To our great comfort, at this time, we have done that to:
As we looked at pockets of economic distress in our state last
month, it was clear that we had to do more, not less. We decided
people were not going hungry in California 1f we could help 10 --
and we have acted and we are helping.
Just this week, 55,000 California families have started
drawing extended unemployment benefits one month ahead of the
rest of the nation.
Some $2 million dollars a week is now going to needy families
despite a Republican State Senator who told those families that
they ought to simply, and I quote, "tighten their belts".
We have also allocated an extra $30 million dollars to speed
up local school construction and stepped up highway and other
public works construction in the areas hardest hit by the recession.
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While a handful of partisan and ambitious Republican leaders
were trying to distract the people with irresponsible demands for
tax cuts, we Democrats were moving, and we are still moving, to
take care of unmet needs -- to help the elderly and the infirm,
to improve our educational structure and to create new jobs for
our exploding population.
So now, a Republican Assemblyman proposes that we abolish
our Economic Development Agency, which is working to bring new
industries to California.
He also proposes that we do away with still another Democratic
first for California -- the Office of Consumer Counsel, which
protects the public from illegal and unreasonable selling
practices.
This, I guess, is his substitute for a positive Republican
program-which is totally lacking at this session.
What of the other hopes of 1959 that are realities today?
We have gotten rid of cross-filing, restoring an important
degree of integrity to California politics. And CDC deserves
much of the credit for that. It was your first legislative goal
at your organizational meeting in Fresno in 1953.
We have made more money available for schools, for highways
and for medical care.
Yes, the record of achievement is long. But there were, and
are, other hopes to which we are still responding and will continue
to respond until they, too, are met.
There 18 hope among our young that we can give them a constantly
higher standard of education. There 1s hope among our older
itizens that we can give them better health, a more secure life
nd the dignity they deserve.
If we have done much, there is still much to do. But in order
, keep our present programs on a solid fiscal base, we have had to
stpone others. We have had to operate on priorities.
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Not everyone will agree with those priorities. But don't
interpret delay as neglect. I can assure you that we are moving as
rapidly as we can -- within the limits of sound financial planning --
to meet the most urgent needs of California.
Most of you are veterans of the campaign of 1958 and can
take pride, as I do, that our first two years in office have made a
difference.
Not since Hiram Johnson's first term - almost half a
century ago -- has California taken such giant liberal strides. The
high hopes of two years ago have been met. Responsible liberalism
is no longer merely the political platform on which we stood. It
has become a set of practical policies by which we live.
But if this is a time for viewing the past, proudly,
it is also a time for viewing the present and the future,
realistically.
A Democratic victory in 1962 will demand the best in all of
us. And it will need all of us. If we cannot match the millions of
dollars the Republicans will spend in this State to hold back the
New Frontier, we can match and overwhelm them in numbers. And that,
of course, suggests the happy word - unity. I shall have more to
say on that later.
But first let me warn you that the battle already is
joined. It is being fought in Sacramento. It is being fought in
every precinct of every county in California.
I know that responsible opposition is the heartbeat of
our two-party system of government.
And I am glad to note that there are a number of Republicans
in Sacramento who remember that responsibility is just as important
as opposition.
But I challenge the Goldwater mentalities whose voices
drown out those of their more sensible colleagues in Sacramento
these days to behave like sensible lawmakers instead of heedless
demagogues.
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I challenge the Shells and the Leverings and the Party's
other press release leadership to come out from behind the
mimeograph machines and help us deal with the real needs and real
problems of California.
I challenge them to stop thinking only in terms of the
1962 election campaign, and to start thinking in terms of solving
today's problems today.
For the time being, they should leave it to their
professional master-minds in the paid political propaganda mills
of San Francisco and Los Angeles to plug away with the long term
program to divide the Democrats, to downgrade Brown, to disparage
our Party's great record.
"There will be plenty of opportunity later for election
VIKALA
year insults and viewings with alarm, for worrying about Mr. Nixon's
future or his lack of one
XXX
This is the time to write some good and useful programs
into law.
While the Republicans have no program of their own in
Sacramento, much of the Democratic program is now before the State
Senate and Assembly.
Believe me when I tell you that enactment of that program
is important to everybody in this State. It is also important to
you as Democrats. Despite the opposition, it is the basis of the
record of achievement we will take to the voters in 1962.
What are some of our major proposals?
We propose to simplify the present confusing system of
teachers' credentials and require that teachers have a college major
or minor in the subject they teach.
we propose to give special educational advantages both
to the child who learns quickly and to the child who learns slowly.
We propose to give the elderly, the blind and the infire
a cost-of-living welfare increase that they may feed and house
themselves decently in this time of riging costs.
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We propose a major modification of the relatives:
responsibility law, so that a man with a family will not be
compelled to furnish support until his monthly income exceeds
$1,000.
We propose to extend the benefits of medical care for the
aged to chronically 111 persons who have incomes of less than
$2,000 a year but who do not now receive old age assistance from
the State. This new action will be financed by the new Federal
medical care program, passed last year. At the same time, we urge
enactment of the new and broader program advanced by President
Kennedy.
We propose a realistic new look at total disability BO
that a number of truly disabled and needy persons who are now
disqualified will become eligible for State assistance.
We propose that the State provide funds to encourage
wider development of community centers and other facilities to give
more meaning to the lives of aging citizens.
We propose to extend our laws against discrimination in
housing.
We propose to label pre-paid health insurance plans to be
certain the policy-holder knows in advance what he's buying. And
we propose to outlaw the sale in this State of health insurance
policies that do not give a fair return.
We propose an appropriation of $115,000 to strengthen
local community health services for our migratory workers. The
shocking health conditions under which they live have long stood
as a matter of shame in our prosperous State.
We propose to improve voting and vote-counting proceedings.
And to set up a proper study of Senate reapportionment. In that
connection, I want to commend you for taking a position against
Proposition 15, which was not a workable approach to reapportionment.
We propose to require complete disclosure of all funds
spent for all issues and all candidates in all elections. I am
hopeful you will endorse this measure during your discussions on
election reforms.
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We are proposing, also, a Bill of Rights for Juvenile
offenders to give them the same Constitutional protection that 18
given adults in our courts.
We are proposing still further improvements in unemployment
compensation and disability benefits.
We are proposing harsher penalties for narcotics offenders --
particularly the peddler, who now finds the profit worth the risk.
Only last week I sent to the Legislature my own program for
combating the narcotics menace in California. It is an effective
program but it does not yield to those extremists who would throw
civil liberties out the window. We are not going to punish the
many to prosecute the few.
In your CDC policy discussions tomorrow and Sunday, you will
go into many of these legislative proposals in depth. I am
confident you will find them worthy of both your endorsement and
support.
And I, and your Democratic legislators and Constitutional
officers want your support. I am asking you to take our program
to your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers and to your
Democratic club meetings.
Don Rose, and his staff at the Los Angeles County Central
Committee, are doing an excellent job of this. They have written
a summary of the Democratic proposals now bejore the Legislature.
They are reproducing it by the thousands and putting it in the
hands of the voters.
As you well know, this is how things get done. The people
know what they want. We've got to let them know we have what they
want.
I tell you now that our highest hope of victory -- at this
legislative session and at the 1962 elections, is a working,
unified Democratic Party with a record of achievement and a program
for the future.
And XDV unity I don't mean a rigid party structure in which
there is no latitude for disagreement. Nor do I mean a party which
Iraws its leadership always from a single faction in that party.
Political Philosoph
XCDC
Unity, in its best sense, 18 & joining of many. Our strength
live not only in mebers but in the broad range of convictions we
represent,
We have disagreed among ourselves in the past. We will disagree
in the future. And I say that's good. When we stop arguing we're
in trouble J
But there is a point at which we must say to each other:
Disagreement must not become division. A difference over how to
do a good thing must not stop us from doing It. A difference on
one issue must not stop us from moving forward together on those
issues on which we do agree.
Over the next two days, CDC will take positions on issues
ranging from education to narcotics to foreign policy.
There will be those who won't like some of the positions
you take. You can expect to be brought under attack, as you have
been in the past.
But I say that when we Democrate aren't under attack by the
opposition, we had better ask ourselves what we're doing wrong.
Most of the current Republican bombast, bluff and bluster is
coming from a handful of would-be candidates for
public office.
Each is trying to grab center stage for himself.
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But don't let their present confusion confuse you. Should
Mr. Nixon take the plunge again, the Republicans will support him
all the way. They will spend a fortune here. They will flood us
with Goldwaters. They will wage a costly and vigorous registration
drive. And the extremists among them will atack all things
Democratic
XXX
They are going to be rough to whip. And to do it, we will have
to achieve a greater unity than the Republicans can achieve.
[.
The California Democratic Council is important to that unity.
And, as a working arm of the party, it is essential to success. .)
polit Philo X
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[In case anyone doubts where I stand, just let me say this.
I have signed up, $100 check and all, as a "Champion of CDC." I
meant it. I want this organization to flourish and grow. I want
to help it and I want to help protect it. ]
I know, for instance, that there has been some conversation
that pre-primary endorsements are bad.
Well, as I look around me and see what good taste the CDC has
shown in endorsing and electing candidates, I'm afraid I can't
agree.
I don't think there is any serious intention of legislating
away your right to speak your mind on candidates at this session,
and I don't think there should be.
As I said before, unity is the key to Democratic success and
achievement of Democratic programs.
For the most part, I am very pleased with what the Democratic
Party has achieved in California under the present system, and I
see no good reason for change.
In closing, I want to add only this. (we have a common cause--
evel
the knowledge that our Party holds forth the highest hope for this
state, for this nation and for this world.
In recent weeks I hope you have felt as I have, that a new
tide 1s rising--that there is a renewal of promise and purpose
in our national and international life.
Yes, I am hopeful for the future. I know that America will
not only move but will move ahead. And I am confident that we in
California will lead the way as we have in the past.
There is work to be done. We are the people to do it.
Thank you.
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PAT
BROWN
and the
CDC
The CDC says:
The CDC says:
We approve the expressed opinion
The House Committee to Investi-
of the United Nations Ambassa-
gate Un-American Activities
dor Adlai Stevenson that recent
should be abolished.
votes point to the eventual admis-
February 14, 1960, CDC State Conference
sion of Communist China to the
United Nations. It is obvious that
only by eventual admission of
Communist China can the juris-
diction of the United Nations be
extended to it
March 5, 1961, CDC Policy Statement
Pat Brown says:
Pat Brown says:
"I want this organization (CDC)
"I am a champion of the CDC."
to flourish and grow."
March 3, 1961
March 3, 1961
The CDC says:
The CDC says:
We believe the United States should
All state and federal non-disloy-
not increase its military appro-
alty oaths should be abolished.
priations; in the unfortunate
February 14, 1960, CDC State Conference
event of a deadlock in the (Geneva)
negotiations, the United States
should declare an indefinite sus-
pension of nuclear weapons tests,
and refer the problem of achieving
a worldwide ban to the United
Nations.
February 14, 1960, CDC State Conference
Pat Brown says:
Pat Brown says:
/
"I want to help it (the CDC) and
"The CDC is my strong right
I want to protect it"
arm"
March 3, 1961
1959
BROWN NOW SAYS he doesn't agree with five of
the stands taken by CDC.
BUT
He did nothing when the resolutions were adopted; he
did not oppose them at the time; he did not repudiate
them until now when he is running for re-election.
When a voter wrote to Brown on Sep-
Committee. That Communist China
tember 12, 1960, and asked him "Do
be admitted to the United Nations.
you as a Democrat, as Governor of
That the President review the facts in
our state, honestly and sincerely feel
the Morton Sobell case. That the Post
that an organization is your strong
Office Department's censorship
right arm which in essence recom-
powers be restricted. That we do away
mends the following: That we abolish
with loyalty oaths.", he replied as
the House Un-American Activities
follows:
Your letter of September 12 impugns the motives
and loyalty of good Democrats, good Californians
and good Americans.
It does so without a single specific allegation
of disloyalty.
You are entitled to your opinions, but I don't
feel they entitle you to anything else. I do
not feel your letter is worthy of a further reply.
Sincerely
EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor
THE CDC WON'T LET
Joseph L. Wyatt, Jr., past president
of the CDC, on August 9, 1962, wrote
BROWN SHAKE IT
"on all of the major issues which
concern the state of California in the
OFF HIS BACK
forth coming election campaign,
CDC and the Governor have agreed."
DEMOCRATS FOR NIXON
Z. Wayne Griffin
Merritt K. Ruddock
3908 Wilshire Blvd.
525 Market Street
Los Angeles, Calif.
San Francisco, Calif.
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