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GOP convention." - Frank Conniff
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,372 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)SidDithers
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First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...their platform would look like a Leftist Commie Pinko document by today's standards...well to the left of anything the Dems are likely to propose next year...
central scrutinizer
(11,658 posts)Here is an excerpt from the 1956 Republican Platform:
Labor
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The record of performance of the Republican Administration on behalf of our working men and women goes still further. The Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen's compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.
In addition, the Eisenhower Administration has enforced more vigorously and effectively than ever before, the laws which protect the working standards of our people.
Workers have benefited by the progress which has been made in carrying out the programs and principles set forth in the 1952 Republican platform. All workers have gained and unions have grown in strength and responsibility, and have increased their membership by 2 millions.
Furthermore, the process of free collective bargaining has been strengthened by the insistence of this Administration that labor and management settle their differences at the bargaining table without the intervention of the Government. This policy has brought to our country an unprecedented period of labor-management peace and understanding.
We applaud the effective, unhindered, collective bargaining which brought an early end to the 1956 steel strike, in contrast to the six months' upheaval, Presidential seizure of the steel industry and ultimate Supreme Court intervention under the last Democrat Administration.
The Eisenhower Administration will continue to fight for dynamic and progressive programs which, among other things, will:
Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers;
Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;
Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;
Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits;
Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;
Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;
Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;
Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;
Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment;
Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration. In 1954, 1955 and again in 1956, President Eisenhower recommended constructive amendments to this Act. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked these needed changes by parliamentary maneuvers. The Republican Party pledges itself to overhaul and improve the Taft-Hartley Act along the lines of these recommendations.
JEB
(4,748 posts)Should be an original post. I'd vote for that platform.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)... has convinced their constituents that what is bad for them individually (as well as bad for everyone they know) is somehow good for the country.
ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)slumcamper
(1,606 posts)But the secular opposition is far greater and more formidable than any of them expected. Seems they are fully exposed and in all-out retreat at the moment, having been ambushed by the relentless force of higher good.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...but it's just too damned true to be funny. And what's worse is how little resistance they're encountering, even--especially--in the Democratic Party...
marym625
(17,997 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)He has no idea what he's set himself up for!
spanone
(135,857 posts)CanonRay
(14,111 posts)The crazies in the John Birch Society were on the outside then